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Over the last 20 years I have worked on:- cooperative and commons-based social, collaborative and meeting platforms - business models, user centred design, shared knowledge and governance, co-production and revenue strategies to encourage a commons collaborative economy- communities around open source, clouds and Internet of Things- organisational methodologies focused on openness, transparency, self-organisationSome projects I’ve worked on:- co-created Meet.coop, The Online Meeting Cooperative, a meeting and conferencing platform powered by BigBlueButton, stewarded by co-operatives across the world.- tech-lead of the Cities for Change conference programme by Amsterdam City- initiated CommonsCloud.coop: cooperative cloud services based in mature open source webapps for storing, sharing and collaborating online on files, calendars, contacts, projects, tasks etc.- initiated La Comunificadora: the Commons Collaborative Economy startup suppport programme from Barcelona City / BarcelonaActiva. The municipal programme has run in 4 editions with over 50 early-stage start-up projects that have received training, mentoring, support following the Five Pillar Framework.- created the Five Pillar Framework for Open Business Models and commons sustainability models, user centred design, shared knowledge and governance, co-production and revenue strategies.- participated in the Digital DIY EC research project for a human centred digital age, to research legal, ethical and business aspects of co-creative open sourced processes around FabLabs in the convergence of bits and atoms.- 2017, co-founded the multistakeholder cooperative femProcomuns in Barcelona, offering a platform for cooperative commons projects.- initiated The Things Network in Catalonia as a community network around the Internet of Things and Long Range (LoRa) wireless networks.- directed the Free Technology Academy- 2009, co-organised the Free Culture Forum in Barcelona- 2007, co-founded the Free Knowledge Institute, a foundation based in Amsterdam promoting shared knowledge in all areas of society, from Free Software, Open Educational Resources, Free Culture, Open Access, Open Source Hardware to the Commons Collaborative Economy and Open Source Circular Economy.- 2002 – 2009, have been running my own multilingual webapp company, xlocal.com.- In the 1990’s, trained as an engineer with a master in Production and Operations Management, and worked as internal consultant in organisations from large to small in Europe and abroad.
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Senior Expert Digital Commons And SovereigntyCommons NetworkNetherlands
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DirectorPublicspaces Oct 2022 - Dec 2023Hilversum, NlI have led the PublicSpaces foundation in the Netherlands as its first director, building up the team, annual income and organisational structure. PublicSpaces is a non-profit network organisation facilitating a public values driven transition to a collective, open internet.* strategy development with team, board and partner network* rollout of a democratic governance model granting partners formal participation* extending the partner network and mobilising a growing international network* professionalising of the organisation moving to inhouse financial management, an own ERP system (Odoo), HR policies, recruiting new team members and building a well operating team* fundraising from partner contributions, Dutch ministries, public and private funds* achieved status of charity by Dutch fiscal authorities
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PresidentFree Knowledge Institute (Fki) 2007 - PresentAmsterdam, NlThe Free Knowledge Institute (FKI) is a non-profit organisation that fosters the free exchange of knowledge in all areas of society. It starts from the conviction that knowledge should be accessible and reusable without restrictions. Inspired by the Free Software movement, the FKI promotes freedom of use, modification, copying and distribution of knowledge.The FKI develops projects in four different but highly related fields: education, information technology, culture and science. Its multidisciplinary nature enables the seamless flow of information and expertise between different fields through global and transversal actions. -
Operational MemberMeet.Coop The Online Meeting Cooperative May 2020 - Sep 2023meet.coop is an online meeting platform for and by cooperative members, protective of privacy running on renewable energy, libre software, open source and solidarity. Many social movements demand for ethical platform services. We provide that in the online meeting domain.My role has been to bring together the founding members and facilitate the collective startup process, as an informal project coordinator. The initial process ranged from defining the minimum viable product, to key governance structures with consent-based operational circles to a democratic and pragmatic compensation framework. The core team was staffed from a group of Operational members. Furthermore a dozen Collaborator members contributed in kind, mainly work or servers. And from all membership classes a Board of Stewards was selected to set the high level strategy for the collective.I worked on expanding the network, bringing new members on board, improve the services and organisation. While the funding situation was really limited, it has been a unique experience to build up and work with this network of value driven member organisations in Europe and North America. With so much positive energy to build this collective effort into a thrivable platform.
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Initiator And Co-OrganiserThe Things Network Catalonia Nov 2015 - Oct 2022We are on a mission to build a global open crowdsourced Internet of Things data network.Together we plan to cover the entire city of Barcelona and surroundings with LoRa data connectivity with free access. Members are putting their LoRaWAN infrastructure in commons to form this open network based on the same principles as the guifi.net community network.We think it is beneficial for all participants to share and form a bigger network than each of us could do individually, and work together on assuring an encrypted, privacy-respecting infrastructure. At the same time this proves to be a great learning environment to share and develop together new usecases and applications.After TTN started in Amsterdam summer 2015, we started gathering in Barcelona and formed TTN Catalunya. We have had many community meetings, dozens of training sessions, run a pilot programme with the City of Barcelona (2018), organised two hackatons etc.We develop TTN.cat as an informal community to which all organisations and members can contribute as they see fit. When necessary we have three organisations that function as legal umbrella: the Free Knowledge Institute, the Guifi.net Foundation and femProcomuns.coop with whom we work to cooperativise the network, as the XOIC - the open community for the internet of things in Catalan.
