Community and open source

Coding, writing, and teaching eventually results in community leadership. Open source software and the communities around various project are my special passion. My participation includes code and project management work, and community participation such as filing bugs, writing blog posts, or helping on chats.

Following is a number of current and past community and open source leadership involvements:

  • Developer advocate and maintainer for Trino
  • Co-host of the Trino Community Broadcast
  • Leader of the WalmartLabs Open Source Program Office
  • Founder, main organizer, host and regular speaker of the Vancouver Island Java User Group VIJUG
  • Founder and main organizer of the Google Developer Group Victoria, BC
  • Organizer of the fireside chat for Android community leaders at AnDevCon
  • Maven developer community hangouts host and organizer
  • Nexus Live broadcasts and other community events for Sonatype
  • Contributions to many, many open source projects over the years