Talk:Karl Fogel

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 * I disagree with the subject about his notability in the previous deletion. This may be a matter of time.  Not only is he on the board of an influential and notable trade organization Open Source Initiative, but he is published several times over and referenced from many sites including Groklaw.  Accordingly, he seems to have worked in influential roles at the start of several early web startups including CollabNet.  While he's no Brian Behlendorf, he seems sufficiently noteworthy at least within his trade.
 * my interest is in studying the people behind the free/libre and open source software (FLOSS) movements. I'm filling in the gaps in wikipedia where I find them.  8r0k3n (talk) 23:36, 5 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Can you at least remove the link connecting Karl Fogel, the basketball coach who succeeded Jim Calhoun at Northeastern, to Karl Fogel the pretty uninfluential computer programmer, who probably wrote this article about himself. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wminich (talk • contribs) 19:39, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
 * It seems unlikely that Karl wrote this himself, since the last time he voted for the deletion of his own page (see Votes_for_deletion/Karl_Fogel). TBQH, Karl is fairly noteworthy, he's on the board of the Open Source Initiative, did a lot of work on CVS (he's the guy who's responsible for CVS's anonymous access support, which was how roughly all open source projects worked early on), was one of the co-founders of the Subversion project, published books on CVS and Subversion, co-founded one of the first free software companies,  blah blah blah.  The fact that he's not some loudmouth who gets quoted on hacker news for writing crappy blog posts doesn't make him not notable.  I'm sorry you think some random coach at some random school is somehow more notable (which btw, Google wildly disagrees with).   DanBerlin (talk) 13:22, 21 April 2012 (UTC)