Ken Coar
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Ken Coar 1960 |
| Residence | Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S. |
| Alma mater | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| Occupation | Principal Application Software Engineer at Red Hat |
| Years active | 2011–present |
| Board member of |
Apache Software Foundation Director, 1998-2007 Open Source Initiative Director, 2004-2010 |
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Born in 1960, Ken Coar is a software developer and open development evangelist, recognised primarily for his participation in the creation of The Apache Software Foundation, and the inception of the initial ApacheCon user conferences.
He currently lives in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Coar attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst, majoring in computer topics, but left before completing a degree. He worked for the University for several years, and has since been employed by General Dynamics, Digital Equipment Corporation, Process Software Corporation, and IBM. In April 2011 he joined Red Hat as a Principal Application Software Engineer.
Coar has been active in open software projects, and lectures internationally about open development methodologies and distributed collaboration. He has addressed local groups, regional conferences, and government organisations.
He is co-author with David R. Robinson of RFC 3875, the Common Gateway Interface (CGI) specification.
Ken Coar is a member of The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) and was a Director on its board from its incorporation in 1999 through June 2007. His involvement with the organisation dates back to late 1996, and his major code contributions have been to the Apache HTTP server project. He is also the primary contributor to the Apache Pulse project, which provides daily analyses of all of the Apache mailing lists.
Coar was Vice President and chair of the Apache Conferences project from 1998 to 2007 [1], and was responsible for the ApacheCon shows which have been held in North America and Europe since 2000. He was the initial chair of the Apache Commons project, which eventually shut down [2] without actually having accomplished much; it was later successfully restarted [3] and is currently a viable project. He helped in the creation of the Apache Incubator project [4].
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