Benjamin Kerensa

556 points

Portland, OR

Benjamin Kerensa is an internationally recognized open source evangelist, community manager, author and speaker with experience in systems administration, project management and open source development that spans a decade.

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Is Brave the new champion the open web needs?

On January 20, Andreas Gal, former CTO of Mozilla, the company behind the popular open source browser Mozilla Firefox, announced in a blog post that former Mozilla CEO and…

A new year of opportunities and risks for the open web

We recently closed out a great year for the open web, with a number of important developments in 2015. Important open web changes and innovation included: Public beta of Let's…

Mozilla contributor creates diabetes project for the masses

My open source story started in high school as a student. I always considered myself to be a hacker—not the malicious type, but the curious type who liked to tinker with code…

Happy 11th birthday, Mozilla Firefox!

Eleven years ago, Firefox 1.0 was released with much excitement and anticipation. With the help of volunteers, The Mozilla Foundation placed a two-page advertisement in the…

15 open web advocates to follow on Twitter

Working on the Open Web is a niche area of the greater open source community. Usually the work does not get the same level of fanfare of other areas of open source, but the…

Virtual reality is the next open web frontier

Each year, there's a seemingly infinite amount of exciting things happening on the open web. It's hard to keep track of all the new things rolling out, but I'd like to draw…