SeaGL 2025

Evan Prodromou

Originally based in San Francisco, hacker and entrepreneur Evan Prodromou now lives in Montreal where he is the Research Director at the Social Web Foundation, where he helps develop and promote the ActivityPub standard.

A passionate advocate of Open Source and Open Content, Evan is best known for founding the Free travel guide project, Wikitravel. He is the Chair of the W3C Social Web Working Group and the author of ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web (O’Reilly Media).


Your web links

https://evanp.me/


Session

11-07
09:10
30min
Free the Social Web
Evan Prodromou

As Free and Open Source Software enthusiasts, we sometimes concentrate on our own experiences with software, hardware and data. But in the world of social networks, our own computing is deeply intertwined with that of our friends and family, colleagues and neighbours. Open Web standards let us stay connected to people that matter to us while using and building free, private, and technically enhanced systems. And we might even change some hearts and minds along the way!

Keynote
Room 145