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Inspector Hubert Simmons
Served from June 1950 – 1980
Inspector Hubert Simmons

Retired Inspector Edward Hubert Lancelot Simmons, passed away in his 90th year on December 27th 2014.  At the time of his passing, Hubert was our senior retired police officer having joined the Bermuda Police as a young constable in June 1950.

Hubert was universally loved and respected by all who knew him and those who served with him in the Police Force.

Hubert was born on February 25, 1925, the oldest of 9 children born to Ronald and Inez Simmons.  He grew up on North Shore Road in Pembroke, but his family later moved to Scaur Hill, and then to Ely’s Harbour.

He attended Tin Top School as a child, and at a young age, due to the death of his father, he had to discontinue his education in order to work and assist his mother with the support of his family. His early employment was at the Dockyard working in the generating station,  but  he made a dramatic change to his career path when he joined the Police Force in June 1950.

As with all local recruits at that time,  Hubert would have received the barest minimum of training,  just a few days at Hamilton Police Station reading law books, and then it was out on beat patrol in Central Division (Hamilton).  Times were changing slowly for local recruits and young P.C. Simmons attended two training courses held locally in 1955 and 1958 when two British Training Officers, Superintendents Baker and Campbell, were brought out to  provide special training for young police officers.  (It was not until 1962 that the Police Training School was set up to provide 3 month courses to all  recruits with no previous training.)

Young constables on parade (believed to be at the old Armoury Building)
Constable Hubert Simmons is 6th from the left.
3rd, 4th and 5th from left are Douglas "Red" Hebberd, Carl Maybury, & Howard Mitchell.

To most young officers walking the beat in Hamilton would have been rather routine, but young P.C. Simmons had a special talent that quickly established him as a very popular  tourist attraction!   He loved directing traffic at Heyl's corner on Front Street and developed his own unique, highly animated style, always with his winning smile.  He became a great favourite with both tourists and locals and was often captured on home movies and clicking cameras. Hubert no doubt contributed to the legend that our “birdcage bobbies” were the most photographed police officers in the world.

Royal Gazette article re Hubert directing traffic at Heyl's Corner - 5  August 1951

But it wasn’t just visitors who were impressed by Hubert in the birdcage!

In 1952, he had married Dorothy Simmons and the following year they had a daughter, Paulette.  Sadly,  Dorothy passed away soon after Paulette was born.

In 1953 Hubert was transferred to Central Parishes, but before he made this move he had been spotted directing traffic in the birdcage by a young lady who marveled at how “sharp” he looked.  The young lady was Lois Peniston from Devonshire, and  Hubert must have made an indelible impression because in 1955 the two were married, and as they say “the rest is history.”  Hubert had found the love of his life, and they were blessed with three children, Joanne, Hubert Junior, and Kenneth.

After 2 years in Parishes, Hubert was  transferred to CID;  in 1958 he moved to the newly formed Cycle Squad, and in 1959 he was transferred to Western CID.   His talents as an investigator were clearly recognized, and in 1960 he attended a Detective Training Course at Hendon Police College in the UK.  He also moved  departments again in 1960, this time to Special Branch where he spent the next 6 years.  Hubert had been picked out to attend several Special Branch courses held locally in 1959 and 1961,  and was chosen to attend a  Special Branch course in the UK in 1967.   Lois says he was always going abroad on courses, usually to the Metropolitan Police Training College at Hendon, and these included a 3 month Detective Training Course at Hendon in 1960, and an extensive Overseas Officers Course in 1966 along with Officers from 15 Police Forces from throughout the Commonwealth in which he excelled.  He also attended a further Special Branch Training Course in the UK in 1967.

Sgt Hubert Simmons (centre of 3rd row) at the Metropolitan Police Training School, Hendon - 1966
Sitting 3rd from left on the front row is Frank B. Williams, then Deputy COP in Bermuda.
Attendees included officers from Jamaica, St. Vincent, Guyana, Barbados, Dominica, St. Kitts,
Hong Kong, Fiji,  Bechuanaland, Aden, Mauritus, Swaziland and Zambia
This article appeared in the Recorder on 30th September 1966
reporting that Sgt Simmons came a creditable 5th in his Final Examination
out of some 24 specially selected officers from 15
Commonwealth countries

In 1968, Hubert was appointed as the Police Press Liaison Office at Police Headquarters, and he was promoted to Inspector in June 1970, remaining as the PLO and also working in “A” (Administration) Department.

Never one to stand still for long, as he had ably demonstrated directing traffic in the birdcage,  Hubert returned to Central Division (Hamilton Police Station) as Inspector in 1974, then worked for a while as Coroner’s Officer before  transferring to Western Division as the Officer-in-Charge at Somerset Police Station from 1976 until taking pre-retirement leave in 1978 , although his official retirement date was  25th February 1980.

Inspector Hubert Simmons (centre of front row) with members of Western Division circa 1978
Seated to his immediate right is then Superintendent Fred "Penny" Bean

One of Hubert’s great pleasures was singing and he was a founder member of the popular Police Choir that was formed in the 1960’s during a party held in the Somerset Police Mess.  The choir went on to perform at churches and functions throughout the Island and also travelled overseas on singing tours.

Police Choir at Men's Day Service held at St.Paul's AME  Church on Sunday 13th March 1966
with Rev. Winton Anderson, Guest Preacher
Police Choir is on the right and Bethel AME Choir on the left
Hubert is at the end of the 2nd row immediately behind "Sony" Roberts and Fred "Penny" Bean

Following his retirement Hubert was appointed Manager of Clairfont Guest Apartments;  an ideal position for him as a real people’s person who always enjoyed having dialogue with guests. As a result of close relationships formed with Hubert, many guests were repeat visitors who looked forward to returning to Bermuda.

Hubert had, for many years,  been an active member of the Freemasonry organizations, distinguishing himself by holding senior positions in the English, Scottish and Irish Constitutions.  His commitment and dedication over a long period was recognized by the respective Grand Lodges as he was awarded Grand Lodge Honours.

In retirement, Hubert enjoyed hobbies such as gardening and cooking; he was an avid reader and a great debater.  He was known for his excellent  fish chowder, sous, bread and pizza.  His grandchildren would often request him to make pizza for them for parties or just to eat as they always enjoyed “pa’s pizza”.  Hubert loved cooking and was always willing to try different recipes.

Hubert takes time out to practice his swing

Hubert was an excellent golfer whilst in the Police Force and after retirement he spent many hours on Bermuda’s golf courses.  He was one of the founding members of Ocean View Golf Club, and in 2013 he was honoured for his contributions over the years by way of a golf tournament and presentation in his honour at the Ocean View club house.

Hubert was also an active member of the Bermuda Golf Association and served on the Committee and as President of the Association.  In fact he loved golf so much that he was known on more than one occasion to cancel out of a trip or cruise just days prior to departure because of a golf tournament, or even a regular round of golf that he wanted to play.  He got away with this only until Lois finally put her foot down and let him know that a planned trip was more important than a golf game!  He grew to really enjoy travelling and cruises, but on his return he would monopolize the television whenever his golf was on.

Hubert and Lois celebrating  Hubert's 60th birthday

Sadly, on his last cruise in 2009 he was not well, and some months later his  health had deteriorated to the extent that he required continuous care in the Extended Care Unit at King Edward Hospital, although he still greatly enjoyed being at home on weekends and holidays with Lois and his family.

