John Vandenberg

John Vandenberg

Perth, Western Australia, Australia
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Experience

  • Franklin.ai Graphic

    Franklin.ai

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    Perth, Western Australia, Australia

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    Hamburg, Germany

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    Jakarta, Indonesia

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    Indonesia

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    Greater Jakarta Area, Indonesia

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    Greater Jakarta Area, Indonesia

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    Armidale, New South Wales, Australia

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    Armidale, New South Wales, Australia

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    Armidale, New South Wales, Australia

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    Armidale, New South Wales, Australia

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    Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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    Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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    Geelong, Victoria, Australia

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    Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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    Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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    Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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    Perth, Western Australia, Australia

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    Perth, Western Australia, Australia

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    Stirling, Western Australia, Australia

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    Perth, Western Australia, Australia

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    Perth, Western Australia, Australia

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    Caboolture, Queensland, Australia

Education

Licenses & Certifications

  • Cisco Certified Network Associate Routing and Switching (CCNA) Graphic

    Cisco Certified Network Associate Routing and Switching (CCNA)

    Cisco

    Issued

Volunteer Experience

  • openSUSE Project Graphic

    Application Packager

    openSUSE Project

    - Present 7 years

    Science and Technology

    I have packaged hundreds of packages for openSUSE, and continue to maintain over a hundred, mostly Python, but also R and Rust, and several X.

    https://build.opensuse.org/users/jayvdb?search_text=&involved_packages=1&role_maintainer=1

  • coala Association e.V. (coala.io static analyzer) Graphic

    Deputy Chair

    coala Association e.V. (coala.io static analyzer)

    - 1 year

    Education

  • Arbitration Committee member

    English Wikipedia

    - 1 year

    Education

  • Wikimedia Australia Graphic

    President

    Wikimedia Australia

    - 2 years 7 months

    Education

  • Wikimedia Australia Graphic

    Treasurer

    Wikimedia Australia

    - 8 months

    Education

  • Arbitration Committee

    English Wikipedia

    - 10 months

    Education

  • Administrator

    English Wikipedia

    - 12 years

    Education

  • Administrator

    English Wikisource

    - 12 years

    Education

  • Wikimedia Australia Graphic

    Ordinary Member

    Wikimedia Australia

    - 1 year 8 months

    Education

    Helped set up the organisation

  • Wikimedia Indonesia Graphic

    I.T. manager; technical advisor

    Wikimedia Indonesia

    - 4 years

    Education

    Maintained web infrastructure

  • Technical support

    Cipta Media Bersama

    - less than a year

    https://www.linkedin.com/groups/4732358/

  • 12 Buckets Inc Graphic

    Mentor

    12 Buckets Inc

    - 5 months

    Education

    Mentoring socially-struggling primary school students one-on-one during school hours.

  • Highgate Primary School Parents & Citizens committee Graphic

    Secretary

    Highgate Primary School Parents & Citizens committee

    - Present 2 years 10 months

    Education

  • Outreachy Graphic

    Mentor

    Outreachy

    - 1 year

    Education

Projects

  • TOra fixes

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    See project

  • Port Apache Web Server to msys/MinGW

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    After porting APR to msys, this follow up project allowed building Apache on msys, removing the need to have VC++ on Windows.

    See project

  • Ported quilt to Darwin, IRIX, Solaris, Tru64 and Win32(MSYS)

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    See project

  • IeUnit

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    Fixed many bugs to allow automated testing using Internet Explorer 4/5.

    Some patches were public, such as https://sourceforge.net/p/ieunit/patches/2/
    Others were sent direct to main author.

    See project

  • Ported Apache Portable Runtime (APR) to MinGW

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    Emails: https://marc.info/?l=apr-dev&w=2&r=1&s=vandenberg&q=b

    Related: Acknowledgement in O'Reilly's C++ Cookbook for assistance regarding MinGW/MSYS.
    https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/c-cookbook/0596007612/pr03s06.html

    See project

  • Bugzilla enhancements

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    Many enhancements, including
    - e-mail address update https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23067
    - PatchReader https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=115910

    See project

  • Ported Mozilla to IRIX gcc

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    e.g. XPCOM MIPS assembly fix https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79362

    https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79282 is another notable example for MIPS, which resulted in https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3047 being raised.

    22 bugs at…

    e.g. XPCOM MIPS assembly fix https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79362

    https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79282 is another notable example for MIPS, which resulted in https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3047 being raised.

    22 bugs at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=&long_desc_type=substring&long_desc=&bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr&bug_file_loc=&status_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstr&status_whiteboard=&keywords_type=allwords&keywords=&rep_platform=SGI&emailassigned_to1=1&emailreporter1=1&emailqa_contact1=1&emailcc1=1&emaillongdesc1=1&emailtype1=exact&email1=johnv%40adacel.com.au

    27 bugs at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=&long_desc_type=substring&long_desc=&bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr&bug_file_loc=&status_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstr&status_whiteboard=&keywords_type=allwords&keywords=&rep_platform=SGI&emailassigned_to1=1&emailreporter1=1&emailqa_contact1=1&emailcc1=1&emaillongdesc1=1&emailtype1=exact&email1=jayvdb@gmail.com

    See project

  • Ported OpenOffice to IRIX

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    See project

  • kannel bug fixes

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    See project

Honors & Awards

  • Excellence Award

    Callista Software Services

    . Awarded for sustained performance over a period
    of time at a level “above and beyond the call of duty”

Languages

  • English

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • Indonesian

    Elementary proficiency

Organizations

  • quilt

    Committer

    http://savannah.nongnu.org/project/memberlist.php?group=quilt

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