Christine Lemmer-Webber
Christine Lemmer-Webber | |
|---|---|
| Born | Christopher Allan Webber September 26, 1984 |
| Works | MediaGoblin |
| Website | dustycloud |
Christine Lemmer-Webber (born September 26, 1984)[1] is an American software engineer, best known for her lead authorship and co-editorship of ActivityPub. She is currently the Executive Director at Spritely Institute.[2][3][4]
Career
In the early 2000s, Christine was tech lead for Creative Commons.[5]
In 2011, Christine co-founded GNU MediaGoblin,[5][6][7] for which she won the O'Reilly Open Source Award in 2015.[8]
Christine was lead author and co-editor of the 2018 ActivityPub standard,[9] a W3C standard for decentralized federated social networking.[5][10][11][12][13] It is most well-known for being the framework of Fediverse platforms such as Mastodon, Lemmy and PeerTube among others.
She currently works on the Spritely distributed application framework being built by the Spritely Institute.[3]
Personal life
Christine was raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and resides in Easthampton, Massachusetts as of July 2023.[1] She came out as nonbinary in 2020, and then as a trans woman in 2021.[14]
Christine has been married to Morgan Lemmer-Webber since 2009.[15] The two host the podcast FOSS and Crafts together.[16]
References
- ^ a b "About me". July 6, 2023.
- ^ "Meet the Team". Retrieved January 9, 2024.
- ^ a b Schulman, Ross (December 13, 2023). "Spritely and Veilid: Exciting Projects Building the Peer-to-Peer Web". Electronic Frontier Foundation DeepLinks. Retrieved January 10, 2024.
- ^ "Organizational changes at the Spritely Institute". April 25, 2024.
- ^ a b c "Who are you, and what do you do?". July 11, 2017. Retrieved January 9, 2024.
- ^ "Christine Lemmer Webber on MediaGoblin and ActivityPub". May 26, 2018.
- ^ Byfield, Bruce (October 9, 2012). "MediaGoblin: Saving the Internet Through Federation". Linux Magazine. Retrieved January 10, 2024.
- ^ Open Source Awards - OSCON 2015. O'Reilly Media. July 24, 2015. Retrieved January 10, 2024 – via YouTube.
- ^ ; Tallon, Jessica; Shepherd, Erin; Guy, Amy; Prodromou, Evan (January 23, 2018). ; Tallon, Jessica (eds.). "ActivityPub W3C Recommendation 28 January 2018". Retrieved January 10, 2024.
- ^ "Looks Like New: How did open social media platforms originate?". KGNU. June 22, 2023. Retrieved January 10, 2024.
- ^ Collier, Kevin (December 14, 2023). "Zuckerberg says Threads will dip its toe in the 'fediverse' as it opens to Europe". NBC News. Retrieved January 10, 2024.
- ^ Pierce, David (April 20, 2023). "Can ActivityPub save the internet?". The Verge. Retrieved January 10, 2024.
- ^ Klemens, Ben (January 1, 2023). "Mastodon—and the pros and cons of moving beyond Big Tech gatekeepers". Ars Technica. Retrieved January 10, 2024.
- ^ "Christine Lemmer-Webber: Transitional reflections". December 20, 2023. Retrieved January 9, 2024.
- ^ Lemmer-Webber, Christine (May 31, 2010). "1st year anniversary (and an upcoming move)". DustyCloud.org. Retrieved November 1, 2024.
- ^ "Announcing FOSS and Crafts". July 14, 2020. Retrieved November 1, 2024.