Hubert receives the "Father of the Year Award" in 2013 whilst at KEMH
with Lois and three of his children, Kenneth (Yogi), Paulette, and Hubert Jr (Lumpy)

Hubert passed away on Saturday December 27th 2014.  To the end he remained a loving husband, devoted father, grandfather, brother, and loyal friend.

There is a quote in his obituary that reads, “Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal”.

Hubert leaves to lovingly remember him: his wife Lois “Pie”; children – Paulette, Joanne, Hubert Jr. “Lumpy”, and Kenneth “Yogi” (Carmalita) ;  brother – Colin (Jan) Simmons;  sister -  Elaine Whitecross; grandchildren -  Akil, Jamieko, Sinead, Jaleesa, Kaya, Denzel, Blaine, Jelani, and K’la;  great-grandchildren -  Tinasia, Rhe’o and Eden; sisters-in-law -  Marilyn Simmons, Rita Peniston, Peggy Burns (Verna;), Roslyn O’Brien (Leon) and Jackie Tyler;  brothers-in-law -  Eddie Ming (Wendy); Special friends -  Frederick “Penny” Bean, and Dr. Gerard Bean;  Godchildren -  Gracelyn Bremar, Relda Wellman, Ivan Cann,  Quidell Philip, and many others.

Hubert celebrates his 60th birthday with Lois and their grandchildren
(l-r)  Jamieko, Lois, Sinead, Hubert, Jaleesa and Akil
(Jaleesa was called to the Bar in England in 2015 at the time this article was first published)
Hubert's grandchildren in 1998
(l-r)  Denzel, Blaine, K'la, Kitina, Jelani, Akil, Jaleesa, Jamieko
Front row -  Sinead and Kaya

Hubert was pre-deceased by his Sisters, Irma Burnley, Norma Dorsette and Leonell Simmons;  Brothers , Anson, Myron, and Winslow Simmons; grand-daughter Kitina Simmons; brothers-in-law Gladwin Peniston (Dorothy), Morris Peniston, Irving Burney, and William Dorsette;  and Sisters-in-law Earlene Ming and Leola Simmons.

Hubert with his brothers and sisters
Standing (l-r)  Elaine Whitecross, Colin Simmons, Leaonell Simmons, Anson Simmons
Seated -  Irma Burney, Norma Dorsett and Hubert
(missing is Winslow Simmons who passed before this photograph was taken)

His funeral was held in a packed St. James Church in Sandys Parish on Saturday, January 3rd 2015.

Sunset at Hubert's funeral at St. James Church, Sandys Parish

Among the tributes paid to Hubert during the service celebrating his life was the following eulogy given by his close friend and colleague for many years,  retired Commissioner of Police Frederick C. ‘Penny” Bean.

A Tribute to Edward Hubert Lancelot Simmon
By Fred C. Bean
Commissioner of Police Fred "Penny" Bean

What is the measure of a man?

Is the true measurement found in a man of a quiet disposition, poor humble and proud, courageous enough to serve his community in the face of great adversity.

Could it be measured by becoming a mentor and role model to someone, by caring for those too young and too vulnerable to fend for themselves or by giving hope to those who have none or perhaps one who quietly and efficiently without accolades just doing what has to be done with humour, grace and dignity.

So how do we measure a man?  Perhaps not at all by what he has, what he has earned, his status in the Community, how intelligent he is or how good looking his appearance, but rather by what is found within his heart.  An old adage says that a man who has friends must himself be friendly.

As I look out over this large crowd gathered here today to show respect – to bid farewell – perhaps also to say a hearty “Thank you” to a man whom they held in high esteem. This to me is a testament to the measure of the man that he was.

At this service of thanksgiving for his life I don’t think that he would like for us to talk about the doom and gloom regarding career opportunities missed on being passed over for promotion in the Police Force as it was then known. His choice would most certainly be to make it light hearted and humorous, because that was the type of person he was – a good joke and plenty of laughter.

Hubert, as he was affectionately known, joined the Bermuda Police Force in June 1950. At that time there were no local training facilities for locally recruited persons who were given a few law books to read for a week then posted to a Division.  Your progress thereafter was dependent on your personal motivation at improving yourself educationally and doing so in your own time.

Hamilton Police Station i.e. Central Division was his first posting and he became well known for directing traffic at the Bird Cage, Front Street, Hamilton, in an animated fashion, to the delight of locals and tourists alike, the latter often being passengers on the Queen of Bermuda berthed at No. 1 Shed nearby.

D/Inspector Milton Murray Marsh

Transferred to Western Division he served as Southampton Parish Constable and was later transferred to CID. The late Detective Inspector Milton Murray Marsh took young Detective Simmons under his wing and the team enjoyed much success investigating crime throughout the Island.

Members of C.I.D. gather for a party at the home of Colonel Newing (Head of CID)
Hubert Simmons is standing 2nd from right
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Hubert was a versatile person.  As a musician he played trumpet with Hadley Edwards and the late Melvin Bulford in the Somerset Brigade Band which, during the 1950’s, participated in the annual Easter Parade in the City of Hamilton.

An amusing story was told to me, that during one of the parades on Front Street, the Band entered Queen Street at Heyl’s Corner proceeding north towards the Phoenix Corner at the junction of Reid Street.  At the time the trumpet section was at the front behind the Drum Major and the remaining Band members following.  Well, at Phoenix Corner and Reid Street, the Drum Major led the Band into Reid Street with all musicians following, that is, with the exception of trumpeter Simmons who evidently had his head into the music sheet.  It was when he was near where Kentucky Fried Chicken now stands on Queen Street that the applause from the crowd made him realize that he was solo – hence a hasty retreat to rejoin the group near Walker’s Arcade. They say that following this experience he was placed next to the big side drum in the rear so he wouldn’t stray.

Hubert’s tenacity for work resulted in him being promoted to the rank of Sergeant and a transfer into Special Branch.  Later, on promotion to Inspector he was transferred to the Magistrate’s Court as a Prosecutor and Coroner’s Officer.

The Bermuda Police Choir
Hubert is 2nd from left in the middle row.  Fred "Penny" Bean is next to him at the end of the row
CID officers in good voice at a celebration in Central CID
(l-r)  Syke Smith, Fred "Penny" Bean, Sinclair Bean and Hubert Simmons

A founding member of the Police Choir in 1963, his vocal range was sometimes baritone/bass and sometimes tenor as the choir performed both locally and overseas.  During one of the choir’s concert tours of the New York City area, several choir members on a shopping spree entered Macy’s Department Store.  Hubert, a dapper dresser, wore bell bottom trousers and yellow platform shoes in vogue at the time. Just inside the entrance was an escalator carrying shoppers to the upper level, so everyone jumped on, and on reaching the top jumped off.  Unfortunately, our late Brother did not act soon enough and was catapulted in the air, losing the sole and heel of his shoe in the process.  Badly shaken he uttered some choice words to everyone’s amusement.

Words of one of Hubert’s favorite songs sung by the Choir were, “A Man without a Woman us like a Ship without a Sail; or a Boat without a rudder, or a Fish without a tail.  A Man without a Woman is like a wreck upon the sand, and there’s only one thing worse on earth and that is a Woman without a Man.

Hubert and Lois were married in 1955 and the Family became well known and respected in the Community.

