The website belongs to Benjamin Mako Hill, a social scientist and technologist. He works to understand the social dynamics that shape online communities and focuses on communities engaged with peer production, digital public goods, free culture, and free software like Wikipedia and Linux. He is actively involved in academic research, writing essays and books, giving talks at conferences, teaching courses on various subjects, building successful online communities, and participating in activism related to software and other social issues. He also maintains a blog where he shares his thoughts and projects in areas such as copyright laws and technology. Additionally, he collaborates with organizations like the Community Data Science Collective (CDSC), an interdisciplinary research group consisting of researchers from different universities worldwide.
