Lance Albertson joins the Oregon State University Open Source Lab as the Infrastructure Architect bringing extensive experience in large scale academic computing environment and Open Source Community involvement. Lance comes to the lab from Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas where he was responsible for over 30,000 faculty/staff and student email and system accounts as well as serving as the advisor for the Linux Users Group. Lance's involvement in the Open Source Community started in 2003 with the Gentoo Linux distribution. As a leader within the Gentoo Community, Lance has served on the Foundation, has held the position of Operational Manager for the Infrastructure team, and is a developer and maintainer for several core infrastructure packages.

Lance can be reached at lance-at-osuosl-dot-org