Awesome Open Source humans on Mastodon.
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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. Boardmember of F-Droid. Staff of Pookie and Wessie. She/her. 🏳️🌈&🏳️⚧️ ally. 🇺🇦🍉
Sarah Jamie Lewis
@[email protected]Cryptography and Privacy Researcher. President @ Open Privacy Research Society (@openprivacy).
Founder @ Blodeuwedd Labs (@blodeuweddlabs)
Building free and open source, privacy-enhancing, surveillance-resisting tech like Cwtch (@cwtch)
Elena Rossini 🌈
@[email protected]Italian filmmaker, photographer and writer based in Paris, France who ❤️ #FOSS
🎬 Director of: The Illusionists documentary + a Fediverse promotional video (https://blog.elenarossini.com/fediverse-video/)
💌 #TheFutureIsFederated
📝 blog: @ele
👩💻 self-hosting aficionada: @elena
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ ally
Pronouns: she/her
Languages: English, French, Italian
Note: my posts are set to auto-delete* after 2 weeks ⏳
*unless I bookmark them
Richard Stallman
@[email protected]This is the Mastodon account for Richard Stallman.
I founded GNU & the @fsf and with them launched the Free Software Movement. Please join or donate to the FSF: https://www.fsf.org
I use this account to mirror the political notes from my web site, stallman.org.
Read my linking policy: https://stallman.org/linkpolicy.html
The views expressed here, as in stallman.org, are my personal views, not those of the Free Software Foundation or the GNU Project. #FSF #GNU #FreeSoftware
Matthias Kirschner
@[email protected]The @fsfe 's President
. Working for #FreeSoftware (also known as #OpenSource), so every individual in our society can self-determined use, study, share, and improve software ➡ #SoftwareFreedom
Author of the book "Ada & #Zangemann - A tale of software, skateboards, and raspberry ice cream".
Public Money? #PublicCode ! #DeviceNeutrality #RouterFreedom #ilovefs #YH4F #REUSE #DigitalRights #TechnicalDistributionOfPower #Democracy
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 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.
🍵 green tea lover
📷 lazy film photographer
🌌 #aurora chaser
#NoAI in my work.
Christine Lemmer-Webber
@[email protected]Executive Director of @spritely (but this is a personal account). I'm here to fix the Internet.
ActivityPub co-author, co-host of @[email protected]. Lisp sourceress, decentralized network architect, occasional Blender artist. she/her https://dustycloud.org/
Recently moved here from @[email protected]
Lovely banner sketch by @juliaro https://mastodon.art/@juliaro/114489465896761273
Brent Simmons
@[email protected]Writes NetNewsWire, a free and open source RSS reader for Mac and iOS.
He/him.
knoppix
@[email protected]IT Manager | FOSS & Privacy Advocate ✨
Sharing key tech news and insights that matter
Not an official Knoppix page, just a fan 🐧
#Technology #Privacy #Linux #OpenSource
⚠️ Posts auto-delete after 1 month
*Except bookmarked or high engagement
Chris Lando
@[email protected]Nature-loving anticapitalist, antifascist, music and book nerd.
Inept gardener, writer and music-maker.
Pro Open source, identity ownership in the real and digital world. International solidarity!
bashbunni
@[email protected]Coder. FOSS lover. Breaker of things.
Fuelled by tea and curiosity.
Interests: software development, privacy, terminals, free open source software
Tadonic the Flautulent
@[email protected]Breaker of Wind 😉
Former mild-mannered programmer by day. By nights (and weekends and weekdays) he battled the forces of proprietary closed source as "The Ubuntourist" .😉#musician searchable #fedi22
ploum
@[email protected]Joue de la machine à écrire dans un one-man-band pour défendre la liberté et l’imaginaire. Auteur de #Bikepunk.
Write SF and #cyberpunk books, free software and texts about freedom.
Pédale. Plonge dans l’eau froide.
Also on Gemini: gemini://ploum.net
Brent Yorgey
@[email protected]Associate professor of CS at Hendrix College in Conway, AR. Open-source Haskell development, education, competitive programming, type theory, category theory, combinatorics, etc.
bleeptrack
@[email protected]Creative Technologist and award-winning Artist
Speaker
Randomness Sommelier
Neural Net Weaver
Project Vlogs @bleeptrack
Doing #scicom at @ki_und_koffein
#generativeart #creativecoding #opensource #maker #electronics #penplotter
#solarpunk life: #tinyhouse #cityel #homeassistant and #solarenergy
(she/her)
Jarkko Sikiö
@[email protected]Husband, father, and FOSS enthusiast. Into Linux, DIY, self-hosting, blogging, comics, games and solar energy. Writing crime and science fiction.
Posting mostly in English and Finnish (native), based in Chile.
When I see travel/nature shots, some peculiar history/science bits or you're posting in Finnish, I might follow you without any particular reason.
Hello!👋😊
Self-hosted Canon/Zwo photographer, mainly Icelandic landscape
Retired IT company director, 71 yo she/her in Scotland
INFJ-T
Owned by a cat
15.2kW solar, 19kWh battery, EV owner
Immunodeficient so 😷 + 9 x 💉
No AI or LLM
I already give to charity and I have nothing for sale
Ally 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
I ❤️ ALT text, #OpenSource & 2FA
No bio ∨ posts = no follow
Boost ≠ endorse
I unfollow dormant accounts and use lots of filters
Conditional 2 wk auto-delete
Profile pic = Vegvísir
Intro pinned 👇
Marcus Fihlon
@[email protected]Open Source Addict & Adventure Cyclist
Jos Poortvliet
@[email protected]Jos Poortvliet is co-founder and Communications Director at Nextcloud, the open source, privacy-focused collaboration software company. He is a long time technology enthusiast and all-things-open evangelist. He has previously been community manager at SUSE & worked as business consultant at government, finance and telecom companies in the Netherlands.
He is based in Berlin and loves cooking for friends, family and colleagues. Is also nurturing a bit of a boot 🥾 and hat 🎩 obsession.
Nils Goroll 🕊️
@[email protected]
(he/him)
Does things #FOSS #HTTP and #VinylCache in particular.
Is one of the the last MSc in #AI graduates of the University of Edinburgh (1999) and watches what happens.
Linux user since 0.9.7 / sls 1.0
yossarian
@[email protected]open source interloper; attracts bugs easily
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