User:Zoobab

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About Benjamin Henrion (aka zoobab)

Benjamin has been hacking embedded devices since the early 2000, with the OpenAP/LinuxAP distribution running on the first wireless router running linux.

He is an exclusive linux user since 1996, and he owns an extensive collection of embedded devices running linux.

He has contributed to the development of wireless routing protocols, initiated the BattleMesh.org yearly event, which aims to test those protocols running on top of OpenWRT based routers.

Benjamin is also the president of the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII.org), an he has been fighting software patents since 1999, from the beginning of the european debate till now. He has launched several popular campaigns on the internet, such as the August 2003 and June 2005 webdemonstrations against software patents (400.000 signatures), the PublicGeoData.org campaign for free maps (5000 signatures), and the campaign against Microsoft's Office standardisation at ISO (NoOOXML.org) (100.000 signatures).

He currently works for a VoIP company as a systems engineer.

His interests lies in computer science, politics, and mountain biking.

His personal website is available at http://www.zoobab.com