As a son of the soil he cultivated a plot of land adjacent to his house and proudly produced vegetables for his family and friends. Lois on one occasion encouraged him to enter some of his then growing produce into the Annual Agricultural Exhibition.  Well, the crop was there at bedtime on Sunday night. At dawn on Monday most of the crop had disappeared, and red soil footprints led him to Steven’s Shop nearby.  The proprietor confirmed purchasing vegetables from a person known to both of them that morning. On reflection Hubert recalled how the individual had previously mentioned how good his crop was looking.  I cannot repeat Hubert’s response here.

Under the tutelage of the late Herman Bascome, Hubert became a prolific golfer and held his own with some of the finest golfers of the day, such as Professional Frankie Rabain, Noel Van Putten, Lloyd James, Brendan Bees Ingham, and the late Kenny Ford to name but a few. You would know when he had his “A” game going as he would enter the clubhouse with the broadest smile on his face,  saying, “Yea I game them a tablet today”.   His golfing skills were envied by many.

Hubert was a founding Member and Past President of the Ocean View Golf Club. His association with other organizations was as follows:-  Past President and Member of the Bermuda Golf Association, Former Chairman and Member of Port Royal Golf Club; and an active member of St. James’ Church Choir and Men’s Fellowship.

As a Freemason he lived and upheld the precepts and tenants of the Craft through his membership and association with Lodges’ under the English – Scottish and Irish Constitutions. A true ritualist whose ability to perform lectures in the Craft was the envy of Brethren.

Grand Lodge honours were bestowed on him by the three Constitutions in recognition of his achievements over a long period of commitment and diligent service;  it being very clear that he had done much good work in the respective Lodges.

In 2001 he was awarded the Past Provincial Deputy Grand Master of the Provincial Grand Lodge of Bermuda under the Irish Constitution.

During his Police career he received numerous Commissioner’s commendations and was awarded the Colonial Police Medal for distinguished service.

His Excellency Lord Martonmere presents Colonial Police Long Service medals at Government House - 1968
Sgt Gladwin "Doc" Hall receives a handshake from H.E. while Sgt Simmons is next in line
His Excellency the Governor, Lord Martonmere and Lady Martonmere with Queen's Award Recipients - 1968
Sgt. Hubert Simmons is standing 3rd from right.

On approaching retirement age Hubert was posted to Western Division, Somerset Police Station as Officer-in-Charge where he served with dedication – commitment and integrity until retirement in 1978.

Inspector Hubert Simmons - Officer-in-Charge, Western Division

Without a doubt Inspector Simmons was a most loyal Police Officer who contributed greatly to the maintenance of law and order in the community throughout his 28 years of sterling service for which we are eternally grateful.  He was indeed an Officer and a Gentleman.

I consider myself blessed to have shared in his life’s journey, along with the friendship gained over many years. He wasn’t heavy, he was my Brother.

To Lois and children along with members of the Simmons’ Family, on behalf of the Commissioner of Police, Officers, Ex Police Officers, The Commandant, Officers and Members of the Reserve Police and civilian staff, we extend our sincere condolences.

Thank you for having loaned him to us.

Cast your burden upon the Lord and he will sustain thee is our Prayer.

May I share with you the following Prayer which Hubert and I found comforting:-

Lord make me an instrument of thy peace, where there is hatred let me sow love,
where there is injury, pardon, where there is doubt, faith, where there is despair, hope,
where there is darkness, light, and where there is sadness, joy.
  Oh Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled, as to console,
to be understood, as to understand, to be loved, as to love, for it is in giving that we receive,
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned, and it is in dying that we are born to Eternal Life.

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#1 Terry 2015-03-13 16:47
Thanks Roger.
I have nothing else to add except he was a great golfing partner and one that could relate to all matters.

Thanks for your work on this as it is fitting and we both know the real man behind your tribute; and well deserved.

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While 83% of parents agreed that it was important for their children to learn about technology and how to use it, most would prefer that their children spend more time outdoors. This was the case with nine out of ten of the parents that participated in the questionnaire. According to research, children only engage in outdoor play for roughly four hours every week. It’s interesting to note that this is less than their parents’ gen

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Crafting is becoming more and more popular all throughout the United States. From scrapbooking to quilting, there are many different outlets for crafting and many different reasons that people craft. More and more people are taking up crafting as a hobby as well, with the number of quilters in the United States alone totaling more than twenty million people and now more than sixty percent of all households in the United States say that they participate in crafting activities on a regular basis, a nearly ten percent increase from just a few years past.

One reason for the increased rates of crafting is that it, no matter what type, can be beneficial in relieving stress. In fact, crafting can actually have an impact on levels of depression. In one study done on people suffering from clinical depression, it was found that they reported feelings of happiness after participating in a crafting activity. This occurred because crafting can actually release additional dopamine in your brai

The Benefits Of Redecorating Your Home

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From outdoor log furniture to a hutch for rustic style decor, how you decorate your home is a matter of importance for many people throughout the United States. In fact, the majority of households in the United States feel defined by their furniture and overall home decor choices, whether they prefer outdoor log furniture or aspen log bedroom furniture.

With baby boomers spending money consistently on home renovation and redecoration projects, typically with budgets as high as three thousand dollars and Generation X close behind with an average budget of around two thousand and five hundred dollars and even millennials spending more than one thousand dollars on a typical home redecoration venture, the furniture and decor industry in the United States is thriving, continuing to grow by as much as seven percent each year. By 2019, less than one year from now, the furniture industry as a whole is expected to bring in nearly seven billion dollars in the United States alone.

5 Reasons to Choose Independent Living for Your Senior Parent

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Independent senior living is a great opportunity for those who have the ability to live on their own but want the amenities and qualities of living in a community. Seniors living independently within a community have the same lifestyle that they would normally have, but with added benefits.

The benefits of these communities are innumerable, but there are a few big ones that can really make life easier and more enjoyable.

Just like they would have at their own home, seniors living independently are given the ability to go about their day as they choose. If they want to eat or enjoy activities by themselves then they can do so, or they can choose to do them with the community. Residents, not patients, have the ability to choose how they perform their daily moments.

Home Maintenance

One of the biggest hassles for seniors is having to constantly try to maintain their home. In most communities, they no longer have to worry about any aspect of maintenance — down to changing a lightbulb. Everything regarding maintenance is taken care of both inside and out.

The average age of a retiree is 63, and many people able to function well for decades after. Some seniors, however, end up having a hard time socializing with people. Whether it’s with family, friends, or strangers, it can often be difficult to be social. In a community, they have the opportunity to meet and interact with people just like them and form new friendships. In fact, many second marriages have begun in independent living communities.

Grocery shopping, food preparation, cooking — all taken care of with independent living facilities for seniors. Many communities will make sure that everyone receives a nutritional diet with every essential food they need and may even have a dietician on staff as well.

Many facilities and communities provide all-inclusive rent, which means that the only charge the seniors receive is for rent. Everything else involved with the community is part of that rent, which means no surprises or upcharges along the way.

Independent living can be a great option for those who want to continue living with the freedom that they’re used to, but with the ease and care of an assisted living facility.

The Case For Urgent Care Centers

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Timely primary medical care

The benefits of urgent care centers versus and emergency center are many. Though many people may think that an emergency center is their only option for medical treatment if they are on a tight schedule or do not have a general care physician, emergency centers tend to be crowded and too busy. This means that patients must waste up to an hour in an emergency center before they are even seen by a nurse, and their total stay tends to be hours long, especially if they are considered to be a non emergent case. These emergency healthcare services are often prohibitively expensive as well, ranging up past one thousand dollars

3 Ways to Help Seniors Avoid Falls in Their Homes

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Throughout our lives, everyone has fallen down at least once. That being said, the kind of fall that a younger person can easily get up from doesn’t always happen when seniors slip. In fact, statistics show that every 11 seconds a senior citizen is treated in an emergency room for injuries that took place due to falling. Considering that, it’s important to know that there are ways you can help the senior in your life. With that in mind, here are three ways to prevent seniors from falling in their own home.

