Hey everybody, hi!
I’m emigre (Gaspar), I’m a programmer, and I’m interested in open source. I’m interested in retro technology, low level coding, simpler alternafives to complex software, and stuff like that. Super happy to have found this community! Let’s see what interesting discussions can we start.
See you around!
Hi everyone. I am the lead admin of the probably best known Free Software game development network over at https://freegamedev.net
And also currently working on a broader effort for Free Software development infrastructure over at https://f-hub.org
Hi, I’m Andreas. I love writing software for fun (https://p0c.ch), mostly because the functionality I need is not included in the traditional or mainstream software. I also love all self-hosting efforts. Looking forward to the engaging and inspiring discussions with all of you! Cheers
Hello!
I am Gianluca, I learned how to develop asking silly questions on IRC more than 12 years ago and since then I am trying to give back taking part of the the communities that primarily I discover working and writing code.
I contributed to various PHP framework early in my career, then docker and kubernetes. Now I try to inject Nix/NixOS where ever I can.
I am an RSS aficionados and I blog at https://gianarb.it
Hi! My name is Jim, and I’ve been around the free software community since the late 1900s. I have been involved in some big projects (Linux, PHP, MySQL) and smaller ones. I stepped away from full-time software development for a while to open and run a retail store, but alongside that I ended up building an open-source point-of-sale and ecommerce system called Scat POS that nobody uses.
I have also been blogging forever, more or less, although it had been very sporadic until recently.
Hey! I’m Cy. I’ve been using Rust for about 5 years (longer than I’ve used Git!), and been programming arguably for about 13 years.
My current projects involve Rust bindings to Forgejo’s web API, a Deltarune fangame that’s TBA made in the Bevy game engine (thought a blog post should be out soon about it!), and running the cartoon-aa.xyz website for me and my friends.
I have accounts on GitHub and SourceHut, but most of my new and current development takes place on Codeberg and a self-hosted Forgejo instance
You can talk to me on the Fediverse @Cyborus@social.cartoon-aa.xyz, on Matrix @cyborus:cartoon-aa.xyz, or on Discord with the same name.
this is the most well-written and extensive bio I’ve ever done, haha…
Hi. I’m Hugo. Growing up, the more I learnt about free software the more it seemed like the obvious way for a society to approach working with technology. I watched Star Trek TNG as a kid and I think that their utopic capitalism-free future has made me too idealistic for the real world. I’ve had to make a living writing code that will never be publicly usable, but fortunately can dedicate myself to open source full time nowadays.
My current focus is working on vdirsyncer, a tool to synchronise calendars and address books (across caldav/carddav/webdav/filesystem). I’m an advocate of interoperable and decoupled software, and this is no exception.
Generally, I try and fix issues upstream when possible rather than have local hacks that fix something for me and leave it broken for everyone else. I often get distracted fixing issues in tools that I use, or with various side-projects. Some of those are quite mature, while others are unlikely to ever reach a working state.
I also maintain a blog and post status updates.
Hey hey, I’m Pyrox!
I’m a trans Cybersecurity student and programmer. I’ve contributed to(among other things) the NixOS project, Homebrew, Iceshrimp, QuiltMC, and others. I use NixOS as my daily driver OS on my Framework 16 laptop, and believe in Free Software as a transformative force for change, both from an individual and organizational perspective.
I’m very much in support of trans rights(surprise!) and LGBTQ+ rights in general. I’ve been doing activism for years, both through organizations such as Pflag and my university, but also as loosely organized groups of students and queer folks in general. I try to look at issues as they affect everyone, especially marginalized groups of people.
I used to have a blog, but I still can’t break the ADHD cycle enough to make posts there.
Hello 
I’m Dan,
I’m a developer in the UK, primarily working on & living off my open source PHP-based documentation platform BookStack although I often build other open source bits & bobs.
I’ve become a big fan and user of open source software over the last decade, from originally learning to code, up to making a career out of it.
I have a blog on my site, some of which is to share my experiences of, or advocate for, open source.
For a little while now I’ve been a moderator for the opensource subreddit.
I also maintain an “Open Source Confusion Cases” project which queries & documents “open source” & license misrepresentation, and attempts to advocate for open source to be used in an OSD adhering manner in what I try to ensure is a constructive and polite manner.
Hi, I’m Andrew
The vast majority of the free software I write is Vim plugins, but I share the occasional Rust tool or Ruby library. I’ve taught Rust in an elective university course for 6 years in my home country of Bulgaria, and I tried teaching Vim for a semester too.
Those are currently on pause, because I’m doing a master’s degree in Bioinformatics at KU Leuven, Belgium. It’s left me with very little time for actual coding, unfortunately, but I’ll get back to it, I’m sure they’ll run out of biology to teach me any day now. Either way, it’s a nice change from web dev in the startup world, we’ll see how long before I get too annoyed by big biotech companies, too.
