Who am I
My name is Justin W. Flory. I am an open source contributor and Free Software advocate based in the United States. I hold a Bachelor of Science in Networking & Systems Administration with a double-minor in Free and Open Source Software and Free Culture and Women's and Gender Studies from the Rochester Institute of Technology.
What I do
I participate in free and open source software communities since 2013.
RIT LibreCorps
From August 2018 to April 2020, I was a leading member of the LibreCorps program of the FOSS@MAGIC initiative at the Rochester Institute of Technology.
From 2018-2020, RIT LibreCorps collaborated with the UNICEF Innovation Fund, a pooled funding vehicle to quickly assess, fund and grow open-source solutions that have been developed in new and emerging markets. I provided expertise and mentorship for developing sustainable communities around open source projects for RIT LibreCorps partners like the Innovation Fund. In 2019, I led multiple half-day workshops together with Prof. Stephen Jacobs for UNICEF’s Innovation Fund to introduce over 20 international start-up teams to the Open Source way. You can read more about this work on Opensource.com: LibreCorps mentors humanitarian startups on how to run the open source way.
MagicBox: UNICEF Innovation
From January - May 2018, I was the first, full-time co-op placement to work exclusively on open source community for UNICEF Office of Innovation.
I supported MagicBox, a geospatial data project connecting unrelated datasets into actionable feedback for local governments and municipalities. I improved open source best practices to enable continuous integration, agile development practices, and created a 12 month open source community roadmap. There, I worked together with UNICEF personnel and Red Hat Open Innovations Lab on MagicBox. This was an engagement highlighted by Jim Whitehurst, President of IBM and former Red Hat CEO, during his Red Hat Summit 2018 keynote.
TeleIRC
I participate as a maintainer and project manager of the TeleIRC project. TeleIRC is a Telegram <=> IRC bridge written in Go to bridge chat rooms between any IRC channel and Telegram group. Read through the progress reports on my blog.
Fedora Project
I am a contributor to the Fedora Project since August 2015. Currently, I focus on community management. I specifically focus my time in these places:
- Badges: Volunteer sysadmin (August 2016 - present)
- Diversity and Inclusion Team: Founding member (August 2016 - present)
- Packager:
brightlight,mpris-scrobbler,playerctl,zork,protonvpn-cli(August 2017 - present)
In the past, I served in these positions:
- Ambassadors: North America (December 2016 – December 2018)
- Community Blog: Editor-in-chief (October 2015 – May 2019)
- Community Operations: Founding member (August 2015 – May 2019)
- Fedora Council: Elected member (Fedora 26)
- Fedora Happiness Packets: Outreachy 2019 mentor, project manager (March 2019 – August 2019)
- Fedora Magazine: Editor-in-chief (Aug. 2016 - Oct. 2017)
- Games S.I.G.: Administrator (2016 – 2018)
- Google Summer of Code 2016: Participating student (May 2016 – August 2016)
- Join S.I.G.: Administrator (2016 – 2018)
- Marketing: Former team lead (2016 – 2018)
- Mindshare Committee: Founding member (Fedora 27 – Fedora 28)
SpigotMC
From April 2014 to October 2016, I was a community moderator and staff member of the SpigotMC project.
There, I handled user reports for a community forum with over 400,000 registered members. I also replied to support emails and directly worked with users to solve problems. I was a co-conspirator for Spigot's event planning for the annual Minecraft convention, MINECON, in London 2015 and Anaheim 2016. This is one of the most unique projects I have worked with, as the Spigot community is a population of hundreds of thousands with an age demographic concentrated between ages 13-25.