HENRI POOLE

'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.
He is a signatory to the 9/11 Truth Statement. [1]

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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

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

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