John Mark Walker

Current

• Community Manager and Strategist at Community Root, LLC

Past

• Community Director at Hyperic
• Conference and Editorial Director at IDG World Expo
• Community Dude at GroundWork Open Source

6 more...

Education

• Yale University

Recommended

3 people have recommended John Mark

Connections

424 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Blog
• My Company
• GeekPAC

John Mark Walker’s Summary

I have 9 years of experience leading various online high tech communities, with a focus on hacking, open technology and open source. These communities include SourceForge.net developer foundries, a variety of communities I scouted to recruit book authors, and the sysadmin community served by Hyperic, which is my current gig. I possess a fundamental understanding of how to reach different groups, and how the approach differs with respect to each community.

My personal interest includes the economic trends currently fueling the open source and free culture movement. In particular, I wrote an article published in onlamp.com all about open source macro-economics and why the current open source ecosystem not only exists, but will continue its rapid expansion. You can find that article here: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2006/01/12/no_oss_community.html

John Mark Walker’s Specialties:

Grassroots community marketing, web project management, volunteer management, market analysis and research, excellent written and oral communication.

Additional Information

John Mark Walker’s Websites:

• My Blog
• My Company
• GeekPAC

John Mark Walker’s Interests:

open source, free culture, soccer, Belgian gueuze and other lambics.

John Mark Walker’s Groups:

The UbuCon (Founder)
Linux International (Vice-chair Marketing Committee)
GeekPAC (Founder)

•    Technology Marketing Community
•    Yale University Alumni
•    Open Solutions Alliance
•    Linux Expert
•    Cloud Computing
•    Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
•    Open Source Marketing Professionals Association
•    FOSS Professionals
•    Arkansas Governor's School
•    Influencer Marketing & Influencer Relations
•    OpenSource World/NGDC/CloudWorld

John Mark Walker’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• consulting offers
• new ventures
• expertise requests
• business deals
• reference requests
• getting back in touch