Sage Sharp

Sage Sharp (formerly Sarah Sharp) is a software engineer who has worked on the Linux kernel, including serving on the Linux Foundation's Technical Advisory Board for two years.[2]

Sage Sharp
Born1985 (age 34–35)
Known forLinux kernel contributions
Spouse(s)Jamey Sharp[1]

Sharp began working on the kernel in 2006 as an undergraduate at Portland State University, and later through an Intel undergraduate research grant.[3] Sharp's contributions to the kernel include writing and acting as a maintainer for its USB 3.0 driver.[4][5] In 2015, Sharp recommended that the Linux project adopt a code of conduct for Linux developers; Torvalds adopted a "code of conflict" instead.[6][7] Sharp stepped down from direct work on the kernel on 5 October 2015, citing the abrasive communication style and "abusive commentary [on submitted patches]" of the maintainer community.[4][8][9][10]

Sharp was a volunteer co-coordinator of the Outreachy project,[11] and led a team contributing to the Linux kernel for the project's June 2013 internships.[12] Through their consultancy Otter Tech LLC, they work with Outreachy in a paid capacity.[13]

Sharp won the first annual Red Hat Women in Open Source Community Award in 2015 for "efforts in improving communications and inviting women into open source communities"[14] and the 2016 O'Reilly Open Source Award for accomplishments in the open source community.[11]

Sharp is non-binary and uses the pronouns "they" and "them".[15]

Early years

Sharp grew up in Rainier, Oregon,[16] and attended Portland State University as an undergraduate. While at Portland State University, Sharp worked on the Linux kernel for senior elective credits.[3]

gollark: Our cluster management systems just automatically select for productivity.
gollark: See, wage growth cost us capital which could otherwise be fed to our capital generators, so we just use orbital mind control laser backscatter to nondestructively extract neural patterns from arbitrary people, then execute them in parallel at a few thousand times real time speed on our computing clusters.
gollark: We have employees, we don't really *worry* about them.
gollark: We mostly just offload doodling to specialized neural networks.
gollark: You doodle *manually*, even?

See also

References
  1. "About Me – Sage Sharp". sage.thesharps.us. Retrieved 2018-06-10.
  2. "The Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board election results [LWN.net]". lwn.net. Retrieved 2017-10-14.
  3. Cloer, Jennifer (25 June 2012). "30 Linux Kernel Developers in 30 Weeks: Sarah Sharp". Linux.com | The source for Linux information. Retrieved 2017-10-14.
  4. Gold, Jon (5 October 2015). "Linux kernel dev Sarah Sharp quits, citing 'brutal' communications style". Network World. Retrieved 2017-10-14.
  5. Sharp, Sarah (22 October 2013). "[Tech-board-discuss] Standing for the Technical Advisory Board - Sarah Sharp". Retrieved 2017-10-14.
  6. Cohen, Noah (2018-09-18). "After Years of Abusive E-mails, the Creator of Linux Steps Aside". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2018-09-27.
  7. "The Woman Bringing Civility to Open Source Projects". WIRED. Retrieved 2018-09-27.
  8. Sharp, Sarah (5 October 2015). "Closing a door | The Geekess". sarah.thesharps.us. Retrieved 2017-10-14.
  9. Sharwood, Simon (6 October 2015). "Linux kernel dev who asked Linus Torvalds to stop verbal abuse quits over verbal abuse". Retrieved 2017-10-14.
  10. "The Culture War Comes to Linux". Motherboard. 2018-09-26. Retrieved 2018-09-27.
  11. "Outreachy's Sarah Sharp Wins O'Reilly Open Source Award - Software Freedom Conservancy". sfconservancy.org. 25 May 2016. Retrieved 2017-10-14.
  12. "Open Source Interns Outperform Industry Heavyweights In Linux Kernel Contributions". 01.org. 2013-11-15. Retrieved 2017-10-14.
  13. "[Outreachy Progress: 2018-12]". https://sage.thesharps.us/. 2019-01-03. Retrieved 2019-05-17. External link in |website= (help)
  14. "Women in Open Source Award". www.redhat.com. Retrieved 2017-10-14.
  15. Sharp, Sage (2017-10-24). "Binaries are for computers". Retrieved 2017-11-18.
  16. McMillan, Robert (19 July 2013). "Why this hacker stood up against 'verbal abuse' in Linux land". Wired. Retrieved 2017-10-14.
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