Evan S. Prodromou (born 14 October 1968) is a software developer and

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advocate. His major contributions have been

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(with Michele Ann Jenkins),

Identi.ca identi.ca was a free and open-source social networking and blogging service based on the pump.io software, using the Activity Streams protocol. Identi.ca stopped accepting new registrations in 2013, but continues to operate alongside several o ...

, and StatusNet. In 2015, he launched Fuzzy.ai, an

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service for developers.

Biography

Prodromou was born in

Cincinnati, Ohio Cincinnati ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Hamilton County. Settled in 1788, the city is located at the northern side of the confluence of the Licking and Ohio rivers, the latter of which marks the state line wit ...

, United States, and grew up in

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and

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. He has lived in

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San Francisco San Francisco (; Spanish language, Spanish for "Francis of Assisi, Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the List of Ca ...

, and

Lisbon Lisbon (; pt, Lisboa ) is the capital and largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 544,851 within its administrative limits in an area of 100.05 km2. Grande Lisboa, Lisbon's urban area extends beyond the city's administr ...

, and currently lives in

Montreal Montreal ( ; officially Montréal, ) is the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, second-most populous city in Canada and List of towns in Quebec, most populous city in the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian ...

. Prodromou graduated from

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

in 1990 (Physics, English), and worked for Microsoft and various Web development companies in the late 1990s. In 2003 he started

, and in 2007 founded Control Yourself, which developed the software for Identi.ca, a microblogging service. Control Yourself was renamed to Laconica, StatusNet in 2010, and finally to GNU social in 2012. In December 2012 Prodromou started a new company, E14N.com, to develop a new social media platform, Pump.io. Prodromou is an advocate of

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and

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. He has presented at software conferences, and is the chair of the

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consortium's (W3C) Federated Social Web Community Group. He also serves on the

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br>Social Web Working Group
and he is a co-editor of

ActivityPub ActivityPub is an open, decentralized social networking protocol based on Pump.io's ActivityPump protocol. It provides a client/server API for creating, updating, and deleting content, as well as a federated server-to-server API for deliver ...

, the W3C standard for decentralized social networking. Evan is the son of

Stav Prodromou Stavro Evangelo "Stav" Prodromou ( gr, Σταύρος Ευάγγελος Προδρομου) (born May 30, 1944) is a Greek American businessman, and the founder and former chief executive officer of Poqet Computer Corporation. Prodromou has serve ...

, and is married to Michele Ann Jenkins. They have two children.

Projects

Evan Prodromou is working on or has worked on these projects: * fuzzy.ai *

Breather (company) Breather is a flexible workspace provider based in Montreal, Canada. History Breather was founded by Caterina Rizzi and Julien Smith, the company's CEO. The idea came from Smith when he traveled and found himself working in various coffee shop ...

Pump.io Pump.io (pronounced "pump eye-oh") is a general-purpose activity streams engine that can be used as a federated social networking protocol which "does most of what people really want from a social network". Started by Evan Prodromou, it is a fo ...

* E14N.com (formerly Control Yourself, Laconica, and StatusNet) *

Vinismo Vinismo.com was a website with the goal of having a free, complete, up-to-date, and reliable guide of all wine regions and producers in the world. It was founded in April, 2007 by Evan Prodromou and launched on July 24, 2007. It used the MediaWiki ...

* kei.ki * certifi.ca *

Heat.net SegaSoft, originally headquartered in Redwood City, California and later San Francisco, was a joint venture by Sega and CSK (Sega's majority stockholder at the time), created in 1995 to develop and publish games for the PC and Sega Saturn, prim ...

References

External links

Official website
archived 2016-08-18 *
Evan Prodromou
on

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Prodromou, Evan 1968 births Living people American computer programmers Free software programmers People from Cincinnati American people of Greek descent