Benjamin Mako Hill is a free software activist, hacker, author and professor. He has been an active member of the Debian project since 1999, serving as a delegate of the Debian Project Leader and founding Debian Non-Profit, a custom distribution for small non-profit organizations, and he served on the board of Software in the Public Interest from March 2003 until July 2006. He is a core developer and founding member of Ubuntu, where he was community manager during the project's first year and a half while working full-time for Canonical, and he co-wrote The Official Ubuntu Book (2006), The Official Ubuntu Server Book (2010) and the Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 Bible (2005). He is the author of the Free Software Project Management HOWTO, has published academic work on free and open-source software and on online communities, and is an associate professor in Communication at the University of Washington and a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award.
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Contribution Kind Notable Work Notable WorkFree Software Project Management HOWTO 1 Connections
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Hill is also a core developer and founding member of Ubuntu
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He is the author of the Free Software Project Management HOWTO, the canonical document on managing Free and open-source software (FOSS) projects
Debian
is a founder and coordinator of Debian Non-Profit, a Debian custom distribution designed to fill the needs of small non-profit organizations
In Group: Operating Systems Software, Debian, in-group
Since 1999, Hill has been an active member of Debian.
Affiliated With: University of Washington, Affiliation, university-of-washington
Hill is an associate professor in Communication at the University of Washington.
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