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

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service for developers.

Biography

Prodromou was born in

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, United States, and grew up in

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and

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. He has lived in

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, and

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, and currently lives in

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. Prodromou graduated from

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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 free culture. 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, the W3C standard for decentralized social networking. Evan is the son of Stav Prodromou, 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) * Pump.io * E14N.com (formerly Control Yourself, Laconica, and StatusNet) * Identi.ca *

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 *

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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