Benjamin Mako Hill

Benjamin Mako Hill ( born December 2, 1980) is an American software developer and nonfiction author. As a committed activist of the Open Source movement since he is in an outstanding position in various fields of public domain software development and knowledge transfer.

Fields of activity

Hill holds a Master's Degree from MIT Media Lab and works as a senior researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at the MIT Sloan School of Management. But he acquired an international reputation also as a software developer, project manager and administrative member of several projects under the open- source movement. He was involved from the outset in setting up the Debian and Ubuntu projects, about which he also wrote the two most successful technical nonfiction in collaboration with other authors.

For both projects was limited and it is not limited his commitment to the purely technical area, but is also active on the organizational level. Has supported the Debian project management on the management level in the use of funds and resources, and is a founder of Debian Non-Profit, a Debian distribution, which is specifically tailored to the needs of non-profit organizations. Between March 2003 and July 2006 he was a member of the board of the nonprofit organization Software in the Public Interest ( SPI), which has been promoting the development of free software written on the flags, and he served as vice president from 2004.

Hill is also a developer and a founding member of Ubuntu, a project on which he takes to this day large proportion. In addition to his technical responsibilities, he took over here during the first year and a half also function as a Project Community Manager for the structure and organization of a community of supporters around the project. To date, he is a member of the " Community Council", an institution that monitors all non-technical aspects of the project in Ubuntu.

Due to its operation at the MIT Media Lab Hill is also involved as a consultant and organizer of the One Laptop per Child initiative, with the help of the educational situation of children should be improved in the third world and he is part of its activities for the open source community leader of the GNU Project.

In addition to these activities as a developer and organizer of software projects, Hill is operated constantly and with great passion as an author and published in this role in addition to textbooks, a large number of articles in magazines, newspapers and online journals. Here he often leaves the purely technical area and illuminates his subjects also from an anthropological and social perspective. A special interest he cherishes it for topics that deal with issues of copyright and intellectual property. Here he has a personal concern and he finds the drive for his tireless efforts in favor of open source and open knowledge movement, whose spiritual and social foundations he wants to see anchored on a sound intellectual basis.

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