Benjamin Mako Hill

Additional Affiliations

This page lists minor affilations or organizations where I now play more of a role of an advisor are where I am no longer actively involved in the work of the organizations or project.

• ACM Professionals Board: For a number of years, I served 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. It's not dormant but if I begin consulting actively again, I might resurrect it.
• Software In the Public Interest: SPI is a non-profit organization which was founded to help organizations develop and distribute open hardware and software. Debian, OFTC, PostgresSQL and a number of others are SPI member projects. I am a contributing member of SPI and `on the organization's trademark committee. I served three years (2003-2006) as an elected member of the SPI board of directors and more than a year as the organization's Vice President. I recently decided to take a break from the board.
• The Yukidoke Project: I founded this small non-profit project devoted to providing free resources to projects for free software advocacy and development.
• Software Freedom International: I serve on the advisory board for SFI which organizers Software Freedom Day and coordinates other free and open source software advocacy. Previously, I sat on the organization's board of directors.
• Debian-NP (Debian-NonProfit): A (now dormant) custom Debian distribution geared to fill the needs of small nonprofit organizations in a variety of areas. I helped found and lead the project.
• Linux User Groups: I have founded and helped lead a number of Linux User Groups as I have moved around. For the most part, I have stayed active in these groups even after I've moved away.
  
  
  • Debian NYC: A community and a mailing list that organizes social meetings, keysignings, lectures, and bug squashes for the Debian developer and user communities in New York City. I founded the group.
  • Debian Seattle: A community and a mailing list with goals identical the Debian-NYC but based in Seattle, WA. I founded the group.
  • Debian Boston: A community and a mailing list with goals identical the Debian-NYC but based in Cambridge and Boston, MA. I revived the group after a period of dormancy.
  • The Five College Linux User Group: I am a founder and member.