  1. Make Use of a Walking Aid

    If you’re considering a cane for the senior in your life, this is a popular choice of gift. In fact, statistics show that nearly 7 million people in the United States use some type of device to aid their mobility. One of the most popular mobility aids are walking canes. Whether you’re looking for decorative canes or something a litt

Behind Home Decor And Furniture Sales In The United States

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Furniture store

Home decor, while many may not pay it much thought, can be more important than many people realize. After all, home decor and the furniture stores that you buy it from can speak volumes about your taste and, therefore, your personality. Unfortunately, only around 20% (one in every five) of people in the United States report that they feel adequately satisfied with how their home is decorated, and much of this has to do with the fact that as many as half of all Americans have not seriously visited furniture stores or considered redecorating and updating their furniture and home decor within the last five years, with many having refrained from decorating even longer.

Redecorating can absolutely increase the enjoyment of ones home, and there are a number of popular styles that are often considered when a hou

What Are the Benefits Of Hiring a Professional Cleaning Service For Move-Out?

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Move out cleaning

Hiring professional cleaning services for your apartment movement could be a smart choice. Few people have on hand the appropriate cleaning supplies necessary to truly make a room sparkle. Dirty carpets require special equipment. Washing windows and wiping down floor boards require an attention to detail few people want to practice during the stresses of moving.

Can Hiring Professional Cleaning Services Help You Recoup Your Safety Deposit?

The big question when it comes to moving out of an apartment is if you will regain your security deposit. There are alwa

Putting Your Used Clothes in the Right Hands

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Donate clothing

Americans own more clothing than ever before. With a low cost of labor, materials, production, shipping, and distribution, it is much easier to buy a new t-shirt or pair of pants than any other time in the past. Americans are buying more than 20 billion pieces of clothing per year. If this were broken down into the average amount of garments purchased per American per year, it would break down such that each American was purchasing nearly 68 garments and 7 pairs of shoes per year (more than one piece of clothing a week)!

While that might sound nice — the ability to purchase more and more items nowadays than ever before, it also comes with its issues, the foremost of which are that people are throwing away more clothing than ever before too. People aren’t holding onto clothes so as much as they are throw

Retirement Homes Help People Transition to a Easier, More Relaxed Lifestyle

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In some ways you feel like things are slowing down. In other ways, however, you feel as if you are at the beginning of a very big adventure.
After working with a local real estate agent to complete the sale of your home of 30 years you will close on the deal and move out within the next month. Half way across the country, however, a new life awaits you in a house in Heron Bay, Florida. Although you have always talked about moving somewhere warm once both of the girls were done with high school and in college, you were never certain that these plans would actually materialize. The Continue Reading No Comments


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Seeking My Next Adventure

My time as a PhD student is coming to an end, and I’m ready to get back into a full-time role at a tech company in July or August. I’ve included a tl;dr version next for those busy people who just want the highlights, or you can read on for more details about me and what I want in my next role.

What I’m looking for in my next adventure:

  • Open source focus: community management or data analysis of OSS participation
  • Senior position: preferably an individual contributor role, but open to managing a small team
  • Travel: some travel to speak at conferences, but a maximum of 10% – 20% of my time
  • Based near London: need a company to sponsor my UK work visa

What I’ve been doing in my past couple of roles (full resume):

  • Building and leading open source communities
  • Analyzing open source community metrics and other data
  • Speaking and blogging about a variety of technologies
  • Creating strategies and plans while leading a team to achieve them

Now for the longer version and more details about what I want for my next adventure …

After 3.5 years at the University of Greenwich, I’m almost finished with my PhD. While it has been an amazing experience, I am ready to exit academia and return to the tech industry again. Ideally, I would like to be back at work in July or August.

The catch is that I want to stay in the UK, so I’m looking for a full-time role with a company who can sponsor my UK visa. Given my timeline, this company would already need to be on the UK register of licensed sponsors for visas. The good news is that it should be fairly easy to transfer from my student visa to a work visa if I have company sponsorship. I live a bit outside of London, and while I could work in a London office, the commute would be over an hour, so I would prefer a position where I can work remotely most days. I’m happy to work a couple of evenings per week to accommodate meetings with US teams.

My primary job criteria is that I would like to continue to focus on open source software. A position in open source community management or data analysis of participation in open source communities would be ideal, but I’m also open to other roles. I’ve spent most of my 20+ year career working in open source software roles with a focus on community management and metrics, and I would really enjoy continuing that work and maintaining the relationships that I have with so many amazing people working in similar roles.

I have a preference for being in a senior individual contributor role. Over the past 20+ years, I’ve been in many different open source positions, so I can easily adapt to wide variety of responsibilities as the industry or team evolves. I’m also happy to train and mentor junior employees, which I view as a critical element of any senior position. At my last few companies, I managed teams, most recently as Director of Community at Puppet, so while I would prefer an individual contributor role, I am also open to managing a small team.

I also want to work for a great company where I can enjoy my work. I’m happy to work hard to achieve my goals, but I also expect to work a reasonable number of hours per week and prefer an environment with some flexibility about when and how I do my work as long as the goals are being met. The company should have a diverse workforce and a culture of showing respect for each other. I also prefer to work at a company that already understands the importance of open source software.

For years, I have been giving talks at conferences and blogging on a variety of technology topics, and I would like to continue to do this. In particular, I would like travel to open source conferences (Linux Foundation events, OSCON, FOSDEM, etc.) and give talks, but I need to keep the travel to 10% – 20% of my time.

Here are a few links with examples of my work and more details about my past experience:

If you think I would be a good fit for a role on your team, or if you have other pointers for me, please drop me an email:

Extracting Data from Open Source Communities

On Sunday at FOSDEM, I have a 5 minute lightning talk about extracting data from open source communities in the HPC, Big Data, Data Science devroom (slides).

Open source communities are filled with huge amounts of data just waiting to be analyzed. Getting this data into a format that can be easily used for analysis may seem intimidating at first, but there are some very useful open source tools that make this task relatively easy.

Metrics GrimoireThe primary tools used in this talk are the open source Metrics Grimoire tools that take data from various community sources and store it in a database where it can be easily queried and analyzed.

Tools covered:

  • CVSAnalY to gather and analyze source code repository data
  • MLStats to gather and analyze mailing list data
  • Other Metrics Grimoire tools for bug trackers, IRC, Wikis and more
  • Gource to visualize source code repository data

MLStats and CVSAnaly – Installation and data import:

It’s very easy to get started with MLStats and CVSAnaly and use them to import data from your mailing lists and code repositories.

