Evan Prodromou

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Evan Prodromou

StatusNet, Inc.

Biography

Evan Prodromou is a developer and entrepreneur based in Montreal. Best known for starting Wikitravel, the collaborative Open Content travel guide, he has worked on Open Source software and the Web for 15 years. His most recent project, StatusNet, is a microblogging platform used by over 25,000 sites across the Web. Prodromou is founder and CEO of StatusNet, Inc., which manages Identi.ca and provides service and support for the StatusNet microblogging software.

Open Source Bridge 2010

Sessions for this user

* Open Source and the Open Social Web

Open Source software has been instrumental in the development of every revolutionary communications technology on the Internet. The Open social Web is no different.
Chemistry
Evan Prodromou

Open Source Bridge 2009

Sessions for this user

* Open Source Microblogging with Laconica

Microblogging lets people share short status messages with their social network. Public Web sites like Twitter, Jaiku and Plurk are wildly popular with consumers, but Open Source programs allow a distributed social graph and implementation inside the enterprise firewall. Evan Prodromou, founder of Identi.ca, will describe the Open Source microblogging tool Laconica and its uses in the workplace and on the Public Web.
Chemistry
Evan Prodromou

Proposals for this user

* The Franklin Street Statement and the future of Free Network Services

Web services and cloud computing are moving users from Open Source desktop applications to proprietary remote computing. How can we set standards to make Web services as liberating to use as Open Source software?
Culture 02/23/2009 12:01PM
Evan Prodromou