User:Toshitabarve/Pierros Papadeas

Pierros Papadeas is a Greek computer free software programmer, founder of hackerspace.gr and an educator.

Life and career
Papadeas was born in 1988 in Athens, Greece. He is currently based in Berlin, and works as a Community Manager in the Mozilla Corporation. He is also pursuing a Masters in Architectural Engineering at The National Technical University of Athens. He is currently working on the Development and Deployment of the Mozilla Reps Program as a part of the Community Engagement Team in which Papadeas makes sure that the “contributors are engaged and that there are more contributors coming.” Before Papadeas was a part of the Mozilla Corporation, he used to work with Fedora. He used to work on extending the use of Fedora in the academic field. Papadeas extended the use of Fedora by organizing presentations, such as hackfests and installfests, as well as putting pressure on using more FOSS in the universities of Greece.

He was part of the winning team of Grand Prize winner of the 2014 Hackday Prize  for the project SatNOGs. SatNOGS is an open source ground station and network, optimized for modularity, built using affordable tools and resources.