Coding, writing, and teaching eventually results in community leadership. Open source software and the communities around various project are a special passion. My participation includes code and project management work, and normal community participation such as filing bugs, writing blog posts, or helping on chats.
Following is a number of community and open source leadership involvements:
- Community and developer advocate 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