declanmg
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; 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.
My FOSS and Ubuntu contributions to date include
- Running Free Ruby Lessons for newbie developers
- Code contributions to f-spot, freemix, bzr (pending approval by bzr patch manager)
- Bug reports on update-manager, mysql, mono-debugger
Podcasting on Open Source development at codemongrel.com
Blogging on Open Source development at theirishpenguin.com, especially (K)Ubuntu related issues
Contributing articles to 3rd party FOSS knowledge bases such as on KDE Techbase
- 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#.
Contact information
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Declan McGrath |
declan -A-T- weuseopensource.com |
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theirishpenguin |
The Future
To help encourage discussion between various Open Source development communities in Ireland 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. And in particular investigate the development of more Ruby code on Kubuntu through it's SMOKE Ruby bindings
- 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