Georg Christof Florian Greve
Georg Christof Florian Greve (born March 10, 1973 on Helgoland ) is one of the official spokespersons for the Free Software Foundation Europe .
Greve first came into contact with free software in 1993 . He was the European spokesperson for the GNU Project in 1998 , and author of the Brave GNU World monthly column on free software from 1999-2004 . In 2001 he initiated the establishment of the Free Software Foundation Europe , the first Free Software Foundation outside the United States , and was its President until 2009, when he no longer ran for office. From 2010 to 2017 he was managing director, chairman of the board of directors and then a member of the board of directors of Kolab Systems AG, Switzerland. Greve has a university degree as a graduate physicist .
Awards
In 2010, Greve was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon for its services to open standards and free software .
Web links
- Georg Greve on the FSFE website
- FSFE texts , many of them by Georg Greve
- The software fighter , portrait of Georg Greve, FAZ , 2005
- A job killer , interview, Die Zeit , 2004
- Interview with pro-linux.de from 2004
Individual evidence
- ^ GNU and Free Software Speakers , gnu.org, accessed April 28, 2010
- ↑ Brave GNU World , gnu.org, accessed April 28, 2010
- ^ SHAB: Pub. No. 3906623 from November 29, 2017
- ↑ Federal Cross of Merit for Georg Greve , pro-linux.de, April 28, 2010, accessed on April 28, 2010
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| SURNAME | Greve, Georg Christof Florian |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German physicist, President of the Free Software Foundation Europe |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 10, 1973 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Helgoland , Germany |