  1. Install
  2. $ python install

  3. Create database
  4. mysql> create database mlstats;

mysql> create database cvsanaly;

  5. Import data
  6. $ mlstats http://URLOFYOURLIST

$ cvsanaly2 /path/to/repo

MLStats – Queries to extract data:

  • Top 100 messages (most replied to threads):
  • SELECT subject, COUNT(*) as total
FROM messages
GROUP BY subject
ORDER by total DESC
LIMIT 100;

  • Other queries:

    • # of messages from a specific person

    • # of messages per person from email domain

    • Find all messages with specific word in subject line (patch)

    • More queries

CVSAnalY – Queries to extract data:

  • Number of commits per person by email domain:
  • SELECT,,
COUNT(distinct( as num_commits
FROM people p, scmlog s
WHERE email like ""
AND
GROUP BY email
ORDER BY num_commits DESC;

  • Other queries:

    • Top commit authors all time

    • # of commits for specific person
    • More Queries

Other Metrics Grimoire Tools:

Gource is an amazing tool to visualize activity from your source code repositories. I did a full talk about Gource on Friday at the FLOSS Community Metrics meeting, so have a look at that blog post for details about using Gource.

Using Gource to Visualize Your Repositories

Today at the FLOSS Community Metrics meeting in Brussels, Belgium, I gave a short, 5-minute lightning talk about using Gource to visualize your source code repositories with a focus on navigating the myriad of Gource configuration options and how to tweak them to make Gource work better for your repository. In this blog post, I’ll give an overview of the talk, but for all of the details or to replicate the demo, you should have a look at the GitHub repository for the talk.

In the talk, I did a visualization of the MailingListStats (mlstats) repository from the Metrics Grimoire suite of tools, and here is the video generated using these options:

gource -f --logo images/bitergia_logo_sm.png --title "MailingListStats AKA mlstats" --key --start-date '2014-01-01' --user-image-dir images -a 1 -s .05 --path ../MailingListStats

Option Details:

  • --path /path/to/repo (or omit and run Gource from the top level of the repo dir)
  • -f show full screen
  • --logo images/bitergia_logo_sm.png
  • --title "MailingListStats AKA mlstats"
  • --key (shows color key for file types)
  • --start-date '2014-05-01'
  • --user-image-dir images (Directory with .jpg or .png images of users ‘Full Name.png’ for avatars)
  • -a 1 (auto skip to next entry if nothing happens in x seconds – default 3)
  • -s .05 (speed in seconds per day – default 10)

You can also manipulate the video while Gource is running:

  • Space bar to pause
  • Ctrl + / – to speed up or slow down
  • Use arrow keys to move camera
  • Mouse over timeline widget at the bottom and click on a date to move in time.

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Consulting Again

Scale FactoryAs most of you know, I moved to London to start working toward a PhD last January. Now that I’m off to a good start on the PhD, I find that I actually miss working, so I’m going to start consulting again.

I’ll be working part-time at The Scale Factory here in London. I’m interested in doing consulting projects related to building communities, open source, data analysis, etc. You can find all of the details on my consulting page. I’m also open to doing other types of projects.

If you are interested in getting my help for any of your projects, please email me:

Network Analysis and Community Visualizations

dawn_presentingAs usual, I’ve been neglecting my blog; however, you may notice that I finally did a little redesign using a modern template to make it more mobile-friendly and more accessible to avoid the Google search penalties. With this fresh new design, I decided that I needed something more recent than my last post in January.

So, I thought it would be nice to talk about my presentations from OSCON and the FLOSS Community Metrics Meeting in lovely Portland, OR in July.

If you want to skip my ramblings and get right to the content, you can find all of the code, data sets, instructions and links to the presentation materials on SlideShare by visiting my OSCON 2015 GitHub repository. UPDATE (Aug 23): The video for the OSCON portion is available now, too.

If you missed this presentation and want to see it live and in person, I’ll be doing similar talks at LinuxCon Seattle in August and LinuxCon Dublin in October. You might also be interested in reading the interview that Nicole Engard did with me on right before the conference to give me a chance to talk about my OSCON presentation and metrics in general.

What is Network Analysis?

The presentations both centered around network analysis, which studies relationships between units and looks for patterns and structure in those relationships. This is an oversimplified definition of network analysis, since it’s a fairly complicated discipline, so the best way to describe it is with a few examples of how people use network analysis.

  • My presentations looked at relationships and activity between people participating in an open source project.
  • It’s also used to study the relationships between organizations. Examples include looking at which companies have common people on their board of directors or to look at parent / subsidiary relationships between companies.
  • People are also using it to study animal social networks, like aggression and dominance between horses or food sharing between birds.
  • Someone at the University of Greenwich is doing historical social network analysis to look at the networks of people in medieval Scotland by using data from witness signatures on legal documents.
  • Friendship networks, work relationships, and other ways that people interact are also common examples of network analysis

MetricsGrimoire Tools

Metrics GrimoireThe MetricsGrimoire is the go-to set of tools that you’ll probably want to use to gather data from your open source community and store it into a database where you can write queries to extract the information you need. In these talks, I used mlstats data, but in my research, I also make heavy use of CVSAnalY. The OSCON 2015 GitHub repository README file has more instructions, but in short, you need to install mlstats, create the database, run mlstats on your mailing list to import the data into this new mlstats database, and finally use database queries to extract the data used for this presentation. You can also use my script from the GitHub repository to extract the data.

Static Network Visualization

Dawn OSCONI took the output from the script and used a combination of RStudio and Visone to visualize the data and create the network using data from one of the Linux kernel mailing lists (IOMMU) from January 2015 to keep the data set to a manageable size. In the end, we created a network diagram showing mailing list replies between people. The people with the most replies (degree centrality) are shown with larger circles (nodes), and the number of replies between any two people is shown by bolder or lighter arrows. Again, the OSCON 2015 GitHub repository README file has all of the details and instructions for how to do this, so I won’t duplicate it here.

Dynamic Visualization

Gource is a tool that most people use to easily visualize source code commits by each person for any repository; however, it can also be used with custom data. If you’ve never used Gource, you might want to take a brief detour and look at some of the many Gource visualizations on YouTube. I only had time in my OSCON talk to briefly cover Gource, but luckily, I was able spend 20 minutes on the topic during the FLOSS Community Metrics Meeting the weekend before OSCON. In the presentation, I showed how to create a custom log format file using mailing list data from mlstats and feed it into Gource for visualization. See the the OSCON 2015 GitHub repository README file for details about exactly how I did this.

What Else?

There are so many different tools available to do visualization of social network analysis. I used Visone because it runs on most major operating systems, and it’s fairly easy to get started with, but there are so many other options that you might want to play around with.

Python has quite a few packages that provide social network analysis, like NetworkX, for example. I haven’t had a chance to play with this much yet, but I know others who do quite a bit of their analysis using these tools, so they are on my list to try.

The final thing that I want to stress is that network analysis is so much more than just having cool graphs that allow you to look at your data. The visualizations are often the first step to see what might be happening in your network, but for those of us doing this type of work, it’s just the first step. The next steps usually involve many different calculations and measures to really understand what might be going on in the community. One example is how we changed the node size based on degree centrality for how many links that person had. It’s easy to explain, but it’s not a particularly sophisticated measurement of network centrality, and there are others that do a better job of looking at how well-connected people are to give you a better measure for influence. For example, if I regularly talk to 2 people within the Linux kernel, and if those people are Linus Torvalds and Greg K-H, I’m likely to be better connected within the network as a whole than if I’m talking to 10 other people with little or no influence.

If you are interested in my academic research, I also did a presentation recently at an academic conference here in the UK. That presentation and others can be found on my Academic page.

Photo credits

OSCON photo by Luis Cañas-Díaz and the FLOSS Metrics Gource photo by Stephen Walli.

