People at Oulu Löyly

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Joy Agyepong

Wiki Hour Initiative

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Jan Ainali

Wikimedia Sverige

I am the community liaison for Wikimedia Sverige in the CommonsDB project.

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User:Paju

Finnish Wikipedia, Wikidata

Long time Wikipedian (> 110 000 edits in fiwiki, started about 1% of article fiwiki articles) & in Wikidata, as volunteer (in WD > 46 000 edits). I want to promote well-sourced and quality-assured content in Wikidata, and the use of these in collaboration between different wikipedias.

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Daniel Antal

Reprex / Wikimedia Hungary

Impact enterpreneur from NL/HU, Wikimedia Hungary member, working on finnugric.net to connect private and public digital culture and heritage of Finno-Ugric peoples

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Kerstin Arnold

Archives Portal Europe Foundation / Europeana Aggregators' Forum

I've been working with archives since the mid-2000s in various roles and contexts, though I am not an archivist by trade. My focus is on open and interoperable data and everything that comes with prepraring, processing, sharing and preserving digital cultural heritage information.

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Agnese Bartolucci

Aalto University

PhD researcher at Aalto University exploring visual communication design, digital archives, and cultural heritage through an intersectional feminist lens.

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Connor Benedict

Community Coordinator, Wikimedia Content Partnerships Hub

I'm a cultural producer with a background in visual arts, design, and cultural heritage. I've been active in the open movement since 2019 through Creative Commons and Wikimedia projects. Currently I support the GLAM Wiki Community via the Content Partnerships Hub as a Community Coordinator.

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Andy Best

Imagining Godzilla, Academy of Fine Arts Helsinki, Open Latitudes

I am a visual artist, researcher, and art organiser. I currently work as professor of sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki. Together with Merja Puustinen I run the Imagining Godzilla art-science residency network project on our sailing catamaran Godzilla.

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Deepesha

Wikimedia Deutschland

I am a Developer Advocate for Linked Open Data at Wikimedia Deutschland.

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Ewen Chardronnet

Makery.info

Ewen Chardronnet is an interdisciplinary artist-author who works as a film maker, member of artist collectives, editor, journalist, translator, cultural producer and exhibition curator. Ewen Chardronnet is editor in chief of Makery.info

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Lù Chén

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Daria Cybulska

Wikimedia UK

Daria is the Director of Programmes and Evaluation at Wikimedia UK, leading programmes and advocacy for knowledge equity and information literacy. In that broad role she designs projects and partnerships for Knowledge Equity via bringing diverse people and content onto Wikimedia projects.

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Bettina Fabos

Open Platform Archive Network (OPAN)

Bettina (Ph.D., University of Iowa) is the Director of Fortepan US and its prototype Fortepan IA, cooperative photo history portals showcasing curated family and historical photographs from the 19th and 20th centuries, developed in collaboration with the Hungarian Fortepan. She co-founded OPAN.

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Alla Garcia

Wikimedia Foundation, Senior Program Officer for Northern & Western Europe

Alla is a Senior Program Officer for Northern & Western Europe at the Wikimedia Foundation. She works at the intersection of grantmaking, capacity building, and international program coordination with a background in the Open Society Foundations and European civil society sector.

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Maria B. Garda

COST Action GRADE (UTU)

Maria B. Garda is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Turku, and the Vice-Chair of COST Action Grassroots of Digital Europe. She is an expert in media history, and her current work focuses on living heritage related to creative computing cultures.

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Matti

Kansanmusiikki-instituutti

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Dee Harris

Creative Commons

Dee Harris is the Director of Open Culture Storytelling at Creative Commons where she also serves as Secretariat of the Open Heritage Coalition. She is a creative strategist and narrative architect who drives systemic change across education, behavioral health, and open knowledge.

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Mikael Hiltunen

Hanaholmen - Swedish-Finnish Cultural Centre

I work as a Programme Manager at Hanaholmen - Swedish-Finnish Cultural Centre. I am in charge of Hanaholmen Heritage - a Nordic-Baltic programme for cultural heritage preparedness funded by the Nordic Council of Ministers.

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Niina Holappa

Pursuing my MA at University of Oulu with a minor in subject teaching. I'm a university trainee at Open knowledge Finland and working with the project Oulu Löyly 2026.

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Irina Ivanova

Pikene på Broen

Project coordinator at «Pikene på Broen», Kirkenes, with 10+ years of experience in collaborative art, residency programs, and community-based projects.

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Paavo Jordman

Turun yliopisto

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Heikki Kastemaa

WMFI

I have followed a lot of Wikimedia international affairs and have been involved in "The Statues" project.

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Ivo Kruusamägi

Wikimedia Eesti

Long-time Wikimedian.

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Johan Kylander

CSC – IT Center for Science Ltd.

I am a digital preservation specialist at CSC – IT Center for Science. I have worked with digital preservation for over a decade and work as the product owner for the National Digital Preservation Services in Finland.

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Niklas Laxström

Founder of translatewiki.net. MediaWiki developer.

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Peter Leth

OpenDenmark

OpenDenmark wants everyone to know how open licenses can help people, projects and our society. Peter is co-founder and chair of OpenDenmark. Chapter lead for Creative Commons in Denmark. Ambassador for the open source project H5P.org. Active in Openfoodfacts.org and many more. He has also made the sites "media for all", "tools for all", "Wiki for all" and "ai for all" to make it easy to see what possibilities the open contains for us all.

