Benjamin Mako Hill

Benjamin Mako Hill (born December 2, 1980 ) is an American software developer and non-fiction author . As a committed activist of the free software movement , he holds an outstanding position in various fields of free software development and knowledge transfer.

Fields of activity

Benjamin Mako Hill

Hill holds a Masters Degree from the MIT Media Lab and is a Senior Researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at the MIT Sloan School of Management . He also gained an international reputation as a software developer, project manager and administrative member of various projects in the context of the open source movement. From the beginning he was involved in the development of the Debian and Ubuntu projects , about which he wrote the two most successful technical books in collaboration with other authors.

In both projects, he did not limit his involvement to the purely technical area, but is also active on the organizational level. He also supported the Debian project management on the management level with the use of funds and resources and is one of the founders of Debian Non Profit, a Debian distribution that is specially tailored to the needs of non-profit organizations . From March 2003 to July 2006 he was a member of the board of the non-profit organization Software in the Public Interest (SPI), which promoted the development of free software and which he served as vice president from 2004.

Hill is also a developer and founding member of Ubuntu , a project in which he is still a major contributor to this day. In addition to his technical tasks, for the first year and a half he also took on the role of a project community manager for the development and organization of a community of supporters around the project. To this day he is a member of the Ubuntu Community Council, an institution that oversees all non-technical aspects of the project.

Thanks to his work at the MIT Media Lab, Hill is also involved as a consultant and organizer in the One Laptop per Child initiative , which aims to improve the educational situation of children in the Third World, and he is part of his activities for open source -Community spokesman for the GNU project .

In addition to these activities as a developer and organizer of software projects, Hill works consistently and with great passion as an author and in this role published not only specialist books but also a large number of articles in magazines, newspapers and online journals. Here he often leaves the purely technical area and illuminates his topics from an anthropological and social perspective. He has a particular interest in topics that deal with questions of copyright and intellectual property . Here he has a personal concern and he finds the drive for his tireless commitment in favor of the open source and open knowledge movement, whose spiritual and social foundations he would like to see anchored on a healthy intellectual basis.

Hill has been a member of the Advisory Board of the Wikimedia Foundation for some time and is active in the Open Knowledge Foundation. In 2006 he married Mika Matsuzaki.

literature

Benjamin Mako Hill: The Official Ubuntu Book; Munich - Boston [u. a.]: Addison-Wesley; 384 pages + 1 DVD; ISBN 978-3-8273-2430-6
Benjamin Mako Hill, Jono Bacon, Corey Burger, Jonathan Jesse, Ivan Krstić: The Official Ubuntu Book. Addison-Wesley, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-8273-2620-1
Benjamin M. Hill, The Official Ubuntu Book, Prentice Hall International (2008), ISBN 978-0-13-713668-1
Benjamin M. Hill, The Official Ubuntu Server Book, Prentice Hall (2010), ISBN 978-0-13-708133-2
Benjamin M. Hill, David B. Harris, Jaldhar Vyas: Debian GNU / Linux 3.1 Bible; 2005; Hungry Minds Inc, US; 672 pages; ISBN 978-0-7645-7644-7
Benjamin Mako Hill, Hacking Knoppix, John Wiley, ISBN 978-0-7645-9784-8

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personal data
SURNAME	Hill, Benjamin Mako
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American software developer and non-fiction author
DATE OF BIRTH	2nd December 1980