Your Metrics Strategy at FLOSS Community Metrics

Cat measuring TapeI’m here in Brussels today for the FLOSS Community Metrics meeting, and I just gave a presentation about how to build Your Metrics Strategy. If you are interested, have a look at my presentation materials.

Talk description:

You probably know that community metrics are important, but how do you come up with a plan and figure out what you want to measure? Most open source projects have a very diverse community infrastructure with code repositories, IRC, mailing lists, wikis and other content sites, forums, and more. Deciding where to focus and what to measure across these many technologies can be a challenge.

What you measure can have a huge impact on behavior within the community, and you want to make sure that you are encouraging people to contribute in sane ways by measuring the activities that matter for your project.

In this presentation, I’ll talk about how you decide what to measure and give you examples of how I’ve done this at Puppet Labs and in other projects.

Photo credit: Sophie on Flickr

Moving to London to get a PhD

Dawn in LondonSome people buy fancy, expensive sports cars and hook up with someone half their age during a midlife crisis. I always like to be a little different, so I’ve decided to move to London and go back to school to get a PhD for my midlife crisis. I’m still waiting on my student visa, but if everything goes as planned, I’ll be moving to London in early January.

Taking a step back from an amazing job and career is hard, but the reality is that this isn’t going to get any easier if I wait. I’m already in my mid-forties, so a rigorous academic research degree is just going to get harder to complete if I wait too long. I’m also incredibly fortunate to be able to afford to do this right now, and it gives me an opportunity to live in another country for a while, which is something I’ve been wanting to do for a long time.

I also think it is time for a bit of a change. I’ve been working with open source communities for 14 years, and I’ve been in various community leadership / management roles full-time for more than 8 years. While I love community management, I’m a bit burned out and am feeling the itch to do something a little different for a while, so I’m going to spend the next 3 (or so) years focused more on the research side of communities. I love community metrics and analysis, but while managing a community and a team, I just haven’t had time to devote to this kind of research. Getting a PhD gives me an opportunity to spend time focused on research and analysis for topics that I find interesting.

I really like London, but my primary reason for selecting the University of Greenwich is because of the Centre for Business Network Analysis within the Business school. This group within the University of Greenwich performs quantitative research to look at the relationships between people in an organization or participating in communities, and I would like to extend this idea to look not just at the network relationships between individual people, but also between companies participating in open source communities. My specific area of research is focused on the Linux kernel community, which has large numbers of contributions from individuals being paid by organizations to contribute as part of their regular jobs. I will be studying Linux kernel code contributions from individuals who are employed by these organizations using network analysis and interviews to identify the relationships between organizations. I selected the Linux kernel because I find it interesting, and because it is a very large, neutral project with contributions from many different companies. The initial draft of my research proposal (PDF) has more details about the project.

The hardest part of this decision was the decision to leave Puppet Labs as a part of this process. We looked at a variety of options to see if I could stay in a part-time capacity, but the reality is that they need someone full-time in Portland to manage the community team. I will be staying on until the end of February to help with the transition and hiring of my replacement (we should have a job posting on the website in a week or 2). I’ll be continuing full-time here until I start my PhD program, which is currently scheduled for January 12, but could be a week or two later depending on when my student visa arrives. At that point, I will be converting over to part-time, since my student visa allows me to work for no more than 20 hours per week. Starting in March, I might be looking for a part-time community gig depending on how well I’ve been able to balance work and school during January and February.

I’ve always loved research, and this gives my an opportunity to spend some time doing research on a topic that I find interesting. I’ll be reducing my travel quite a bit, so you won’t see me at as many events, but you’ll still see me hanging around at various Linux conferences where I will be bugging people to talk to me as part of my research.

Q: Are you crazy?!?
A: Yes.

Q: What are you doing with all of your stuff in Portland?
A: I’m selling my house and my car. I’m in the process of donating piles of stuff to charity that I’ve accumulated and don’t really need. I’m packing 4 suitcases to take with me and putting the rest into storage. I’m actually looking forward to simplifying my life a bit and having less stuff (those of you who know me well know how much I hate extra stuff).

Q: Do you hate Portland?
A: No, I don’t hate Portland. I love Portland. I’m putting all of my stuff in storage here because I’m planning to come back someday. I still think of Portland as home, and when I’m ready to come back to the US, I’ll be coming back to Portland.

Q: Do you hate us?
A: No, I love the people in Portland. I said that leaving Puppet Labs was the hardest part of this decision, but it’s actually tied for top of the list with hating to leave all of the amazing people here in Portland. I’ll miss my friends in Portland, including everyone at Puppet Labs. Don’t forget about me while I’m gone (I’m coming back at some point), and if you make your way to London, ping me, and we’ll go out for a pint (note: the pints in the UK are bigger!) or a cup of delicious tea if pints aren’t your thing.

Q: Do you hate Puppet Labs?
A: Absolutely not! I love the company and the people. I’ve been part of the planning process, and I really do think that Puppet Labs is on a path to do really well over the next couple of years. I think they have a great team, and Luke is the best CEO that I’ve ever worked with (and I’ve worked with some good ones)!

Open Source: A Job and an Adventure

At LinuxCon in Düsseldorf, I gave a talk about the many ways that you can turn your work in open source into a career, so that you can get paid for all of the awesome work that you do in open source. If you already have a job in open source, I also talked about some of the different options that you have if you eventually want to do something different.

LinuxCon Düsseldorf

I uploaded the slides, but several people (rightly) pointed out that the slides with one sentence didn’t really capture the details that I presented, so I decided that I would take my speaker notes and turn them into this blog post. Enjoy.

My Journey

I ended up working in open source accidentally. When I was in college getting a computer science degree, one of the university sysadmins was teaching a UNIX system administration class. It was my favorite class – I liked it way better than programming, and when I was looking for my first job, I managed to luck into a junior sysadmin role at a local manufacturing company. Manufacturing companies really didn’t spend money on IT, so most of the tools that I used were open source. This was the mid-90’s, so it was way before you went to company websites to download open source products, and you didn’t want to install some random binary when you weren’t sure of the source, so I was downloading tarballs of gcc and other tools from ftp servers at places like the University of Wisconsin and CERN so that I could poke through the code before compiling and installing it on one of our UNIX boxes.

A few years later, after I had moved out of the sysadmin role and into more program management, I was at Intel in 2000 or 2001 when we were trying to get people to add support for the upcoming Itanium processors, and I was working on a team focused on working with developer tools. They needed someone to look at Linux developer tools, and especially the open source tools to see which ones were worth spending time on. Since I had used open source tools and had a UNIX background, they threw the project in my direction. A huge part of the evaluation was related to the community. Is there an active community? Are there regular releases? Are there users for the tools? I started to get more and more fascinated with how the communities worked. When I first started using open source, how a bunch of random people threw code together and actually ended up with something not only worked, but worked really well was a mystery to me. As I started looking more closely, I realized that there was actually some structure, with committers and maintainers, that just wasn’t obvious from the outside. I started getting more and more fascinated by how open source communities worked, and I started blogging about open source and speaking at conferences, which led me directly to my next open source job, which I’ll talk about a little later.

Now, obviously not everyone can be lucky enough to accidentally end up in an awesome open source job, so I’m going to talk about a few other options. I’ll will start with why you might want to make a career out of open source, but the bulk of the talk will explore the many ways to get open source to pay your bills along with examples of real people who have taken these paths. Even if you have already have one of these jobs, this talk will provide options for additional career paths and tips for what to do improve your chances of getting that next gig and how to avoid sabotaging your career. I’ll also share some time management tips to avoid letting this work take over your entire life (unless you want it to)!

