As the OSL's Director, Lance Albertson brings extensive experience in a large-scale academic computing environment and open source community involvement. Lance comes to the lab from Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kan., where he was responsible for over 30,000 faculty/staff and student email and system accounts and served as the advisor for the Linux Users Group. Lance's involvement in the open source community began in 2003 with the Gentoo Linux distribution. As a leader within the Gentoo community, Lance has served on the Linux Foundation, has held the position of operational manager for the infrastructure team and is a developer and maintainer for several core infrastructure packages.

Lance can be reached at lance-at-osuosl-dot-org