I am a keen photographer, sailor, diver, teacher, designer, a committer on Apache Cocoon and was recently elected a Member of the Apache Software Foundation. I am a freelance software developer who specialises in Open Source, consulting for companies all over the world.

Why FiveOne? It's my birthday, 5th January. All usable versions of my name were used up .....

A short apocryphal auto-biography

I was born in Oxfordshire in the UK in 1959, to Norbert Quinn and Felicity Gubbins. My father was Irish-American, the family having emigrated there in the famine. I heard my mother was Cornish. I have nine brothers and sisters and they are all great craic. We have three mothers and two fathers between us.

When I was a kid, we lived in a field ... for a while, (OK Pat?).

I now live in Brixton, South London.