User:John Vandenberg

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John Vandenberg, president of Wikimedia Australia in the 2010-2011 committee.

John Vandenberg, President

John Vandenberg currently works in an administrative capacity in the Research Services Directorate at the University of New England. He has a Graduate Diploma from the Queensland University of Technology, and has worked as a network and software engineer as well as lecturing in IT at TAFE and private colleges.

Prior to becoming involved in Wikimedia, John was an open source developer, providing improvements to projects such as Mozilla, Open Office, Bugzilla and Apache Portable Runtime. In 2006 John shifted focus from open source to open content, becoming an administrator on the English Wikipedia and Wikisource projects in 2007. In 2008 and 2009 he served on the interim and inaugural Wikimedia Australia committee, and in 2009 he also served as Arbitrator on the English Wikipedia.


My main projects are:

I've also written four news bulletins, two relating to Australian topics:

Contact
president-at-wikimedia.org.au
jvandenberg-at-wikimedia.org.au
jayvdb-at-gmail.com
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