VM (ak Vicky) leverages nearly 30 years of FOSS experience and a strong management and business background to advise companies about free/open source, technology, community, business, and the intersections between them. She is the author of Forge Your Future with Open Source, which details how to contribute to open source projects. It's published by The Pragmatic Programmers and is available at https://fossforge.com. Vicky is the proud winner of the Perl White Camel Award (2014) and the O’Reilly Open Source Award (2016), is a moderator and author for opensource.com and a frequent speaker at FOSS events, and blogs at http://anonymoushash.vmbrasseur.com.