Gary Ewan Park

I presented a talk entitled: "Control your GitHub Releases with GitVersion and GitReleaseManager" at the Hacktoberfest Scotland event. Information on this talk can be found here: https://github.com/gep13-talks/GitHubReleaseDemos

I am one of the core contributors to the Cake project: https://github.com/cake-build/cake In 2020 we have shipped 8 releases of Cake, and we are currently getting ready to ship the 1.0.0 release. Across it different platforms, Cake has almost 10 million downloads: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Cake/ https://www.nuget.org/packages/Cake.Tool/ https://chocolatey.org/packages/cake.portable

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. This project is getting close to 1 million downloads: https://chocolatey.org/packages/ChocolateyGUI

On Stack Overflow I try to answer all questions related to Cake, Chocolatey and GitVersion, which are some of the projects that I work on. In 2020, I am currently within the top 2% of users on the site (obviously not as high as Jon Skeet :-) )

Every Monday evening (in the UK) I stream live on Twitch. The topic depends on what I am currently working on, but I have covered things like getting started creating a Cake Addin, showcasing other folks OSS work, and most recently digging into using Codespaces.

I am the maintainer of the Cake.Recipe project, which is an opinionated set of build scripts for Cake. 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 26 million times: 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

Once released, all the Open Source work that I do is made into release videos, which are published to my YouTube channel. In addition, all live streams are made available there for playback. I also have some series of videos on getting started with Chocolatey, as well as some general tutorial videos.

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. Across it's different versions, this application has been downloaded over 200000 times. https://www.nuget.org/packages/gitreleasemanager/ https://www.nuget.org/packages/GitReleaseManager.Tool/ https://chocolatey.org/packages/gitreleasemanager.portable

In 2017, I was awarded a Microsoft MVP Award in Developer Technoloiges.

I am the founding member of the Aberdeen Developers .Net User Group. We haven't had any meetings during the COVID pandemic, but we do have plans to get started again once things get back to normal.