Shaun Mccance
Fedora Community Architect at GNOME
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShaun Mccance is a community-focused technologist with 17 years of experience building open source ecosystems, developer documentation, and events, currently serving as CentOS Community Manager at Red Hat. He combines hands-on documentation and tooling skills with leadership of projects and nonprofits—longtime contributor and former president/director/treasurer roles at the GNOME Foundation underscore his governance chops. Shaun has a track record of turning documentation into community glue, from writing conference materials for Write the Docs to shaping OpenStack and GNOME developer docs. He blends a mathematician’s precision (BS in Mathematics) with practical software and publishing experience dating back to Wolfram Research. Based in Cincinnati, he also brings grassroots community-building experience outside tech, from organizing conferences to helping run a cooperative market. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex projects into accessible workflows that scale community participation.
18 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BS Mathematics, BS Mathematics at Purdue University Northwest
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Github Skills (17)
restructuredtext10
sphinx10
rs10
documentation10
content-management-system9
content-management9
github8
xml6
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xpath6
nodes6
website-design6
gnome6
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Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
writethedocs/www
Apr 2018 - Aug 2018
The main website for Write the Docs.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:38 commits, 21 PRs, 6 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Shaun primarily contributed to the documentation of the Write the Docs website, particularly for the Cincinnati 2018 conference. Their work involved adding and updating content related to the venue, schedule, speakers, unconference, underground tour, and other conference-related information. The user also fixed typos, corrected ticket links, and added a blog post regarding writing day.
sphinx-docsphinx
itstool/itstool.org
Jun 2015 - Apr 2022
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 10 months
web-site
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