Sriram Ramkrishna is a long time contributor to Free and Open Source communities. Making his initial foray into Free Software within the GNOME Project as a community liaison and Director of the GNOME Foundation. This year completes 23 years with the project. Professionally, started in IT datacenters with Intel, and then professionally working at Intel's Open Source Technology Center working as a release manager for Linux Foundation's Tizen OS and then managing a program to teach and train business units internally about open source processes. Today, he merges his various experiences in datacenters, open source communities in his role as an ecosystems engineer working with projects under the Linux Foundation and Open Compute Project and building collaborative opportunities around open hardware and open networking.