Luis Villa is an American attorney and programmer who is Co-Founder and General Counsel for Tidelift.
Luis Villa | |
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 Villa in 2013 | |
| Alma mater | Columbia Law School |
| Occupation | Lawyer |
| Website | tieguy |
Previously he worked as Deputy General Counsel and then as Senior Director of Community Engagement at the Wikimedia Foundation, and prior to that he was an attorney at Mozilla,[1] where he worked on the revision of the Mozilla Public License (MPL). He continued that work in his next job at Greenberg Traurig[2] where he was part of the team defending Google against Oracle's claims concerning Android.[3][non-primary source needed]
Prior to graduating from Columbia Law School in 2009, he was an employee at Ximian,[4] which was acquired by Novell in 2003. He spent a year as a "senior geek in residence" at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society[5] working on StopBadware.org.[6] He has been elected four times to the board of the GNOME Foundation.[7] He was editor-in-chief of the Columbia Science and Technology Law Review, and blogs regularly.[4] He was a director of the Open Source Initiative from April 2012 to March 2015.[8][9]
In 2017 he co-founded Tidelift, which seeks to improve the ecosystem around open source software by providing support for professional teams using open source and helping maintainers build sustainable businesses around their projects.[10]
See also
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edit- ^ "Addition to Planet Mozilla". Blog.mozilla.com. 2009-12-12. Archived from the original on 2012-04-02. Retrieved 2014-04-22.
- ^ [Posted January 7, 2011 by ris] (2011-01-07). "Villa: Changing Jobs". Lwn.net. Retrieved 2014-04-22.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Monterrey, Carlos (17 April 2014). "Luis Villa: "I wanted to be an Internet lawyer"". Wikimedia Blog. Wikimedia Foundation. Retrieved 1 June 2014.
- ^ a b Byfield, Bruce (2008-04-18). "Portrait: Luis Villa, from Bugzilla to bar association". Linux.com. Retrieved 2015-04-05.
- ^ "Berkman Center page". Cyber.law.harvard.edu. 2008-01-02. Retrieved 2014-04-22.
- ^ "Interview with CNet". News.cnet.com. Retrieved 2014-04-22.
- ^ "Villa's election to Gnome Foundation Board". Mail.gnome.org. 2007-12-24. Retrieved 2014-04-22.
- ^ Phipps, Simon (2012-03-19). "OSI's new Board". OSI. Retrieved 2015-04-05.
- ^ Masson, Patrick (2015-03-18). "OSI Board Meeting Minutes". OSI. Retrieved 2015-04-05.
- ^ "Our mission". Tidelift. Retrieved 20 February 2018.
External links
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- Interview with Red Hat magazine Archived 2008-08-27 at the Wayback Machine
- Villa's Blog
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