Benjamin Mako Hill
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Benjamin Mako Hill (born December 2, 1980) is a Debian hacker and author of the Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 Bible (ISBN 0-7645-7644-5) and "The Official Ubuntu Book" (ISBN 0-13-243594-2). He currently works in the Computing Culture group of the MIT Media Lab, and is on the boards of Software Freedom International (the organization that organizes Software Freedom Day), the Wikimedia Foundation advisory board and the Ubuntu Foundation. Hill is known within the hacker community for his essays and innovative package-name poetry.
Hill was on the board of Software in the Public Interest from March 2003 until July 2006, serving as the organisation's vice-president from August 2004.
[edit] External links
- Personal website
- Copyrighteous — personal weblog
- “Story of unlearning” — essay on becoming a hacker
- http://freedomdefined.org
- Announcement of Hill's election to the SPI board
- Minutes of meeting appointing Hill as Vice-President of SPI
- Hill's statement on stepping down from the SPI board
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