Evan Prodromou

Evan S. Prodromou (born 14 October 1968[1]) is a software developer and open source advocate. His major contributions have been Wikitravel (with Michele Ann Jenkins), Identi.ca, and StatusNet. In 2015 he launched Fuzzy.ai, an artificial intelligence service for developers.

Evan Prodromou
Evan Prodromou in 2007
Born (1968-10-14) 14 October 1968
Cincinnati, Ohio
NationalityAmerican
Spouse(s)Michele Ann Jenkins
Websitee14n.com/evan

Biography

Prodromou was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, and grew up in Texas and California. He has lived in Amsterdam, San Francisco, and Lisbon, and currently lives in Montreal.

Prodromou graduated from University of California, Berkeley in 1990 (Physics, English), and worked for Microsoft and various Web development companies in the late 1990s. In 2003 he started Wikitravel, and in 2007 founded Control Yourself, which developed the software for Identi.ca, a microblogging service. Control Yourself was renamed to Laconica, StatusNet in 2010, and finally to GNU social in 2012. In December 2012 Prodromou started a new company, E14N.com to develop a new social media platform, Pump.io.

Prodromou is an advocate of Free and Open Source Software and Open Culture.[2] He has presented at software conferences,[3] and is the chair of the World Wide Web consortium's (W3C) Federated Social Web Community Group[4]. He also serves on the World Wide Web Consortium Social Web Working Group and he is a co-editor of ActivityPub, the W3C standard for decentralized social networking.

Evan is the son of Stav Prodromou, and is married to Michele Ann Jenkins. They have two children.

Projects

Evan Prodromou is working on or has worked on these projects:

gollark: My multi-tape audio setup.
gollark: But it can represent stuff so it sounds *roughly* right at surprisingly low bitrates.
gollark: Dynamic Filter Pulse Width Modulation, it's some weird custom codec.
gollark: I made a program which uses ffmpeg and LionRay (WAV→DFPWM encoder) to convert a bunch of music to DFPWM for tape use, and adds metadata so you can select tracks on a tape.
gollark: You can download 32 minutes of (low-quality) music onto that!

References
  1. "About Me from Evan Prodromou". Archived from the original on 27 June 2013. Retrieved 31 July 2013.
  4. "W3C Federated Social Web Incubator Group". Retrieved 31 July 2013.
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