Gary Ewan Park

I have been an active member of the Stack Overflow community, answering questions on topics such as: - Chocolatey - Cake - GitVersion - GitFlow In 2022, I am currently within the top 2% of users on the site, with my reputation score having increased by around 1600 points.

I am one of the core contributors to the Cake project: https://github.com/cake-build/cake In 2022 we have shipped 4 releases of Cake, including a release which included support for .NET 7 on the day that this was released. Across it different platforms, Cake has over 42 million downloads (up from 24 million last year): https://www.nuget.org/packages/Cake/ https://www.nuget.org/packages/Cake.Tool/ https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/cake.portable The Cake .NET Global Tool is currently the second most downloaded .NET Global Tool on NuGet.org: https://www.nuget.org/packages?packagetype=dotnettool&sortby=totalDownloads-desc&q=&prerel=True

I am the primary maintainer of the GitReleaseManager project, which is a tool to help with the creation of release notes for your Open Source projects. In 2022 there was one new releases of GitReleaseManager. Across its different versions, this application has been downloaded almost 325000 times (up from 300000 last year). https://www.nuget.org/packages/gitreleasemanager/ https://www.nuget.org/packages/GitReleaseManager.Tool/ https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/gitreleasemanager.portable

Every Monday (when possible) evening (in the UK) I stream live on Twitch. Since the start of 2022, I have done 15 streams, covering topics like: * Chocolatey * Cake * GitHub Actions * Visual Studio Extensions * Cake.Bakery * Cake Addins * GitReleaseManager My stream currently has 379 followers (up from 348 last year).

My YouTube channel currently has 429 subscribers (up from 331 last year), and I publish recordings of all my Twitch streams there. In addition, I create release videos for the open source projects that I help maintain and host them on the channel. Also, I try to create small instructional videos on how to use Chocolatey, Chocolatey GUI, and other open source projects.

I am the primary maintainer of the Chocolatey GUI project: https://github.com/chocolatey/chocolateygui Which is a GUI wrapper around the Chocolatey Package Manager. In 2022, we completed 3 releases of Chocolatey GUI, and this project now has 1,999,166 downloads (up from just over 1 million last year): https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/ChocolateyGUI

I am the primary maintainer of the Chocolatey project: https://github.com/chocolatey/choco Which is a Package Manager for Windows. In 2022, there were 6 new releases of Chocolatey, which have so far been downloaded over 17 million times (up from 11 million for last year). Chocolatey as a project has been downloaded over 270 million times (up from almost 250 million last year). https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/chocolatey

I am the maintainer of the Cake.Recipe project, which is an opinionated set of build scripts for Cake. In 2022, there were two new releases of Cake.Recipe. This system is used as the primary mechanism for building the Cake Addins that exist within the Cake-Contrib Organisation on GitHub: https://github.com/cake-contrib Collectively, Cake-Contrib Addins have been downloaded over 57 million times (up from 42 million last year): https://www.nuget.org/profiles/cake-contrib While Cake.Recipe isn't used for all of these addins, it is used for the majority of them.