.Net Foundation / Maintainers Series

In this series, I interview open source project maintainers to open the window of open source and why it's so important to the things that we do.

Dave Glick
Dave is a .NET and open source enthusiast who maintains open source projects like the Statiq static site generator (https://statiq.dev), the Discover .NET community resource (https://discover.net), Buildalyzer, and the @dotnetissues Twitter account among others. When not working on one of those, he can be found contributing, blogging, or speaking about .NET open source projects and technologies.

- Twitter: https://twitter.com/daveaglick
- Statiq: https://statiq.dev

In this series, I'll be interviewing Open Source Maintainers and talk about what open source means to them and why they do it. This episode:

Aaron Stannard and the Akka.NET Project

Aaron Stannard, is the CEO and founder of Petabridge, where he's making distributed programming for .NET developers easy by working on Akka.NET, NBench, and dozens of other OSS projects.

He also just recently founded Sdkbin - think NuGet meets the App Store, to help OSS and .NET developers build sustainable businesses around their work.

Prior to Petabridge he founded MarkedUp Analytics, a real-time in-app marketing and analytics service used by 1000+ developers. Prior to that he worked at Microsoft as a Startup Developer Evangelist.

- Twitter: @Aaronontheweb
- GitHub: https://github.com/Aaronontheweb
- Blog: https://aaronstannard.com/
- Petabridge: https://petabridge.com/

In this series, I'll be interviewing Open Source Maintainers and talk about what open source means to them and why they do it. This episode:

Eric W. Bailey and the A11y Project

Eric Bailey is a Boston-based designer who helps create straightforward solutions that address a person’s practical, physical, cognitive, and emotional needs using accessible, performant, device-agnostic technology. He's an inclusive design advocate, A11Y Project maintainer, MDN Web Docs contributor,

- Twitter: @ericwbailey
- GitHub: https://github.com/ericwbailey
- Blog: https://ericwbailey.design/
- A11y Project: https://www.a11yproject.com/

In this series, I'll be interviewing Open Source Maintainers and talk about what open source means to them and why they do it. This episode:

Dennis Doomen of FluentAssertions

Dennis is a veteran architect in the . NET space with a special interest in writing clean code, Domain Driven Design, Event Sourcing and everything agile. He specializes in designing enterprise solutions based on the . ... Like when to apply Event Sourcing and at what architectural level.

- Twitter: @ddoomen
- GitHub: https://github.com/dennisdoomen
- Blog: https://www.continuousimprover.com
- FlientAssertions: https://fluentassertions.com

In this episode of The Maintainers, Nicholas Blumhardt talks about his history with Open Source working on Autofac and Serilog.

*** NOTE *** I realized it is misspelled in the video. Sorry about that.

You can follow Nicholas on twitter: https://twitter.com/nblumhardt

In this series, I interview open source project maintainers to open the window of open source and why it's so important to the things that we do.

Shaun Walker
Shaun Walker has 25+ years professional experience in architecting and implementing enterprise software solutions for private and public organizations. Shaun is the original creator of Oqtane and DotNetNuke, web application frameworks which which have cultivated the largest and most successful Open Source community projects native to the Microsoft platform. He was one of the original founders of DNN Corp, a commercial software company providing products, services, and technical support for DotNetNuke, which raised 3 rounds of venture capital from top tier Silicon Valley investors. Based on his significant community contributions he has been recognized as a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) as well as an ASPInsider for over 10 consecutive years. He was recognized by Business In Vancouver as a leading entrepreneur in their Forty Under 40 business awards, was a founding member of the Board of Directors of the Outercurve Foundation, and is currently the Chairman of the Advisory Council for Microsoft's .NET Foundation. Shaun is currently a Technical Director and Enterprise Guildmaster at Cognizant Softvision.

- Twitter: https://twitter.com/sbwalker
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shaunbrucewalker/
- Oqtane Blazor Framework: https://www.oqtane.org/
- Blog: https://www.siliqon.com/

Who is Brad Wilson?

I'm a software developer by trade, which I've been doing full time since 1993. I've lived and worked in many places in the United States, including Michigan (where I grew up), Massachusetts, Colorado, and Washington State where I reside now. I've visited all 50 states, and a dozen countries.

I've worked on some things you may have heard of, like ASP.NET MVC, Enterprise Library, and CodePlex. I've done startups and big companies, and tend to like smaller teams. I currently work at GitHub on internal developer tooling. I've also been involved in open source; I am the primary maintainer of xUnit.net, a unit testing framework for .NET developers (since 2007). I live stream on Twitch usually once a week, working on the next version of xUnit.net.

In my personal life, I am someone who consumes and occasionally produces music (mostly guitar, piano, and singing). I love playing games, especially board games, card games, and video games. I spend my outdoor time split between being on the water in a kayak or a raft, and on the road on my motorcycle.

- Brad Wilson's Blog: https://bradwilson.io/
- xUnit: https://github.com/xunit/xunit

In this new series, I'll be interviewing Open Source Maintainers and talk about what open source means to them and why they do it. This episode:

Jimmy Bogard of AutoMapper

Jimmy is a member of the ASPInsiders group, the C# Insiders group, and has received the "Microsoft Most Valuable Professional" (MVP) award every year since 2009. Jimmy is also the creator and maintainer of the popular OSS libraries AutoMapper and MediatR. Jimmy is an independent consultant, and the chief architect at Headspring, a custom software consultancy based in Austin, TX.

- Twitter: @jbogard
- LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/jimmybogard
- Blog: jimmybogard.com
- Company: headspring.com (company)