Andy Piper
Last Sunday, I had the pleasure and honour of delivering a keynote at the (milestone!) 20th edition of FrOSCon in Sankt Augustin, Germany. My colleague David (one of the core developers on the Mastodon team) was one of the original founders of FrOSCon all the way back when it started, and the...
Andy Piper
A couple of weeks ago, I was on a panel at the PublicSpaces conference in Amsterdam. PublicSpaces was an event I’d been tracking for a while, but this was my first opportunity to be there in person. It was a delight to discover that my friend Ian Forrester has been to the last five iterations...
Andy Piper
I’ve worked in tech for many years, and one of the events that has been a constant part of the calendar is SXSW. I remember signing up for Twitter back in 2007 just after I heard about it while chatting in Roo Reynolds’ office at IBM, from a visitor who had been at SXSW where it first took off...
Andy Piper
I’m currently in Taipei – my first visit to Taiwan. This week I’m attending RightsCon 2025, along with my friend Felix from the Mastodon core team. It is a critical time for digital human rights (and for all human rights, privacy, and the future of online communities – and so, so many other...