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avtobiff |
Pers mother bought him and his brothers a NES video game when they were young with the intention that it was the future. That formed the foundation for a life-long interest in electronics, technology, science, and life.
Being a long-term free software and Debian user, Per started to contribute to Debian a few years ago, working with Debian installer, maintaining packages, giving talks about Debian, and also teaching Debian packaging.
Per is involved with Planka.nu, an organization that works for free public transport. Planka.nu organizes fare dodgers in Stockholm and Gothenburg, paying their members' fines if they should get some. |
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christina.gratorp |
Christina Gratorp is an embedded C hacker and has a great interest in math, physics and feminism. You might have seen her blog Another Cyborg Manifesto, where she writes about life from a personal, but political point of view. Christina was introduced to free software not very long ago, but nowadays you can see her strolling around in a FSFE sweater, promoting the use of FOSS. This is Christinas second FSCONS as a visitor, and her first as a speaker. |
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daniel |
Daniel is a free software and open source hacker since almost twenty years. He's actively contributing to a range of different projects, with curl (http://curl.haxx.se/) being one of the most known ones.
Daniel has been a speaker at two previous years at FSCONS. He was awarded the "Nordic Free Software Award" at FSCONS 2009.
Daniel works as a seasoned expert consultant within Linux, embedded systems and networking. He also tries to do his share of work within the IETF, primarily within the httpbis and httpstate working groups, but is also following the Hybi one with interest.
Daniel blogs at http://daniel.haxx.se/blog/ and you can follow him on twitter at @bagder. |
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erik |
Erik de Bruijn is an open source entrepreneur, studied information management at the University of Tilburg and since 2008 is heavily involved in the RepRap project, currently as a core developer. As a self-proclaimed RepRap ambassador he is on a mission to democratize fabrication. Besides promoting the project worldwide, he researches the distributed mode of innovation as seen in open source communities and gives hands-on workshops on how to assemble your own copy of this machine. |
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glyn |
I have been a technology journalist and consultant for a quarter of a century, covering the Internet since March 1994, and the free software world since 1995. One early feature I wrote was for Wired in 1997: The Greatest OS that (N)ever Was. My most recent books are Rebel Code: Linux and the Open Source Revolution, and Digital Code of Life: How Bioinformatics is Revolutionizing Science, Medicine and Business. I can be contacted at glyn dot moody at gmail dot com You can follow me on Twitter at @glynmoody |
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johan.soderberg |
Johan Söderberg is a PhD researcher at Science & Technology Studies, Göteborg University, Sweden. Currently he is writing his thesis about the embryonic movement around free/open hardware. The research question which he investigates is how new kinds of political subjectivities are co-emerging together with the creation of new technologies. His main sources of theoretical inspiration is "critical theory of technology", "social philosophy", and "labour process theory". Some recent texts by Johan Söderberg includes a chapter in the book FREE BEER called "Hackers GNUnited", available: http://freebeer.fscons.org/, the article "Hacking as a continuation of labour struggle" (co-authored with George Dafermos) in CAPITAL & CLASS, available: http://www.cseweb.org.uk/pdfs/CC97/C&C_97_Art3.pdf, and a chapter (in Swedish, to be published in September 2010) "Varsågod att älska det immateriella ägandet också" in the book EFTER THE PIRATE BAY. His website can be found here: http://www.sociology.gu.se/kontakta_oss/Doktorander/Soderberg_Johan/ |
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kyrah |
Karin Kosina vka kyrah has been in love with computers ever since her
first encounter with a C=64 at the age of seven. She is a graduate of
the Media Technology and Design programme at the University of Applied
Science Hagenberg (Austria) and works as a researcher, university
lecturer, and freelance programmer. kyrah is also a co-founder of the
Metalab hackerspace [http://metalab.at/wiki/English], a non-profit
innovation center and open space for knowledge sharing in Vienna. |
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Lars.Sandman |
Lars Sandman, professor of care ethics, associate professor of practical philosophy is mainly involved in research around health care priorities and clinical ethics focusing on practical implications of ethical norms and values. |
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sjn |
Free software guy from Oslo, Norway. Active in the local free software communities, organizer of several conferences and Perl hacker. Currently working on kaizendo.org, a tool for creating customizable textbooks. |
