I've been an official Member of the GNOME Foundation for the past 15 years.
I am also a corporate member/sponsor of the FACIL non-profit organization (defending FLOSS and users' digital rights in Québec).
I was previously president of the GNOME Foundation, among other things.

With over 20 years of involvement in the Free Software community and open-source software development model, I have a particular affinity with this branch of the IT industry. My experience in the field, combined with my background in business, makes me one of the very few publicly available bona fide free/open-source marketing & business management consultants on the planet who can claim expertise in the field with a straight face.

If you're looking for someone with a deep understanding of how the FLOSS community works, thinks and feels, and who can help your business integrate with it the proper way, you may be interested in my independent Open Source business consulting services; if you are looking for business development and marketing leadership specificially, you may be interested in my Open Source marketing firm's services.

Direct contributions

Every year, my contributions require tens of thousands of interactions with developers, designers, community members, business prospects, and the general public. The summaries below are an attempt to present some of the publicly-visible work I do to help the community, but it's basically just the tip* of the iceberg.

Design

See my interaction design page if you are curious. That said, in recent years I have been doing much more project management & product engineering management work than traditional hands-on IxD & UX design work.

Project Management & Engineering

For an overview of my code contributions to established projects, see the summary on OpenHub (or the full graph of code contributions over the years). You can also look at GNOME GitLab profile and my GitHub profile (you'll have to click through the various years of the graph).

Here is some software I wrote and/or managed:

GNOME Calendar, the most beautiful calendaring app for Linux.
Since 2023, I am co-managing the project by handling product design, setting a new comprehensive and actionable roadmap, allocating developer resources, and effectively operating a turnaround for this software development project in the public interest. Read case study
Gitg, the Git graphical interface for GNOME.
In 2024, I'm bringing that project's community back to life, too. Stay tuned.
Getting Things GNOME, the best Free & Open-Source personal productivity app to put the GTD methodology into practice.
Since 2019, I have taken over the management of this established software project in order to put it back on track for sustainable community-driven development. To that effect, I have restructured the project's direction for lean & agile production and overhauled the “Developer Experience” to facilitate the onboarding of new contributors. I also designed and wrote some of its code. Read case study
Pitivi, a video editing application for which I have been an official co-maintainer and interaction designer for 5+ years. Read case study
Specto, notification software
Post-install installer for Ubuntu, a software setup tool for freshly installed Ubuntu machines
FrontBringer, a script to manage postponed files
My semi-automated PHP lightbox gallery script
Tango icon theme for Apache
Recipe Manager

Quality assurance

“Jeff is the best software issue reporter I have ever interacted with. See a masterclass with these issues reported to @virtualmin” (source)

Marc Laporte,
CEO of EvoluData / Tiki contributor for 21+ years

My continued involvement in Free and Open Source software has made me file hundreds of bug reports and thousands of comments on various pieces of software that I have used and loved. Over time, I have involved myself in bug triaging to ease the developers' task. My bug reports are scattered over the web, but are for the most part contained in:

Have a look at my GNOME GitLab profile. You can also have a look at the current list of remaining issues I opened in GNOME's new GitLab issue tracker since the 2017 migration. Back when we had different kinds of statistics with Bugzilla, I was among the top bug reporters in 2009 and in 2010.
GitHub profile
Mozilla (Firefox, Thunderbird, etc.): profile (statistics) and list of tickets
LibreOffice
OpenOffice (obsolete)
Abiword
Ubuntu and others (Launchpad)
FreeDesktop: my Bugzilla tickets (including LibreOffice) and my GitLab profile

I also have a list of some of the top bugs I'm proud to have helped solve or investigate (due to limited time, I don't update that list that often, however).

As part of my QA standardization efforts for the GStreamer project, I created and maintained Pitivi's automated user interface integration test suite for some years. Here is a video showing how it worked, sped up 5x:

*: Besides my individual hands-on assistance to multiple FLOSS projects in the day to day, many of the things I do happen behind the scenes (especially in my work as a fractional CMO), such as establishing strategic partnerships and cultivating healthy relationships, building communities, or defining an organization's attendance and sponsorship budgets for a conference. Those types of contributions are too numerous and fast-paced to list on this page, which I'm trying to keep as easy to maintain as possible.

Latest blog posts on Free/Open-Source software

Read more of these in the FLOSS category of my blog.

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If you happen to be looking for my services and would like external validation, feel free to contact me to ask for additional references regarding any particular project. In addition to the testimonials I gathered so far, there are dozens of esteemed contributors out there, whether independent or working for renowned brands in the industry, who swear by my name.