Pirate Praveen

Pirate Praveen is a Debian developer and an activist for free(libre) software and as a natural extension of that, social justice. Praveen is one of the co-founders of FOSSMeet and an alumnus of NIT Calicut. He is responsible for developing and maintaining different packages in the Debian repositories. One example is that of Gitlab, which Praveen made native Debian packages for. Furthermore, Praveen is a the developer of pravapp, an XMPP client and also maintains dependencies related to it. He also maintains poddery.com, a distributed community-driven social network which works with diaspora, which he also maintains.