I’m a longstanding member of Varia and have been involved in several sister initiatives created from either within Varia or in collaboration with our broader network: AFNR, Bitbit, homebrewserver.club, Relearn, Fizz Club and Networks of One’s Own. I’ve helped run events and participated in the infrastructure working group, co-maintaining our collective infrastructure.
I co-founded several local community projects such as Biobulkbende, Prikbord, the BoTu timebank and Permacomputing Rotterdam.
I coordinated the Rotterdam branch and worked as a paid organiser for the BPW, a grassroots tenants union active nationally in the Netherlands. I’m also a member of the local neighbourhood union.
I maintain several small free softwares projects such as iroh-go and p2panda-go. I’m active on Github, git.coopcloud.tech and sometimes Codeberg. I am primarily interested in peer-to-peer and distributed systems and how they can be applied to community hosting outside of data centers.
I co-founded Autonomic and Co-op Cloud and have worked as a professional programmer, project manager and system administrator in the IT cooperative sector for over a decade. I was one of the core maintainers Abra for several years and co-coordinated the Co-op Cloud Federation.
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