Most of the code I’ve written is on github, I’m trying to slowly move away to sourcehut, but it’ll take some time. I share potentially interesting Vim stuff daily-ish as @VimLinks@hachyderm.io. I’ve blogged at https://andrewra.dev, and I may blog again.
Hello everyone,
I’m lwriemen, older coder and punk. I’ve been coding in embedded systems for 30+ years. I first started using *nix in college around 1982. My professional experience led me to interests in Shlaer-Mellor OOA and software metrics. Is there a place for software engineering in FOSS?
I want to become more involved in writing free software, and I am interested in sustaining such software development. I have also started taking an interest in worker-owned cooperatives.
The probably most known project that I built is Retrospring , a fully open-source social Q/A website.
WHAT?! You made that?!
It’s very fun, and I definitely want to make a Retrospring account at some point.
Welcome!
I read your username and instantly recognized it from the OpenGameArt Matrix room, which is really just an IRC bridge.
Very cool! 
Hi!
I’m algernon (strictly with small letters), a tiny mouse, a hacker, with my fingerfootprints all over the place.
Windows 95 ate my hard drive on a fateful day half a lifetime ago, on December 24th, 1996, taking all my creative works with it. I got Angry, installed Linux, and never looked back. A few years later, I happened upon IRC, where I was quickly introduced to Debian, and found out that the project was full of crazy people. My kind of crazy people. I hung up my Debian Developer hat after 19 years of service a few years ago.
In recent years, I found myself in a deep rabbit hole, and wrote keyboard firmware (first contributing to QMK, then to Kaleidoscope) and related things (Chrysalis) for a good while. A JavaScript-induced burnout, and a couple of other events led to an end to that endeavor, so nowadays I’m writing Go, and contributing to Forgejo.
My operating system of choice is Emacs, I run NixOS around it as a glorified bootloader, and GNOME for great desktop backgrounds.
Heya,
I’m spaetz (another German Sebastian). Been using Linux since 1997, contributed to quite a few FLOSS projects, maintained the tiles@home openstreetmap server and the offlineimap project for a while.
I am a professor of digital markets nowadays. I like collaborative business models, organization-spanning R&D and FRAND industry standards. I also like federated architectures where they are useful.
Last but not least, I would like to see mobile Linux (as in real Linux) succeed, and advocate and support that case.
I’m Dylan Moonfire. I’ve been coding since the mid-eighties and been contributing to open source software since the mid-nighties. Mostly I flit from project to project and have scattered patches and self-inflicted libraries out there but some of the notable projects:
The last two are my “big” ones. There are a hundred more corpses of projects started and abandoned also. Mostly, I write in the dark and not a lot of folks know or use what I write, but there are a few that keep me going.
I also write novels and short stories, most of which are also open sourced. And use my publishing framework to generate the books for sale and the static site generators to create the websites.
Hello everyone! My name is Theodore Keloglou.
I have been impressed by the open source and free software movement(s) ever since I realised not all code is available to read! I think it’s one the most radical and admirable things that humanity is doing.
In less philosophical and more practical terms, I have been making and maintaining an open source minimal blogging platform called mataroa.blog. Also, I have started a publishing house which publishes public domain books only — freshly made ones, not copyright-expired ones. It’s called Laniakea Books — a project inspired by applying the open source vision in the world of book publishing!
Hello, I’m Haelwenn Monnier, also known as lanodan.
I’ve participated in various libre software projects for at least a decade now, most notably packaging+bugfixing software for Gentoo (and a bit for Alpine as well), and being a co-maintainer for Pleroma, a Fediverse server.
I have a website where I put articles/notes/software/… : https://hacktivis.me/
Also as most code I use/write/self-host being to scratch an itch, I have picked up quite different programming languages along the way: Shell, C, Elixir, Perl, Hare, …
Or in other words, I tend to send patches more than tickets.
I also highly value portability/interoperability and despise things like CLAs. The last thing I’d want is a repeat of Oracle closing down OpenSolaris and related projects in ~2010, as that was the OS I was using at the time.
Hi all!
Im dcz, aka dorotac, and I’m bouncing around from project to project, none of them ever gaining a proper following 
I’m one of those people who have ten times more ideas than the time to execute them. You can see some of that on my Mastodon feed dcz (@dcz@fosstodon.org) - Fosstodon .
Otherwise, I’m a strong proponent of copyleft, and an even stronger but quieter proponent of copyright weakening. I like Qt and would like to contribute but won’t do it while CLA is in place.
I like to have opinions, including on things that people have dumb, overconfident reductionist reactions to cough AI cough cryptocurrency cough.
Another opinion I have is that computers often make things worse: software removes friction, including the friction that keeps bureaucracy from growing. Also, bad digitalization is worse than no digitalization. Forcing (smart)phones and digital banking on everyone will inherently centralize power and leave some behind.
Yarr.
Oh, hey! Good to see you here dcz, welcome!