Hello! That’s a good idea!
My name is Everton, but you can call me Tom. My background is physics, more precisely elementary particle physics (more precisely yet neutrinos - OK, I’ll stop here, since neutrino is a fundamental particle and Iǘ e never believed string theory - they still lack experimental proof!).
Now talking about open spending, I’ve been involved with web tools for collaborative production of knowledge since 2006, when I started working as a web developer on a social networking platform for sharing educational and scientific knowledge. Since then, I began to see, mainly in USA and Europe, open government projects and discovered the importance of open data.
It was how I discovered Open Knowledge (that time, Foundation) and began to get involved as a volunteer in project like Open Spending (that was 2010, I guess). I began also to participate of a community called Transparência Hackers in 2009, where at that time I missed in Brazil not for profit organizations like Sunlight Foundation or MySociety.
In 2011, I was invited to work for Open Knowledge Foundation and since then I didn’t stop to work on open (everything) projects around Open Knowledge in Brazil, which was incorporated about 2 years ago and now we have several projects, including open spending ones.
My collaboration is to give a solid organization in Brazil so that people can run projects like Gastos Abertos (we have a forum here!). And, for sure, to share and learn from this amazing network Open Knowledge International began to build more than 10 years ago!