Christine Lemmer-webber
Executive Director at Spritely Networked Communities Institute
Easthampton, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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RockstarChristine Lemmer-webber is an executive director and long-time software engineer with 21 years of experience building open, federated web technologies and leading community-driven projects. As Executive Director (and formerly CTO) of the Spritely Networked Communities Institute she champions ActivityPub and decentralized social web standards, while also leading the Spritely project and contributing to high-profile specs like w3c/activitypub. She co-founded MediaGoblin, ran large contributor-driven efforts and crowdfunding, and has mixed hands-on engineering (Python, Django, Lisp/Hy) with technical writing to make complex protocols and languages approachable. Known as a user freedom activist and parenthesis enthusiast, she blends advocacy, standards work, and practical system design to help communities control their data. Based in Easthampton, MA, she pairs nonprofit leadership with ongoing freelance engineering, bringing both governance experience and deep open-source craftsmanship to distributed web projects.
21 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (11)
user-manual10
python10
hy10
lisp10
documentation10
technical-writing10
macros9
compiler-compiler7
compiler7
metaprogramming7
json-ld6
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
w3c/activitypub
Apr 2015 - Apr 2018
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:458 commits, 37 PRs, 396 pushes in 3 years
Contributions summary:Christine's contributions primarily focused on improving the documentation of the ActivityPub protocol. Their work involved correcting grammatical errors, standardizing language, and ensuring clarity in the specification. The edits ranged from minor punctuation fixes to more significant improvements in the phrasing of technical concepts, including clarifications around object properties and ActivityStreams vocabulary.
hylang/hy
Mar 2013 - Dec 2014
A dialect of Lisp that's embedded in Python
Role in this project:Technical Writer & Lisp Developer
Technical Writer & Lisp DeveloperContributions:70 commits, 19 comments, 3 issues in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Christine primarily contributed to the project's documentation, adding a beginner's tutorial on the Hy language and expanding its description. They implemented examples and explanations for key Hy features, including conditional statements, loops, and keyword arguments. The user also refactored the code examples and documentation, replacing usages of `def` with `setv` and updating syntax for improved readability.
macrospythondialectmetaprogrammingcompiler
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