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 analyzing errors that reveal the frequently hidden technological systems around us.
Organizations and Affiliations
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology: I am a researcher and PhD Candidate in a self-designed joint program between the MIT Sloan School of Management and the MIT Media Lab. My research uses the sociology of organizations and technology to study social structure in free culture and free software communities. My work is advised by Eric von Hippel, Tom Malone and Mitch Resnick, among others.
- MIT Center for Future Civic Media: I am a Research 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.