Pablo Machón
Encyclopedia
Pablo Machón is a Libre/Free Knowledge activist, Libre/Free Software
developer and founding member and President of the Free Knowledge Foundation
, an organization that promotes people's rights and freedoms relating knowledge, software and data/information standards. He is the Spanish Team Coordinator and former vice-president of the Free Software Foundation Europe
, and he is a visible Free Software
political advocate and activist, speaking for freedom in the digital age in various international events and organizations.
He is specialized in fostering Free Knowledge and Free Software in politics, and in the business and public administration sectors.
He speaks fluent Spanish
and English
.
Free software
Free software, software libre or libre software is software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction, or with restrictions that only ensure that further recipients can also do...
developer and founding member and President of the Free Knowledge Foundation
Free Knowledge Foundation
The Free Knowledge Foundation or FKF is an organization aiming to promote Free Knowledge, including Free Software and Free Standards...
, an organization that promotes people's rights and freedoms relating knowledge, software and data/information standards. He is the Spanish Team Coordinator and former vice-president of the Free Software Foundation Europe
Free Software Foundation Europe
The Free Software Foundation Europe was founded in 2001 as an official European sister organization of the U.S.-based Free Software Foundation to take care of all aspects of free software in Europe. FSF and FSFE are financially and legally separate entities.FSFE believes that access to and...
, and he is a visible Free Software
Free software
Free software, software libre or libre software is software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction, or with restrictions that only ensure that further recipients can also do...
political advocate and activist, speaking for freedom in the digital age in various international events and organizations.
He is specialized in fostering Free Knowledge and Free Software in politics, and in the business and public administration sectors.
He speaks fluent Spanish
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
and English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
.