the homepage of Lucas Gonze

Lucas Gonze at Ala Moana beach park in Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii. I am a software developer at Yahoo!, where I landed after it bought my playlist-sharing site Webjay. In the past I have worked on Unix office automation software, e-commerce sites, web servers, peer to peer applications, and web services. During the bubble I ran a web shop that morphed into a peer-to-peer startup that morphed into a dot-bomb. After that I made a living as a consultant, notably on web communities.

I live in an apartment full of dogs, computers and musical instruments in the Venice area of Los Angeles, in Southern California.

I have spent my career in the world of free and open source software developers, where I focus on projects related to music libre in general and playlists in particular. My work on music libre includes Webjay, the XSPF playlist format, and a survey of playlist formats. I am a longtime contributor to the Creative Commons metadata group, where I helped craft the MP3, OGG, and SMIL license formats. I co-created CC Mixter. Projects I have made driveby contributions to include CDR, JDOM, Mozilla, the Java FAQ, Freemarker, Mckoi, PoolMan, ANN, and MusicBrainz. I have also written a number of unix utilities such as m3udo and stats.

Some other things I have created include:

CreativeCommons SMIL Module. An informational note on applying Creative Commons RDF to SMIL.
A Protocol for HTTP Notifications. An event notification protocol built on HTTP and adhering to the REST architectural style.
A weblog and a glossary on peer-to-peer and web services at OpenP2P.com.
The [Decentralization] mailing list, which I founded. The [Decentralization] list was arguably responsible for the spread of the term "decentralization" to describe P2P, so I take pride when I hear senators and journalists repeat it.

I have never written a manifesto, but you can learn more about my thinking on internet music via an interview with me by Richard MacManus of ReadWriteWeb and another interview, this one by David Battino of O'Reilly Digital Media.

Contact

Get Webjay help in the forums at Webjay.
Send an authenticated message through MyLID.net (without revealing your e-mail address).
Leave a voice message in the comfort of your browser, without picking up the phone or using VoIP. (Courtesy of Odeo).

Digital identities

Webjay: http://webjay.org/by/lucas_gonze
Internet Archive / archive.org: http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=creator:%22Lucas%20Gonze%22
Myspace: http://myspace.com/lucas_gonze
OpenID URL, LID URL, and Yadis URL: http://gonze.com/about
FOAF: http://gonze.com/foaf.rdf
Yahoo! 360: http://360.yahoo.com/lucas_gonze
Weblog: http://gonze.com/weblog
hCard: Lucas Gonze
Venice, CA

Send email (BUT NOT WEBJAY HELP REQUESTS) to lucas@gonze.com.