History

Member for

2 years 12 weeks

GNOME

projects

GNOME Foundation Advisory Board, Hiker Project, Linux Foundation, Linux Phone Standards Forum, CE Linux Forum

I am member of the GNOME Foundation

I actively promoted GNOME in events, media, local groups...

GUADEC

I'm planning to attend...

the whole week

I attended GUADEC 2006 (Vilanova i la Geltru)

Personal info

first name

David "Lefty"

last name

Schlesinger

personal page

http://www.hikerproject.org

organisation

ACCESS Co., Ltd.

professional website

http://www.access-company.com/about/opensource

bio

David "Lefty" Schlesinger is Director of Open Source Technologies at ACCESS Systems Americas, Inc. (formerly PalmSource), working principally on open source strategy and community relations, and representing ACCESS in a number of industry and community initiatives. He is vice-chair of the Architectural Working Group of the Linux Phone Standards Forum, acting Steering Committee Chair of the Linux Foundation's Mobile Linux Initiative, and a member of the GNOME Foundation‚s Advisory Board. He was previously the director of PalmSource's Core Technologies department, responsible for delivery of the kernel, drivers and low-level middleware for the ACCESS Linux Platform. He is a frequent presenter and panelist at open source-related conferences, most recently at Open Source in Mobile 2006.

Lefty also administers the Hiker Project (www.hikerproject.org), an applications framework specifically designed for Linux-based mobile devices.

Prior to joining PalmSource, Lefty worked for ten years at Apple, Inc., where he managed the Mac OS Networking team and supported and fostered the initial development of Apple's Rendezvous/Bonjour zero-configuration networking scheme.