Weblogs
- Copyrighteous: My personal weblog. It's a combination of short reflections (often humorous) and essays that tend to focus on issues of free software, copyright, and issues of free culture and knowledge.
- Revealing Errors: A weblog where I try to reveal the power and influence that technology has on our lives by unpacking and analyizing errors that reveal the frequently hidden technological systems around us.
Organizations and Affiliations
- MIT Sloan School of Management: I work with the social scientist and innovation expert Eric von Hippel on research related to increasing the effectiveness of information commons like free software and culture communities.
- MIT Center for Future Civic Media: I am a Fellow at the C4FCM. a new center associated with the MIT Media Lab and the department of Comparitive Media Studies. This is an extension of my work as a graduate student in the Media Lab's Electronic Publishing and Computing Culture research groups.
- Free Software Foundation: In addition to being an Associate Member, I am a member of the FSF's Board of Directors. You can support my work at the foundation, and support the free software movement itself, by becoming an Associate Member yourself.
- The Debian GNU/Linux Project: I am Debian Developer
and maintain several packages and routinely sponsor the upload of several others. In the past, I have served
on the Project Leader Team (AKA Project Scud) and acted as the Hardware Donations Manager
(AKA
Project Quartermaster
) and Accountant tracking and managing funds and hardware internationally. My packaging work is documented here. - Ubuntu: I serve on Ubuntu's Community Council governance board and help direct the Ubuntu Foundation. I am involved in issues related community, policy and governance and technical issues of internationalization, language support, and non-Latin text rendering and input. During the Ubuntu project's first year, I worked for Canonical Ltd. doing Free Software activism and advocacy and helping build user and developer communities around the distribution.
- Wikimedia/Wikipedia: I am an active contributor to
several Wikimedia projects where I add content and edit frequently. I am not an administrator for any
Wikimedia projects. These include:
- Wikimedia Foundation: I am proud to serve on the advisory board for the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organization that supports Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects, with a number of other distinguished individuals.
- Wikipedia (English): I primarily edit articles
on free software, intellectual property, and a whole series of other articles of interest to me.
Links: My User Page | My Contributions - Wikiversity (English): I have contributed to
Wikiversity primarily through the creation of an extensive curriculum about software freedom.
Links: My User Page | Contributions | Software Freedom Curriculum - Wikimania 2006: To a small degree, I helped assist in the organization of Wikimania 2006 in Cambridge Massachusetts. I helped out the program committee for the conference and assisted with Wikimania Hacking Days.
- Definition of Free Cultural Works: Along with Erik Moeller from the Wikimedia Foundation, I founded this project to work with the free culture community to help provide a set of explicit goals to help the free culture movement development, inspire, and grow.
- One Laptop per Child: Building off my work at the Media Lab, I play a primarily advisory role with the One Laptop per Child project. I help out with issues of software freedom, software licensing, and maintaining the "hackability" of the system. I am also working on joint work between OLPC and the exploring both synchronous and asynchronous forms of collaborative writing.
- ACM Professionals Board: I serve on a new board within ACM and coordinated by Steve Bourne that aims to help ACM appeal more to computing professionals outside of the academy.
- Yukidoke Consulting: A small consulting company I founded that offers services involving Free and Open Source software project management, release coordination, development, training and more.
Please see my Additional Affiliations Page for a list of my older, dormant, more minor, and more advisory affiliations.
Other Webpages
- Wikipedia User Page: My "user page" is similar to a homepage but it's in more flux (it's a wiki after all) and tends to focus on items that are interesting to me in Wikipedia.
- My Kuro5hin diary which is lots of short little descriptions of ideas I have. It's a lot less serious, useful (and hopefully) boring than the site you're reading right now. (no longer updated)
- My Advogato Page where I used to keep a (very infrequently updated) diary of my work on free software projects. (no longer updated)
- GPG Keys for use in secure communication with me.
Contact Information
Email:mako@atdot.cc
Visit my contact information page for information on how to reach me via snailmail, phone, email, IRC, or several flavors of instant messaging.