Lance is the Associate Director of Operations for the Oregon State University Open Source Lab (OSL) and has been involved with the Gentoo Linux project as a developer and package maintainer since 2003. Since joining the OSL in 2007, Lance has managed all of the hosting activities that the OSL provides for nearly 150 high-profile open source projects. Lance has spoken at OSCON, Linuxcon, SCALE, and Open Source Bridge in the past few years on a variety of topics.