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Tech Coordinator Cities For Change ForumCity Of Amsterdam Nov 2020 - Jun 2021Amsterdam, Www.Amsterdam.Nl, NlThe Cities for Change was an online forum that took place between March and June 2021, exploring the city of the future and highlighting the negative parts of our current economy: climate crisis, housing shortage, growing inequality in wealth and power, and more recently: the corona crisis. However, change is coming from cities, neighbourhoods and districts all over the world. Here a movement is growing and flourishing for a social, just and sustainable society in which well-being and solidarity are at its centre. The Cities for Change forum has brought together 2.785 participants, 136 organisations, collectives and networks through 59 live events over a period of 12 weeks, to share, inspire, learn from each other, connect and work together.My role has been to design a solution for making this happen online (November - December 2020) and then to coordinate its deployment and operation and train key people in its usage and transfer knowledge to share the administration of the various platforms.Our solution consisted of Decidim for running online democracy groups and the online forum, with live online conferences hosted on a dedicated server by The Online Meeting Cooperative (meet.coop), pipelining live streaming to the Decidim platform. We have deployed the Decidim platform for direct democracy and online conferences with the help of Platoniq, experts in Decidim. Together with them we have customised the default platform and provided several improvements that have been fed back to the core software team. With the Amsterdam team we have run several training sessions and helped specific groups to run their own groups inside the platform.The meet.coop team has developed a live streaming extension to their BigBlueButton platform, that allowed us to have session hosts run their conference room and stream it to Vimeo (or Youtube, ...) and from there live into the Decidim platform. -
Co-FounderFemprocomuns – Multistakeholder Cooperative Jul 2017 - Sep 2020Multistakeholder cooperative with workers, collaborators and user members that aims to be a platform for commons-based projects, organised in cooperativised groups of activity. My role has been to co-create and help set up the foundations of this collective project including the set up of collective economic management with Odoo, management of several online communication services, now managed through the administration commitee and the systems commitee. Participation in cooperativised groups of activity:- CommonsCloud.coop : conception (2017), crowdfunding and beta platform go live (2018), shared and dedicated services based on Discourse, NextCloud, Phabricator, LimeSurvey, WordPress for individual and organisational user members (2019).- Transitioning to the Commons Economy: training and support programmes for transitioning to the commons. Ideation of the Five Pillar framework for commons collaborative sustainability models and iterative refinement (2016-2020).- Comunificadora: a collaborative commons economy support programme by Barcelona Activa, the city’s economic development agency; conception and co-production of the first editions (2016-2020) with participation of over 50 projects co-creating their sustainability model, with training, mentoring at the early stages of development.- XOIC: the open network for the Internet of Things is our initiative to cooperativise The Things Network in Catalonia: the driving team has run a pilot programme with support from Barcelona City and a dozen companies, research centres, BCN Fablab, social organisations and schools to extend the LoRa network, provide training workshops focused on technical capacity building and social workshops to connect sector specific needs with collective action. Projects have been realised with various municipalities to set up local networks, deploy sensors and provide cloud services based on Grafana, InfluxDB, Node-Red, Snap!, Sentilo etc.
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Openerp / Odoo ConsultantFreelance May 2013 - May 2015I help small and medium-sized organisations to be lean, agile and efficient, drawing on the global knowledge commons of enterprise best practices and free software solutions. In particular Odoo (the new OpenERP), as most mature and powerful free (as in freedom) ERP framework. Alone and in partnership I perform from process analysis to implementation and training. I have worked together with Therp ERP consultants in Amsterdam and OpenTIA in Spain.
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P2Pvalue Case StudiesUniversitat Autònoma De Barcelona Mar 2014 - Oct 2014Bellaterra (Cerdanyola Del Vallès), Barcelona, EsP2Pvalue.eu was an EC funded research project to study commons-based peer production platforms and distill design criteria. My role was to help define the research methodology and research over 100 of the 300 case studies under the leadership of Mayo Fuster. We discussed the outcomes with scholars such as Yochai Benkler, professor at Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. Results can be found at https://directory.p2pvalue.eu/ -
DirectorFree Technology Academy Oct 2008 - May 2012Internet, NlThe Free Technology Academy (FTA) is a joint initiative from several educational institutes in various countries. It aims to contribute to a society that permits all users to study, participate and build upon existing knowledge without restrictions.The FTA offers an online master level programme with course modules about Free Technologies. Learners can choose to enrol in an individual course or register for the whole programme. Tuition takes place online in the FTA virtual campus and is performed by teaching staff from the partner universities. Credits obtained in the FTA programme are recognised by these universities. The full master programme can be concluded at one of the universities.The FTA was funded in the EC's Lifelong Learning Programme from end 2008 till end 2010 and continues as a global network and learning community, led by the Free Knowledge Institute. -
OwnerXlocal.Com Dec 2001 - 2009Services for Free Software applications.
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Initiator & Ec Project CoordinatorSelf Education Platform Jun 2005 - Oct 2008SELF - Science, Education and Learning in Freedom - was a R&D project funded under the European Commission's Sixth Framework Programme. The goals was to design and prototype an online platform for the collaborative construction of educational materials, in particular to advance learning about Free Software and Open Standards. The project was realised by an international consortium, distributed over 3 continents, of universities and non-profit organisations all working in the field of Free Software.
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Founder Of Free Software Working GroupInternet Society Netherlands Jul 2004 - Feb 2007With the Free Software working group we gave advice to policymakers, organised seminars and debates about the future of the information society in The Netherlands. In 2005 the group set up a popular petition to introduce Open Standards and Free Software in public administrations. The petition was offered to the Dutch Parliament with representatives from all major parties. See: http://opensource.petities.nl/
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Project Manager Best Practice Re-EngineeringTnt International Express 1998 - 2000Visiting local Express depots in Europe and Canada I worked with the local management to analyse and compare their operation with best practices of comparable depots in the TNT network. At the end of a 4-5 week period we finished with a set of recommendations and implementation plan to improve the depot's results and service level.
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