The Eigenbase Project

Foundation

Established in April 2004, The Eigenbase Project is a California nonprofit public benefit corporation; its mission is to support the design, development, standardization, and promotion of high-quality open-source software for data management. Its 501(c)(3) tax-exempt public charity status has been approved by the IRS, so donations to the project are tax-deductible. All software contributed to the project is made available to the general public under OSI-approved licensing. Eigenbase encourages high-quality contributions, both from volunteers in the open-source community and from the software industry.

The project's nonprofit incorporation provides a number of benefits:

  • The goals and existence of the project are kept independent from the diverse activities, aims, and lifetimes of its participants.
  • The project cannot be co-opted for the exclusive benefit of individuals.
  • Intellectual property rights are well-defined for all software contributed.
  • Participants are protected by limited liability laws.

Executives

  • Damian Black serves as director. Damian is a veteran of the Software Infrastructure industry, with a career spanning over 23 years. He started off at Hewlett-Packard Research Laboratories Europe where he worked on the fusion of logic programming, object-oriented and relational database systems before moving to work in consulting, sales then general management positions. Damian is the CEO of Disruptive Tech.
  • Julian Hyde serves as treasurer. Julian is another database industry veteran (Oracle, Broadbase, Pentaho) and was the original developer of Saffron, one of the Eigenbase sub-projects. He is also the founder of several other open-source projects, including the popular Mondrian Java OLAP server. Julian works as the chief architect for both Disruptive Tech and Pentaho.
  • Edan Kabatchnik serves as vice president. Edan's 17-year Silicon Valley career in enterprise software includes positions at Oracle, Eventus, Sprout Group, RelayHealth, and Fourth Fleet in roles spanning from lead developer through CTO and Vice President of Product Development, which is his current role at Disruptive Tech.
  • Mark Kremer serves as director. Mark was the founder and CEO of Broadbase Software (now KANA) and is currently a partner with Benchmark Capital Israel; his background includes positions at companies such as Oracle and Verity. Mark is also on the LucidEra board.
  • John Sichi serves as president and chairman of the board of directors. John has worked for a number of startups in the database industry, including Quadbase Systems and Broadbase Software, and was the original developer of Fennel and Farrago, two of the Eigenbase sub-projects. He also contributes to a number of other open-source projects outside of Eigenbase, including MDR and JGraphT. John is one of the founders of LucidEra.
  • Tai Tran serves as secretary. Tai has held engineering director and VP positions at Oracle, Broadbase, PowerMarket, and Siebel; he is also a LucidEra founder.

Mailing Address

The Eigenbase Project
c/o John Sichi
P.O. Box 2184
El Granada, CA 94018

Copyright (C) 2004-2007 The Eigenbase Project. All rights reserved. Contact: info@eigenbase.org

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