page_title: Benjamin Mako Hill
hierarchical_section_title: Benjamin Mako Hill
caption_attribution_description: Portrait of attendee(s) at Wikimania 2012 in Washington, DC.
context_page_description: Benjamin Mako Hill is a free software activist, hacker, and author. He is a contributor and free software developer as part of the Debian and Ubuntu projects as well as the co-author of three technical manuals on the subject, Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 Bible, The Official Ubuntu Server Book, and The Official Ubuntu Book.
  Hill is an assistant professor in Communication at the University of Washington, and serves as a member of the Free Software Foundation board of directors.
context_section_description: Benjamin Mako Hill (born December 2, 1980) is a free software activist, hacker, and author. He is a contributor and free software developer as part of the Debian and Ubuntu projects as well as the co-author of three technical manuals on the subject, Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 Bible, The Official Ubuntu Server Book, and The Official Ubuntu Book.
  Hill is an assistant professor in Communication at the University of Washington, and serves as a member of the Free Software Foundation board of directors.
caption: Benjamin Mako Hill in 2012
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