“If there is anything like a ‘typical’ member of the free/open
source community, that template is probably nothing like D. Michael
McIntyre. By profession a truck driver, McIntyre holds a bachelor’s
degree in Foreign Languages, and he’s used his facility with words
to document the popular Rosegarden project. He’s since gone on to
do whatever he sees that needs to be done on the project, and has
become an integral part of the Rosegarden team.“We asked McIntyre how he first became involved with Linux and
free/open source software…”