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Aleksandar Erkalovic

Aleksandar Erkalovic

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Aleksandar Erkalovic is reknown internationally in the new media arts and activist circles for the software he has developed. He used to work in Multimedia institute in Croatia, where he was the lead developer of a popular NGO web publishing system (TamTam), Aleksander has a broad spectrum of programming experience having worked on many projects from multiplayer games, library software, financial applications, artistic projects, web site analysis applications, and building systems for managing domain registration. Aleksander was for a long time the sole programmer for FLOSS Manuals and is now leading the development (together with Adam Hyde and Douglas Bagnall) of a new GPL publishing platform called 'booki'. Aleksanders new media artistic collaborations, as well as being extensively exhibited internationally, have won many awards. Aleksander also organises creative and educative workshops directed to young people, experts, and amateurs that are interested in the software he has developed and free software in general. He is currently also employed by Informix in Zagreb, Croatia.

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Adam Hyde is the founder of FLOSS Manuals, a non-profit foundation creating free manuals about free software. FLOSS Manuals is pioneering the Book Sprint – a collaborative methodology for producing comprehensive text in short periods of time. Recent sprints have produced manuals on Inkscape, Pure- Data, How to Bypass Internet Censorship, and an Introduction to the Command Line.

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Vice President at Creative Commons, where he started as CTO in 2003. Previously he co-founded Bitzi, an early open data/open content/mass collaboration service, and worked as a web developer and software engineer. In 1993 he published one of the first interviews with Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux.
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known for selling all of his possessions online on Shop Mandiberg, making perfect copies of copies on AfterSherrieLevine.com, and creating Firefox plugins that highlight the real environmental costs of a global economy on TheRealCosts.com.
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writes about culture, science and technology for the Spanish media, encompassing newspapers, online journals and printed magazines. She is a long term contributor and founder of the online media arts journal Elástico and is the author of La Petite Claudine, a widely read blog in the Spanish language about art, literature, free culture, pornography (and everything in between). english only