Denis "Jaromil" Roio is a software engineer, artist and activist.
Jaromil became interested in computers and technology at a young age, and began to experiment with various software systems. In the late 1990s, he became involved in the free software movement and began to work on creating his own operating system.
Jaromil became best known for creating the Dyne:bolic 100% free GNU/Linux distribution, built from scratch and designed to be easy to use and accessible to a wide range of users. Dyne:bolic includes a variety of applications for audio and video editing, and is popular among artists and media activists, it was first released in 2002 when it could run from a live CD on game consoles like the Xbox, making it easy to use and distribute worldwide.
Jaromil also established the Dyne.org foundation, a community organization widely respected within the free software community for supporting the development of free software and open culture. He has worked on a number of other free software projects, including Devuan, the Frei0r collection of video plugins, several forks of Bitcoin, the Zenroom virtual machine and various cryptographic tools to protect people's privacy.
In addition to his work in software development, Denis Roio is also a doctor in philosophy. He has coined the term "Algorithmic Sovereignty" with a public dissertation and published several articles on topics related to free software, open culture, and digital media. He is a frequent speaker at conferences and workshops on these topics.
Jaromil believes that the use of software is ethical when it empowers users and let them participate to decisions taken about its algorithms.
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