Founder and Digital Librarian of the Internet Archive
Internet Hall of Fame
National Academy of Engineering
Computer History Museum Fellow

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I've been helping fill hard drives at the Internet Archive since 2023! Before joining the Internet Archive, I studied computer science at Reed College in Portland, OR.

Internet Archive & DWeb enthusiast.
Interested in helping the world know what is true.

Hacker, software engineer, photographer, guitar player, ape descendant. Rubén is a Free and Open Source Software developer and founder of the Trisquel GNU/Linux distribution project. He works in Core Infrastructure Engineering at the Internet Archive, helping improve the architecture and APIs that the IA is built on. He likes dogs and paragliding, and dislikes writing about himself.

Daniel Erasmus, head of Erasmus.AI and the ClimateGPT Foundation, has two decades of experience in collecting and processing planetary scale datasets. He leads the team developing ClimateGTP's foundational and fine-tuned model family, which is the world’s first foundational AI model family focussed on effects of Climate Change on Human Systems

Daniel is also Head of AI for Internet Archive Europe, releasing several public purpose models via Hugging Face. He is a member of the OECD AI Expert Group, and a Full Member of the global think tank, the Club of Rome.

For 25 years, Erasmus worked with governments and Fortune 50 companies by leading global foresight research as co-founder of The Digital Thinking Network. The DTN led scenario and innovation breakthrough processes anticipating the 2008 Global Financial Crisis, Oil Price Collapse, and it created the first Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs).

Additionally as a response to Covid, Daniel was instrumental in creating an initiative that has sponsored 100 million meals in Southern Africa.

Born in South Africa, Daniel lives in Amsterdam with his wife Elisabeth, three daughters and a son. He can be found in his office in Amsterdam or on planes, trains and cafes with a laptop, a bowl of matcha, and a yearning for the warm plains of Africa.

Dan Visel is building Tapestries and works on the Wayback Machine for the Internet Archive. He's previously worked at the Institute for the Future of the Book, among other places. He lives in Rome.

A librarian and entrepreneur with a longstanding commitment to open access and digital preservation, Julien co-founded Internet Archive Europe to help build shared infrastructure for Europe’s cultural heritage.

mai is an organizer and writer focused on the digital commons and other intersections between network technologies and the solidarity economy. They are a Senior Organizer with DWeb and a Digital Commons Fellow with Commons Network. They are a co-founder and editor of COMPOST, an online magazine about and for the digital commons. Their former projects and employers include the Oakland Public Library, Public Citizen, Shareable, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Wendy Hanamura is an leader with deep experience in nonprofit management of global organizations with outsized impact. Her passion is using storytelling to achieve positive social change. As a content creator, she's had a rich career as a Time Magazine journalist, Tokyo-based foreign correspondent, television reporter and host, moderator and public speaker. She is currently the Board Chair of the Earth Species Project, and contributes her fundraising skills to many organizations she loves.

Program Manager of @internetarchive.eu. Photographer, Wife, Mother, Daughter, Sister, Aunt, Cat Servant, Coffee Lover, Immigrant, Traveler, Geek, Participant & Hope Junkie. 🇺🇸&🇬🇧 🥰💍🇦🇷&🇪🇸 🏠 🇳🇱

Archivist and software engineer in the Wayback Machine team at the Internet Archive