Things I do:
I put a good part of my time and energy into the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE). I started there as an intern in early 2005. Ever since, the topic of Free Software has fascinated me. So has working in the company of extremely smart and dedicated people. Which is why I'm proud to be part of FSFE.
I run a private blog at fsfe.org, and I contribute to one at work. Both centre on Access to Knowledge; yet besides the fact that the private one is obviously more personal, it covers a wider range of topics. The work blog, on the other hand, is more serious and has several other contributors beside me.
private blog
work blog
Reading
I wrote my Master's thesis on "Access to Knowledge in a Network Society". If you're looking for a comprehensive introduction to the topic of Access to Knowledge (A2K), this may not be a bad place to start. If I were to re-edit it now, I'd do a few things differently, but I'm pretty satisfied with it. Read the abstract and download the .pdf file (600 kB). Or download the LaTeX source (420 kB, tar.gz) and take advantage of the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike license by ripping, sampling, mashing and sharing it. And, by all means, improve upon it, print a million books, sell them for a hundred dollars each and be mighty happy for it.
Abstract
.pdf (600kB)
LaTeX source (420 kB)
License
Personal info
My
email is karsten
at nearlyfreespeech dot org. You're welcome to write to me, but please
refrain
from sending me Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel
documents. Better use the Open
Document
Format or convert them to
text, PDF or HTML. Here's
why
My GnuPG key is here, in case you'd like to send me something that you'd prefer only you and I read. The key ID is 646C 2E0C. The most comfortable way to use it is probably to get yourself a shell and type
$ gpg --recv-key 646C2E0C