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'''Brian Behlendorf''' (born March 30, 1973) is a technologist, executive, computer programmer and leading figure in the [[open-source]] software movement. He was a primary developer of the [[Apache HTTP server|Apache Web server]], the most popular [[web server]] software on the [[Internet]], and a founding member of the Apache Group, which later became the [[Apache Software Foundation]]. Behlendorf served as president of the foundation for three years.
, [[Benetech]] since 2009 and the [[Electronic Frontier Foundation]] since 2013.

Behlendorf, raised in Southern California, became interested in the development of the Internet while he was a student at the [[University of California, Berkeley]], in the early 1990s. One of his first projects was an [[electronic mailing list]] and online music resource, [http://www.sfraves.org/history/ SFRaves], which a friend persuaded him to start in 1992.
Behlendorf was an early participant and the chief technology guru for the [[Burning Man]] festival, and also founded a large online resource devoted to [[electronic music]] and related subcultures.

In 1993, Behlendorf, Jonathan Nelson, Matthew Nelson and Cliff Skolnick co-founded [[Organic, Inc]]., the first business dedicated to building commercial web sites.
While developing the first online, for-profit, media project — the [[HotWired]] web site for [[Wired Magazine]] — in 1994, they realized that the [[NCSA HTTPd|most commonly used web server software]] at the time (developed at the [[National Center for Supercomputing Applications]] at the [[University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign]]) could not handle the user registration system that the company required. So, Behlendorf [[Patch (computing)|patched]] the open-source code to support HotWired's requirements.

It turned out that Behlendorf wasn't the only one busy patching the NCSA code at the time, so he and Cliff Skolnick put together an electronic mailing list to coordinate the work of the other programmers. By the end of February 1995, eight core contributors to the project started Apache as a [[Fork (software development)|fork]] of the NCSA codebase. Working loosely together, they eventually rewrote the entire original program as the [[Apache HTTP Server]]. In 1999, the project incorporated as the [[Apache Software Foundation]].

Behlendorf was the [[Chief technology officer|CTO]] of the [[World Economic Forum]]. He is also a former director and CTO of [[CollabNet]], a company he co-founded with O'Reilly & Associates (now [[O'Reilly Media]]) in 1999 to develop tools for enabling collaborative distributed software development. CollabNet used to be the primary corporate sponsor of the open source version control system [[Subversion (software)|Subversion]], before it became a project of the Apache Software Foundation. He continues to be involved with electronic music community events such as [[Chillits]], and speaks often at open source conferences worldwide.

In 2003, he was named to the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]] [[Technology Review]] [[TR35|TR100]] as one of the top 100 innovators in the world under the age of 35.

Behlendorf was a managing director at Mithril Capital, a global technology investment firm based in San Francisco, from 2014 until he joined the [[Linux Foundation]]. In 2016, he was appointed executive director of the open source [[Hyperledger]] project at the [[Linux Foundation]] to advance [[Blockchain (database)|blockchain]] technology.

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[http://wikipedia.org/ http://wikipedia.org/]
[[Category:People of the industry]]
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