Cat Allman

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Google and Science Foo Camp program manager Cat Allman at the FOSSASIA UNESCO Hackathon in 2018

Cat Allman was a program manager in the Open Source Outreach and Making & Science teams at Google and Google lead of Science Foo Camp. [1]

Career

Allman has been involved in open source software since the 1980s. [2] She worked with the global Free and open-source software community at Google. She worked on Google Summer of Code and Google Code-in. [3] As well as developing programming skills, she is interested in the interpersonal aspects of engineering. [4] She is on the board of directors at USENIX. [5] She served as a jury member for Falling Walls. [6]

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References

  1. @catallman (January 23, 2023). "1/2 I had a transformative 15+ years at Google doing work that mattered with people I respected and learned from. It was truly great while it lasted!" (Tweet) via Twitter.
  2. "Cat Allman". opensourcebridge.org. Retrieved 2018-06-02.
  3. FOSSASIA (2016-08-21), Science and Open Source Program at Google - Cat Allman - FOSSASIA Summit 2016 , retrieved 2018-06-02
  4. Allman, Cat (2009). "The Human Factor in Open Source". Open Source Business Resource (June 2009). ISSN   1913-6102.
  5. "USENIX Board | USENIX". www.usenix.org. Retrieved 2018-06-02.
  6. "Cat Allman | Community Leadership Summit". www.communityleadershipsummit.com. Retrieved 2018-06-02.