Andy Nicholson is a free software hacker and new media activist. He is currently part of the EngageMedia collective, and consultant computer engineer.

EngageMedia is producing the free and open source software project, Plumi (http://www.plumi.org) - a video sharing web application, which runs http://engagemedia.org and others.

Andy is a past member of the CAT collective, 1998-2004, (cat.org.au) who were collectively responsible for online activist projects including Active Sydney (http://oldsydimc.cat.org.au/), and the initial Indymedia (http://indymedia.org/) network software ‘active'.(http://oldsydimc.cat.org.au/doc/ )

Andy was a facilitator at the Asia Source FLOSS conference held in Bangalore, India, January 2005 (http://www.tacticaltech.org/asiasource), was in residency at the MultiMedia Institute "mi2″ in Croatia, working on free software projects (June 2005 - Feb 2006), was a facilitator in ANAT Still/Open series of workshops on open source culture during September 2007 (http://stillopen.anat.org.au/the-facilitators/), and presented the EngageMedia and Plumi projects at the Open Source Video workshops in Brussels, Belgium, November 2008 (http://www.constantvzw.org/site/spip.php?article640)

As part of EngageMedia, Andy was involved in the organising for the first  meeting of the international video activist network, Transmission (http://www.transmission.cc/) in Rome, Italy (June 2006), and the subsequent Transmission Asia-Pacific network meeting (TX-AP), in Sukabumi, Java, Indonesia (May 2008). He has conducted online video workshops throughout Indonesia during August, September 2008 (http://www.engagemedia.org/Members/andycat/news/engagemedia-indonesian-workshops/)

Andy has a First Class Honours degree in Computer Engineering, from Newcastle University (1997)

 

 

Websites

Website url: http://www.engagemedia.org/
Blog url: http://blog.plumi.org

Areas of Practice

Educator, Programmer, Scientist