Joe Brockmeier
Editor, Linux Distributions at LWN.net
Weaverville, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolJoe Brockmeier is an experienced technology editor and open source community strategist with over two decades in storytelling, product marketing, and audience development. Currently covering Linux distributions for LWN.net, he blends deep editorial craft with hands-on community building and developer relations leadership at companies like Red Hat, Intel, and Percona. Joe has driven measurable results—doubling traffic for Red Hat’s blog—and led cross-functional teams to launch and nurture projects such as Project Atomic and Apache CloudStack, where he contributed documentation improvements. Comfortable translating complex technical topics for diverse audiences, he pairs editorial rigor with programmatic approaches to community metrics (e.g., CHAOSS dashboards). Based in Weaverville, NC, he brings a rare mix of journalism roots, product marketing savvy, and operational experience running distributed community teams.
13 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
AA Communications, AA Communications at East Central CollegeBA English communications/journalism, BA English communications/journalism at Truman State University
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Github Skills (4)
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Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
apache/cloudstack
Aug 2012 - Apr 2013
Apache CloudStack is an opensource Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing platform
Role in this project:
Technical Writer & Documentation Specialist
Technical Writer & Documentation SpecialistContributions:36 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Joe primarily contributed to documentation updates and revisions within the Apache CloudStack repository. Their commits involved cleaning up formatting inconsistencies, removing outdated release notes, and revising installation guides. The user also addressed typos and updated references to ensure the accuracy and clarity of the documentation, demonstrating a focus on improving the overall user experience through comprehensive and up-to-date guides.
pythonapache-cloudstackxcp-nghostingcloud-computing
jzb/band-names
Oct 2015 - Nov 2022
Contributions:3 pushes in 7 years 2 months
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