Mike Gabriel

Since 2002, I have been working on all kinds of Free Software related projects, preferrably remote. Over the past years I have collaborated with various teams of international Open Source projects. My Open Source activities partially originate from customer requests, but I also contribute a lot to Open Source projects as a volunteer. On an individual basis, I am also available for on-site consulting (ideally for customers situated in Northern Germany, that is Schleswig-Holstein or Hamburg).

By profession, I originally am a biologist (Dipl.-Biol.). However, already as a student at university (CAU Kiel) I was offered the opportunity to gather a lot of experience in maintaining heterogeneous IT environments. At the same time I discovered a second passion of mine. I became deeply interested in different forms of body work. I received training in Shiatsu, Cranio Sacral Therapy, Osteopathy, as well as Aikido. Since 2013 our patchwork family has been living near the Schlei firth between Eckernförde and Schleswig, in Northern Germany. My central place of work is at the Technik- und Ökologiezentrum Eckernförde.

In Fall 2020, I have founded the Fre(i)e Software GmbH with the goal of lifting my Open Source consulting business activities to a larger scale.

With Fre(i)e Software GmbH , our current major projects are active contributions to Lomiri and Ubuntu Touch and the Voxit Civic Tech Platform. We also support schools that want to use Debian Edu / Skolelinux and offer Enterprise Support for customers who use Debian for their infrastructure.