Greg Swindle is an Associate Fellow at Verizon and Coding Architect / Front End Engineer, as well as the Community Lead for the Verizon InnerSource and Open Source Program. He is an active and engaged member of the open source software community. Before his engineering career, he applied his academic minor in Linguistics to competency-based ESL instruction and curricula for refugees. He too believes that open government is instrumental to the continued advancement of our society, and that the lessons learned from introducing decentralized, open, and objective process models to corporate organizations can be effectively applied to local, state, and federal government.