Why Professional Open Source Management is Critical for your Business Gil Yehuda, Senior Director of Open Source and Technology Strategy, Yahoo Gil Yehuda, Senior Director of Open Source and Technology Strategy, Yahoo, Gil Yehuda is the Sr. Director of Open Source and Standards at Yahoo Inc. where he manages the policies, processes, and relationships with organizatio... More >> In his Open Source Landscape keynote at LinuxCon Japan earlier this year, Jim Zemlin, Executive Director of the Linux Foundation said that the trend toward corporate-sponsored open source projects is one of the most important developments in the open source ecosystem. The jobs report released by the Linux Foundation earlier this year found that open source professionals are in high demand. The report was followed by the announcement that TODOGroup, a collaboration project for open source professionals who run corporate open source program offices, was joining the Linux Foundation. Open source is no longer exclusively a pursuit of the weekend hobbyist.