Education
DiBona has a Bachelor of Surgery in computer science from George Mason University and a Master of Surgery in software engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.
DiBona has a Bachelor of Surgery in computer science from George Mason University and a Master of Surgery in software engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.
His team oversees license compliance and supports the open source developer community through programs such as the Google Summer of Code and through the release of open source software projects and patches on Google Code. In his former work on Google"s public sector software, he looked after Google Moderator and the polling locations API and election results. Before joining Google, he was an editor at Slashdot and co-founded Damage Studios.
He also co-edited Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution and Open Sources 2.0.
He formerly co-hosted (a podcast that was spun off from the popular This Week in Technical) with Leo Laporte. The show premiered on April 7, 2006, and features prominent guests from the free software/open source community.
He also appeared on This Week in Technical and CrankyGeeks from time to time and was in the documentary Revolution Operating system. On July 29, 2007, Laporte announced that due to commitment issues, DiBona was stepping down as host of
DiBona runs annually with Tim O"Reilly of O"Reilly Media and Timo Hannay of Nature on the Google campus in Mountain View, California. DiBona was a Linux commentator on "s The Screen Savers, during 2004 and parts of 2005.
His stories concentrated on fun applications and consumer use of Linux.
DiBona formerly served on the board of Our Good Works, a non-profit that looks after the volunteer matching website Allforgood.org. DiBona served on the advisory board of imeem, a San Francisco, Ca. based social networking firm, and advises PicPlz, a San Francisco start-up. He"s a visiting scientist (formally a visiting scholar) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management, and an advisor to Mixed Media Labs, app.net project
He also advises Ingenuitas on their sightmachine project
He"s also an associate in Google Ventures.