I'm a freelance software developer and I help run a webdesign and online retailng business with my wife. We live at Hikutaia which is near Paeroa. We use Linux for most of our office stuff (except MYOB) and all of our website stuff.

I'm also currently enrolled as a PhD student in Engineering Science at The University of Auckland where I use Linux for my research on equine hoof biomechanics.

My contributions so far to the Linux / Open Source community are:

Wrote the Ghostscript driver for the Epson stylus color 300 printer.

Co-write the SANE driver for the Microtek Scanmaker 3600 scanner. Don't buy this scanner, the driver works but is not fully functional and is a bit dodgy. This is because we only had limited info about it from Microtek and had to reverse engineer a lot of it.