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 non-public 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 for Eigenbase. Damian is a veteran of the
Software Infrastructure industry, with a career spanning over 29
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 also the CEO of
SQLstream.
- Nicholas Goodman serves as a director for Eigenbase as well as
secretary, and is a self described Data Dynamo and Business
Intelligence Geek. Nicholas has held various technical and director
positions at Matchlogic (acquired by Excite@Home), Azika, Sephora, and
Pentaho. Nicholas was also founder of Bayon Technologies Inc, an
Oracle and Open Source BI consulting firm delivering complete BI/DW
solutions. Most recently, Nicholas is founder and CEO of DynamoBI,
which offers a commercial distribution of LucidDB.
- Julian Hyde serves as president and chairman of the board of directors of Eigenbase, and also as treasurer. Julian is another database
industry veteran (Oracle, Broadbase, Pentaho) and was the original
developer of Saffron, one of the Eigenbase subprojects. He is also
the founder of several other open source projects, including
Mondrian.
Julian works as the chief architect at SQLstream and chief OLAP architect at Pentaho.
- Edan Kabatchnik serves as vice president for Eigenbase. Edan's
20-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
SQLstream.
Mailing Address
The Eigenbase Project
2732 Prince Street
Berkeley, CA 94705