John Mertic is a Program Director at the Linux Foundation. Under his leadership, he has helped ASWF, LF AI & Data, LF Energy, ODPi, Open Mainframe Project, and R Consortium accelerate open source innovation and transform industries. John has an open source career spanning two decades, both as a contributor to projects such as SugarCRM and PHP, and in open source leadership roles at SugarCRM, OW2, and OpenSocial. With an extensive open source background, he is a regular speaker at various Linux Foundation and other industry trade shows each year. John is also an avid writer and has authored several books, most recently "Open Source Projects - Beyond Code: A blueprint for scalable and sustainable open source projects", as well as published articles on IBM Developerworks, Apple Developer Connection, and PHP Architect.