Open-Source Software Products to the Enterprise Community. Leigh Day is Vice President of Marketing Communications at Red Hat

Summary: Help Encourage Positive Values By Clicking The Following Link www.patreon.com/positivephil Our Mission Is To Spread Positive Values and Inspiring Stories of Entrepreneurship. Please Support Our Positive Podcast. In return… We Will Give You and Your Company Visibility Through Podcast Sponsorship and Social Media Marketing. Leigh Day is vice president of Marketing Communications at Red Hat, driving contact strategy and customer references, corporate communications, content marketing, global event strategy, marketing resources, communications and design, analyst relations, and digital user experience. Red Hat, Inc. is an American multinational software company providing open-source software products to the enterprise community. Founded in 1993, Red Hat has its corporate headquarters in Raleigh, North Carolina, with satellite offices worldwide. https://www.redhat.com Day started at Red Hat in 1999 as employee No. 139, collaborating with the other 138 employees to make Red Hat a world-class company built around free software. Positive Phil Mentions: FreshBooks is offering a month of unrestricted use to all of our listeners ­ totally free right now.... and you don’t need a credit card for the trial. ● To claim your free month, go to www.FreshBooks.com/phil and enter POSITIVE PHIL in the “How Did You Hear About Us?” section. Day was an integral part of the marketing team that launched Red Hat into the enterprise with Red Hat Enterprise Linux in 2001, and has continued to lead Red Hat’s premier open source event, the Red Hat Summit, since its inception in 2005. This gathering of Red Hat customers, partners, developers, and associates enjoyed its biggest year in 2016, with more than 5,500 attendee registrations. Red Hat Summit has become a premier technology conference and continually garners corporate sponsorships from Cisco, HP, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, SAP, and more. Day received a Bronze Stevie Award for Women in Business in 2015 as a "Mentor of the Year". In addition, she was named PR Executive of the Year in 2013 by the annual PR World Awards, part of the Silicon Valley United States worldwide recognition programs. Day currently serves on the board of directors of ArtSpace, a non-profit organization supporting Raleigh, N.C.’s thriving artist community, where she is chair of the communications committee. In addition, Day regularly volunteers for Lacy Elementary School and Highland Methodist Church. How has the open source movement transcended the technology sector and become critical for social good and community change both on a local and global level? --Can you define open principles? --In what ways is Red Hat an evangelist for change and social good? --Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst says “the world becomes better when it’s open.” What does he mean by this? How does the open source mindset apply to areas of life outside of business? For example: --How differently could your children impact the world if you applied open everything to your family and home life? --How differently might you approach your own healthcare if you applied open everything to your medical care, the way you talk to your doctors and how they openly communicate back with you? Can you explain Red Hat’s “Open Stories” series? What was the inspiration? How are Red Hat’s “Open Stories” impacting the way we view open everything? --In what ways does open everything provide opportunities and solutions to areas like healthcare, technology, and education? https://www.redhat.com/en/open-source-stories https://www.redhat.com/en/explore/the-open-organization-book Positive Phil has interviewed some of the most accomplished people on the planet and they all live life with ambition and passion.. Here’s what they all have in common. ‘’The program consists of interviews with positive people and thought leaders, as well as others in the social, business and entertainment community. Itunes Link: http://apple.co/2cBxzXs Subscribe:...