Sarah is a Ruby and Rails developer from San Francisco, where she likes to take bad sienna-tinted photos with her phone and post them on Diaspora. Her 6-year-old is currently teaching her how to play Minecraft.
The future of the social web starts with you.
Diaspora* is already in the top 2% of all open source projects ever. The codebase has received over 1000 forks, over 5000 followers on GitHub, and over 300 Grassroots Volunteers
Open source is about individuality, transparency, creativity, and destiny. It is about having an idea, and making it reality. Diaspora* was founded to fulfill a passion for fun, and for making the Internet a better place. Open source is what enables us to change the world, for ourselves, and let our friends across the web benefit from our exploration.
Open source communities are amazing things. At Diaspora*, we believe that people should be valued for what they do. It does not matter if you have contributed to a project before, or are an elite open source hacker. Contributing to Diaspora* means that you get to work on hard problems, with a focus on solutions that work for users. This is why if you contribute something meaningful to Diaspora*, we will give you core commit access. We are in this together, so giving excited people the chance to make huge changes always trumps keeping control sacred.
We all make Diaspora*. We might not know you just yet, but we think you'd be a great fit for building the future of the web. You're fantastic, and you're ready to change the world.
Contributing to Diaspora* comes in all different shapes and sizes. Whether you're a user helping us find bugs, providing feedback on our mailing lists, or contributing code or design, we need you.
git clone git://github.com/diaspora/diaspora.git
We've got a large community ready to help you get started. We suggest you check out our Getting Started Guide, joining our mailing list, watching our screencasts, and hopping in the Diaspora* IRC room.
Sarah is a Ruby and Rails developer from San Francisco, where she likes to take bad sienna-tinted photos with her phone and post them on Diaspora. Her 6-year-old is currently teaching her how to play Minecraft.
David lives in Seattle, he is obsessed with cats and think they should rule the world. He will only use his Vic20 and refuses to upgrade, 16K Ram cartrages are plenty of space for anything.
Gonzalo is a web developer obsessed with clean code, eager to get to know the internals of every project he participates in. As a free and open source software advocate he tries to find himself some spare time in his busy routine to unselfishly contribute to the Diaspora project. He can be also found playing soccer in an amateur league, or playing some music on his guitar.
Ilya is a Russian. He is super passionate about building a world of hacker spaces, maker culture, sharing, cycling, and life satisfaction.
Dennis is 18, from Germany and a dude who loves hacking around and making things work. He loves web development and so he is living and working for an open web. Also he is blogging about various nerd stuff at http://dennis-schubert.de
Maxwell is one of the Diaspora four. He just wants to figure out how to make something his sister will want to use, but that might be impossible. You can see him blog at http://sourcedecay.net
Raphael is the young-wise soul of Diaspora. He currently is headed back to NYU, but he can still be seen trolling our list servs and IRC room.
Dan ll find him tweeting @OhaiBBQ.
Vittorio is Italian, and he started coding for Diaspora with his GSoC project about implementing XMPP IM and videochat. He is writing his thesis about it, while fixing some bugs.
Daniel is responsible for Diaspora's good looks and product cohesiveness. His pants are tight and his v-necks are deep.
Dan is amazing
Web communication researcher and enthusiast of open source and free software projects. Interested in free web dynamics and descentralization processes.
Kevin is an all-round community member from the Netherlands, whose particular interests lay in user support and providing feedback. He is also the founder of Diasporial. Loves autumn and indie music.
"If you want something, go get it. Period." Photography and video are what I live for, and occasional blogging/vlogging at http://www.nydtv.net.
Based in England, Rich is a Diaspora Advocate, a Grassroots Volunteer, a Forum Admin and runs @DiasporaChat on Twitter. Rich is also the official DIASPORA* diamond geezer! (London slang, see # 1 on http://diamond-geezer.urbanup.com/214110 - ha!)
He loves discussing, skiing, reading and most of all being with his family.
Mi pasión es la fotografía y la informática. A veces soy periodista y blogero. "Caer está permitido. Levantarse es obligatorio." Site: http://www.urbanbox.cl
"You must be the change you want to see in the world." PhD researcher of artificial intelligence, programmer, blogger, video-editor, astrophotographer, consciousness explorer, didgeridoo and Djembe player.
Professional nerd, coder, and friendly helping hand.
Just another italian girl, studying social psicology and loving computers, opensource and Diaspora. Loves her town, living abroad and speaking french.
Tech & gadgets, Video games, Christian music, blogging, love news and history, and keeping in the know.
Eloísa is an anthropologist in the making and a freelance photojournalist. She's also a mime and a non-stop volunteer. Her family fosters kittens. She hates spiders but finds their webs pretty.
Avid supporter of open source software and Diaspora, pizza lover, husband and father. Started DiasporaForum.org.
If being a Nerd was valued in gold, I'd be able to be drunk and living in space with 10 helper monkeys.
The http://diaspune.net/ guy, Debian maintainer, free software {advocate, contributor, community organizer, mentor}, Chamba Open Movie Project coordinator, and Swathanthra Malayalam Computing admin. http://j4v4m4n.in & http://dia.so/j4v4m4n
A history, nature, and geography geek, and proper use of the apostrophe pedant. Technically online since 1986. From San Francisco, living in Scotland.
Hi, I'm an old IT geek. Traveled the world. Seen it all. Worked in the USMC, banking, and the public sector. Now I stay on my little hunk of dirt, play guitar, write, code, and complain a lot.
Poorly drawn stickman. Based in UK.
Todor is Romanian born in Serbia and living in Chicago, USA. He is founder of The Chicago Social Media Marketing Group and active in the mobile applications development community. His food truck concept and application won 3rd place at the AT&T Hackathon for mobile applications.
Likes free software, and especially the idea of the freedombox and of course Dispora* - the decentralized social network hopefully running soon on a little debian machine under my desk...
A PhD student by day, and by night a folk and swing dancer, amateur musician, web designer, javascript hack, and alternative music notation system geek: http://twinnote.org
French student, blogging about Diaspora and Android (http://mrbugdroid.com) and fan of new technology and music
Small business owner in VA (USA) and co-host of the JimmyLee and Bambi Show on CNIRadio.com. Things that are very special important to me: family, friends, technology, science, freedom and privacy.
Idealist, writer, and information omnivore. Appreciates ethical questions, thoughtful actions, and the restorative powers of a good cup of tea.
Sean Tilley is an aspiring web developer and independent tech journalist based out of Illinois. He likes writing about Diaspora, making usability designs, and interacting with the Diaspora developer community.
Rosanna is the creator of Diaspora's iconic hand-drawn logo. When she isn't posting bodacious #hashtags on D*, you can find her skating the around the Mission, designing all the things, and teaching people young and old about fonts, colors, skating, zines, and bugs. http://rosannayau.com
Web designer, and ardent supporter of the free and open internet.
Lah-tsi not Lay-cee... designer, educator, tinkerer, makerpreneur. Co-founder @theFOGnet // Consultant UNDP // Industrial Permaculture // Papa of two. http://www.lacividemsky.com/ http://the-fog.net/ @lacividemsky
Art director, designer, developer and partner at Trasaterra, a design and branding studio in Dumbo, Brooklyn (http://trasaterra.com). Open source lover. WordPresser. A writer of songs and sometimes performer. Audiofile via Rdio. Slow blogger (http://jasonpaul.net). A believer in Diaspora.
CEO / Graphic Designer of Zangaroo Designs