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Charles Eckel

Open Source Developer Evangelist

Cisco DevNet

Charles is a developer evangelist in the Cisco DevNet team with a passion for open source software and open standards.

He started with open source 1999 as a founding member of Vovida Networks, developing some of the industry’s first open source VoIP protocol stacks and applications.

Now at Cisco, he is a recognized champion of open standards, open source and interoperability. He runs DevNet’s Open Source Dev Center, which focuses on Cisco’s major open source contributions, use, and community engagements; most notably, introducing open source hackathons into IETF and MEF, revolutionizing the way these SDOs operate and uniting open source software with open standards to maximize the pace and relevance of both.

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September 27, 2018

DEVELOPER

Curated Code Repos Get Your Integration Project Done Faster, Better

Having a hard time getting started on your next big integration with Cisco products? Found the platform and API docs on DevNet but need help turning this into running code? Check out Code Exchange, one more way DevNet makes it easy for developers to be successful with Cisco products and platforms. C…

July 30, 2018

DEVELOPER

Running Code for the Win at IETF Hackathon in Montreal

What do the World Cup, the Tour de France, and the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) have in common? They were all featured on the big screen at the IETF Hackathon at IETF 102 in Montreal. A World Cup full of surprises and late heroics concluded with France scoring an impressive victory over Cr…

May 24, 2018

DEVELOPER

Hackathon@AIS Builds Technical Capacity Around Networking Standards in Africa

As African Networks Expand, Demand for Skilled African Engineers Is Increasing Report from the African Internet Summit 2018 Hackathon The Internet landscape in Africa is experiencing unprecedented growth, fueled by increased infrastructure investments from private and public sector combined with ini…

November 29, 2017

DEVELOPER

IETF Hackathon Closes Loop Between Open Source and Standards

The first ever IETF Hackathon was held March 21-22, the weekend before IETF 92 in Dallas, TX. It was a late addition to the conference schedule, answering the call to action from Engineering CTO and Chief Architect Dave Ward’s talk at IETF 91, Open Standards, Open Source, Open Loop. Cisco DevNet tea…