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If open source and the architecture of participation all come down to community, where does that leave those traditionally underrepresented in IT, such as women and minorities? How can such communities become more inclusive and diverse? How can we encourage diversity in the companies who increasingly bankroll many open source projects? On the heels of Black History Month and in the midst of Women's History Month, Fastcompany.com's Lynne d Johnson talks with Scott about possible solutions. What opportunities in open source could be being lost due to lack of diversity? How do venture capitalists help or hurt open source? Can government play a bigger role? Johnson also describes her own experiences with open source and advocating for more interoperability between technologies.
Lynne d Johnson is the senior editor of Fastcompany.com, where she oversees both editorial and community functionality. She was most recently the general manager of new media for VIBE and SPIN, where she she managed marketing, editorial, production, business development, and sales operations for the magazine's Web sites and mobile properties. A blogger since 2001, Johnson maintains Lynne d Johnson Diary, the winner of the 2006 Black Weblog Awards Black Blogger Achievement Award.
When not working on Web and writing projects, Johnson is as an adjunct professor in the Audrey Cohen School for Human Services at the Metropolitan College of New York, where she often teaches the sociology of group behavior with a focus on ethnic and racial relations from an American and global perspective, along with other sociology and education courses. She formerly taught at the College of Mount Saint Vincent, in the instructional technology track of its M.S. program in urban and multicultural education, where she also developed the curriculum for a special projects course in technology culture and communication. She also taught basic media production in the school's BA program in Communication. In addition, Johnson taught computer skills in community-based organizations and assisted in the creation and publishing of Web-based literacy education projects for both students and teachers on the Web.
Some of her past gigs include, technology reporter and editor at BlackPlanet.com, the leading African-American community-based Web site; associate editor of Digital New York, an online and offline publication for creatives working in print and Web design, digital photography and digital video; and managing editor of Beat Down, a hip-hop publication. Johnson earned a B.A. in journalism from SUNY New Paltz, after spending the first two-and-a-half years of her undergraduate career as an information systems major. She also holds an advanced certificate in Multicultural Studies from the College of Mount Saint Vincent, and an M.B.A. in media management from the Metropolitan College of New York.
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