Danese Cooper, known as the "Open-Source Diva" after stints as an open-source community builder at Sun Microsystems and Intel, announced March 23 that she had joined REvolution Computing, a provider of open-source predictive analytics solutions.

At REvolution, Open Source Diva Cooper (she will retain her title) will "head up REvolution's outreach to communities of developers not yet familiar with [the company's implementation of] the R language and its potential to solve problems and better inform decisions through predictive analytics," REvolution said in a news release.

R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics. It compiles and runs on a wide variety of Unix platforms, Windows and MacOS. R is a GNU project that is similar to the S language and environment which was developed at Bell Laboratories. R can be viewed as a different implementation of S. There are some important differences, but much code written for S runs unaltered under R.

One of Cooper's first initiatives at REvolution will be to work with REvolution R Director of Community David Smith to "develop a program to better support user groups and to develop new community assets. She will also be expanding REvolution's program of speaking engagements," the company said in the release.

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