Evan Prodromou

Evan S. Prodromou (born 14 October 1968^[1]) is a software developer and open source advocate. He is a co-editor of ActivityPub, the W3C standard for decentralized social networking used by platforms such as Mastodon.

Evan Prodromou
Evan Prodromou
Born	(1968-10-14) 14 October 1968 (age 55) Cincinnati, Ohio
Nationality	American
Spouse	Michele Ann Jenkins

His other major contributions have been Wikitravel (with Michele Ann Jenkins), Identi.ca, and StatusNet, and Fuzzy.ai, an artificial intelligence service for developers.

Biography

Prodromou was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, and grew up in Texas and California. He has lived in Amsterdam, San Francisco, and Lisbon, and currently lives in Montreal.

Prodromou graduated from University of California, Berkeley in 1990 (Physics, English), and worked for Microsoft and various Web development companies in the late 1990s. In 2003 he started Wikitravel, and in 2007 founded Control Yourself, which developed the software for Identi.ca, a microblogging service. Control Yourself was renamed to Laconica, StatusNet in 2010, and finally to GNU social in 2012. In December 2012 Prodromou started a new company,^{[citation needed]} E14N.com, to develop a new social media platform, Pump.io, a follow-up to StatusNet.

Prodromou is an advocate of Free and Open Source Software and free culture.^[2] He has presented at software conferences,^[3] and is the chair of the World Wide Web consortium's (W3C) Federated Social Web Community Group.^[4]

Evan is the son of Stav Prodromou, and is married to Michele Ann Jenkins. They have two children.

Projects

Evan Prodromou is working on or has worked on these projects:

• https://www.openearth.org/
• fuzzy.ai
• Breather (company)
• Pump.io
• E14N.com (formerly Control Yourself, Laconica, and StatusNet)
• Identi.ca
• Wikitravel
• Vinismo
• kei.ki
• certifi.ca
• Heat.net

Publications

• Prodromou, Evan (2024). ActivityPub. O'Reilly Media, Inc. ISBN 9781098169466.

References

1. "About Me from Evan Prodromou". Archived from the original on 27 June 2013. Retrieved 31 July 2013.
2. • Brockmeier, Joe (10 March 2010). "Evan Prodromou Speaks on the Future of StatusNet". OStatic. Archived from the original on 24 March 2016. Retrieved 31 July 2013.
   • Adhikari, Richard (22 June 2010). "Let's Deep-Six Facebook and Do Open Source Social Networking Instead - Pro: Evan Prodromou". LinuxInsider. Retrieved 31 July 2013.
   • Behrenshausen, Bryan (15 July 2013). "Interview with Evan Prodromou, lead developer of pump.io". opensource.com. Retrieved 31 July 2013.
3. • "Speaker: Evan Prodromou: OSCON 2011 - O'Reilly Conferences, July 25 - 29, 2011, Portland, OR". Archived from the original on 29 June 2011. Retrieved 31 July 2010.
   • "Open Source Microblogging with Laconica / Open Source Bridge: The conference for open source citizens / June 18-21, 2013 / Portland, OR". Archived from the original on 4 June 2013. Retrieved 31 July 2013.
4. "W3C Federated Social Web Incubator Group". Retrieved 31 July 2013.

External links

• Official website, archived 2016-08-18
• Evan Prodromou on Twitter
• Evan Prodromou on Mastodon
• Evan Prodromou at IMDb