David C. Mason

David Mason is the Open Source and Health Informatics Advisor at IntraHealth International. As a development director for Red Hat’s Linux Operating System, Mr. Mason managed hundreds of developers worldwide to create the market leader in Linux distributions. Additionally, Mr. Mason served as the Director of Red Hat Advanced Development Labs, overseeing top developers working on long-term user interface and technical projects, including the GNOME desktop, GTK+ Widget set, ATK accessibility library and the Pango Internationalization library. Mr. Mason has also worked with GIS engineering, 3D video technologies, and broadband networking. He co-founded the IntraHealth Open Initiative, and the TechCorps Open Source campaign and election software initiative, and has presented multiple talks on Free and Open Source software, transparency, software development, and health informatics.