John Mertic is Director of Program Management for ODPi, R Consortium, and Open Mainframe Project at The Linux Foundation. Previously, Mertic was director of business development software alliances at Bitnami. Mertic comes from a PHP and Open Source background, being a developer, evangelist, and partnership leader at SugarCRM, board member at OW2, president of OpenSocial, and frequent conference speaker around the world. As an avid writer, Mertic has published articles on IBM Developerworks, Apple Developer Connection, and PHP Architect, and authored the book The Definitive Guide to SugarCRM: Better Business Applications and the book Building on SugarCRM.