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Just van den Broecke

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Amsterdam

Hi, I am Just van den Broecke from The Netherlands. Developing Open Source software for over 20 years. Was very lucky to have my first job (for 11 years) at AT&T Bell Labs/Lucent where I learned so much from the gurus like James O. Coplien -Cope there: from Unix and C/C++ to software design (Design Patterns!), configuration management, code quality and much, much more. Basically, becoming a professional Software Engineer.

From there became an independent under the Just Objects trading name (yes, Object Oriented Design was hot at the time). At first mostly Java guru and software architect, later fully hooked on the (Open Source) geospatial (GIS) domain and in particular Python and JavaScript. Joined the OSGeo.org community since 2006, leading the Dutch OSGeo.nl Foundation, yes in spare time. Need more detail? I give a yearly overview of my software development and OSGeo-community activities in my blog.

So why should you sponsor me? Foremost I try to contribute to in various ways to Open Source geospatial projects that many find useful. My GitHub profile is quite "green", looking at 2021 GitHub contributions:

Contribs 2021

Featured projects are below. Most of this is done, yes, unpaid. In contracts that I take I usually try to bend that any generic components are contributed back to the community. That takes some extra effort. So when you sponsor me, this work can be continued. Let me know which project/feature has your special interest!

@justb4

Even if you contribute a tiny amount I'll be very happy and grateful for getting your encouragement!

Current sponsors 1

@geographika
Past sponsors 1
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Featured work

  1. geopython/pygeoapi

    pygeoapi is a Python server implementation of the OGC API suite of standards. The project emerged as part of the next generation OGC API efforts in 2018 and provides the capability for organization…

    Python 512
  2. justb4/docker-jmeter

    Docker image for Apache JMeter

    Shell 279
  3. nlextract/NLExtract

    Convert (ETL) and visualize free Dutch geo-datasets.

    Scheme 155
  4. geopython/stetl

    Stetl, Streaming ETL, is a lightweight geospatial processing and ETL framework written in Python.

    Python 86
  5. geopython/GeoHealthCheck

    Service Status and QoS Checker for OGC Web Services

    Python 88

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This looks low, but I consider this as your token of appreciation 👍 . You basically buy me a coffee ☕ . That is great, I love coffee (no I don't say "cup of Java")! This could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship 😄 .

$10 a month

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This is 120,- a year. A fair amount. I get many of these small "help" requests I simply don't have time for. With this amount you get my help or small feature implemented.

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Great, for this amount I can get your largish features, that take like 10-20-30 hours to implement. Let's talk!

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This is a hefty amount. You'll be a principal "Patron" 🥇 . With this amount we can get real work done 🧱 . Let's both set out the path and your goals 🥅 !