Jason Hibbets

Jason Hibbets is a project manager in Brand Communications + Design, at Red Hat, where he leads a team of writers who are the voices of the Red Hat brand. He also is the lead administrator for opensource.com and has led several web-based projects at Red Hat. Jason has been with Red Hat since 2003, and prior roles include ISV senior marketing specialist, support project manager for Red Hat Exchange (RHX), Red Hat Knowledgebase maintainer, and Global Support Services technical engineer. He also spent a summer internship at Red Hat in 2000 as the Linux User Group (LUG) program manager. Follow him on Twitter: @jhibbets

Jason graduated from North Carolina State University and resides in Raleigh, NC. He has been applying open source principles in neighborhood organizations in Raleigh for several years, highlighting the importance of transparency, collaboration, and community building. In his spare time, he enjoys surfing, gardening, watching football, participating in his local government, blogging for his neighborhood, and training his four Border Collies to be frisbee and agility dogs. He heads to the beaches of North Carolina during hurricane season to ride the waves.