Robin Riley — Nonprofits, Civics, and Open Source Tech
Booster for the commons and obligate organizer 🌱
Robin Riley is a nonprofit executive and community organizer based in Petaluma, California, specializing in open source, web technology, civics, and civil rights.
Robin's background includes organizational development, governance, business operations, campaign management, program management, events, communications, marketing, and web development. She uses these skills and her network to help organizations and communities mature, put their best foot forward, and collaborate with each other.
Robin works as an Open Source Product Marketing Strategist at Igalia. She has previously worked for Tidelift, Salesforce, Google, and O'Reilly Media, among others.
Robin is best known for her tenure as President of the Open Source Initiative and first Managing Director of The Matrix.org Foundation. At home, though, she's better recognized for her community organizing work across tech, electoral politics, civic engagement, and civil rights, such as on the Sonoma County Library Commission, through Petaluma Pride, North Bay Python, and the Hooper campaigns in 2022 and 2024.
Robin is also a small town cat parent. She's a queer, nonbinary, disabled person, and an outdoor enthusiast. A concert goer and forever student pilot. Someone who wants to be a good neighbor, and be a good ancestor, as part of living a good life.