V M (Vicky) Brasseur is an author and public speaker advocating in the field of free and open-source software.
Brasseur is the director of Open Source Strategy for Juniper Networks and former Vice President of the Open Source Initiative.
[1][2][3] Brasseur is a frequent keynote speaker at tech conferences where she often discusses issues of community management and technological challenges in open source projects and environments, especially when they intersect with business environments.
[4][5][6] Brasseur has written many articles for publications including Linux Journal[7] and opensource.com, for which she has also been a moderator.
[8][9] Her 2018 book Forge Your Future with Open Source[10] aimed to help newcomers get started in participating in the open source software community.