In 1999 Joe started writing about Linux as a freelancer. That experience eventually morphed into a career focused on writing about Linux and open source as a technology journalist, more or less full time. In 2005, Joe joined Linux.com as editorial director, and in 2007 Joe was with “Linux Magazine” as editor in chief.

In the February of 2008, Joe started with Novell as the community manager for openSUSE. You can read more about Joe at <http://zonker.opensuse.org/about/>