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Open source experience for businesses and communities.

FOSS Project Branding

As V.P. Brand Management for the ASF, I implemented the effective open source branding policy used by 200+ Apache project communities.

Community Mentoring

With experience mentoring both individuals and project communities, I can help you and your team navigate the open source contribution process.

Business Sense

Reducing risk by helping your business understand the branding, legal, and long-term community aspects to the technology you rely on.

Portfolio

Select examples of Shane's past work.

Consulting

Open Source Consulting

Branding

Trademark Policies

FOSS Speaker

Open Source Conferences

About

Shane's open source history

  • November 1999

    Apache committer at the start of the ASF

    Committer and PMC member on the Apache Xalan project, one of the first projects created after the incorporation of the ASF in June 1999.

  • 2002-2008

    ApacheCon organizing committee

    After volunteering just once for the "Concom" committee, I organized ApacheCon conferences, and served as conference lead for ApacheCon US 2008 in New Orleans.

  • 2009-Today

    Vice Chairman / Director / VP, Brand

    After being elected to the Board of Directors in 2009, I led the reorganization of the ASF's public relations committee into individual, delegated roles with clear responsibilities; I'm now in my second term as Vice Chairman of the Board.

  • 2017

    The new beginning

    With extensive experience with technology, communities, branding, and conference speaking, it's time to start the next step: Punderthings Consulting: new ways to engage in open source!

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Punderthings Leadership

Trusted and proven FOSS expertise.

Shane Curcuru

Founder

Tokaji

Troublemaker

Pálinka

Peacemaker

I've been working with Apache projects for over 20 years; now I'd like to help your organization with open source! Email me at shane@punderthings.com