Dave Neary

Current

Treasurer at Association des Jeunes Entrepreneurs Lyonnais
maemo.org docmaster at maemo.org
Founder at Neary Consulting

Member at GNOME Foundation

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Past

OpenWengo Community Development Manager at Wengo
Director at GNOME Foundation
Software engineer at Cegelec

Developer at The GIMP
Project manager at Phenix Engineering
Lead engineer at Palamon Technologies
Software developer at Informix

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Education

Dublin City University
National University of Ireland, Galway
Garbally College

Recommended

18 people have recommended Dave

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

Dave Neary’s Summary

I help change the world.

I help organisations understand understand the dynamics of free software communities, and help them navigate the minefield of license compliance and community development.

With the GNOME Foundation, I have worked with a group of people who are making technology available to everyone. From schools in Spain and Macedonia to community projects in Brazil, India and Austria, GNOME is helping people, and changing the way the IT business works at the same time.

Dave Neary’s Specialties:

I'm passionate about technology, and free software in particular. Inquisitive to a fault. Constantly learning and evolving. Surprisingly good at bringing things to completion.

Dave Neary’s Experience

Treasurer

Association des Jeunes Entrepreneurs Lyonnais

(Education Management industry)

October 2008 — Present (10 months)

The Association des Jeunes Entrepreneurs Lyonnais has two key roles: supporting young business owners through the formative first years of their business through sharing experience and providing a support network, and educating students and young professionals to ensure that they are aware of creating a company as a professional path..
maemo.org docmaster

maemo.org

(Computer Software industry)

May 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)

Community enabler, election organiser, documentation editor, web design project manager, general busybody
Founder

Neary Consulting

(Computer Software industry)

January 2008 — Present (1 year 7 months)

I bring 12 years experience in a variety of development and management roles with free software communities, including the GIMP, GNOME, OpenWengo and maemo, to bear on your particular situation, providing personalised advice and practical support to bear on your doubts and problems.

I provide tailored training courses and seminars on working with free software communities, consulting on license choice and infrastructure on nascent projects, and insight into the consequences you can expect to see down the road.
Member

GNOME Foundation

(Non-Profit; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)

September 2004 — Present (4 years 11 months)

The GNOME Foundation is an organisation dedicated to supporting the GNOME project. Over 500 people, including many employees of companies such as Sun Microsystems, Novell, RedHat, Canonical and more, are working together to build free software computer user interfaces, both for te desktop and for embedded devices. The GNOME project is redefining the way software is produced, and through its leadership in the free software community with things such as our time-based release cycle and the GNOME Mobile initiative, we are also redefining how free software gets built.
OpenWengo Community Development Manager

Wengo

(Privately Held; Telecommunications industry)

November 2006 — November 2007 (1 year 1 month)

Community advocacy has two equally important aspects - internally, ensuring that the organisation does not adopt procedures which harm the community and encouraging behaviour which encourages participation, and externally, communicating what is important about the project, to attract new users and contributors. At Wengo, I fulfilled both roles.

In addition, I co-ordinated the efforts of an internal team comprising up to 10 developers and an external cast of dozens through two major releases of the WengoPhone software, and signed two major commercial projects.
Director

GNOME Foundation

(Non-Profit; 201-500 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

December 2004 — July 2007 (2 years 8 months)

The GNOME Foundation board is the public face of the project, managing its budget, press relations and partnerships with commercial and non-profit entities. As a member of the board I've been active in setting the strategic direction for the foundation, and improving our relationships. For the year 2006, I was chairman of the board. From January 2007, to July 2007, I was treasurer of the foundation.
Software engineer

Cegelec

(Privately Held; 5001-10,000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2005 — October 2006 (1 year 10 months)

Working as a software engineer. I've been disappointed with Cegelec's philosophy and approach to their employees.

I have moved our team to both version control and bug tracking software, as well as upgrading a lot of our infrastructure. I have also managed our relationship with a number of clients, and assumed responsibility for several installations of our air quality surveillance software.
Developer

The GIMP

(Information Technology and Services industry)

November 2000 — September 2006 (5 years 11 months)

Long-time developer and release manager for the GIMP through two major releases. Have organised merchandising arrangements for the GIMP brand. Organiser and fundraiser for the GIMP Conference 2004, in cooperation with the GNOME Foundation, and the Libre Graphics Meeting 2006. I was most recently involved in fundraising, event organisation and administration.
Project manager

Phenix Engineering

(Partnership; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

December 2002 — December 2004 (2 years 1 month)

Project lead for a large account in a company whose core business was workflow and electronic document management. Ressource management, client relations, project specification and implementation were all regular responsibilities.
Lead engineer

Palamon Technologies

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

March 2001 — December 2001 (10 months)

Lead engineer and architect of a content management system based on an object-oriented database structure.
Software developer

Informix

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; IFMX; Information Technology and Services industry)

September 1999 — February 2001 (1 year 6 months)

Member of the porting team in Dublin for Informix legacy tools and database including C-ISAM, Informix v5, Informix tools v4 and 5.

Additional Information

Dave Neary’s Websites:

Dave Neary’s Interests:

IP telephony, rich communication over IP, mobile/VoIP convergence, Free Software, GNOME, running

Dave Neary’s Groups:

GNOME Foundation, GNOME, free software, Linux Foundation, RedMonk, SCALE, OSiM, GUADEC, ILUG, ALDIL, Beijing LUG, COPU, FLOSS Foundations, The GIMP, Silicon Sentier, System@tic, Libre Graphics Meeting, APRIL