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Georg C. F. Greve
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Georg C. F. Greve (born 10 March 1973 in Helgoland, Germany) is initiator and president of the Free Software Foundation Europe.
His responsibilities include European/Global coordination and planning for the FSF (Europe), supporting the local representatives in their work, working on political and legal issues as well as projects and giving speeches or informing journalists to spread knowledge about free software.
He spends most of his time travelling and when travelling to give a talk he often stays a few days in the host country to meet the members of the local free software organisations and community.
Georg Greve has a degree of Physics in biophysics, with physical oceanography and astronomy as minor fields of study from the computer science department of the University of Hamburg. His interdisciplinary diploma thesis was written in the field of nanotechnology.
Greve's first software development was when he was 12 years old. His first publication of a program was in a professional journal in 1991, it partly financed his studies when he managed the software development to evaluate SQUID-sensor data in the biomagnetometic laboratory in the University hospital of Eppendorf (UKE) in Hamburg, Germany.
In 1993 he discovered free software, the GNU Project and Linux. In 1998, he was the European speaker for the GNU Project and began writing the “Brave GNU World,” a monthly column on free software published on the Internet in as many as 10 languages, and in international magazines including the German Linux-Magazin.
In early 2001, he initiated the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE or FSF Europe), the first Free Software Foundation outside the United States of America and, as of 2007, the only transnational Free Software Foundation. Greve was invited as an expert to the “Commission on Intellectual Property Rights” of the UK government and represented the coordination circle of German Civil Society during the first phase of the United Nations (UN) World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) as part of the German governmental delegation. He has also networked with the Civil Society working groups on European level as well as for the thematic working group on patents, copyrights, trademarks (PCT) and free software.
- Georg Greve's FSFE team page
- Georg Greve's Personal Home Page
- Georg Greve's Blog
- Video interview with Georg Greve during the UN WSIS Contributory Conference on ICT & Creativity, the interview explains what is free software, how commercial free software works, the views of the FSFE on patents, copyrights and trademarks, WIPO and some other things. Text transcript of that video
- Video and audio recordings of Greve's introduction to the 3rd international GPLv3 confernece, 22nd of June 2006
- 2007 pre-FOSDEM interview
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| History | GNU Manifesto · GNU Project · Free Software Foundation · History of free software |  |
| GNU licences | GNU General Public License · GNU Lesser General Public License · GNU Free Documentation License · GPL linking exception | |
| Software | GNU (Variants) · GNOME · Gnuzilla · Gnash · Bash · GCC · GNU Emacs · glibc · Coreutils · GNU build system · Other GNU packages and programs | |
| Speakers | Robert J. Chassell · Loïc Dachary · Ricardo Galli · Georg C. F. Greve · Federico Heinz · Benjamin Mako Hill · Bradley M. Kuhn · Eben Moglen · Brett Smith · Richard Stallman · John Sullivan | |