Link Digital’s Lead Developer Officially Joins CKAN Technical Team

We are delighted to announce that our Lead Python/CKAN Developer Sergey Motornyuk has officially joined the CKAN Technical Team.

Sergey’s CKAN journey started in 2014 when he joined Link Digital’s development team based in Ukraine. Since that time, Sergey has contributed over 590 commits to CKAN Сore, CKAN Extensions and various DataShades repositories on GitHub.

What does CKAN Technical Team do?
The technical team  are  the “official  committers ” for the CKAN software. The team has a number of responsibilities such as technical documentation, releases, QA, managing code contributions,  organising  Dev meetups and  many  more.

What does this change mean to Link Digital?
Most of Link Digital’s clients are Government agencies willing to share their data with the community through the use of open source software, specifically, CKAN. 
CKAN Technical Team membership, as well as a CKAN Association Steering group membership, is a great opportunity for Link Digital to facilitate the development of the CKAN project whilst taking into consideration the needs and interests of our customers.
To learn more about CKAN Technical Team visit: https://ckan.org/about/technical-team

Steven De Costa

Steven has worked in the internet and multimedia industry since 1997, founding Link Digital in 2001. As the executive director at Link Digital, his focus is on the strategy and execution of complex digital projects over the long term, including the development of community and market opportunities surrounding the public cloud and open data. He is a co-steward of the CKAN open source project, a former national organiser of GovHack.org, and in 2018 stepped down from his position as Secretary and Treasurer for the Board of Open Knowledge Australia. A strong communicator, Steven holds a Bachelor of Economics from the Australian National University and is a long-standing contributor within open data and open knowledge initiatives, regularly co-organising and presenting at related events.

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