About me
I am a developer at the Centre for Learning Sciences and Technologies, an avid technophile and advocate of digital freedom and free thinking. A professional developer since 2000, and involved with technology enhanced learning since 2005, my run-in with TEL sprang from my efforts to proliferate free software use in higher education in my home country of Iceland.
Before (and sometimes during) working in TEL research I've worked at various companies in Iceland doing things ranging from data integrations to web development, with the common themes being server side free platforms. The project closest to my heart was ODG, the open development group, which was a company founded in 2004 to provide support and consultation on F/OSS in Iceland. The demand for F/OSS work was not great, and ODG was quickly involved in an EU funded project to develop extensions for the learning management system Moodle. So that's how it started..
Currently alongside my work at CELSTEC I try to further some of the work I was involved with while employed in the iCamp project, namely my crusade to extend feeds and feed infrastructure for (what I call) attainable interoperability. I am a board member of FSFÍ (The Icelandic Society for Digital Freedoms) which tries on a national level to promote awareness of freedom in a digital age, as well as some pro-bono consultation services on the subject to interested parties.
