Daniel Pocock
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| Daniel Pocock | |
|---|---|
 Debconf17-daniel-pocock.png Daniel Pocock, DebConf17, Montreal (2017) | |
| Born | Melbourne, Australia |
| 🏳️ Nationality | Ireland, Australia |
| 🏫 Education | B.CompSc (Melbourne), MicroMasters in Data, Economics and Development Policy (MIT) |
| 🎓 Alma mater | University of Melbourne |
| 💼 Occupation | Director |
| 👔 Employer | Software Freedom Institute |
| Known for | Software Freedom Institute, Free Software advocacy |
| 🌐 Website | danielpocock |
| Twitter= | |
Daniel Pocock is an Irish Australian software engineer who is involved in the development and promotion of Free Software. He was a contributor to the book Monitoring with Ganglia..[1]. He has published numerous packages in the Debian[2] and Fedora[3] distributions of Linux. Pocock is one of the leading developers of the reSIProcate C++ SIP stack[4] and his packaging activity includes related C++ works such as the ASIO header library.
Education[edit]
Pocock began high school at Catholic College Bendigo. In 1993 he completed the amateur radio exam and acquired the callsign VK3TQR. His callsign is logged in the NASA SAREX mission STS-59[5]. Pocock was subsequently one of 20 high school students selected by the Royal Australian Air Force for the Spring Engineering School at the Australian Defence Force Academy in Canberra[6]. Pocock completed his final year at Xavier College in Melbourne where he participated in the debating team, rowing, cross country and athletics[7]. Pocock earned a degree Bachelor of Computer Science from University of Melbourne in 2002. He completed the MicroMasters in Data, Economics and Development Policy from MITx in 2020.
Community service[edit]
In 1997, Pocock began applying his Linux skills as a volunteer system administrator for the Virtual Moreland Community Network in the region of Moreland in the northern suburbs of Melbourne. Pocock's project successfully hosted web sites for many early social causes, including the campaign to defend the Wik decision of 1996. Pocock immediately attracted support from Australia's opposition leader, Kim Beazley and one of Australia's first doxing attacks from the far right media[8]. As a consequence of this work, Pocock was nominated for the web page competition in the Loud Festival, a prominent national event organized by the Australia Council[9] Pocock began developing a Content Management System in PHP and used it to assist hundreds of local groups[10] to go online in the early days of the Internet. He offered the same solution as open source for the community users and business clients. In 1998, Pocock, as an undergraduate and Peter Eckersley as a postgraduate were selected to represent the interests of the Melbourne University Student Union on the University of Melbourne oversight committees for information technology. During 1999, he was elected to the post of Environment Officer in the Victorian branch of the National Union of Students (Australia)[11]. When the Australian woman Schapelle Corby was arrested in Bali in 2005, Mr Pocock created the site Don't Shoot Schapelle (now defunct) opposing the death penalty [12]. In 2017, the Fellowship community associated with the Free Software Foundation Europe elected Pocock as the Fellowship representative. [13]. November 2018, Pocock attended the UN Forum on Business and Human Rights[14]. In the session on Safeguarding Human Rights Defenders, Pocock made a brief intervention about the risks of trusting companies like Facebook and Twitter with data about friends that may eventually fall into the wrong hands.[15]. Shortly after attending the forum, on 7 January 2019, Pocock published a blog about the membership status and membership rights of volunteers contributing to free software projects[16]. The same day, Pocock's blog was removed from the Planet Mozilla blog syndication service, no explanation was given at that time[17] In 2020, Pocock published[18] a number of emails from the debian-private mailing list revealing why he felt the claims against Jacob Appelbaum[19] were falsified.
Since 2019 Pocock participated in a number of attacks on multiple free software communities, including FSFE, Fedora and Debian. He has set up multiple websites where he anonymously doxxed and attacked community members.[20] The ownership of one of the websites, debian.community, where attacks on Debian members were published, was disputed with WIPO and Pocock lost the case on 19 July 2022, with the domain pending transfer to Debian.[21] Red Hat had made a similar attempt to take control of WeMakeFedora.org earlier same year, but that attempt failed.[22]
Career[edit]
Pocock founded his first consultancy business, SkySoft Pty Ltd as a student in 1997. His clients included Work Solutions Group, a winner of the Telstra Business Awards and his content management system hosted the first web sites of several leading political figures including Lynne Kosky[23] and Lindsay Tanner[24]. He eventually dropped support for the content management system as Drupal and Wordpress became the dominant tools in that space.
After graduating, Pocock moved to Europe where he has worked for Barclays Capital in Canary Wharf, Thomson Reuters in Paris and UBS in Zurich[25].
Pocock founded the Software Freedom Institute in 2021[26].
Codes of Conduct phenomena[edit]
In 2020, Pocock argued that the Outreachy program, where he has several years of experience as a mentor, was effectively paying women not to be too outspoken in the open source world.[27].
In 2021, David Arroyo Menéndez, a researcher from Universidad Rey Juan Carlos and author of the Damegender software posted statistics about diversity on the debian-women mailing list. Steve McIntyre, a former Debian Project Leader, sent a public reply threatening to censor Arroyo Menéndez if he published any more statistics[28]. In defiance, Pocock published a blog suggesting that the statistics could be analyzed using a Regression discontinuity design to see if the rate at which women joined Debian was increasing or decreasing after the Code of Conduct was introduced. Pocock's initial summary of the data showed that fewer women were actually joining Debian after the Code of Conduct and Outreachy mentoring programs were introduced[29].
