Michael Wechner
I try to buy local and pay more for less (whereas most of the time I don't and I just keep trying).
Short BioMichael Wechner is co-founder of Wyona and the original creator of various Open Source projects such as Apache Lenya, Yanel and Yarep, but also the continuous integration and deployment software Yulup. Before entering the world of open source software he studied mathematical physics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and was doing three years of basic research on computer simulations of dendritic growth at the Max-Planck-Institute. Michael organized the very first Open Source CMS conference together with Eric and co-founded OSCOM and also spends a lot of time with other Open Source Content Management Software. In 2004 he started Wyona Pictures, because he loves stories and movies. In 2006 he initiated the Yulup editing tool, Yanel and Yarep projects, content management software for creature comforts.
In 2020 he directed Trillions and Trillions Served, a documentary feature on The Apache Software Foundation.
In 2021 he started Katie, a knowledge bot, which learns from human conversations and other sources, continuously improving, self-learning and aligned by keeping humans in the loop.
Otherwise, Michael loves cycling, from here to there and the other way around.
Affiliations
Co-founder, President of the Board of Directors of Wyona (http://www.wyona.com)
Original Creator of Apache Lenya and member of the Apache Software Foundation.
Co-founder and former President of OSCOM (http://www.oscom.org)
The Open Development Initiative
President of the sports club of Horgenberg
| 1989-1994 |
ETH, Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology Zürich
Final Exam in Math. Physics Diploma Thesis on the Schwinger-Model and Massless QCD |
| 1994-1995 | Bike Messenger at Veloblitz in Zürich |
| 1995-1998 |
Scientific Collaborator at
Max-Planck-Institute
for Iron Research, Düsseldorf
Numerical Modeling on dendritic growth in order to complete a doctorol thesis |
| 1998-1999 | Head of Research and Development at NZZ Online (Neue Zürcher Zeitung) |
| 1999-2000 | Sabbatical in Boston |
| 2000- | Co-founder and major shareholder of Wyona |
Articles und Essays
Blog
OSCOM - Cross Pollination
Die Zukunft von Open Source CMS
Apache Lenya
Softwarepatente (Translate with Google, also see http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/)
Talks, Workshops, Hackathons, etc.
| December 4, 2008 | Open Source Content Management Gilbane Conference at Boston, USA |
| June 19, 2008 | Open Social Networks Gilbane Conference at San Francisco, USA |
| June 17, 2008 | Open Social Networks CM Pros at San Francisco, USA |
| March 7, 2007 | FOSS is dead. Long live FOSS! OpenExpo at Bern, Switzerland |
| December 6, 2006 | XML Conference 2006 at Boston, USA |
| September 21, 2006 | Open Source - Chancen nutzen - Risiken minimieren at ZfU Thalwil, Switzerland |
| February 16-17, 2006 | Open Source World Conference at Malaga, Spain |
| December 13, 2005 | ApacheCon US 2005 at San Diego, USA |
| July 29, 2005 | Closing Keynote at Open Publish, Sydney, Australia |
| July 21, 2005 | ApacheCon 2005 at Stuttgart, Germany |
| June 22, 2005 | OSCOMTag at LinuxTag at Karlsruhe, Germany |
| February 18, 2005 | LOTS at Bern, Switzerland |
| November 17, 2004 | ApacheCon 2004 at Las Vegas, USA |
| September 30, 2004 | Presentation at OSCOM 4 with Apache Track on Seamless Content Management with XUL and XAML, Zurich, Switzerland |
| July 29, 2004 | Keynote at Open Publish, Sydney, Australia |
| July 27, 2004 | Apache Lenya Tutorial at the O'Reilly OSCON, Portland, Oregon, USA |
| June 30, 2004 | CMS-Fachtagung, Zurich, Switzerland |
| June 10, 2004 | Dachkantine, Zurich, Switzerland |
| May 14/15, 2004 | Lenya Hackathon/Sprint, Zurich, Switzerland |
| March 26, 2004 | Panel and Hackathon at the Gilbane Conference on Content Management, Los Angeles, California, USA |
| February 18, 2004 | OSCOM Hackathon/Sprint at LOTS, Zurich, Switzerland |
| February 4, 2004 | CMS-Shoot-Out at IEX, Zurich, Switzerland |
| February 3, 2004 | Open-Source-Forum at IEX, Zurich, Switzerland |
| January 22/23, 2004 | OSCOM Hackathon/Sprint at ETHZ, Zurich, Switzerland |
| November 24, 2003 | The Penguin Run at Zurich, Switzerland |
| November 18, 2003 | ApacheCon 2003 at Las Vegas, USA |
| November 14, 2003 | IFZ Seminar at Zug, Switzerland |
| October 7, 2003 | Cocoon GetTogether 2003 at Ghent, Belgium |
| October 6, 2003 | Cocoon Hackathon 2003 at Ghent, Belgium |
| September 9 and 10, 2003 | The OSCOM Sprint/Hackathon at Seybold |
| September 9, 2003 | The Gilbane Content Management Conference at Seybold |
| September 8, 2003 | At the Seybold-WOW conference: Content Management for the Rest of Us |
| June 18, 2003 | 6. Ittinger Mediengespraech der IBM Schweiz: Another Animal Farm? |
| May 28, 2003 | Apache Lenya Workshop at OSCOM3 (Harvard University) |
| May 21, 2003 | Keynote at Fachhochschule Solothurn Nordwestschweiz |
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