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Berlin chapter organiser
Shut Up & Write!
–Heute 6 Jahre 2 Monate
Kunst und Kultur
Shut up and write© is a global community dedicated to letting people find the time to write.
There are dozens of global chapters, and I run the Berlin chapter with several co-organisers.
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Drum Teacher
Give Something Back to Berlin e.V.
–Heute 2 Jahre 11 Monate
Kunst und Kultur
The open music school is part of Give Something Back to Berlin and holds multiple free music classes every week, largely aimed at refugees and those on low incomes. I am one of the volunteer drum teachers, teaching beginners and intermediate students.
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Event Organizer
Write the Docs
–Heute 8 Jahre 1 Monat
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- I ran the Write the Docs meetup in Berlin for technical writers between 2018 and 2021.
- I was on the organising committee for the 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2025 EU and 2019 Australian Write the Docs conferences.
- I co-organised the "Tool the Docs" devroom at FOSDEM in 2018, 2019, 2021, 2024, and 2025.
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The dead among us
Self published
Veröffentlichung anzeigenWhat happens when the living and the previously dead fall in love?
Ten years after a long and brutal war, there is an uneasy peace between the living and the previously dead. Reluctantly reunited families, industries, and governments struggle to keep the world from falling back into bloody chaos.
Fate throws two couples together, and then the unexpected and assumed impossible happens, turning their lives and the world upside down.
“The dead among us” is a…What happens when the living and the previously dead fall in love?
Ten years after a long and brutal war, there is an uneasy peace between the living and the previously dead. Reluctantly reunited families, industries, and governments struggle to keep the world from falling back into bloody chaos.
Fate throws two couples together, and then the unexpected and assumed impossible happens, turning their lives and the world upside down.
“The dead among us” is a post-post-apocalyptic Thriller love story that shows that understanding can conquer history, resentment, and generational divides to create a new world. -
Technical Writing for Software Developers
Packt
Veröffentlichung anzeigenEffective documentation is key to the success of products in remote software development teams, facilitating clear instructions that benefit the entire development team. Technical Writing for Software Developers lays a solid foundation of essential grammar, providing language tips and explaining how precise writing enhances documentation, and walks you through the fundamental types and styles of documentation.
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Jump Start Responsive Web Design, 2nd Edition
Sitepoint
Veröffentlichung anzeigenGone are the days of a static-layout web. We’ll introduce you to the building blocks of responsive design capable of fantastic visuals across various devices. Go deep into grid systems, queries, responsive text, images and video to build websites and apps that respond to user input.
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BIRCON
Berlin's first and only international roleplaying convention. I am one of the organizers. In our first year, we sold out nearly 100 tickets in less than a week, and for the second year, we tripled capacity. The event hosts games, workshops, panels, and more.
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Pandoc for VSCode
Visual Studio Code extension lets you render markdown to pdf, word doc or html with pandoc
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Vale VSCode
The Vale extension for VS Code provides customizable spelling, style, and grammar checking for a variety of markup formats (Markdown, AsciiDoc, reStructuredText, HTML, and DITA).
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Openly Vale style
A Vale linter style that aims to replicate Grammarly in an open-source, privacy-friendly way
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Drupal Melbourne
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I have recently become an active member of the Melbourne Drupal community. I help organise our monthly meetup, where we have seen numbers more than double in the past year. I regularly talk about Drupal to meetups, conferences and businesses, including a session for ConnectingUp on Drupal for Non profits.
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Green Renters Workshop program
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Green Renters workshop program has been running since mid 2009 and in that time we have delivered several hundred sessions covering a variety of diverse topics all over Australia.
The program is by far the most successful and active Green Renters undertakes, often with an average of 2-3 sessions a week.
To get a better idea of what we offer and when, visit the workshops page.
During the life of the project, several workshop sub-programs have been funded by the following…Green Renters workshop program has been running since mid 2009 and in that time we have delivered several hundred sessions covering a variety of diverse topics all over Australia.
The program is by far the most successful and active Green Renters undertakes, often with an average of 2-3 sessions a week.
To get a better idea of what we offer and when, visit the workshops page.
During the life of the project, several workshop sub-programs have been funded by the following organisations: Opportunities for Carlton, Colac Otway shire, City of Frankston, City of Monash, City of Melbourne, City of Yarra.
My role – Initially delivering workshops, more recently, budgeting, setting up a booking and management system, invoicing, promoting and designing presentations.Andere Mitarbeiter:innenProjekt anzeigen -
Melbourne Mobile
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I first became interested in cross platform mobile development tools when working on the app version of the Australian veg food guide. Discovering phone gap and realising it's potential I wanted to be one of the first in Australia to start uncovering and discussing such tools, so created the Melbourne mobile meet up. In our first year we had talks on phonegap, appcelerator titanium, kendo ui, jquery mobile and more. As we start our second year, we have nearly 200 members and have gained two new…
I first became interested in cross platform mobile development tools when working on the app version of the Australian veg food guide. Discovering phone gap and realising it's potential I wanted to be one of the first in Australia to start uncovering and discussing such tools, so created the Melbourne mobile meet up. In our first year we had talks on phonegap, appcelerator titanium, kendo ui, jquery mobile and more. As we start our second year, we have nearly 200 members and have gained two new organisers.
