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Hi, I'm a Ruby developer working commercially with web applications in Dublin. I think that Ireland has great potential to be a high profile Open Source location and would like to see more FOSS development getting done in Ireland. Ubuntu is an important part of this as

• It's a great development platform
• Has a great community focus which will help get developers interested; especially those who may not otherwise see merit in patching FOSS projects

If you're interested in joining the Open Source scene in Ireland as a developer, I'd be interested to hear from you at my contact details below.

Contact information

Acitivities

• Code contributions to f-spot, freemix, bzr (bzr contrib in progress after review with bzr patch manager)

• Working on Qt on Rails a Rails-based development framework to simplify development of Ruby applications on Kubuntu

• Regularly featuring (K)ubuntu issues I've troubleshooted on my blog at theirishpenguin.com

• Contributing articles to 3rd party FOSS knowledge bases such as on KDE Techbase

• Bug reports on update-manager, mysql, mono-debugger
• Running Free Ruby Lessons for newbie developers (Monday at 6.30pm in Havana Cafe, Georges St, Dublin)

• Podcasting on Open Source development at codemongrel.com

• Attending and helping out at FOSS events, code jams and meetups in Dublin

In development terms outside of Ruby, I also like to hack on Ubuntu desktop apps and enjoy Python development along with the odd bit of Mono C#.

Future Goals

• Run and participate in more Ubuntu Bugjams, be a point of contact for FOSS and Ubuntu development in Ireland

• Help encourage discussion between various Open Source development communities in Ireland. To this end, I've set up the ossdev-ireland group. I'd like to get more folks onboard this group to get momentum behind the Irish OSS development community regardless of language, framework or technology

• Help grow Ruby Ireland as a development community and have more Ruby events, code jams and lessons - with Kubuntu development arising out of this. In particular

  • I plan to investigate ways to streamline Ruby code contributions to Kubuntu through KDE's SMOKE Ruby bindings. The Qt on Rails project I've listed above is central to this

  • Produce guidelines on how to package Ruby applications for Debian and Ubuntu. I am looking for people knowledgeable in debian packaging to help with this
• See if we can get more Ubuntu related development within the Irish Python community...
• ... and more Mono development on apps such as f-spot at code jams as part of the Dublin Alt.net community

Testimonials for Membership Application

• Declan wrote a few patches for my freemix project, two days after attending a talk I gave about it. This trully shows he is well motivated and once he gets the membership and tasks in hand. He will be a good force pushing Free Software ahead. LuisdeBethencourt

• I first met Declan at a number of Free Software events in Dublin. He provided warm and carefully worded encouragement to new-comers and thoughtful technical criticism where appropriate. He has been an excellent collaborator in my Free Software work and he would be a invaluable addition to the Ubuntu community. RichardHenwood

• Declan is an inspired person and he is very passionate about Open Source. I've known Declan for a good few years now and he's always full of energy when it comes to Open Source as well as software in general. Andrea, Dublin Alt.Net Organiser
• Declan's passion for open source software is obvious. His blogging and podcasting reflects this. He's a very valuable and active member of the Ruby Ireland user group. Darrah Curran, Ruby Ireland Organiser
• Thanks very much for teaching us the basics of Ruby on Rails. I have enjoyed all the examples and the practice we've got on Monday evenings. Jairo Diaz, Free Ruby Lesson Attendee

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