Community and volunteering

I am and have been involved in the following communities and volunteering efforts.

Shut up and write© Berlin

Lead organiser, 2020 to present

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.

The Berlin chapter has the largest membership base and meets the most regularly out of all the global chapters.

BIRCon

Co-organiser, 2024 to present

Myself and four others organised Berlin’s first international roleplaying convention and tickets sold out in less than a week.

Open music school

Drum tutor, 2023 to present

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.

Write the Docs

Co-organiser, 2018 to 2021

  • I ran the Write the Docs meetup in Berlin for technical writers.
  • I was on the organising committee for the 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 EU, and 2019 Australian Write the Docs conferences.
  • I co-organised the “Tool the Docs” devroom at FOSDEM in 2018, 2019, 2021, and 2024.

Open source

I have always been active in open source communities, including regular contributions to: Drupal, CiviCRM, Atom, Visual Studio Code, Webpack, Kubernetes, Obsidian, and Vale.

See my GitHub profile for more.