Welcome to my personal homepage! My name is Björn Schießle, I live in Schorndorf (Baden-Württemberg, Germany) and graduated in computer science at the University of Stuttgart. I'm a long-time GNU/Linux user and Free Software supporter. Further I'm a Fellow of the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) and a member of the european core team of FSFE.
Here you can find some documents and presentations which emerged during my computer science studies and activities towards software freedom. I also have a small link collection which might be useful. Beside that I write about Free Software topics in my weblog and at identi.ca.
There are many ways you can contact me...
- E-Mail
Email-address: schiessle (at) fsfe (dot) org
Please refrain from sending me mails with Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, or Excel attachments. The same is also true for other proprietary formats. Better use the OASIS Open Document Format (International Standard ISO/IEC 26300:2006) or convert them to plain text or PDF. Why?
E-Mails in html format or with proprietary attachements are most likely considered as spam. - Instant Messaging
XMPP (Jabber): schiessle (at) jabber (dot) fsfe (dot) org
- IRC
BeS on FreeNode (irc.freenode.net on #fsfeurope)
- Face-to-Face
The best way to meet me face-to-face is to come to one of our bimonthly Fellowship meetings in Stuttgart.
Please consider encryption. Encryption is the only way to maintain freedom and privacy in the digital age. Therefore you should use encryption whenever it is possible.
- GnuPG
Public key: public_key.asc
Key-ID: 1024D/528052C4
Fingerprint: 40E1 B49B DADE 5802 C19A 2ADF 4EA6 9542 5280 52C4This GnuPG key can be used for private E-Mail communication.
If you don't know how to use GnuPG take a look at the GnuPG Documentation.Check the existence of a path of trust between our GnuPG keys:
- Off-the-Record Messaging (OTR)
Fingerprint: A720BD54 F4201B2D 45772FF0 A6C969F4 F708BB72
You can use OTR for private XMPP (Jabber) communication.