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Federico "Nemo" Leva

translatewiki.net

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Vertti Luostarinen

Ekho Collective

Toimin datatieteilijänä taitelijaryhmä Ekho Collectivessa, joka rakentaa immersiivisiä installaatiota.

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Sanna Marttila

IT University of Copenhagen

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Julia Matveeva

Turun yliopisto

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Ranjit Menon

Trivandrum City

A transdisciplinary designer, design educator and researcher who is active in the "cultural heritage" sector as a member of Avoin Glam since inception. I am also a principal researcher for UCCN Creative Cities development in India.

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Kimberli M.

Wikimedia Finland, AvoinGLAM, Inari Saami Wikimedians User Group, and Wikimedia Norway

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Uula Neitola

Suomen Erämuseosäätiö

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Andrew Paterson

AvoinGLAM

Andrew Gryf Paterson (User:Agryfp) (he/they) is a Scottish artist-organiser & cultural worker based in Helsinki, Finland & the Baltic Sea Region. Member of AvoinGLAM steering committee, member of Open Latitudes 1-year network in cooperation with Liepāja 2027 European Capital of Culture.

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Marja Pirttivaara

Open Knowledge Finland

Dr Marja Pirttivaara is Chair of the Board of Open Knowledge Finland, a non-fiction author, and an advocate for open data, fair data economy, MyData, open science, citizen science, Open GLAM, and data ethics. She is particularly interested in the intersection of open knowledge, cultural heritage, historic and genetic genealogy, tech and innovations.

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Tochi Precious

Avoin GLAM, Wikitongues

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Merja Puustinen

MEET Factory Oy

kuvataiteilija, tuottaja

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Juliaana Reiman

Open Knowledge Finland

Currently pursuing my MA degree in history, with an interest in cultural heritage. I work as a trainee for Open Knowledge Finland.

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Andreas Reimand

Junior researcher in the field of history. And an active Wikipedist.

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Teemu Ropponen

Open Knowledge Finland

My mission is to help build a fair and open digital society. I'm interested in how open data can empower citizens, and how open data and open collaboration creates new business, tools for democratic participation and transparency.

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Ieva Sīpola

Liepāja - European Capital of Culture 2027

I am one or the project managers and also South Kurzeme regional cooperation coordinator in the Foundation Liepāja 2027

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Hanna Sipos

University of Basel, Doctoral Researcher at Cultural Anthropology, Science Technology Studies

Hanna Sipos is an interdisciplinary researcher combining expertise in cultural anthropology, STS, scenography, and design. With a strong academic foundation, she is currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Basel, focusing on the intersection of cultural artifacts and AI technologies.

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Paula Štrama

Structural unit of the 17th-19th century interior museum of the Liepāja Museum.

I am head of the “Madam Hoijere’s Guest House” at the Liepāja 17th–19th Century Museum. Although I have only recently taken on this role, it has been enough to confirm that culture in all its forms is truly my passion. I am inspired by working in the cultural sector, meeting different people,

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Enn Kalev Tarto

Estonian Literary Museum

I am an archivist at Estonian Literary Museum organizing the Folklore Archives photo collection.

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Kristen Tcherneshoff

Wikitongues

Kristen is a nonprofit operator focused on turning complex global work into systems that support language communities and make collaboration across cultures more accessible.

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Katri Tenetz

Oulun Rantasaunaseura ry

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Steen Thomassen

Wikimedia Danmark

Administrator on the danish Wikipedia and board member of Wikimedia Danmark

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Robert Treufeldt

Wikimedia Eesti

Chairman of the Board of Wikimedia Eesti. Architecture historian, which narrower branch is a built military heritage of 19th and 20th centuries.

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Jouni Tuominen

University of Helsinki

Researcher, computer science and digital humanities

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@nugged

Kansalliskirjasto Koha Open Source Team

Communities by interest as future society structure. OpenSource. Libraries as Knowledge church. Run4IQ: improve intelligence and happiness by any means. Harmony. Long life. Music, Love, Family. Geek, FidoNet. Now with AI

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Raul Veede

Estonian Wikipedia, Estonian Association for the History and Philosophy of Science

Wikipedian since 2004. Philosopher and historian od science. Open Culture advocate. Copyright expert.

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Brigitte Vézina

Creative Commons

Brigitte Vézina is Creative Commons' Director of Policy and Open Culture, where she leads policy efforts and runs the Open Culture Program and leads the Open Heritage Coalition for more equitable access to public domain heritage in the digital environment.

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Kimmo Virtanen

Wikimedia Suomi

Olen pitkäaikainen Wikipedisti ja työskentelen Wikimedia Suomessa. Pääasiallinen osaamisen ala on ohjelmointi ja avoindata.

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Bushra Zbeeb

Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi

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Susanna Ånäs

AvoinGLAM

I lead AvoinGLAM, a working group that advocates for Global Languages, Art and Memory (or Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) in Helsinki, Finland. I am also the ED at Open Knowledge Finland.

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Tove Ørsted

avoinGLAM /Open Knowledge Finland

Activist at avoinGLAM and long-term preservation specialist at Aalto University. I will also function as the volunteer coordinator during Oulu Löyly.