{"id":4468,"date":"2025-07-16T07:48:44","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T11:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada.wordcamp.org\/2025\/?post_type=wcb_speaker&#038;p=4468"},"modified":"2025-09-10T18:37:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T22:37:25","slug":"evan-prodromou","status":"publish","type":"wcb_speaker","link":"https:\/\/canada.wordcamp.org\/2025\/speaker\/evan-prodromou\/","title":{"rendered":"Evan Prodromou"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide is-style-default speaker-highlight-column is-horizontal is-content-justification-center is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-b9a46375 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30)\">\n<aside class=\"wp-block-group has-custom-grey-faint-background-color has-background wp-container-content-9cfa9a5a has-global-padding is-content-justification-center is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-7a30299c wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"min-height:100%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full wp-container-content-b1208fed\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"639\" height=\"639\" data-attachment-id=\"3931\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/canada.wordcamp.org\/2025\/wceh-keynote-evan-prodromou\/image_editor_output_image-51138141-1727156756623\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/canada.wordcamp.org\/2025\/files\/2025\/06\/image_editor_output_image-51138141-1727156756623.webp?fit=639%2C639&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"639,639\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Evan Prodromou\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Evan Prodromou&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/canada.wordcamp.org\/2025\/files\/2025\/06\/image_editor_output_image-51138141-1727156756623.webp?fit=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/canada.wordcamp.org\/2025\/files\/2025\/06\/image_editor_output_image-51138141-1727156756623.webp?fit=639%2C639&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/canada.wordcamp.org\/2025\/files\/2025\/06\/image_editor_output_image-51138141-1727156756623.webp?resize=639%2C639&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Evan Prodromou\" class=\"wp-image-3931\" style=\"aspect-ratio:3\/4;object-fit:cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/canada.wordcamp.org\/2025\/files\/2025\/06\/image_editor_output_image-51138141-1727156756623.webp?w=639&amp;ssl=1 639w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/canada.wordcamp.org\/2025\/files\/2025\/06\/image_editor_output_image-51138141-1727156756623.webp?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/canada.wordcamp.org\/2025\/files\/2025\/06\/image_editor_output_image-51138141-1727156756623.webp?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 639px) 100vw, 639px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"wp-block-group has-custom-grey-faint-background-color has-background wp-container-content-8f85718f has-global-padding is-content-justification-left is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-12dd3699 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p>Evan Prodromou, based in Montr\u00e9al, directs Open Technology at the Open Earth Foundation and research for the Social Web Foundation. He is a Board member at&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/cosocial.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CoSocial.ca<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a software developer and open source advocate, Evan co-authored ActivityPub, the W3C standard for decentralized social networking used by platforms such as Mastodon. (Book: ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web) Evan also co-chaired the Social Web Working Group at W3C and co-authored ActivityStreams 2.0 and OStatus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Evan\u2019s other major contributions to the open web have been Wikitravel,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/identi.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Identi.ca<\/a>, StatusNet,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/pump.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pump.io<\/a>, Breather, GNU social, and&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/fuzzy.ai\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Fuzzy.ai<\/a>. He loves to garden with native plants, make wine, cook, and live an examined life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-accent-1-background-color has-background has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-091b0950 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"border-radius:10px;margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40)\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"sessions\">Check out Evan&#8217;s Keynote<\/h2>\n\n\n<ul style=\"padding-top:0;padding-right:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;\" class=\"wp-block-wordcamp-speaker-sessions\"><li><p><a href=\"https:\/\/canada.wordcamp.org\/2025\/session\/beyond-microblogging-wordpress-leads-the-way-in-long-form-text-on-the-social-web\/\">Beyond Microblogging: WordPress Leads the Way in Long-form Text on the Social Web<\/a><\/p><p class=\"wordcamp-speaker-sessions__session-info\">October 17, 2025 at 11:15 am in <span class=\"wordcamp-speaker-sessions__track slug-track-1\">Track 1<\/span>, <span class=\"wordcamp-speaker-sessions__track slug-track-2\">Track 2<\/span><\/p><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evan Prodromou co-authored ActivityPub and led W3C Social Web standards. 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