Jim Hall is an open source software developer and advocate. His first contribution to open source was in 1993, with a patch to GNU Emacs. Since then, Jim has authored, contributed to, or maintained dozens of open source projects.

In addition to writing open source software, Jim also works with usability testing in open source software.

Major projects include: FreeDOS and GNOME

Jim Hall presents 3 Events:

• Usability testing in open source software at Seattle GNU/Linux Conference 2018

• Open Source Business Practices at SeaGL 2021

• Linux like it was 50 years ago at SeaGL 2023