====== Paolo Didonè aka „Dido“ ======
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===== Personal Background =====

Italian living in Paris.
Consultant en systèmes d'information for a French company
Professionally among other things, he was in the team of the first and the most massive migration to Free Software in Italy (FUSS project, province  of Bolzano)

===== Activism and political hacking ===== 

Activist for Free Software from the very beginning (one of the first commitments: the Campaign against Software Patents)
During the period in which he was President of the Italian association
for Free Software ("Associazione Software Libero"),
  * they won a legal battle against the Italian Ministry of Interior because it had not included Open Source Software in a public tender.
  * they have successfully repeated several times the "Dear Candidate." campaign ("Caro Candidato") making the candidates take public position in favour of Free Software.
  * they helped Consip (an Italian government agency) to introduce Free Software offers in acquisitions for Public Administration
  * they have entered into agreements with the Ministry of Education for the introduction of Free Software in teaching in schools.
  * he was in dozens of conferences and debates throughout Italy, in festivals, Free Software initiatives, universities and radio and TV broadcasts.
===== Normal life ===== 

After a few years of pause in which he devoted to the sea and the, photography, since a couple of years he moved to Paris and returned to work in computer science.

Now he is a Pirate. ([[https://twitter.com/dido|@dido on Twitter]])

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Photo: https://www.partito-pirata.it/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Paolo_Didone_PP-IT-logo.jpg 

Bio: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paolodidone/