%0 Journal Article %J Open Source Business Resource %D 2008 %T TIM Lecture Series: Building Technical Communities %A Ian Skerrett %X On June 4, 2008, Ian Skerrett from the Eclipse Foundation delivered a presentation entitled " Building Technical Communities". This section provides the key messages from Ian's lecture. Ian used his observations of working in the Eclipse community to explain why community building is important, its critical elements, and how the traditional roles within an organization relate. %B Open Source Business Resource %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %8 06/2008 %G eng %U http://timreview.ca/article/160 %N June 2008 %9 Articles %1 Eclipse Foundation Ian Skerrett is the Director of Marketing at the Eclipse Foundation, a not-for-profit corporation supporting the Eclipse open source community and commercial ecosystem. He is responsible for implementing programs that raise awareness of the Eclipse open source project and grow the overall Eclipse community. Ian has been working in the software industry for over 20 years. He has held a variety of product management and product marketing positions with Cognos, Object Technology International, IBM, Entrust and Klocwork. He graduated from Carleton University with a Bachelor of Computer Science and has an MBA from McGill.