Mark Smith

Mark Smith
Founder/Chief Technologist, Dreamwidth Studios

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Mark Smith began volunteering with LiveJournal.com in 2001. He joined the staff in 2004 and concentrated on backend development, where he contributed heavily to systems such as Perlbal (load balancer) and MogileFS (distributed file storage).

He has since worked for companies such as Six Apart, Mozilla, and Google on tasks from systems administration to software development to site architecture.

Mark resides near San Francisco, CA, USA with his wife Janine and their canine companions.

Sessions

11:00am Thursday, 05/06/2010
Build Your Own Contributors (One Part at a Time)
Focus on Community
 Location: 2009
Denise Paolucci (Dreamwidth Studios), Mark Smith (Dreamwidth Studios)
With an increasing number of Open Source projects demanding attention, it can be hard to attract qualified contributors. Learn how to convert your community of users into a community of developers, through training, mentoring, and community management, from a project that's been hacking its hackers since day one. Read more.
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