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Red Hat's Michael Tiemann appointed visiting scholar at SILS
July 31, 2007 – Vice President of Open Source Affairs for Red Hat, Michael Tiemann, has been appointed visiting scholar by the School of Information and Library Science (SILS) of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
In this role, Tiemann will meet with faculty, staff and students in their fields of research and their work.
"We are delighted that Michael Tiemann is joining the School as a visiting scholar," said Dr. José-Marie Griffiths, dean of SILS. "His work in open source is substantial and closely maps to our philosophy of promoting access to information with the global community."
Tiemann is a true open source software pioneer, making his first major open source contribution over a decade ago by writing the GNU C++ compiler, the first native-code C++ compiler and debugger. His early work led to the creation of leading open source technologies and the first open source business model.
In 1989, Tiemann's technical expertise and entrepreneurial spirit led him to co-found Cygnus Solutions, the first company to provide commercial support for open source software. During his ten years at Cygnus, Tiemann contributed in a number of roles from president to hacker, helping lead the company from fledgling start-up to an admired open source leader.
Tiemann serves on a number of boards, including the Open Source Initiative and the GNOME Foundation. He also provides financial support to organizations that further the goals of software and programmer freedom, including the Free Software Foundation and the Electronic Frontier Foundation.