Henri Poole
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Henri Poole is a political campaign technologist and founder/director of CivicActions, co-founder of the AdvoKit project, serves on the Board of the Free Software Foundation and Affero, Inc.
(In 2002, Affero published the Affero General Public License (AGPL) which is the GNU General Public License (GNU GPL) with a web services provision added. The new provision was written by Eben Moglen.)
As co-founder and CEO of Vivid Studios in 1993, Poole is considered a pioneer in the Internet services industry. Also in 1993, he served as technical editor for the book, "Demystifying Multimedia". In 1994, he led a project to study the social interactions and use of technology for the WELL community. In 1995, Vivid Studios contracted with Microsoft to manage the online launch of Windows 95 (the largest technology product introduction in history on the Internet).
From May of 2000 through April 2001, Poole was the CEO of French GNU/Linux publisher MandrakeSoft. In 2003, Poole served as the Director of Technology for US presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich.
A software activist, Poole has organized fundraisers for Dmitry Sklyarov and the Free Software Foundation.
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- The Kucinich Memo
- Henri Poole CivicActions Bio
- Politics on the Net
- Berkeley Technophiles Launch Campaign Software Revolution
- Presidential Campaigning at the Edge
- CivicActions website
- The Affero GPL: Closing the Distribution Loophole
- Famed Berkeley Home Hosts Kucinich E-campaign
- LinuxPlanet Interview: Trust Unlimited
- Technical Entrepreneur Profile - Henri Poole: Bridging Worlds
- Financial Times: Building communities on the internet
- BusinessWeek: Yankee, We Want You. Yankee, Go Home
- Scoop Media: Where is the Money
- GOTV Software: Advokit
History: GNU Manifesto • GNU Project • Free Software Foundation (FSF)
GNU licenses: GNU General Public License (GPL) • GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) • GNU Free Documentation License (FDL)
Software: GNU operating system • bash • GNU Compiler Collection • GNU Emacs • Ghostscript • other GNU packages and programs
Advocates and activists: Richard Stallman (RMS) • Robert J. Chassell • Prof. Masayuki Ida • Geoffery Knauth • Lawrence Lessig • Eben Moglen • Henri Poole • Peter Salus • Gerald Sussman • FSF's Past Directors • other FSF's Staff and Employees
Software developers: Richard Stallman (RMS) • Jim Blandy • Michael (now Thomas) Bushnell • Ulrich Drepper • Brian Fox • Tom Lord • Roland McGrath • other FSF's Programmers
Software documentors: Richard Stallman (RMS) • Robert J. Chassell • Roland McGrath • other FSF's Documentors
