About Jeffrey Elkner

Jeffrey Elkner (or simply "jelkner" as he is often known) is a high school / community college Web Development / CS / Social Entrepreneurship teacher who lives in Arlington Virginia with his wife in their apartment next to the woods.

In CS grad school way back in 1993 he discovered GCC (back when it stood for GNU C Compiler) running on the VAX system used at school. GCC led him to the GPL, which in turn led him to GNU/Linux, and his long love affair with software freedom was born. It fit like a glove with his social justice orientation, and he realized immediately that working people would never be able to democratically control the means of social reproduction in the 21st century if they didn't control it's software, since software was becoming more and more the means of production.

He is currently working with a group of comrades with the tech worker cooperatives, NOVA Web Development and Jetro Web Development, and with two solidarity economy non-profits, Social Justice Computing and SECOSOL.

NOVA Web Development, motivated by the principle that it wants "to use the people's software to support the people's movement.", is developing LibreOrganize and which developed the software used for this blog.