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Gina
@[email protected]Dutch gov OSPO | Open Source | GovTech | Digital Sovereignty | IT nerd | 🇪🇺🇳🇱
Advocate for open, ethical alternatives to big tech. Posting on a personal title.
One of Fosstodon's admins. Staff of Pookie and Wessie. She/her. 🏳️🌈&🏳️⚧️ ally. 🇺🇦🍉
Hylke Bons 🥜
@[email protected]product designer who codes.
I design and build software.
both how it looks, and how it works.
🌱 laid off in 2026 and looking for $1/month sponsors to help #FOSS projects with design: https://github.com/sponsors/hbons 🌱
been doing design in #OpenSource like #GNOME, #Pidgin, #Intel, #RedHat, #Xamarin, #VSCode and more for 2 decades.
enjoy creating #PixelArt #RetroGames for #GameBoy / #NES.
🍵 green tea lover
📷 lazy film photographer
🌌 #aurora chaser
#NoAI in my work.
Larvitz 
@[email protected]
IT Consultant from Germany, Linux enthusiast, BSD fanboy and firmly convinced that Ancient Domains of Mystery is the greatest video game of all time (and always will be).
You'll find me here talking about Open Source, self-hosting, advanced networking (proud operator of AS201379), smart home shenanigans, and anything you can torment with a terminal. Cat pictures also welcome.
Left, antifascist, vegan. The trifecta your uncle warned you about.
Frank Karlitschek
@[email protected]Founder and CEO of Nextcloud, Co-founder and Vice Chair Eurostack, Board Member MariaDB Foundation, Founder of ownCloud, Free Software Developer, former KDE e.V. board member, Photographer
Lorenzo Ancora 
@[email protected]
Open Source Advocate | Software Developer | Webmaster 🇪🇺🇮🇹
Friendly and enterprising geek committed to promoting user freedom and computer literacy. As a lifelong scholar and social activist, I specialize in Free/Libre and Open Source software development. A rational free thinker, I believe in personal growth through the power of knowledge and community.
Golden rule: respect → more respect.
#italian #foss #floss #opensource #linux #developer #fedi22 #programming #webmaster #sysadmin
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
@[email protected]Hacker, activist, free-softie ◈ techie luddite ◈ formerly information security and infrastructure at https://isnic.is/ and https://occrp.org/ ◈ my opinions are my own etc.
(he/him)
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profile image: drawing of a head and shoulders of a cat-person, in a space suit.
banner image: long-exposure photo of a large tent, brightly illuminated from inside, looking as if it is made of lava
#foss #libre #privacy #infosec #fedi22
(public toots CC By-SA 4.0 if applicable)
🇪🇺 🇵🇱 · 🇧🇦 🇮🇸 · 🇺🇦
Arne Brasseur
@[email protected]Nerd and digital creative — founder of Gaiwan.co — prolific open source author.
After many wanderings back in my native Belgium.
CTO for hire. Speaker available for gigs.
Eric Schultz
@[email protected]FOSS and #DigitalAutonomy activist. Senior Software Engineer Software for Good. Engineering Lead CommitChange. Houdini Project Leader. Opinions are my own. Genderfluid. Cover photo from: https://t.co/7rVeNC
Andy Piper
@[email protected]communities person 💗💜💙
technologist & #PenPlotter artist.
I do things with code, & tinker with gadgets
co-runner of #Maker meetup 🛠️ @hackwimbledon
one-third of a weekly #Podcast 🎧 @gamesatwork_biz
#3DPrinting #MicroPython #PlotterArt #LEGO #OpenSource #DoctorWho #fedi22
Kunal Mehta
@[email protected]1L, Wikipedian, Debian Developer, MediaWiki core dev. Boba journalist, believer in free software and free knowledge. Professionally I work on SecureDrop.
Posts auto-delete after 1 year.
Andrew Nesbitt
@[email protected]Package Management Nerd, working on mapping the world of open source software https://ecosyste.ms and blogging about package managers at https://nesbitt.io
Alex / catileptic
@[email protected][she/they] Move slow and fix things. CTO @ apti.ro. Senior dev @ darc.li. Open-Source Dev, Human Rights Advocacy. Queer, Relationship Anarchist 🏳️🌈
Julian Fietkau
@[email protected]Human-computer interaction #HCI, computer science & programming, home server & self-hosting, games and other fun stuff.
Fediverse tool builder: @encyclia, @canary, FediRoster, Pinhole, ... see https://fietkau.software/tag/fediverse for more. I also help out with @fedidevs. If you do HCI-related research, check out https://directory.hci.social.
He/him. Posting mostly in English, but you might see the occasional German boost.
Koen de Jonge - SynQ
@[email protected]Hacker, IT Infrastructure, Open Storage, Open Source, ProcoliX Hosting, Open Internet Discourse Foundation, HackerHosting, Protagio, Fediversity #Privacy #Sustainability #Transparency Husband of Tessa, father of Emma, Huub and Lieke. Plays Viola, rides horses. Always busy, seldomly quiet.
Steffen Voß
@[email protected]"Life is short. Be kind." • Organisiert den #WebMontag #Kiel • Ist #OpenSource Fan – speziell von #Linux, #Nextcloud & #WordPress • Diakonie Schleswig-Holstein • [he/him]
Antimundo
@[email protected]Game developer from Madrid, Spain. Interested in educational games, and libre software! 🌈✨
Working at @nokorpo
blinry
@[email protected]Computer science, art, game design. Values autonomy, creativity and curiosity. Polyamorous. Introverted, organized. Humanist. Recurse Center alumn. Feelings: @nibryl
Curator of the https://glitchgallery.org, working on @teamtype.
paul
@[email protected]back up at @amiserabilist
Avatar: penny farthing i am not a number
Header: plague island
What Orwell feared were those who would ban books.
What Huxley feared was that there would be no one who wanted to read one.
gen x
amab/cis/het standing with 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈
he/him
probably on the spectrum.
if you think i am being rude to you, i am not.
it is a joke that i have not properly conveyed.
Pensador Louco 
@[email protected]
Cara estranho, anarquista, entusiasta de FOSS, escritor e podcaster responsável por cometer o Teatro Escuro do Pensador Louco. Siga-me por tua livre e espontânea vontade.
Joe Brockmeier
@[email protected]Longtime open-source user, advocate, and contributor. I’ve been working with and writing about Linux and open source since 1999. Now writing for LWN.net (@lwn). Become a subscriber here if you're not already! https://lwn.net/subscribe/
I post about Linux, free and open-source software (FOSS), music, cats, politics, writing, and anything else that comes to mind. Hates gen-AI slop.
"When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction." Mark Twain
tobru 🇨🇭 🧑🚒
@[email protected]Fan of Open Source, Kubernetes and the whole Cloud Native ecosystem. Love to tinker with IoT, LoRaWAN, sensors, ESPs and a lot more.