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Erik Möller in November 2014
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Born | 1979 (age 37–38) Germany |
Residence | San Francisco Bay Area, California |
Other names | Eloquence |
Alma mater | University of Applied Sciences, Berlin |
Occupation | Journalist, software developer, author |
Title | Deputy Director of (2008–2015) |
Website | humanist |
Erik Möller (born 1979) is a German freelance journalist,software developer, author, and former deputy director of the (WMF), based in San Francisco. Möller additionally works as a web designer and previously managed his own web hosting service, myoo.de.
Möller, who holds a diploma degree in computer science (Dipl.-Inform. FH), is the owner and creator of the Infoanarchy website which has information on P2P and file-sharing technologies. He has also been involved in the development of the FreedomDefined website.
He was elected in September 2006 to replace Angela Beesley on the , and in October 2006 he became executive secretary. In December 2007 he resigned from the Board and was named deputy director, effective as of 10 January 2008. In this role Möller was involved with financing analysis for the Foundation, and with Sue Gardner gave a presentation to Sun Microsystems in an attempt to gain funding from the company for WMF. This presentation was later leaked to .
Möller left the WMF on 30 April 2015.