The Lotus Development Corporation was founded by Mitchell Kapor, a friend of the developers of VisiCalc.

Kapor founded Lotus Development Corporation in 1982 with Jonathan Sachs, who was responsible for technical architecture and implementation, and created Lotus 1-2-3.

He founded the Mitchell Kapor Foundation to support his philanthropic interests in environmental health.

In 2001, Kapor founded the Open Source Applications Foundation, where he worked on Chandler Project.

In 2006, Kapor founded his latest startup, Foxmarks ( later renamed as Xmarks ), based in San Francisco.

Lotus was founded in 1982 by partners Mitch Kapor and Jonathan Sachs with backing from Ben Rosen.

Kapor founded Lotus after leaving his post as head of development at VisiCorp ( the distributors of the Visicalc spreadsheet ) and selling all his rights to the VisiPlot and VisiTrend products to VisiCorp.

The Open Source Applications Foundation ( OSAF ) is a non-profit organization founded in 2002 by Mitch Kapor whose purpose is to effect widespread adoption of free software / open-source software.

In response to the arrests, a group called the Electronic Frontier Foundation was founded by Mitchell Kapor, the founder of Lotus Development Corporation, and John Perry Barlow, an author.

Mitchell David Kapor ( born 1 November 1950 ) is the founder of Lotus Development Corporation and the designer of Lotus 1-2-3.

Kapor served as the President ( later Chairman ) and Chief Executive Officer of Lotus from 1982 to 1986 and as a Director until 1987.

Kapor was also the fundamental architect of the " free-form " database application, Lotus Agenda.

Mitch Kapor got the name for his company from ' The Lotus Position ' or ' Padmasana '.

* Mitch Kapor, founder, Lotus Software, inventor, Lotus 1-2-3

Jonathan Sachs ( b. June 25, 1947 ) was the programmer who co-founded Lotus Development Corporation with Mitch Kapor in 1982 and created the first version of the Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet program.

Kapor would go on to release Lotus 1-2-3, which became a major competitor to VisiCalc in 1983.

Guest speakers have included Maarten Schmidt, who has done pioneering work in quasars ; the late Richard Feynman, a Nobel laureate in physics ; James Randi, magician and debunker of pseudoscience ; Mitch Kapor, founder of Lotus Development ; and Paul MacCready, creator of the Gossamer Condor and Gossamer Albatross.

* Mitch Kapor ( 1966 )-( b. 1950 ) founder of Lotus Development Corporation

Early alumni of this company included Ed Esber who would later run Ashton-Tate, Bill Coleman who would found BEA Systems, Mitch Kapor founder of Lotus Software and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Rich Melmon who would co-found Electronic Arts, Bruce Wallace author of Asteroids in Space, and Brad Templeton who would found early dot-com company ClariNET.

Shortly after Kapor left VisiCorp, Sachs and he designed and developed an integrated spreadsheet and graphing program.

In May 2009, after founder Susan P. Crawford had joined the Obama administration, Kapor took over chairmanship of OneWebDay-the " Earth Day for the internet ".

Shortly after Kapor left VisiCorp, he and Sachs produced an integrated spreadsheet and graphics program.

From late 1981 to the eventual release of Visi On, most of the product management of the company left, notably Mitch Kapor in charge of VisiCalc development, Ed Esber, Roy Folk, Visi On's product marketing manager, among others.

Kapor, developer of VisiPlot and VisiTrend, had been pressing for the development of a greatly improved spreadsheet, but Opdendyk was uninterested.

Freada Kapor Klein, Ph. D. ( born 1952 ) is a pioneer in the field of organizational development and human resources and diversity consulting, as co-founder of the first organization in the U. S. to offer comprehensive services, training, and consultation on the topic of sexual harassment to both the private and public sectors in 1976.

Kapor served as Music Director and Program Director at Yale's radio station WYBC-FM.

During the 1970s, Kapor was employed as a radio disc jockey at WHCN-FM, a commercial progressive rock station based in Hartford, Connecticut.

Kapor subsequently began a career as a mental health counselor at New England Memorial Hospital in Stoneham, Massachusetts.

In 1980, Kapor left his counseling career to attend the Master's of Science in Management program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management, but did not graduate.

Kapor was the Chair of the Mozilla Foundation at its inception in 2003.

; Massively distributed collaboration: The term massively distributed collaboration was coined by Mitchell Kapor, in a presentation at UC Berkeley on 2005-11-09, to describe an emerging activity of wikis and electronic mailing lists and blogs and other content-creating virtual communities online.

Along with AOL's initial $ 2 million donation, Mitch Kapor gave $ 300, 000 to the organization at its launch.

One of these was written by a former VisiCalc programmer, Mitch Kapor.

Kapor was born in Brooklyn, New York, and attended public schools on Long Island in Freeport, New York, where he graduated from high school in 1967.

In October 1984 Jim Manzi was named President, and in April 1986 he was named as CEO, succeeding Kapor, who had become inactive in the company.

Mitch Kapor was a founding investor in UUNET Technologies, one of the earliest commercial Internet service providers.

Kapor was the original Chair and is currently on the Board of Directors of Linden Lab, a San Francisco-based company which created the popular virtual world Second Life, and a member of the Advisory Board for the Wikimedia Foundation.

Kapor serves on the advisory board of the Sunlight Foundation.

" We think we're being cagey by bringing it out on the Mac first ," Kapor said.

He is married to Freada Kapor Klein and resides in San Francisco.

* Electronic Newsletter of The Electronic Frontier Foundation, Cambridge, MA-scroll down to Current Legislative and Policy Efforts by Mitchell Kapor.

Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4, 732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software ( 2007 ) Random House ISBN 978-1-4000-8246-9, about Mitch Kapor, collaboration and massive software endeavors, particularly the open source calendar application Chandler.