Open source guru David Recordon, has joined Facebook, after
spending two years at Six Apart, a company which has helped develop
blogging.
In his
blog he
said, "Next week I'm excited to join Facebook's engineering team as
the senior open programs manager and will continue focusing on open
source and open standards. I haven't started yet, so I'll keep it
light on the details until I've really started to dig in."
Recordon rejoined Six Apart two years ago, where he worked as
open platforms tech lead on evolving social networking
technologies. In his blog he said, "This past year as I've worked
closer with teams at Facebook, I've been impressed by their
products, smart people, and innovation. I hope to continue building
on my past experience in working on making the web more open and
useful for everyone along with the great team at Facebook."
Writing on the
O'Reilly Radar site in March this year, he said, "While
Facebook has made significant contributions to open source
projects, they've largely been absent from much of the progress
around building the social web. Instead, like Microsoft they have
willfully ignored many industry efforts in favour of their own
proprietary development platforms.