Technology consultant
Kitchener, Canada Area
- Current
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- Consulting at OTI Multimedia
- Board Member at Software in the Public Interest
- Ombudsman at Open and Free Technology Community
- Past
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- NewsVac Editor at SourceForge, Inc.
- Education
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- Northfield Mount Hermon
- University of Guelph
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David Graham’s Summary
Technology consultant in the field of Linux and Open Source software and the world wide web since 2000, working for a variety of companies and causes.
A co-founder of the all-volunteer Open and Free Technology Community, and a 3-time elected Board member of the its legal parent, Software in the Public Interest (New York based 501(c)3 non-profit).
Long-term goal: to serve in elected office to seek and implement ideas for the betterment of our society.
David Graham’s Specialties:
- Linux and open source software
- Website content
- Scripting (mainly in bash)
David Graham’s Experience
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Consulting
OTI Multimedia
(Internet industry)
2007 — Present (2 years )
Occasional contract to perform or edit and produce virtual tours for the real estate market.
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Board Member
Software in the Public Interest
(Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
September 2003 — Present (6 years 3 months)
SPI is a non-profit organization which was founded to help organizations develop and distribute open hardware and software. We encourage programmers to use any license that allows for the free modification, redistribution and use of software, and hardware developers to distribute documentation that will allow device drivers to be written for their product.
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Ombudsman
Open and Free Technology Community
(Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
December 2001 — Present (8 years )
The Open and Free Technology Community aims to provide stable and effective collaboration services to members of the community in any part of the world, while closely listening to their needs and desires.
OFTC was founded at the end of 2001 by a group of experienced members of the Open Source and Free Software communities aiming to provide these communities with better communication, development, and support infrastructure.
OFTC is a member project of Software in the Public Interest, a non-profit organization which was founded to help organizations develop and distribute open hardware and software. -
NewsVac Editor
SourceForge, Inc.
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; LNUX; Online Media industry)
June 2000 — December 2008 (8 years 7 months)
Joined Andover.net in June, 2000 to help prepare new site NewsForge.com for launch by writing myriad regular expressions to strip news stories from other websites ("NewsVac") before RSS feeds were common or Google News had come into its own.
These technologies obsoleted the regular expressions, but the work continued in sorting user and automated submissions of tech industry news stories, generally pertaining to Linux and open source software for NewsForge.com, Linux.com, DevChannel.org, and ITManagersJournal.com (all now defunct). Was also at times tasked with helping freshmeat.net manage its submission queue of open source project updates and announcements.
Attended regional open source related conferences (Linux World Expo New York and Toronto, Ottawa Linux Symposium, Ontario LinuxFest, KMDI Open Source Conference, PostgreSQL Anniversary Summit, DebConf) and wrote in-depth articles covering their proceedings and occasionally wrote satirical articles about the tech industry.
David Graham’s Education
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Northfield Mount Hermon
1995 — 1999
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University of Guelph
Additional Information
David Graham’s Websites:
David Graham’s Interests:
Politics, free software, rail transportation
David Graham’s Groups:
Liberal Party of Canada, Software in the Public Interest, The Open and Free Technology Community
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The Open and Free Technology Community
David Graham’s Honors:
Named one of Guelph's "Top 40 under 40" by the Guelph Mercury, June 2008.
David Graham’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
- career opportunities
- consulting offers
- new ventures
- expertise requests
- reference requests
- getting back in touch
