Ever since hacking with a Commodore 64 back in the day, community was an important part of using computers to me. I believe that learning with friends and enjoying achievements together is an essential part of working with computers. I think it is important to be a good citizen of the communities I participate in and give back after receiving so many benefits from the open source and other communities including Linux, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Java, Eclipse, Netbeans, Maven and a whole host of other tools, libraries and more. My involvement includes:
- Vancouver Island Java User Group VIJUG
- Founded the Vancouver Island Java User Group in 2005 and have been the main organizer of the group including the website and monthly meetings hosting numerous guest presenters.
- Maven-Android-Plugin
- Active committer
- Maven-Android-SDK-Deployer
- Main author and active maintainer of the project
- Book: Maven: The Complete Reference – Android Development Chapter
- Main author and maintainer of the chapter
- Android Community Leaders Fireside Chat at AnDevCon 2011
- main organizer of the event
- Android Development Tooling Fireside Chat at AnDevCon 2011
- main organizer of the event
- JBoss jBPM
- Inactive committer
Beyond these core activities we believe in helping out by reporting bugs and helping other users in forums, mailing lists, on twitter … and do so on a regular basis for projects like Ubuntu Linux, Apache Maven, Android and many more.