Dave Clements
Open Source Community Manager at Anaconda, Inc.
Eugene, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDave Clements is an Open Source Community Manager with 16 years of experience building and nurturing developer and scientific communities from universities to industry, currently leading community efforts at Anaconda. He blends hands-on software and front-end skills—evidenced by UI and build tweaks to the Galaxy Project community hub—with strong training and technical writing experience that produced Galaxy training materials and speaker-ready slide decks. Based in Eugene, Oregon, Dave has a long history supporting bioinformatics and research software communities at Johns Hopkins, Emory, and NESCent, making him adept at translating technical needs into accessible documentation and outreach. He balances practical engineering (DBA and software roles dating back to the 1980s) with community strategy, and often contributes subtle but impactful UX and build-process improvements that improve discoverability and usability for scientific users.
16 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Bachelor of Science - BS at Iowa State UniversityMS, MS at University of MinnesotaWestern Michigan University
Github Skills (17)
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material310
material-components10
css10
user-manual10
material-design10
trainings10
html10
lessc10
documentation10
markdown9
front-end-development9
markdown-it9
homescreen8
frontpage8
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
galaxyproject/galaxy-hub
Oct 2016 - Dec 2022
Galaxy Community Hub
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:17 reviews, 2952 commits, 360 PRs in 6 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Dave primarily contributed to the UI and styling aspects of the Galaxy Community Hub. Their commits focused on adjusting and refining the CSS styles, including porting styles from the old wiki, tweaking admin pages, and improving table formatting. Additionally, the user made changes to the build process to handle image and link paths. Finally, they updated various link boxes and headers, primarily related to events and FAQs, to improve navigation and user experience.
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galaxyproject/training-material
Oct 2016 - Oct 2021
A collection of Galaxy-related training material
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:4 reviews, 34 commits, 13 PRs in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Dave primarily focused on modifying and creating training materials related to the Galaxy Project. Their contributions centered on updating slide decks, including formatting changes (tabs to spaces), adding speaker notes, and creating new content such as an "Options for using Galaxy" presentation. They also corrected a broken link in the documentation. The user's work directly supports the training and educational resources for the Galaxy platform.
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