User:WikiLarousse

I am a web developer, a free/open source enthusiast and an activist. I have worked at the Wikimedia Foundation – the non-profit organization that operates Wikipedia and its sister sites – as a Software Engineer for a little over two years, and have been a volunteer developer to MediaWiki for longer.

My interest as a researcher lies at the intersection of Technology, Digital Media, and how a community-driven approach towards these may help us re-evaluate and reconstruct our ways of being: that is to say, the ways we learn, teach, fight, grow, live with each other as a collective that virtually connects over a shared interest or a phenomena. I have actively participated in building such communities in a past life, and now I am focusing on the challenges that these communities are to encounter.

My immediate crusade, therefore, is against the inequity and discrimination inherent in these very communities, and I strive to find out how technology can be used to contest these normative structures.