I have worked as an open source advocate and community marketing and partnerships leader for some of the largest projects, including Node.js, FreeBSD, and Hyperledger. I am currently volunteering with the Open Regulatory Compliance Security Attestation project with the Eclipse Foundation.
I work at NetActuate as the Director of Parnerships and Open Source, where I coordinate our support for internet-critical projects including NTP Pool, CPAN, and FreeBSD. Previously, I worked at the FreeBSD Foundation, The Linux Foundation, and multiple mostly open source startups.
To contact me:
- Email: gtewallace@gmail.com
- Signal: gtew.57
- LinkedIn: @gtewallace
- Played leading role in the Node.js Community Surveys from 2016-2018. These surveys help gather insights on the community's needs and preferences.
- Also led the Marketing Committee and worked closely with community leaders, events, and PR teams.
- Helped organize and promote dozens of Node.js events.
- Launched Enterprise Conversations series on YouTube which drove fully earned coverage by Forrester Research.
- Contributed to the Hyperledger Architecture Whitepaper, which outlines the proposed architecture for blockchain technologies.
- Led Marketing Committee, played key role in multi-level project branding, ran first-ever open source Community SWOT analysis in Singapore at 2017 Member Summit.
- Played lead role in the FreeBSD Community Surveys 2024. These surveys are essential for assessing the community’s growth and direction.
- Involved in the FreeBSD Community SWOT Analysis 2023, which uncovered the development community's views on the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats facing the FreeBSD community.
- Increased corporate donations by 20%, increased number of corporate donors by 17%, secured two major grants/investments to increased overall income by 50%
- Initiated FreeBSD Enterprise Working Group to identify and remove barriers to greater use of FreeBSD in the enterprise.
- EuroBSDCon 2025, Update on FreeBSD Enterprise WG
- All Things Open 2025, Open Source-Powered And Developer-First AI Stack
- FOSDEM 2026, Could Compliance Costs Sustain FOSS?

