Jens Ohlig is mostly living and working in Bonn, Germany. He is a software developer for doctr.com in Potsdam, Germany. His interests include linguistics, politics, hacking, reading, coffee and other caffeinated beverages, cooking, knitting, soldering, Ruby, Python, Arduino, hacker spaces, and Go (the boardgame, also known as Baduk or Wei Qi).
Apart from various personal places on the Web where he collects stuff, he is also a (not always very regular) participating writer on several group blogs:
- monochrom's English blog, by monochrom, an art-technology-philosophy group having its seat in Vienna and Zeta Draconis
- netzpolitik.org, an award-winning German language blog on politics and information society
- hackerbrause.de, where he blogs about things to drink with caffeine in it (in German)
He serves as a member of the board for the non-profit Wau-Holland-Stiftung, a foundation to honor the memory and archievements of the late visionary founder of the Chaos Computer Club, Wau Holland.
He is enthusiastic about hacker politics and online activism. His recent work on how to build physical places for hackers to make things received a lot of interest and was mentioned in WIRED:
"The recent crop of hacker spaces has followed a rough blueprint prepared by Jens Ohlig called "Building a Hacker Space". Ohlig’s presentation is a collection of design patterns, or solutions to common problems, and outlines some of the best practices used by German and Austrian hacker spaces."
He considers himself lucky to be among the founders of two hackerspaces in the Cologne/Bonn region:
According to Wikipedia criteria he is irrelevant, but he believes he is in good company with that. His heart is a Turing machine.
- Bonn, Germany
Elsewhere:
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