Jury Members
Our Jury
Participants in Youth Hacking 4 Freedom come from very different backgrounds with different skills. Our jury ensures that every project is evaluated fairly.
Carmen Bianca Bakker
Carmen Bianca Bakker is a Free Software activist and cooperator at a Brussels worker cooperative, where she writes Free Software solutions for the Belgian and European social economy. With the FSFE, she co-maintains the REUSE project to help people freely license their software. She has translated a large portion of GNOME to Esperanto, and maintains various packages for the Fedora community. Her main fields of interest are copyright and licensing, languages, documentation, and contributing to the common good, in technology and elsewhere.
Klaus Knopper
Klaus Knopper holds a master's degree in Electrical Engineering. In his main occupation at the University of Kaiserslautern, he works as professor for software engineering and is Vice President with focus on digitalization. He is also active as a software developer in Open Source system programming and accessibility. One of his better known projects is Knoppix, a self-contained GNU/Linux live system running without installation.
Thorsten Behrens
Thorsten is a software engineer by education and Free Software lover by heart, contributing to Open Source and Open Standards for over 20 years now. He is one of the founders of the LibreOffice project, currently serving on The Document Foundation's board, and runs his Free Software consultancy allotropia GmbH as a day job.
Vincent Lequertier
Vincent Lequertier is a PhD candidate at the Claude Bernard university in Lyon, France, researching artificial intelligence for healthcare. During his spare time, he volunteers for the Free Software Foundation Europe, where he helps advance Software Freedom.
Nicole Faerber
Nicole Faerber is an engineer and Free Software entrepreneur. She shares a special interest in embedded devices' hard- and software. Throughout her professional career Free Software has played a crucial role for her. In 1994 she submitted her first commit to the Linux kernel and ever since has contributed to Free Software projects. Nicole founded her first company in 1999 and has continuously worked in the field of Free Software. Currently she is overseeing the FOSS governance and compliance program at Mercedes Benz (Germany). Nicole works every day to make Free Software the best it can be from development to application.
Alexios Zavras
Alexios Zavras (zvr) is the Senior Open Source Compliance Engineer of Intel Corp. He has been involved with Free Software since 1983, and is an evangelist for all things Open. He is an active participant in a number of industry-wide efforts around compliance issues. He has a PhD in Computer Science after having studied Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in Greece and the United States.
micu
micu (Michael Voigt) works as a software engineer in Berlin and has been championing Free Software for over 10 years now. He is one of the main developers of the free Berlin-Vegan Guide app for SailfishOS, Android and iOS. His main fields of interest are IT security, privacy and pro audio software.
Amandine "cryptie" Jambert
Amandine "cryptie" Jambert has been working in privacy for 15 years and volunteering at the FSFE for 10 years. Since her PhD thesis in cryptography for privacy, she has been working in the public sector as an IT/Privacy specialist. In parallel, she regularly volunteers for the FSFE. In particular, she has been a deputy-coordinator for translation into French from 2014 to 2023 and a GA member from 2017 to 2023.
Aleix Pol i Gonzàlez
Aleix Pol i Gonzàlez has been collaborating with KDE since 2007. He started working in software development in the KDE Education area and KDevelop. Aleix joined the KDE e.V. board of directors in 2014. In his day-job, he is employed by Blue Systems where he has worked with other parts of the community including Plasma and Qt.
Nikos Roussos
Nikos is a Software Engineer currently working mostly on projects that focus on decentralization and privacy, but also on climate justice and sustainability. He is the FSFE coordinator for Greece.
Brielen Madureira
Brielen Madureira (MSc, PhD) is a researcher in computational linguistics. With a background in applied mathematics, she is very interested in evaluation and ethical considerations of language technologies. Also loves learning and helping others to learn.
Harald Welte
Harald Welte is the founder of the Free Software project Osmocom and was formerly involved in netfilter/iptables, the Openmoko project, and did GNU GPL compliance work with gplviolations.org.
Marvin W
Marvin has been contributing to free software for more than 10 years, with a focus on Android and federated encrypted messaging. He's the developer of microG and a member of the XMPP Standards Foundation.
Sofía Aritz
Sofía Aritz has been advocating for software freedom ever since starting to tinker with computers. Seeing technology as a tool for social transformation, she is working on Free Software projects such as Munin, which aims to support dementia and palliative care. After becoming one of the winners of the third edition of Youth Hacking 4 Freedom, she has been an active contributor to the FSFE's activities.