Application development
Dave DK – External Borders [LER002]
Dave Rankin is a former freelancer for Lifewire specializing in open source software. Rankin is co-owner of a digital creative agency, Field15, Inc. He has been a professional software developer since 1998, writing applications for desktop, web, and mobile devices.
Dave has worked on everything from websites for small organizations and non-profits to web and desktop-based applications for enterprises and the federal government. He has extensive experience delivering technical solutions using many open source tools. Dave creates and distributes his own open source software, along with electronic music that he creates and releases under Creative Commons licenses.
He is passionate about free and open source software, not only as a technology, but also as a philosophy, legal force and development model.
