Roland Alton
Founder at fairkom Gesellschaft
Stadt Dornbirn, Vorarlberg, Austria
Summary
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Top SchoolRoland Alton is a founder and research-driven technologist with 13+ years of professional experience building open-source communication platforms and advising public, academic and industry clients. As the driving force behind fairkom, he combines project and key-account management with hands-on implementation of hosted services like fairmeeting, faircloud and fair.tube, and has long steered identity and commons-oriented solutions such as fairlogin and RegisteredCommons.org. Trained as an engineer and researcher (TU Wien) with roots in technology assessment, he repeatedly spins academic research into viable enterprises and cooperative ventures. Roland has a track record of building alliances across the sustainability, creative commons and co-operative movements—co-founding Europe’s first OSS cooperative and helping scale ALLMENDA and osAlliance. He also brings practical teaching and curriculum leadership from a decade at Vorarlberg University of Applied Sciences, connecting media design education to real-world projects and community impact. Quietly interdisciplinary, he pairs rigorous technical background with advocacy for open content and alternative governance models like Proof-of-Cooperation blockchains.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Vienna University of TechnologyExchange, Computerkunst, Exchange, Computerkunst at Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien
German, Italian, English
Github Skills (200)
marketing-tools10
web-application10
cfml10
bug-tracker10
sctp10
orientdb10
horde10
chat10
self-hosted-api10
odp10
whatsapp10
edtech10
erp10
matrix10
project-management10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
rasos/erpnext
Feb 2016 - Sep 2019
Open Source ERP built for the Web. Uses Python, MariaDB.
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 7 months
mariadbpythonpython3erp
rasos/frappe
Sep 2018 - Jan 2020
Full Stack Web Framework in Python & JS. Used to build ERPNext
Contributions:3 PRs, 9 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 4 months
pythonfull-stackjavascripterpnextpython-js
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