Stormy Peters

Stormy Peters
Stormy Peters at GUADEC 2008
Born	Robyn Peters
Nationality	American
Occupation	Vice President of Technical Evangelism
Employer	Red Hat
Known for	free and open source software advocacy
Website	http://www.stormyscorner.com/

Stormy Peters is an information technology industry analyst and prominent free and open source software (FOSS) advocate, promoting business use of FOSS. She advocates as a consultant and conference speaker. She co-founded, and was later appointed as executive director of the GNOME Foundation. She previously worked for Mozilla, and Cloud Foundry., currently she works for Red Hat

Peters's birth name is Robyn; however, she has not gone by that name since her childhood.

Peters completed a Bachelor of Arts with a major in computer science at Rice University and initially worked as a software engineer for Hewlett-Packard in their Unix development team.

In approximately 1999 Peters was managing the HP-UX desktop development and became aware of the GNOME project when the team decided to provide GNOME on HPUX. Peters had a role in explaining the Open Source business and intellectual property models to Hewlett-Packard management. She later founded the Hewlett-Packard Open Source Program office. In 2000 she became one of the founding members of the GNOME Foundation Advisory board.

In December 2005 Peters became Director of Product Management for OpenLogic, an Open Source services company. In July 2008 Peters left OpenLogic and became the executive director of the GNOME Foundation. Her role was in coordinating with sponsors, business development and marketing. In November 2010 she left to Mozilla. Since August 2011 she has been a member of the GNOME Board of Directors.