
Frank Hecker is Director of Grants and Programs with the Mozilla Foundation, a nonprofit organization promoting choice and innovation on the Internet through its support of the Mozilla project and related initiatives. Prior to joining the Mozilla Foundation full-time Frank was a sales engineer with Opsware Inc, supporting sales of Opsware IT automation software and services to the Federal government. He has also worked for CollabNet, supporting sales of CollabNet services relating to open-source and other collaborative software development, and for Netscape Communications Corporation and America Online, Inc., as Director of Systems Engineering for the Sun/Netscape Alliance government sales group (previously the Netscape government sales group) in Bethesda, Maryland. At Netscape he was sales technical lead for the Netscape/DoD worldwide site license, the FORTEZZA, FIPS 140-1, and Netscape Security Services projects, and many other sales activities; he was also a key contributor to Netscape's decision to release source code for Netscape Communicator, and was appointed one of three Netscape Fellows. His professional interests include the technical, business, and public policy aspects of open-source software, information systems security, and cryptography; he is author of the Mozilla Crypto FAQ (which discusses how U.S. encryption export controls affect an open-source project) and the paper Setting Up Shop: The Business of Open-Source Software. He blogs at <http://blog.hecker.org/>