Awesome Open Source humans on Mastodon.
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David Revoy
@[email protected]🍄 Webcomic Artist • Fantasy humor
🌱 Weekly comic strips (Wed) • Longer series brewing in background
🎨 Only use Free/Libre & Open Source tools • CC-licensed • No AI
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. 🇺🇦🍉
Nick @ The Linux Experiment
@[email protected]YouTube content creator and Linux user living in Brest, Brittany. Might post gaming related stuff, especially if it runs on Linux, natively or not ! #linux #opensource #tech #gaming
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 1 week ⏳
*unless I bookmark them
Holly Borla
@[email protected]👩🏻💻 Engineering manager of the Swift language team @ Apple. Member of the open source #SwiftLang Core Team, Language Workgroup, and Diversity in Swift Workgroup. 👩🏻🏫 Interested in education, and mentorship in open source communities. 🩰 Classical ballet enthusiast.
Khrys
@[email protected]Libroféministe
Doctor ès boules de glu
Apôtre en maths
Commet un Khrys'presso tous les lundis matins à 7h42 sur le Framablog
Genre : bizarre
Qualificatif : sacro-saint·e
En trottinette (non électrique)
Mute plus vite que son ombre
#FDN
#FFDN
#Gitoyen
#Globenet
#Parinux
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.
loves 🍵, 📷, and 🌌.
#NoAI in my work.
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
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
John C.
@[email protected]Gay engineer, AIDS-era survivor, 43 years writing software, retired 2024. Backend and security the whole way. Payment processing, HIPAA healthcare data, air-gapped systems, retinal biometrics for DoD facilities. Now I write Rust for myself and ship Linux tools like PowerCurve and Tempest. I trust ports I closed and code I read.
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)
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.
Taggart
@[email protected]
Displaced Philly boy. Threat hunter. Educator.
Executive Director. #infosec, #programming #rust
, #python
#haskell
, and #javascript
. #opensource advocate. General in the AI Resistance. Runs @thetaggartinstitute. Made https://wtfbins.wtf. Not your bro. All opinions my own. Dad. #fedi22 #searchable
Pronouns: He/him.
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.
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
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
Simon Willison
@[email protected]Open source developer building tools to help journalists, archivists, librarians and others analyze, explore and publish their data. https://datasette.io and many other #projects.
muesli
@[email protected]I build open-source software and make little gadgets.
From a time when email was cool. Hard to distinguish from a good programmer.
Lucie / minute
@[email protected]CEO of MNT Research. OSHW laptop MNT Reform: https://mntre.com | https://shop.mntre.com | FOSS, ARM, OSHW, FPGA, Amiga, RISC-V | batcave, cyberpunk, industrial, synth/darkwave | genderqueer, sober, vegan, NoAI
Joshua Kevins
@[email protected]Proudly serving as the coordinator of Nutritious Foods Uganda, an initiative started by my mother to empower our village’s youth through sustainable farming.
We are tackling malnutrition head-on by teaching the next generation how to grow life-giving crops and build a healthier future. Honoring a legacy of nourishment and community strength.
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