whereswaldon

Current Sponsors: 4
Past Sponsors: 8
Total Sponsors: 12
Minimum Sponsorship: $1.00

Open source enthusiast working to improve chat (arbor.chat) and gui programming (gioui.org) for everyone.

Funding Links: https://github.com/sponsors/whereswaldon

Name: Chris Waldon
Location: NC
Company: Freelance
Kind: user
Followers: 121
Following: 28
Total stars: 109
Repositories count: 116
Created at: 2022-11-12T01:58:07.105Z
Updated at: 2024-05-01T10:09:42.055Z
Last synced at: 2024-05-01T10:09:24.138Z

GitHub Sponsors Profile

Hey everyone! I'm Chris, and I hail from central North Carolina in the USA! I spend most of my free time working on {free,libre,open source} software, and I love doing it. Most of my time goes to Gio and to the Arbor Chat Project, though I also contribute to a number of other projects.
Gio provides the painless, cross-platform foundation that GUI development needs. I co-maintain Gio's examples repository, website, and CI systems. I am also the primary maintainer of Gio-x, the experimental or platform-specific extensions to the core libraries. Additionally, I manage the month community calls, office hours, and newsletters.
Arbor is an attempt to make instant messaging clearer, easier, and fairer by restructuring conversation into a tree. You can read all about it on our website. I created the project in 2018, and have been leading its development ever since.
I recently left my full-time salaried job to become a freelance software contractor. This mode of work gives me the flexibility to work on open source more often, and your support enables me to spend more of my time working directly on open source.
My other work includes:

Bug reports and fixes for sourcehut, particularly around source code annotations and artifact hosting
kfreestyle2d, the unofficial userspace Linux driver for the Kinesis Freestyle 2 keyboard