Karl Fogel is an open source developer and author. After working on CVS and writing "Open Source Development With CVS" (Coriolis, 1999), he went to CollabNet, Inc as a founding developer in the Subversion project. Based on his experiences there, he wrote "Producing Open Source Software: How to Run a Successful Free Software Project" (O'Reilly, 2005), and after a brief stint at Google, now works as an independent copyright reform activist. His secret mission is to spread open source principles and methods to areas outside software.

• Sharing the Wealth: Why Publically Versioned Resources are the Future of Everything