Introduction: Ben Werdmuller

Hi all,

Apologies for missing the call yesterday. I was in the air.
Nonetheless, I figure I'd better announce my presence:

I'm Ben Werdmuller, currently based in Edinburgh, Scotland, but
imminently relocating to the San Francisco Bay Area.

I was the technical co-founder of an open source social networking
project called Elgg, which started in the elearning world but these
days has a much wider userbase, including as an intranet platform. Our
initial versions, in 2004/05, experimented with various federation /
open web tactics, including a traffic light verification scheme for
OpenID domains and profile import/export via FOAF (!).

I left the project a few years ago, and for a while was unable to work
on social networking projects. However, that limitation is no longer
present, and there's a lot I want to do. I'm CTO of a company called
latakoo, whose video project will grow to embrace the open, social
web, and I'm in the planning stages of a new open source social
software project called idno. I'm also the Geek in Residence at the
Edinburgh Festivals, including the world's largest arts festival, and
they have a strong interest in facilitating short-term social networks
around their events and resources.

I'm very much looking forward to participating in this group.

Ben

-- 
Ben Werdmuller von Elgg

Web: http://benwerd.com/
Twitter: @benwerd
Phone: +44 7773 385 490

Received on Wednesday, 9 March 2011 17:55:16 UTC