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{{short description|American computer engineer}} {{BLP sources|date=December 2008}} [[Image:Chris-Blizzard.jpg|thumb|right|Christopher Blizzard]] '''Christopher Blizzard''' (born 1973) is a Developer Relations lead at [[Facebook]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/2012/08/facebook/ |title=facebook |accessdate=August 13, 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120816234040/http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/2012/08/facebook/ |archivedate=August 16, 2012 }}</ref> Formerly, he worked as an [[open-source software|Open Source]] Evangelist at the [[Mozilla Corporation]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/2012/03/opportunity/ |title=Opportunity |accessdate=March 16, 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120319215540/http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/2012/03/opportunity/ |archivedate=March 19, 2012 }}</ref> and has contributed to other open source projects, including [[Red Hat]] and [[OLPC|One Laptop Per Child]]. Prior to his position as Open Source Evangelist he was the Software Team Lead for the One Laptop Per Child project at Red Hat and sat on the Mozilla Corporation Board of Directors. Before joining the One Laptop Per Child project he was a [[Systems Engineer]] and Open Source software developer working at Red Hat. ==One Laptop Per Child== Blizzard was the OLPC Software Team Lead through [[Red Hat]]. He helped to develop the project's modified version of [[Fedora (operating system)|Fedora Core]] Linux. He handled all integration and community work with the OLPC project and unveiled the laptop in a video on Friday, June 2, 2006.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.siliconvalleysleuth.com/2006/06/first_video_of_.html |title=First video of a working "One Laptop Per Child" laptop |accessdate=2007-09-06 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070830212358/http://www.siliconvalleysleuth.com/2006/06/first_video_of_.html |archivedate=2007-08-30 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Chris was also involved with the development of the OLPC's [[Sugar (GUI)|Sugar]] interface. ==References== {{Reflist}} {{authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Blizzard, Christopher}} [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:American computer scientists]] [[Category:Computer systems engineers]] [[Category:Silicon Valley people]] [[Category:People from Mountain View, California]] [[Category:Mozilla developers]] [[Category:Open source people]] [[Category:Free software programmers]] [[Category:Mozilla people]] [[Category:1973 births]] {{US-engineer-stub}}
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