Welcome to LaMerk Industries!
This is the personal page of Fabian A. Scherschel, a broadcaster, writer, Free Software / Free Culture advocate, wannabe-coder and bad musician from Bonn, Germany. This site lists all the projects and online activities that he is involved with. The name LaMerk originates within the Dark Tower stories by Stephen King. If you haven't read these yet, you definitely should!
This site is about art, open source and freedom. Freedom is very important for me, especially in software development where it has long been lacking. I believe Van Morrison described our fight for freedom best when he sang:
»You can't stop us on the road to freedom
You can't keep us 'cause our eyes can see
We got men with insight, men in granite
Knights in armor intent on chivalry«
~ Van Morrison, Tupelo Honey
Projects
A list of projects I am involved with:
- Linux Outlaws (with Dan Lynch) — a podcast about Linux and Free and Open Source Software → Episode Download Stats
- Podjango (with Bradley Kuhn) — a publishing platform for podcasters based on the Django framework
- Shiny Screenshots — a plugin for the GIMP to create snazzy looking screenshot effects
- Artwork — some random art & graphics I've done for some reason or other
- Photography — a collection of photos I've taken
- Launchpad page — I try to help out the development & debugging of Ubuntu and several client applications
Presence
- I am blogging on srcview.org and the Linux Outlaws Blog
- See what I am up to on a day-to-day basis on Identica
- Find out about the music I am listening to via Libre.fm
- PS3 gamer card:
Games
- Playstation 3:
- World of Warcraft:
Resources
- start.lamerk.org – my personal web portal
