David M. "Novalis" Turner
626 Vanderbilt Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11238
(617)-441-0668
novalis@novalis.org
Skills:
- Recently used programming languages: Ruby, Java, Python, PHP, JavaScript, SQL, C++, Perl.
- Less recently used languages: C, Intel assembly language (including SIMD instructions), JLex and CUP (Lex and YACC for Java), Visual Basic and QBasic, Pascal.
- Technologies: Ruby on Rails, Django, Wordpress, Pylons, SQLAlchemy, Greasemonkey, GNU/Linux (Ubuntu, Debian, RedHat), Qt and PyQt, Gtk, CGI, PostgreSQL, MySQL, HTML, Parse::RecDescent, X11, AWT
- Software licensing: Code audits, derivative works, GPL and LGPL
application.
- Other skills: Technical writing and editing, image manipulation
with GIMP, photography, lecturing and teaching.
Employment:
OpenPlans (formerly The Open Planning Project) New York, NY September, 2006 - present
Software Engineer:
Free Software Foundation Boston, MA November, 2001 - September 2006
Free Software Licensing Guru and GPL Compliance Engineer:
- Develop licensing strategy
- Lecture about Free Software licensing
- Answer Free Software licensing questions
- Investigate Free Software licensing violations
- Write software to check copyright assignments
- Write new versions of GNU GPL and LGPL
i-site, inc Philadelphia, PA July, 2000 - November 2001
Programmer:
- Designed and program web applications in Perl.
- Administered servers running Red Hat Linux.
- Built dynamic web pages from designs.
Free Software Work:
- Converted NYC bus schedules to GTFS
- SQLObject committer
- Inkscape committer
- Answered licensing questions on behalf of the Free Software Foundation.
- Lectured about Free Software in seven countries.
- Contributed sprite compression code to Worldforge.
- Contributed modules to the Art Of Illusion 3d modeller and renderer.
- Wrote several WindowMaker Dock applets.
- Contributed patches and bug reports to numerous projects, including Wordpress, Gentoo, Dreamwidth, Django, and more.
Education:
- Reed College, Portland, OR, Fall 1998 - Spring 2000
- Friends Select School, Philadelphia, PA, 1998
Hobbies:
Electronics, building puzzles, cooking, photography, Scrabble, glassblowing
Press:
- Featured in Tribes, by Seth Godin
- Cameo in The Wolves of Brooklyn, by Catherynne M. Valente