Hugh Mcguire
Co-Founder at Westmount Rugby Club
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolHugh Mcguire is a serial founder and technology leader with 12+ years building open publishing infrastructure and community-driven projects from Montreal. He co-founded Pressbooks and LibriVox and now leads Bloomsco, combining product vision with hands-on full-stack work—especially front-end and styling contributions to the widely used Pressbooks open-source platform. His career blends publishing, audio, and open education: Rebus Foundation and iambik audio reflect a sustained commitment to open content and accessible learning. Hugh’s background in mathematics, engineering and philosophy gives him a pragmatic yet thoughtful approach to complex, high-stakes training and content workflows. He’s as comfortable shipping CSS and theme fixes across ebook formats as he is shaping strategy for institutional OER programs. An avid builder of volunteer-driven projects, he repeatedly turns community energy into scalable, impactful tools.
12 years of coding experience
BSc. Mathematics & Engineering, BSc. Mathematics & Engineering at Queen's University
French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (7)
css10
epub10
publish9
front-end-development8
kindlegen6
ibooks6
calibre6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
pressbooks/pressbooks
Jul 2013 - Apr 2017
Open publishing. Open web. Open source.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:118 commits, 3 PRs, 40 pushes in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Hugh primarily focused on updating CSS files for various themes within the Pressbooks repository. Their commits involved modifications to styling, including adding metadata, renaming themes, and incorporating house styles for different export formats (EPUB, PDF, and MOBI). The contributions spanned across different themes, indicating a focus on ensuring consistent styling and functionality across the platform's book formats. The user also made changes to the visual editor, adding new styling options and addressing issues with the ebook theme.
ebookspublishingwebbooksopen-publishingpb-active
hughmcguire/reb.us
Feb 2016 - Jan 2025
Contributions:2 pushes in 9 years 1 month
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