User:Liana Linden

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Liana Linden

Program Manager: open source wrangler and intellectual property wonk

For the foreseeable future, I'm not holding personal office hours, but you can find me at the public Open Source Meeting each week Thursday at 2pm Pacific Time.

If you'd like to speak with me individually, send me an IM inworld.

My office is on Hippotropolis.

Bio

Liana Holmberg is an Open Source Program Manager at Linden Lab, makers of the online virtual world Second Life. This year, she launched the Linden Lab Innovation Awards to recognize excellence in developing the Second Life platform and cofounded the Architecture Working Group to develop open standards for virtual worlds. Prior to working on the open source initiative, Liana served on the Community Affairs team, where she drove critical scaling projects and convened an advisory board of governance experts including eBay’s Colin Rule, online dispute resolution pioneer Ethan Katsh, futurist Paul Saffo, New Politics Institute director Peter Leyden, information ethics professor Jeremy Hunsinger and journalist Julian Dibbell. Liana became a resident of the Second Life world in October 2005, and she joined Linden Lab in January 2006.

Liana has pursued a career path that merges her interests in technology, the arts, publishing and education. She was Art Director at the Public Library of Science, the premiere open-access science publisher, where she led efforts to apply Creative Commons licensing to all published visual media. She has also been an editor, alternative news journalist and production manager, and she is a graduate of the Stanford Publishing Course. As an educator, Liana has served at the elementary through university levels, where she developed new classes integrating computer tools into teaching of the core curriculum. Liana holds an M.A. in English with emphasis on creative writing. Long before she ever thought virtual worlds would become a reality--let alone a career--she wrote her undergraduate thesis on William Gibson's Neuromancer.