Barton George

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Barton has been involved with Linux, developers and the open source community for close to 20 years. Currently on sabbatical, he was most recently at Dell Technologies where he served as Dell’s community manager within Dell’s Developer Relations team. During his 15 years at Dell, Barton worked in a variety of roles in groups such as the office of the CTO, enterprise strategy, professional services and marketing In addition to his day job, Barton founded and lead Project Sputnik, a line of Ubuntu-powered developer laptops and workstations.

Prior to Dell, Barton was a member of Sun Microsystem’s Open Source program office and he began his professional career in Tokyo, working in Sony’s workstation division. Born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii, Barton is a single father of three, residing just outside of Austin, Texas.