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Christine Lemmer-Webber
Born26 September 1984 Edit this on Wikidata
Websitehttps://dustycloud.org Edit this on Wikidata

Christine Lemmer-Webber (born 26 September 1984[1]) is a 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

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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

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Christine was raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and resides in Easthampton, Massachusetts[relevant?] 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

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  1. ^ a b "About me". 6 July 2023.
  2. ^ "Meet the Team". Retrieved 9 January 2024.
  3. ^ a b Schulman, Ross (13 December 2023). "Spritely and Veilid: Exciting Projects Building the Peer-to-Peer Web". Electronic Frontier Foundation DeepLinks. Retrieved 10 January 2024.
  4. ^ "Organizational changes at the Spritely Institute". 25 April 2024.
  5. ^ a b c "Who are you, and what do you do?". 11 July 2017. Retrieved 9 January 2024.
  6. ^ "Christine Lemmer Webber on MediaGoblin and ActivityPub". 26 May 2018.
  7. ^ Byfield, Bruce (9 October 2012). "MediaGoblin: Saving the Internet Through Federation". Linux Magazine. Retrieved 10 January 2024.
  8. ^ Open Source Awards - OSCON 2015. O'Reilly Media. 24 July 2015. Retrieved 10 January 2024 – via YouTube.
  9. ^ Lemmer-Webber, Christine; Tallon, Jessica; Shepherd, Erin; Guy, Amy; Prodromou, Evan (23 January 2018). Lemmer-Webber, Christine; Tallon, Jessica (eds.). "ActivityPub W3C Recommendation 28 January 2018". Retrieved 10 January 2024.
  10. ^ "Looks Like New: How did open social media platforms originate?". KGNU. 22 June 2023. Retrieved 10 January 2024.
  11. ^ Collier, Kevin (14 December 2023). "Zuckerberg says Threads will dip its toe in the 'fediverse' as it opens to Europe". NBC News. Retrieved 10 January 2024.
  12. ^ Pierce, David (20 April 2023). "Can ActivityPub save the internet?". The Verge. Retrieved 10 January 2024.
  13. ^ Klemens, Ben (1 January 2023). "Mastodon—and the pros and cons of moving beyond Big Tech gatekeepers". Ars Technica. Retrieved 10 January 2024.
  14. ^ "Christine Lemmer-Webber: Transitional reflections". 20 December 2023. Retrieved 9 January 2024.
  15. ^ Lemmer-Webber, Christine (31 May 2010). "1st year anniversary (and an upcoming move)". DustyCloud.org. Retrieved 2024-11-01.
  16. ^ "Announcing FOSS and Crafts". 14 July 2020. Retrieved 2024-11-01.
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