Why: Friends

A lot of my friends are people that I met in open source communities around the world, and I often use travel or vacations as an excuse to visit them. Yes, this includes occasionally attending tech meetups while on vacation 🙂

I’ve also been surprised at how many times I run across the same people in different projects. Last year, I was contacted by someone from the Openfire community, a Jabber / XMPP chat server community that I managed back in 2007 or 2008. He’s using Puppet now at the university where he works, and he was interested in working with us on a Puppet Camp.

WerewolfThis picture is from a werewolf game at a MeeGo conference years ago, and I’ve stayed in touch with some of these people. I’ve found that I tend to form lasting friendships with people that I spend a lot of time with at conferences. Werewolf is one way, but there are also people that I spend time hanging out with over dinner, drinks or other conference activities that I stay in touch with. I’m also surprised at how often my work intersects with some of these friends, and we’re often in a position to help each other out with some project or activity in the future.

Why: Travel

Dawn at MeeGo Conf DublinThis is me giving a talk at the MeeGo Conference in Dublin. Not everyone who works in open source gets to travel, but I think that we have more opportunities to travel than many of our peers who work on proprietary products.

There is a lot of Conference travel with events like the kernel summit, KDE Akademy, other gatherings of developers for the open source projects. We do Puppet Contributor Summits for project developers twice a year, once in Europe and once in the US at our annual conference, but we also do 20-30 Puppet Camps for users around the world. These are great opportunities to meet the people that I interact online in real life.

Part of this is because we are working on open source projects, so we can talk openly about the work that we do. We don’t have to worry as much about accidentally leaking some corporate secrets. Attending and especially speaking at conferences is often encouraged by employers who want people to know about the work they are doing. It also makes it easier to hire people.

If you work at a big company, there is often company travel where they send you to places like South Korea to work with other companies that are working on the same projects.

Why: Future career

Because our work is in the open where other people can see it, we have visibility that many people just don’t have. When someone is interested in hiring you, they can Google you and see all of your participation in these open source communities. Being able to see actual examples of your work is way more useful for hiring managers than reading a boring resume.

Working in open source projects also allow us to make connections with people whose companies are hiring from the community. At every company where I’ve worked, we’ve hired people out of our open source communities. This is especially true of Puppet Labs and Intel.

Why: Awesome

I love the fundamental ideals behind open source software. I have the freedom to use it, to inspect all of the details, make changes to it, and to redistribute it as I need to without getting permission from anyone else. As a result, I think that we end up with software that is innovative and interesting, and we get to work collaboratively with other people.

As community lead, I even spend a lot of time collaborating with my competitors, which may sound odd to people who haven’t worked in open source. As an example, every year, all of my favorite competitors get together to organize the Configuration Management devroom at FOSDEM and ConfigManagementCamp the following two days.

How: New Project

This is what a lot of people probably think of when they think about people who have made a career out of open source, but it’s also probably one of the hardest ways to make a career out of open source. Your options are to find a company who is interested enough in the technology to hire you to work on it full-time – that’s the easy way in this option, and it’s not really easy. The hard way might be one of the most rewarding ways to make a career out of open source, but it requires building a company around the technology, and that can be hard work. It also involves doing a lot of business-y things to build a company, which isn’t something that every developer is capable of doing or even wants to do.

  • Linus Torvalds is a well-known example of someone hired by organizations to work on Linux full-time at Transmeta, and now at the Linux Foundation.
  • Frank Karlitschek wrote the original ownCloud code, but joined up co-founders Markus Rex and Holger Dyroff to help with the business side of the new company.
  • Luke Kanies is the founder of Puppet Labs – he picked the hard way. He wrote the original code and founded the company to support the work on his code. As the CEO of Puppet Labs, he has to focus on both the technological solutions and the business, and luckily for me, he’s become really good at both sides.

How: Participate

This is a much easier path than starting a new project, and this is probably the most common way to turn your open source work into a job. Most of the companies that I’ve worked for have hired quite a few people out of the community. We did this when I was at Intel, and we do it now at Puppet Labs.

This is one of the best ways to get your foot in the door with an open source job. Your participation in the community helps you learn the skills that you’ll need and make the right connections to get that dream job while also proving publicly that you can do the work.

  • Chris Aniszczyk, now head of open source at Twitter, got started in open source by hacking on freeBSD / Gentoo and started participating in the Gentoo community. These Linux skills helped him land his first job at IBM.
  • Selena Decklemann is currently at Mozilla and is well-known for her work with Postgres. In college, some friends taught her how to build a computer from scratch. She installed Linux on it. Within six months, she had a job in the law school at the University of Oregon as a sysadmin. When her boss quit, she was a sophomore in charge of the law school’s computers. Her active and helpful participation in other open source communities has been one key to her success and long career in open source.
  • Dirk Hohndel, currently Chief Linux and Open Source Technologist at Intel, was one of the first kernel developers in 1991 and then got involved in XFree86. In the mid 1990s, this work on Linux and related technologies turned into a full-time job when he started working at SuSE in Germany.

How: Not Just Developers

Not unlike companies, open source projects need people to do all kinds of things. You can’t really just have developers and hope that all of the other stuff magically happens. Someone needs to write the blog posts, do documentation, promote the project, and so much more.

  • Leslie Hawthorne, currently Community Manager at Elasticsearch, started her career working at Google as a staffing coordinator, and went on to create the world’s first initiative to involve pre-university students in open source software development. She’s been working in open source ever since.
  • Rikki Endsley spent her early years in open source as a managing editor for more sysadmin and Linux magazines than I can count, while gradually doing more and more community management until landing her current gig as community evangelist at Red Hat.

How: Join a Company

Another good way to start your open source career is to work for a company that does a lot of work in open source software. You can join one of these companies in all kinds of different roles: writer, marketing, system administrator, developer, lawyer, and so much more.

This is how I first turned open source into an accidental full-time job. When my manager at Intel asked me to start looking into some Linux development tools, it sounded like an interesting challenge, and I’ve been working in open source since that time.

  • Karsten Wade joined VA Linux as a project writer, moved to RH as a project writer and later moved into full-time open source project work. Contributing to the open source projects before it was part of his full-time job and networking with other people were key to his success.
  • Kim Moir worked within OTI, which was acquired by IBM when she was asked “So would you like setup servers for a little open source project called Eclipse?” 13 years later she is still in open source where she works as a release engineer at Mozilla.

How: Bring Open Source Into Your Company

As I mentioned earlier, when I was a sysadmin at a manufacturing company, we used a lot of open source software, since traditional manufacturing companies didn’t spend money on IT. Open source tools were really the only option for me.

  • Jeff Luszcz, co-founder of Palamida, a company focused on application security for open source software was working at NASA in the early 90s with a VERY small software budget. He ended up using tools, like GCC and others, which were “free” and powerful.
  • Eric Shamow, who I worked with at Puppet Labs, brought open source into an existing job to fill a need. He helped a university move from Windows and UNIX servers to mostly Linux and turned working with Linux systems into a job.

How: Get Out There

Some of my most interesting opportunities have come about as a result of my writing and speaking. My first full-time community manager gig landed in my lap when Larry Augustin and I were both speaking at a small open source event. I was talking about community, and he was on the board of a company who needed some community help. One of my first big speaking gigs was at SXSW, and I was asked to be on a panel by someone who had been reading my blog, but who I didn’t actually know. When I was consulting, a lot of my work came from people who had heard me speak at some point (often years earlier) or who were reading my blog.

