The Rundown
Director of Community at GitHub
I lead community development and growth at GitHub.
Formerly Ubuntu Community Manager at Canonical, Senior Director of Community at XPRIZE, and Community Management consultant working with clients including Deutsche Bank, Sony Mobile, Samsung, IBM, SAP, Dyson, GENIVI, and others.
Leader in Community Management
Authored the critically acclaimed The Art of Community and Dealing With Disrespect, founder of the annual Community Leadership Summit, and founder of the Community Leadership Forum.
Advisor to organizations including AlienVault, Open Networking Foundation, and Open Cloud Consortium.
Author
In addition to writing The Art of Community and Dealing With Disrespect, authored The Official Ubuntu Book, Linux Desktop Hacks, and Practical PHP/MySQL.
Columnist for Forbes and opensource.com. Formerly columnist for Linux Format.
Keynote Speaker
Keynote speaker at OSCON, .se Internet Days, FISL, MySQL Conference, OpenNetworking Summit, LinuxCon, Ohio LinuxFest, SCALE, Southeast LinuxFest, and others.
Podcaster and Musician
Co-founder of the Bad Voltage, LugRadio, and Shot Of Jaq podcasts.
Released more than five albums, all freely available to download.