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. 🇺🇦🍉

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

IT Consultant from Germany | Nerd | Linux Advocate | Instance Admin of burningboard.net | Interested in
Linux, Open Source, Elektronics, Retro Gaming, Photography, Smart Home and Emulation.

Ancient Domains of Mystery (ADOM) is the greatest video game of all time for me !

#fedi22 #photography #linux #ansible #retrogaming #fedora #redhat #technology #opensource #adom #devops #cloud #kubernetes #freeipa #smarthome #cloud #vegan

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.

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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

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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

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

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

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

Norddeutsch | Politikwissenschaft | Linux Sysadmin | Trekkie | Europäer | KDE | FOSS | OpenSUSE | Digitale Bürgerrechte | Japanisch Lernender | Kein Amt, kein Mandat, kandidiert für nichts | Stoiker | #Freiheitsgrün

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.

CTO @dude (a WordPress agency), web dev, admin of several servers like this one, programmer, *nix user, and advocate for an open and ethical Internet. Creator of Mastodon Bird UI. I work with servers, websites, and open source for a living. I'm safe. 🌈

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.

Package Management Nerd, working on mapping the world of open source software https://ecosyste.ms and blogging about package managers at https://nesbitt.io

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.

governance nerd; open source developer & community manager; novelist; activist; uswnt & washington spirit fangirl

Open Source Strategist at Samsung and general Open Web Curmudgeon.

Co-chair of the W3C @ab and ex-chair of W3C @tag; @openwebdocs co-founder; @openssf contributor; Gov UK Open Standards Board member.

Immigrant, UK/US Dual National; Film, MST3K, Science Fiction, Anime, HoYoverse fan; anti-fascist & card-carrying “tofu-eating wokerati.”

Banner art credit: Mr Doodle (photo by me).

He/Him.

Founder of CISOfy; author of #infosec tools rkhunter and Lynis; involved with NLUUG, #openstandards and #opensource; helping companies to secure their #Linux environment; interested in #sustainability and sharing messages in English, sometimes in Dutch 🇳🇱. My Dutch-only account is also @mboelen (mastodon.nl).

I write free software. Firmware troublemaker.

I'm a software engineer by trade, an electronics hobbyist and amateur guitarist by night, and a house-rabbit enthusiast and ambassador all the time.

I live in the windswept prairies of Canada.

#RabbitsOfMastodon #rabbit #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #RodentsOfMastodon #electronics #retro #1970s #70s #blinkenlights

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

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