Christine Lemmer-Webber | |
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| Born | 26 September 1984  |
| Website | https://dustycloud.org |
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 CTO at Spritely Institute. [2] [3]
In the early 2000s, Christine was tech lead for Creative Commons. [4]
In 2011, Christine co-founded GNU MediaGoblin, [4] [5] [6] for which she won the O'Reilly Open Source Award in 2015. [7]
Christine was lead author and co-editor of the 2018 ActivityPub standard, [8] a W3C standard for decentralized federated social networking. [4] [9] [10] [11] [12] 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]
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. [13]
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