In comments reported by The Register, Pocock explained that the Code of Conduct phenomena in open source organizations was a form of kangaroo court being used to deter and deflect questions about accountability[30].
On 21 March 2022 Pocock published an open letter asking the Association for Computing Machinery and other professional bodies to consider whether the Codes of Conduct in the open source software workplace are effectively impersonating the Code of Ethics of a professional body[31].
Toastmasters[edit]
Pocock participates in the Toastmasters International organization. Upon finding there were no active clubs in Kosovo, Pocock took the initiative to establish a club at the Innovation Center Kosovo[32]
Red Hat, Inc and Fedora[edit]
In March 2021, Pocock wrote about his concerns[33] at the risk of modern slavery in the open source supply chain. The blog post was syndicated on Fedora Planet. In January 2022, Red Hat, an IBM subsidiary since 2019, began proceedings against Pocock and the Software Freedom Institute to prevent them using the domain name WeMakeFedora.org. Red Hat's claim was denied by the panel and Red Hat was cited for harassment and abuse of the administrative procedure[34]
References[edit]
- ↑ Massie, Matt; Li, Bernard; Nicholes, Brad; Vuksan, Vladimir (November 19, 2012). Monitoring with Ganglia. ISBN 9781449329709. Search this book on
- ↑ "Debian Contributors - Daniel Pocock".
- ↑ "Badges for pocock". Fedora badges. Red Hat.
- ↑ "reSIProcate Contributors". Github. Retrieved 2022-04-07.
- ↑ "STS-59 QSL list". SQL.net. 1994-04-14.
- ↑ Hickling, F.J. "Certificate". Australian Defence Force.
- ↑ "Daniel Pocock". Xavnet. Old Xaverian Association. Retrieved 2022-03-18.
- ↑ "Wikmail". News of the Day. Global Web Builders. 1997-11-28. Retrieved 2022-03-18.
- ↑ "Runner-Up Certificate". 1998-01-30. Retrieved 2022-03-18.
- ↑ O'Donnell, Jonathan. "Virtual Moreland Internet Training Courses". Retrieved 2022-03-18.
- ↑ "Election results". Farrago_(magazine) student newspaper. Melbourne University Student Union. 1998-10-01. Retrieved 2022-03-18.
- ↑ "Hackers attack pro-Corby web sites". The Age. Retrieved 2022-03-18.
- ↑ "FSFE Fellowship Elections 2017". Condorcet Internet Voting Service. Cornell University. 2017-04-24. Retrieved 2022-03-18.
- ↑ "UN Forum on Business and Human Rights". United Nations Human Rights Commission. United Nations. 2018-11-27. Retrieved 2022-03-18.
- ↑ "Safeguarding Human Rights Defenders". United Nations WebTV. United Nations. 2018-11-27. Retrieved 2022-03-18.
- ↑ Pocock, Daniel (2019-01-07). "Debian's Human Rights Paradox". Daniel Pocock's Blog. Daniel Pocock. Retrieved 2022-03-22.
- ↑ Hoye, Mike (2019-01-07). "Remove 1 feed". Github. Mozilla. Retrieved 2022-03-18.
- ↑ "Debian Falsified Harassment Claims in Appelbaum Expulsion". Daniel Pocock's Blog. Daniel Pocock. 2020-08-26. Retrieved 2022-03-18.
- ↑ "Debian Falsified Harassment Claims in Appelbaum Expulsion". Soylent News. Retrieved 2022-03-18.
- ↑ Jonathan Corbet. "Handling attacks on a community". LWN.net.
- ↑ Jonathan Corbet. "Debian.community domain name seized". LWN.net.
- ↑ {{cite web |url = https://lwn.net/Articles/887931/ |publisher = LWN.net |title = Red Hat fails to take WeMakeFedora.org |author = Jonathan Corbet
- ↑ Kosky, Lynne. "Lynne Kosky home page (archive.org)". Archived from the original on December 27, 2002.
- ↑ Tanner, Lindsay. "Home page (archive.org snapshot)". Archived from the original on May 27, 2002. Retrieved 2022-03-18.
- ↑ "Speaker profile: Daniel Pocock". FOSDEM. FOSDEM. Retrieved 2022-03-22.
- ↑ "Nouvelles entrées Software Freedom Institute SA, Lausanne". SHAB. SHAB. 2021-04-29. Retrieved 2022-03-17.
- ↑ "Sincere Thoughts about Outreachy". Techrights. 2022-11-29. Retrieved 2022-03-18.
- ↑ McIntyre, Steve (2021-01-11). "Please stop (was Re: Counting males and females in Debian)". Debian. Retrieved 2022-03-24.
- ↑ Larabel, Michael (2021-02-13). "Data Suggests CoC + Outreachy Hasn't Helped Increase Female Participation In Debian". Phoronix. Michael Larabel. Retrieved 2022-03-24.
- ↑ Claburn, Thomas (2022-03-16). "Red Hat effort to shut down WeMakeFedora.org deemed harassment". The Register. Retrieved 2022-03-18.
- ↑ Pocock, Daniel (2022-03-21). "Open letter to the ACM regarding Codes of Conduct impersonating the Code of Ethics". Daniel Pocock's Blog. Daniel Pocock. Retrieved 2022-03-22.
- ↑ "Toastmasters Prishtina". Youtube. KTV Kohavision. Retrieved 2022-03-18.
- ↑ Pocock, Daniel. "When I discovered people trafficking in open source software". Retrieved 2022-03-17.
- ↑ "DECISION, Red Hat, Inc. v. Software Freedom Institute SA". 2022-03-14. Retrieved 2022-03-17.
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