Kevin Bond is a web developer from Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. Kevin started programming when he was 12 years old and has been dreaming in code ever since. Kevin is a Systems Analyst and freelance consultant, developer and system administrator. Kevin is a passionate advocate for open source. He has utilized and contributed to the Symfony PHP framework. He has helped the community identify and fix bugs, contributed to feature enhancements and developed several plugins/bundles. Although Symfony was his first encounter with an open source community he has since come to greatly respect many other open source projects. He provides guidance for the use of open source code.