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Evan Prodromou

Founder at E14N

Montréal, Québec, Canada

I am a hacker and entrepreneur specializing in Open Source software and Open Content. There are incredible business opportunities in openness for those companies courageous enough to embrace them.

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Specialties

wikis, open source, open content, startups, web development, collaboration software, social software, social networking, social media, java, php, sql, mysql, oracle, perl, python, scheme, apache, http

Work experience

(November 2011 to present)
Founder, E14N
I develop awesome software that lets people share between social networks.

(July 2011 to present)
Director, Open Cloud Initiative
I'm on the board of this great organization.

(January 2011 to present)
Board Member, OpenSocial Foundation
I'm the community representative on the OpenSocial Board of Directors.

(2000 to present)
Developer, Debian GNU/Linux
I'm a developer on this Free Software operating system.

(November 2010 to January 2012)
Chair, Federated Social Web Incubator Group, W3C
I share the chairmanship of this incubator group with Harry Halpin.

(August 2011 to December 2011)
Publisher, Open Up
Open Up is a blog about Open Source startups -- companies that have Open Source software at the core of their business. I've started this site as an information resource for entrepreneurs, employees and investors who are working in Open Source.

I write articles, keep the servers running, and am actively working to get more voices on the site.

(2010 to November 2011)
Founder and CTO, StatusNet
I guide product development and operations at this Open Source social software startup.

(February 2007 to December 2010)
Founder and CEO, StatusNet Inc.
StatusNet Inc. develops the StatusNet open source microblogging software, and runs the status.net hosting service as well as Identi.ca.

(April 2007 to October 2009)
Founder, Vinismo, Inc.
Founded an Open Content wiki-edited multilingual wine guide. Developed custom extensions for semantic wiki data, OpenID login, skins and other tools.

(2006 to October 2009)
Founder, kei.ki

(July 2003 to August 2008)
Software Architect, Wikitravel

(January 1991 to July 2008)
Freelance writer, Self
I've written articles for a number of technical magazines and other publications.

(2005 to 2005)
Senior Software Developer, Aptilon, Inc.
I developed code for reporting on marketing data.

(2005 to 2005)
IT Manager, Budget Conferencing, Inc

(2002 to 2004)
Consultant, World Health Organization
I worked on converting print publications for the Web.

(2000 to 2001)
Senior Architect, Securant
I developed AuthXML and was one of the people behind SAML.

(2000 to 2000)
Technical Lead, Intalio, Inc.
I led the development of Open Source Web applications.

(1998 to 2000)
Software Developer, Coursenet
I led the development of Coursenet's distance learning software.

(1997 to 1998)
Technical Lead, Acme Interactive
I helped develop HEAT.net, one of the first gaming community sites.

(1994 to 1995)
Senior Consultant, Microsoft
I helped companies roll out Microsoft enterprise products and develop software using the back office stack.

Education

(1986 to 1990)
BA at University of California, Berkeley

(1982 to 1986)
at Palos Verdes High School