Hi, my name is Tim Groeneveld. I am an open source developer located in Sydney, Australia.
Sydney Opera House, viewed from Circular Quay in Sydney, Australia. Image taken by Dan Breckwoldt
My first application, NetPets, was written when I was still in primary school. It was an awesome website, essentially modled on another ‘virtual pet’ site with a similar name. Why a virtual pet site? I wanted to create a website so I could learn to program, but was short of ideas. At the time, I was hooked on this other site, so my Father suggested it might be a good start.
One of my largest open source software projects, ShareSource is a site where people can collaboratively develop software projects. It is in active development, and I care for it deeply. The first piece of code was written for it around January 2007, while I was in school holidays for projects by a friend of mine, Jordan Bracco and I were looking for a place to host code for a new project we were starting. We could not find any site that provided the features we wanted, so I said that I would start on my own, which would be fast (load time and page generation time) and easy to use.
In the past, I worked at Digital Pacific as a System Engineer. I helped them achieve some awesome milestones, definitely not a bad effort for a lone developer.
In my spare time, I hack on MyBanco, an open source project to create core banking software. I also lead the WiPhy project, which aims to give free wireless Internet access to all.
Random facts about me
- I live in Sydney, Australia.
- I love almost all genres of music, especially when it’s true music, and not generated by the sausage factory. We will add hardcore rock as an exception.
- I’ve been interested in computers since I was 5, and my Dad was playing around with getting two machines (that had Windows 95 installed on them). It was a joyous moment when he and I could watch the same movie from the Windows 95 CD on the two computer screens.
Dan Roodt
Dear Tim,
We are interested in starting a community bank. Would you say your software MyBanco with some tweaks is already operational enough to be used for such a purpose?
Also, how easy is it to localize in another language for our customers who are nog English?
Regards,
Dan Roodt
Tom B.
Tim, I read with interest your post regarding opennic and alternate TLD’s. I have an idea / question I wanted to ask you but cannot find your contact info.
Rod
I tried to install myBanco without any luck whatsoever!
I THINK it installed just fine, but there are (seems to be) somethin(s) missing,
like Admin page is blank, login goes to 404 error (there is no /login/), etc.
Anyway to contact someone/speak to someone about what is (might) be wrong?
Anisur Rehman
Hi,
do you have any vmware image for mybanco software on Windows or Linux platform.
Thanks
Anis
0968-99826412
certified Enterprise IT Architect and Unix Administrator in Core Banking Domain.
I am also reachable at
Bank Muscat,
unix Admin
rehman@bankmuscat.com
0968-99826412
Muscat, Oman