Contributors

Paris Marx is a Canadian tech critic and host of the award-winning Tech Won’t Save Us podcast. His work appears in major publications and has been translated into dozens of languages. Paris also writes the Disconnect newsletter and is the author of Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation.

Image credit: Tania Heath

Patrice Riemens, social geographer, advocate of free and open source software and member of the Dutch hackers group the Hippies from Hell.

Patrícia J. Reis (b. 1981, Lisbon, Pt) is a media artist and researcher whose practice encompasses various formats and media to examine the human relationships with technology with a particular focus on feminism, sensuality, and haptics. She studied Painting at ESAD.cr in Caldas da Rainha, Pt, graduating in 2004. She completed a Master's program in Media Art at Lusófona University in Lisbon, Pt, in 2011. She holds a Ph.D. in Art from the University of Évora, Pt, earned in 2016.

Patrick Derieg is an ethical coder and a former traveling musician, whose journey through diverse creative realms has culminated in founding a software company dedicated to democratizing access to advanced AI technologies. With a deep-seated belief in FOSS principles, Patrick is developing a framework designed to empower software developers by simplifying the complexities of integrating, deploying, and utilizing Large Language Models and other AI/ML solutions.

Peer Georgi
23.03.1979 in Frankfurt/Oder geboren
1985 - 1995 Schulausbildung in Frankfurt/Oder
1995 - 1998 Ausbildung zum Kommunikationselektroniker (vorzeitiger
erfolgreicher Abschluss)
1999 Erster Linux Kontakt
1999 - 2000 Erfolgreicher Abiturabschluss
2001 - 2005 Studium der technischen Informatik in Aalen (BW)
2005 - 2008 Entwicklungsingenieur bei Conitec Datensysteme GmbH

Ramona Ries
19.12.1979 in Hann.-Münden geboren
1985-1999 Schulausbildung in Hann.-Münden (Abitur)
1999-2000 Praktikum bei der LiWo GmbH in Welzheim bei Stuttgart

presenter „Peter Bubestinger“: Studied computer science & multimedia at the TU Vienna. More than 10 years experience with GNU/Linux and free software. Since 3 years, part of the core-team of the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE).

artist(s)/band „XBloome“: Exists since 2005. It's electronically-focused, featuring different musical styles from ambient to trip hop. We're offering all songs under a Creative-Commons licence, and using open hardware, free software and GNU/Linux for promotion and production of our music.

is an American electronic music and live visual artist, technologist, and journalist, based in Berlin. He is founder and editor of createdigitalmusic.com and createdigitalmotion.com, as well as an author on technology and creation (Macworld, Keyboard, Wax Poetics, Computer Music, Make, DE:BUG, Popular Science). He is also co-producer of the open-source MeeBlip line of hardware synthesizers. He is a frequent speaker on creative technology, both its design and application, for musical and interactive visual media.

Peter Wagenhuber studiert Informatik und ist bei servus.at beschäftigt.