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. Boardmember of F-Droid. Staff of Pookie and Wessie. She/her. 🏳️‍🌈&🏳️‍⚧️ ally. 🇺🇦🍉

product designer who codes.
I design and build software.
both how it looks, and how it works.

🌱 laid off in 2026 and now running free design services for #FOSS projects. want to become a sponsor? https://planetpeanut.studio/sponsors 🌱

been doing design in #OpenSource like #GNOME, #Pidgin, #Intel, #RedHat, #Xamarin, #VSCode and more for 2 decades. enjoy creating #PixelArt #RetroGames for #GameBoy / #NES.

loves 🍵, 📷, and 🌌.

#NoAI in my work.

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

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.

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

Lives in The Netherlands, EU. Works as self-employed tech consultant & software developer. Likes to tinker & has way too many interests :)

Likely to toot in NL/EN/DE on:
#technology #techpolicy, #opensource #openstandards #opencontent #publicdomain #creativecommons #copyright #sustainability #diy #infosec #security #data #privacy #accessibility #ui #ux #interactiondesign #ethics #webdevelopment #devops #sysadmin #climatecrisis #food #music #linux #debian #ubuntu

Toots vanish after 3 months

Ecologist & Geographer @ Penn State University | Founder/Editor of @briefecology | Featured in Nature, Clarkesworld Magazine, Area, Literary Geographies, and elsewhere

Interests include: #ecology #geography #forests #biodiversity #carbon #theory #rstats #writing #photography #socialism #anarchism #ecofiction #FOSS #unions #cycling #basketball

Ontario Research Chair of Digital Governance for Social Justice, York University.

My latest book, "Move Slowly and Build Bridges: Mastodon, the Fediverse, and the Struggle for Democratic Social Media" was published by Oxford University Press late 2025.

Been on the fediverse since 2017. I'm now helping run AoIR.social

he/him

Trans rights are human rights. I boost #BlackMastodon and #MutualAid posts. I also call for alt text for accessibility.

Technical Writer @ UJET.cx (Portugal). PhD in Communication Sciences (ISCTE-IUL). Past: technology journalist, blogger & communication researcher.

#TechnicalWriting #WebDev #WebDevelopment #OpenSource #FLOSS #SoftwareDevelopment #IP #PoliticalEconomy #Communication #Media #Copyright #Music #Cities #Urbanism

He/Him. Retired Oracle DBA, Toad MVP, developer, husband, geek, no kids, open source contributor. McLaren & Mercedes F1 fan.

Honor Pro400 phone with a great camera. I *try* to take at least 1 half decent photo every day.

In 2020, Apress published my 1st book, 'Arduino Software Internals'. My 2nd, 'Arduino Interrupts', was published in 2023. 'Arduino Assembly Language' is now with my publishers.

Moved back to Scotland from Yorkshire in November 2024.

@NormanDunbar has left Twitter, forever.

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.

Free software (#FOSS) - vegan 🌱 - sustainability - #OneRights - finance - environment - transparency - Linux - freedom - fairness - politics - NL - 🐷 - 🤍❤️🤍 - 💙💛 - 🍉

Früher Berlin/Bundestag (ehemalige MdB Finanzen/Digitales 2021-2025)
heute Zivilgesellschaft (Antifinancialcrime.org und @loadev) und Promotion #UniKiel
Für #FOSS und Bekämpfung #Finanzkriminalität, #CumEx und #Geldwäsche
gegen digitalpolitisches Sicherheits-Voodoo
#neurodivers/ #AuDHS/ #Autismus
#Brustkrebs Survivor (unterstützt gerne Präventionskampagnen)
anzutreffen in NRW, Kiel, Berlin oder im Zug :).

#FLOSS+#GIS+#JavaScript+#WebGL nerd. #OSGeo charter member, #OpenStreetMap old-timer.

In other words: I do maps on websites, maintaining the Leaflet JS library when I can, but working on Gleo (my own JS+WebGL library) otherwise.

Long-time supporter of Free/Libre/Open-Source Software, as well as Open Data and adjacent subjects.

Lawyer, lecturer, researcher.

#Law #Philosophy #OpenScience #Linux #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #FreeSoftware #Emacs #Debian #STS #PlainText

Toots on a variety of different topics.

Python 3.14 & 3.15 release manager, core developer, Sovereign Tech Fellow, PSF Fellow, open-source maintainer, PEP editor, NaNoGenMo organiser, winter bicycler

working for a value-based economy, helping people and organisations to join the transition and build a human centred digital age.

Co-founder of Free Knowledge Institute, femProcomuns cooperative, Meet.coop, CommonsCloud, TTN.cat/XOIC.coop. Fellow @ Commons Network, former director PublicSpaces.net.

#commons #digitalcommons #cooperative #sustainability #businessmodels #FreeCulture #holochain #iot #LibreSoftware #OpenSource #SovereignTech #DigitalAutonomy #PublicSpaces #DemocraticTech #DTF

"Life is short. Be kind." • Organisiert den #WebMontag #Kiel • Ist #OpenSource Fan – speziell von #Linux, #Nextcloud & #WordPress • Diakonie Schleswig-Holstein • [he/him]

Pirate 🏴‍☠️, Frisian in Rotterdam, FreeSoftware (free, as in freedom, not as in free beer) #Ubuntu, #PardonAssange 🍀 #music #politics #woke #leftist

CTO at @dude, where we specialize in WordPress and WordPress-optimized servers. A programmer and the admin of several servers like this one, a *nix user, and an advocate for an open and ethical internet, the creator of Mastodon Bird UI. I work with servers, websites, and open-source projects for a living. I'm safe. 🌈

Creator and maintainer of #Landlock: https://landlock.io
Security and open source enthusiast