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Carsten Agger

Carsten Agger

Danish Coordinator for the Free Software Foundation Europe and Lead Architect and Technical Project Manager at Magenta (open source IT), based in Denmark.

Sep 17, 2026

1:12
How did you start to become involved in the FSFE?
1:19
That was back around 2011, I think.
1:26
And the prehistory is that I discovered free software like as a concept to engage myself in 2004, 2005 and I started writing a lot of blog posts about it and I read whatever Richard Stallman had written about it.
1:52
I started using Ubuntu on my local computers at home and experimented with other distributions such as Debian or something called Dynabolic at the time and FreeBSD, that kind of thing.
2:13
I got involved in doing advocacy for Ubuntu around 2009.
2:18
There was a guy in Aarhus who wanted to create what he called an Ubuntu users group or Ubuntu Day Aarhus and his idea was that we in Aarhus would meet once a month or so.
2:38
and engage in the ubuntu community so he was very focused on ubuntu and i i wanted some more activity around free software in the area so i joined in and after a year of this we helped co-found the local hackerspace in aarhus and When we switched to the hackerspace from the local library, all of a sudden there were a lot fewer people attending our meetings because the hackerspace was far away.

19 MINS LATER

21:59
broad question, I know.

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