Hi all. Hacker, friend and mentor for all. Love to share knowledge and help others. I have built a shell DSL for Python. Check out the demo! YT link in repo link 
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Hi, I’m Jens (he/him/whatever), and after having used FLOSS software for about two decades, with only minor contributions here and there, a few years ago I got funding and started the Interpeer Project, which is exploring an alternative network architecture to the Web, focused more on human needs, and based on lessons learned from P2P, ICN, DTN and similar approaches.
Since it’s more research than development, it’s not really near to a complete stack yet. I guess it’ll take a while to get there. I did this as my dayjob for a while, and will likely do so again…
… but in the meantime, my current dayjob is to keep the .de TLD running (we have job openings).
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Hi, everyone. I’m Alexios, a Greek living in Munich and known as zvr. I’m of a previous generation and I’ve been involved with Free Software since… 1983, before it was called like that. I started with 4.2BSD on a VAX and I remember seeing RMS’s announcement about the start of the GNU project. I’ve been active in various communities since then (I’ve even helped form a few).
In my day job I do FOSS stuff for a large international company you’ve surely heard of. A large part of my work is license compliance.
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Hi, I’m coco.
In 1995 my dad brought a modem at home and showed the internet to me: web, mail, irc, newsgroups. I learned to make a website in plain html, and spent a teenage year writing annoying irc bots in mircscript. At some point, somebody suggested me to learn assembly in order to write “real viruses”, so I spent the next year writing viruses and later, graphics demos. When I got to learn C, I was fascinated to see that the source of the compiler (DJGPP, a port of GCC to MSDOS) was available and I could compile it myself! It was an exhilarating experience and I spent many nights reading the documentation of the code. Thus I discovered the GNU project and went on to install a GNU/linux distribution, which I have been using to this day.
Nowadays I focus mostly on my academic job, that fortunately involves a fair bit of coding. I try to use only free software in my daily life; and I do, except for a few online services on which I still rely.
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Good day everyone!
I’m Michel, I’ve been using Linux as a daily driver since 1998 (would have started a few years earlier but I did not have my own PC until then) and contributing to Fedora since 2003 or so, and more recently to Debian as well.
I mostly write packaging-related software these days, and have always been interested in licensing and other ecosystem issues. Still writing Python mostly, though my passion is functional programming (both the Lisp family and those with static type systems).
Really excited to get to know people here, and with the topics discussed such as the License Book Club!
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Hello everyone,
My name’s John; I’m new to working in the tech industry but I’ve been a Linux user for well over a decade. The Free Software movement and its siblings, especially Wikipedia, have undoubtedly been one of the most formative influences on my thinking about political economy. I’ve long appreciated reading Drew’s analysis of the political economy of software and found his perspectives very close to my own; now I’m very pleased to see he’s started this community for like-minded thinkers.
My biggest focus isn’t actually on software per se, but on the question of economic support for free software production. I am 1000% behind worker cooperatives; I think worker cooperatives and free software are such an ideal combination and it’s a path that needs to get much more widely known as a method for producing free software. I am so excited to see that others in this community like @blainsmith are already thinking similar thoughts. I don’t just have a theoretical interest in cooperatives; I have been somewhat active in that ecosystem as well, so if anyone has any curiosity about worker cooperatives whatsoever, please reach out to me.
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Hi everyone,
My name is Edin, I usually go by unicorn (or bananicorn if unicorn is taken), I am currently in the last year of my bachelor studies in technical computer science (more low-level & embedded stuff compared to regular CS) and I work at an industrial router company on the side to earn money. I’ve been mostly using FOSS wherever I can for around 6 years.
I enjoy working on some of my own tiny projects and occasionaly writing blog posts in my free time and I eventually want to earn enough money to sustain a family with free software because I’m not that happy with the idea of working full time on things that I neither care for nor are very useful to the world (or even actively harmful like probably most tech).
I believe that most problems today are social in nature and are not solvable by technology, so I prefer simple, usable and accessible technology over chasing new trends with questionable benefit to society. I would love to see a world where people work on things that benefit us socially and not just fill the pockets of a few people or chase the strange ideal of endless growth. I believe that free software is a necessary part of that world. 
I really enjoy messing with Hare whenever I can and I mostly write C and Python code for work and studies. I want to learn more about systems programming and operating systems but am lacking the time and opportunity to learn much there currently.
I joined here not so much to learn about licenses, but rather for the community, which seems to share a lot of my values and work on a lot of things that are interesting to me!
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Hello!
My name is Carlos O’Donell and I’m a very long time FOSS developer, working on the GNU C Library (glibc), and in general the core GNU Toolchain (gcc, binutils, glibc gdb).
I’m very happy to see an organizationally neutral place I can send developers to learn about FOSS. I think Write Free Software as a site is a long-overdue and much needed resource.
Thank you!
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