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JanCBorchardt Jan-Christoph Borchardt

Profile Summary

I love free culture and the open web. I’m involved in free software projects such as Unhosted and ownCloud as coordinator, interface designer, developer and translator. I advocate for the decentralized social network Diaspora and curate a directory of free web services at http://libreprojects.net

Currently I travel mainly to attend conferences and meet up with great people.

Spoken languages

  • German Mother Tongue
  • English Expert
  • French Beginner
  • Hebrew Beginner
  • Arabic Can only say Welcome!

My interests

Hobbies:

cycling, barefoot running, climbing, …

Music:

Mashups, ambient, classical, …

Films:

Enter the Void, Irreversible, Memento, The Machinist, …

Organisations I belong to:

Unhosted e. V.
Students for Free Culture (SFC)
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)

Travel experiences

Past trips:

Lived in northern Germany, Stuttgart, Berlin, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem …
Short trips to Ramallah, New York City, Zurich, Brussels, The Hague, Strasbourg, London, Dublin, Prague, Brno, Unhošť, …
All around Germany, France, Poland, Netherlands (by bike), Israel, California, Florida, Crete, Morocco, …

Planned trips:

California in June–August 2012

Belongs to the following groups

Group

Berlin

I currently live in Berlin and like to know other BeWelcome people.

Group

open source, free software, creative com

If I wouldn't just have found it via a search, I would have founded it.

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Accommodation

maybe
Max number of guests:
1
I Live With:

I travel at the moment but will probably live in Stuttgart (southern Germany) in March, April & May 2012. I’ll update the hosting info then!

I can offer my hosts:

I like free culture, free software, open web, usability, photography and living freely. If you are looking for alternatives to proprietary web or desktop apps, I most probably know one.

Family and close friends

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from neo82 - 2011-01-02 13:03:45

I stumbled about Jans Website http://jancborchardt.wordpress.com/ through a link from wikipedia (it won a funding). Then we met in Berlin. Jan hosted me 2 nights. It was a nice time with Jan attending the running race "Journey through Berlin" and sp... more

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