Hello There,

First off, thank you for stopping by and taking an interest in checking out and supporting my profile!

As you can probably tell, I find myself spending quite a bit of my personal time on open source contributions. If you find my projects helpful in your day to day developer's life, please consider contributing back!

Bit of History

Being busy with Open Source since the 90s building Open Source CD-ROMs for the Belgian Unix Users Group.
However, my first open source project was "Make CD-ROM Recovery (mkCDrec)" released in 2000, which lead to a complete rewrite in Relax-and-Recover (ReaR) together with my German friend Schlomo Schapiro in 2006. ReaR took a while to take off and lots of energy and time was put into it to become what it is today (most likely the best DR tool for Linux). As ReaR is 100% open source and we did all coding and testing on 'free' time the financial return was close to nil. However, we did not do it for the fame (who knows me?) or the money (could have richer doing paid work), but because I believe in the power of open source. As I use open source on daily basis (for which I also did not have to pay) why should we be selfish?
In the course of the year we wrote several other open source tools which are very useful for certain communities, e.g. ReaR-automated-testing, adhocr, upgrade-ux, horcm-utils, etc. Furthermore, we also assisted in other open source tools like cfg2html.

Why sponsoring?

We are working at 80% these days so we have a least one day per week we can work on open source related projects, including our own projects or towards the community preparing presentations for conferences like FOSDEM, LOADays, DevOps alike conferences.
It would be nice to get some recognition for all the work we did in the past or still do on current projects:

• Relax-and-Recover - coding, giving lots of 'free' support to the user community, project management, presentations and documentation
• Relax-and-Recover User Guide Documentation - Attempt to continously improve the ReaR User Guide with plenty of examples.
• Relax-and-Recover Automated Testing - started as service for customer with a support contract with ReaR, but that did not return the effort we have put into it. The code quality improved a lot thanks to this side project of ReaR, but the return was disappointing. We decided to make it independent of any support contract.
• Upgrade-UX - a slick project to assist in upgrading/patching your Unix/Linux system. It was initially written for a customer to assist in patching HP-UX (and they still use it today), but we extended it for Linux. The benefits are the preview possibilities and logging.

Should you choose to contribute to these projects, your efforts will go a long way in helping me maintain and improve these creations as well as budgeting for swags and events.

Thank you all for your kindness and support!