Jacob Green

Chief Open Source Dilettante, Mosslabs, Institutes of Applied Open Source (IAOS), OSPO++

Seasoned creator with a global vision, connecting people & institutions across cultures and silos, executing with passion.

Strategist with an extensive understanding of Open Source culture, communities, and networks, with a focus on technology-based policy (Government, Education, & Industry).

Social & technical systems engineer, with 15+ years of experience developing & scaling global distributed systems from first principles into live global production.

Consistently bringing together interdisciplinary teams to engineer unique solutions from a fresh perspective. Employing high creativity, infectious passion, cross discipline & cross culture engineering, strong entrepreneurial outlook, with 15 years of scaling and distributed system problem solving.

Community Specialties:
=> Open Source Communities
=> Connecting Interdisciplinary Experts 
=> Urban Communities (West Baltimore)
=> Systemic Economic Development

Technical Specialties:
=> Distributed System Engineering / Global Scale Engineering
=> Video: Transport/Encode/Decode/Transcode/Process
=> Network: Multicast, Messaging Systems, Overlay Networks, Tactical Edge Networks, Delay/Disruption Tolerant Networks (DTN).
=> Data: Data Replication, Cloud Computing

Industries: CivicTech, Cloud, Municipalities, Video Broadcast & Transport, Military DoD, Startups, Fortune 500, Gov't R&D agencies, Financial Services

ABOUT THE ORGANIZATION

OSPO++ is a global network and a community of collaborative open source program offices (OSPOs) focused on supporting the core mission objectives of universities, governments, and civic institutions. We come together to build OSPOs, foster impactful collaborations between OSPOs, and build the core collaboration infrastructure for today’s most pressing challenges.OSPO++ began as a community facilitated by Moss Labs, a loose organization of open source enthusiasts in the US and is dedicated to fostering collaboration, and has helped OSPO++ grow beyond the initial members by holding ...

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