About our founder
Sumana Harihareswara is an open source software contributor (GitHub) and project manager with over fifteen years of experience in the software industry. She has managed open source projects for the Python Software Foundation, GNOME, Wikimedia Foundation, OpenNews, Electronic Frontier Foundation, and more, and managed work on Autoconf, pip, PyPI, Zulip, MediaWiki, Mailman, and more. Her past leadership in nonprofit, academia, industry, and volunteer organizations earned her an Open Source Citizen Award in 2011 and the Google Open Source Peer Bonus in 2018. She lives in New York City and founded Changeset in 2015.
Quotes
If you hate bad meetings, you should talk to @ChangesetLLC.
I’ve walked away from every meeting run by @brainwane with a sense of awe and wonderment rather than crankiness and regret.
Efficient, painless, productive.
Ee W. Durbin III, Director of Infrastructure at the Python Software Foundation
My view is that an open source project without a healthy external community doesn't provide most of the benefits of open source....
Kandra Labs hired Sumana Harihareswara to do some consulting during the early days of Zulip ... I think this was one of the best decisions I made early on: it was incredibly helpful to have her to both help with direct work on setting up the community and bounce ideas off of and talk about what types of things we should be doing to help make Zulip a project that a community can grow around.
Tim Abbott, founder and CEO of Kandra Labs, co-founder of Zulip
Whenever I wonder 'What has Sumana been up to lately', I see her working on some excellent new project, cleaning out a neglected backlog, organizing training materials, helping people start an event, documenting something undocumented, prodding WMF to get smarter -- in other words, she's been tirelessly, fearlessly, capably making things better for our dev community, which in turn benefits the quality of the software we build together.
Erik Möller while VP of Engineering and Product Development at Wikimedia Foundation; now Principal Project Manager at Freedom of the Press Foundation.
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