  • Danese Cooper, currently the head of open source for PayPal, has done some really interesting work within open source, including creating the open source programs office at Sun and an open source strategist at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. A big part of her success has come through her blogging and speaking at conferences on the topic of open source.
  • Stormy Peters, currently at Mozilla, has a similar story. She co-founded, and was later the executive director of the GNOME Foundation. She also founded the open source program office at HP, but much of her success comes from her speaking at conferences about open source.
  • Ibrahim Haddad, Head of the Open Source Innovation Group at Samsung Research America, was at university and the professor showed up holding a shoe box with Linux floppies as the first homework assignment, this was November 1994. In January of 1999, he wrote his first Linux Journal article.

How: Consulting

This is mostly a job strategy for people who are already well-known for their experience working in open source, but it’s a great career path if you want a little more flexibility from freelance consulting or if you want to build a consulting practice that fits your unique skills.

  • Christoph Hellwig’s experience with contributing to the Linux kernel and related technologies allows him to do consulting for a wide variety of companies while supporting his snowboarding habit.
  • Florian Haas has years of experience in open source and is an expert in high availability open source solutions, which allowed him to co-found Hastexo to focus on helping customers with their open source implementations.

How: Documentation

In my incredibly unscientific poll (asking people to tell me how they got started working in open source on Twitter and G+), the most common answer was that they got started with documentation. It’s a great way to get started in an open source project, which you can turn into a career by the various paths that I’ve already talked about.

  • Eric Redmond, who now works at Basho, wrote documentation and plugins for both major open source projects he’s been involved in. In one case working his way to core committer then joining a startup, and in the other case joining a company to work on core, but both cases started with docs.
  • Kris Buytaert, CTO at Inuits, started with documentation, then moved on to release management, then started submitting patches, then doing talks, then organizing conferences, like DevOpsDays.
  • Jeff Osier-Mixon (aka Jefro), Community Manager for Yocto, also got his start in open source with documentation with Cygnus.

How: Be Nice

Now, I’m going to transition into some of the things that you can do to improve your chances of getting that first job in open source or improving your chances of getting the next gig. Your interactions within the community will live forever. You never know when that random person you are talking to on IRC might have a job for you years in the future – assuming you treat them well 🙂 Be nice and avoid negative interactions with people. I continue to run into the same people in different communities, and you never know when you might end up working with or even for that person that you are interacting with online today.

How: Networking

Networking is another key to increasing your chances of being successful. This is true if you are looking for a new job in open source or just making the best of the job that you have now.

NetworkingWhen you are looking for a job is not the time to start networking. This needs to be more long-term and something you should be doing all the time. It’s also not about being weird and sleazy or about exchanging the most business cards. It’s about having interesting conversations. When I think of these activities as “networking” or even as work that it tends to feel weird. I recommend approaching it as having conversations with people that you find interesting. If someone is boring you to death, you should make a nice, graceful exit and find someone whose work is more interesting to you. Talk to a wide variety of people and learn more about what they do. If it’s something that you want to know more about, then spend more time talking to them about it. Personally, I love hearing stories about how people ended up working in open source and hearing about what people are working on.

Time: Prioritize

Once you get that awesome open source gig, one of the tricky things about working in open source is that these projects are 24×7, something is always going on, and they can suck up as much time as you allow, which can leave you exhausted and burned out. Finding the right balance between doing as much as you can, while not pushing yourself past your limits is something that I constantly struggle with. I always want to help out and do everything that I can to make the project successful, but there is only so much that I can do.

I try really hard to prioritize my activities, especially when I already feel like I’m starting to get burned out. I try to be brutal about which tasks I need to focus on because they are the most important, not necessarily the ones that other people think are the most urgent.

I also try to delegate – sometimes this is explicit, like asking someone to help out with a task, but a lot of times, it’s more subtle. I often wait to respond to requests or questions in hopes that someone else will respond. This works more often than you might expect, but it does mean that I often have to look at thread later to make sure that someone responded. Waiting also has the side effect of giving others the space to contribute. If you are answering too many of the questions, people start to expect that you will be the one to respond and won’t bother replying to questions from other people.

Time: Document

Most of us fail at documentation at some point. I know, I know, no one wants to write documents. It takes precious time, but it can save you so much time in the long run.

Documenting processes and procedures for the project is also what allows you to more easily delegate tasks. It’s way easier to delegate a task to someone else if you can point them to a document describing exactly what they need to do.

If I’ve answered the same question or written similar content 2 or 3 times, I always try to make sure that I document it. I have tons of email templates and canned responses floating around. I use canned responses as the start to my answer when I get those common questions. I usually customize it a bit, but the basic idea and usually a few links to more info are mostly the same. I also have a bunch of docs that contain email templates for common tasks, like accepting or rejecting speakers for events or asking people to do common tasks.

Time: Off

VacationI take my vacations very seriously. For someone who works and travels as much as I do for work, I need some serious downtime. I take one “real” vacation a year, which usually involves a beach, fruity drinks, a Kindle full of sci-fi books and not much else. For these vacations, I ignore everything – my work email, which is where my mailing lists go, remains unopened, and I try not to think about work or any of my open source projects. I’m lucky that I’m in a community full of really great people, which makes this a lot easier.

I’m a lot more flexible on some of my other vacations. I try to disengage from work and only do things that seem like fun. I might play with some new technology that I’ve been meaning to try or write some blog posts or attend a few meetups, especially if I’m in another city.

I also try to make sure that I take some time every day for things that I just enjoy doing that allow me to completely disengage from work and other projects. Right now, this is mostly reading sci-fi and playing a few games of Hearthstone.

Boldly Go

As a community manager working in open source communities, I’ve had a fantastic opportunity to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where only some people have gone before.

You can check out the slides from the presentation with many more images and a one sentence summary of each point.

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The Past Few Months: A Recap

Since I haven’t been blogging here on my own blog lately, I thought maybe a short post talking about what I have been doing would be interesting for at least a few people!

While neglecting this blog, I have been blogging elsewhere and have been spending a lot of time traveling and speaking at conferences. I’ve also been busy with all sorts of other work, so I’ll try to give you the short recap of my activities over the past few months.

A quick summary of a few things that I’ve been doing / blogging / whatever:

The run-down of some recent talks that I’ve given:

Lastly, a few upcoming talks:

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Lessons about Community from Studio Ghibli

Studio GhibliInstead of my traditional Lessons about Community from Science Fiction (video) talk, I decided to do something a little different for LinuxCon Japan.

The slides from my Lessons about Community from Studio Ghibli talk are available now (with speaker notes) for my presentation on Wednesday.

Communities are one of the defining attributes that shape every open source project, and the people within them are what make communities so special, not unlike how characters like Totoro, Kiki, and Ponyo shape every Studio Ghibli film. The friendship between Ponyo and Sōsuke shows how people from different backgrounds can work together, like people in communities work together, to accomplish more than they could have alone. While we don’t get to travel by catbus or Kiki’s broom, many of us have the opportunity to travel the world interacting with community members. Unfortunately, we have to rely on online participation combined with more traditional methods of transportation. This session focuses on community tips told through Studio Ghibli films. While the topic is fun and a little silly, the lessons about communities are real and tangible.

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