About us
About us
Dave Neary is the founder of Neary Consulting, specialising in community relations and free software strategy.
As a member of the GNOME community, he has been involved in all aspects the organisation of GUADEC since 2005, including a spell as conference chair. He has served three terms as a member of the board of directors of the GNOME Foundation (2005 - 07), and was chairman of the board in 2006, and treasurer in 2007,where he oversaw massive growth in the GNOME advisory board. He created and edited the first annual report of the GNOME Foundation.
Dave worked for the French company Wengo as community development manager with the OpenWengo project (now called QuteCom), and as head of the OpenWengo business unit, developing a business model and client base for the project. He refocused development efforts on the Linux platform, and saw a substantial increase in community contributions after initiatives such as the OpenWengo developers summit and the Free and Open source Telephony Summit, both of which he organised.
Dave has participated in free software communities since discovering Linux in 1996. He was a developer and release manager of the GIMP from 1999 until 2006. He organised the 2005 GIMP Developers Conference as part of GUADEC in Kristiansand, and in 2006 founded the Libre Graphics Meeting, a conference which brings together developers and users of free software graphics software ranging from infrastructure like LittleCMS and cairo to applications including the GIMP, Inkscape, Blender and Scribus.
With many years understanding of the dynamics of consensus-based communities, and intimate knowledge of the concerns of businesses engaging with free software projects, Dave is ideally positioned to advise teams on how to reduce maintenance costs and increase return on investment in free software, whether the goal is to bootstrap a community, or to help your team rock with existing developer communities.
Contact us
Neary Consulting
139 rue du Dauphiné
69003 Lyon
FRANCE
Tel: +33 9 51 13 46 45
Email: dave@neary-consulting.com