Coding, writing, and teaching eventually result in community leadership. Open source software and the communities around the various projects are a special passion of Manfred’s. His participation includes code and project management work, alongside community participation such as filing bugs, writing blog posts, or helping on chats.
The following are 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
The event log records the meetups, conferences, and broadcasts behind this work, the video log collects the recordings, and the write log collects the posts written along the way.