Nathan Oostendorp
Nathan Oostendorp | |
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| Born | Holland, Michigan, United States |
| Education | University of Michigan School of Information (Master's degree in Information Economics) |
| Occupation(s) | Technologist, writer, entrepreneur |
| Known for | Slashdot, Everything2, Blockstackers Intergalactic, PerlMonks, SourceForge, Sight Machine, SimpleCV |
Nathan Oostendorp is a technologist, writer, and entrepreneur based in the United States, originally from Holland, Michigan. He played a key role in establishing the technology news platform and community known as Slashdot and also created the online community Everything2.
Biography
Oostendorp served as a content editor for Slashdot and developed the SlashCode software, which is the open-source framework powering Slashdot. He co-founded Blockstackers Intergalactic (BSI), the organization responsible for managing and evolving these websites. During his tenure at BSI, he was instrumental in launching the early collaborative encyclopedia Everything2 and the Perl programming forum PerlMonks, both of which utilized the Everything Engine. After BSI was acquired by Andover.net and subsequently by VA Linux Systems (later renamed Geeknet), Oostendorp took on roles as a developer and project manager at the open source project hosting service SourceForge.
He earned a master's degree specializing in Information Economics from the University of Michigan School of Information, where he authored scholarly articles focused on online community dynamics.
Oostendorp founded Sight Machine, an Internet of Things startup located in Ann Arbor (previously known as Ingenuitas), which concentrates on industrial computer vision solutions. He is the creator of the SimpleCV software library and holds a patent associated with computer vision innovations.
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