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CiviCRM Community building
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Since discovering this open source CRM tool I have been a passionate advocate, undertaking many paid installations and consultations as well as contributing many hours in a voluntary capacity. I have spoken about CiviCRM at several conferences and meet ups including connectingUp 2012 and drupal downunder. I have contributed several bug reports and extensions, attendeded two civicons in London and San Francisco, started my own Melbourne CiviCRM meetup and was on the organising committee for…
Since discovering this open source CRM tool I have been a passionate advocate, undertaking many paid installations and consultations as well as contributing many hours in a voluntary capacity. I have spoken about CiviCRM at several conferences and meet ups including connectingUp 2012 and drupal downunder. I have contributed several bug reports and extensions, attendeded two civicons in London and San Francisco, started my own Melbourne CiviCRM meetup and was on the organising committee for Australia's first civicon.
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Rooming House expo
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Rooming house residents can be some of the most ignored members of the renter community, in mainstream service provision, not to mention in sustainability education. With the support and involvement of women's housing Inc and a grant from the city of Yarra we ran the first green renting expo for rooming house residents. The program for the day contained several speakers and workshops covering topics from healthy meal planning to container gardening and ethical shopping. The day attracted…
Rooming house residents can be some of the most ignored members of the renter community, in mainstream service provision, not to mention in sustainability education. With the support and involvement of women's housing Inc and a grant from the city of Yarra we ran the first green renting expo for rooming house residents. The program for the day contained several speakers and workshops covering topics from healthy meal planning to container gardening and ethical shopping. The day attracted residents as well as service providers from around the country.
My role - I helped organise and coordinate several of the speakers and sessions on the day, I helped manage the projects budget and created, any of the promotional flyers and posters.
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Hurll Nu-Way
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Hurll Nu-Way are a major equipment supplier to various Australian and New Zealand industries. Their existing website had been in existence for nearly six years and the company felt it was time to create a new, more flexible website to serve their two separate Australian and New Zealand branches as well as to allow for future feature expansion into responsive design and ecommerce features for warranty and extras retail. The site was built in Drupal 7 with Domain Access to handle the different…
Hurll Nu-Way are a major equipment supplier to various Australian and New Zealand industries. Their existing website had been in existence for nearly six years and the company felt it was time to create a new, more flexible website to serve their two separate Australian and New Zealand branches as well as to allow for future feature expansion into responsive design and ecommerce features for warranty and extras retail. The site was built in Drupal 7 with Domain Access to handle the different territory sites and some custom code to handle the businesses peculiar product catalogue.
My role - I was involved in initial scoping discussions with the client, assessing their needs and requirements. I wireframed the project and created a technical specification for our development team. During development I managed task allocation, testing and liaising with the client to inform them when features were ready for testing, talking them through training and handling bug reports to pass back to our team.Andere Mitarbeiter:innenProjekt anzeigen -
University of Melbourne's School of Psychology
Melbourne University's school of psychology were keen to revamp their website from a static HTML site into something that allowed all alumni and staff to create and edit their own content, maintain complex profiles and encourage greater exposure to the work happening in the school. The site was created in Drupal 7 and utilises many modules with some custom code to allow for fairly complex content creation workflow.
My role - I was involved in initial scoping discussions with the client,…Melbourne University's school of psychology were keen to revamp their website from a static HTML site into something that allowed all alumni and staff to create and edit their own content, maintain complex profiles and encourage greater exposure to the work happening in the school. The site was created in Drupal 7 and utilises many modules with some custom code to allow for fairly complex content creation workflow.
My role - I was involved in initial scoping discussions with the client, assessing their needs and requirements. I helped wireframed the project and create a technical specification for our development team. During development I managed task allocation, testing and liaising with the client to inform them when features were ready for testing, talking them through training and handling bug reports to pass back to our team.Andere Mitarbeiter:innen -
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Youthweek 2012
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Projekt anzeigenA yearly competition for Australia's Youth to enter creative works.
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International Student challenge
Green Renters identified a large group of temporary renters who lived in the City of Melbourne who had generally not been targeted for sustainability education. Realising that many international students in the city are looking for social opportunities and that often creating games around education can be a successful model we created a series of challenges for students to participate in and learn about sustainability in the city.
My role - I helped co-create the challenges, managed the…Green Renters identified a large group of temporary renters who lived in the City of Melbourne who had generally not been targeted for sustainability education. Realising that many international students in the city are looking for social opportunities and that often creating games around education can be a successful model we created a series of challenges for students to participate in and learn about sustainability in the city.
My role - I helped co-create the challenges, managed the projects budget (partly funded by the City of Melbourne), created the online tool participants could register for and use to undertaken their challenges and helped deliver some of the workshop sessions.Andere Mitarbeiter:innenProjekt anzeigen -
The Squawk
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Worked with Regional Development Australia – Murray on all aspects of the development of the site, including building a custom made Content Management System to assist with the areas of community newspaper, community groups, jobs and community services.
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Portable Shops / Swappler
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Portable Shops (formerly Swappler) is an ecommerce platform for fashion labels. The platform has a wide variety of features from an online catalogue and shipping handling to layout and design management. It was built primarily in CakePHP.
My Role - I worked as a developer on the initial version of Swappler (Now portable shops).Andere Mitarbeiter:innenProjekt anzeigen -
Our rivers, Our lifeblood
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Projekt anzeigenI created a small WordPress site representing many groups interested in creating a central and focussed campaign for the Murray darling basin water plan. It featured a customised petition plugin that I was invited to talk about at the Melbourne WordPress meetup.
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People & Planet website
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I created a new ecommerce WordPress site for this popular calendar and photo competition in the activist and NGO community.
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The Village agency website
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Projekt anzeigenI created a WordPress site for this digital agency that incorporated strong graphical elements to represent a 'village' of freelancers and consists.
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