My name is Konrad Förstner. I consider myself as an idealist with a scientific background (a PhD in Bioinformatics/Computational Biology) and a strong association to the open source/data/content community. I am located in Germany.

I …

• … work as a freelancing software developer and consultant currently. Further information about these activities can be found at Xing and LinkedIn.
• … have a blog called the dao of flow where I write about about science, technology, society and further topics.
• … document some of my little hacks and configuration tips on another blog named Konrad’s Kode & Konfigs.
• … publish open source code on GitHub (there are also some contributions on gitorious and bitbucket)
• … twitter
• … and post on identi.ca
• … use FriendFeed as an aggregator but mainly for talking to the bio crowed
• … have slides on SlideShare and on Nature Precedings
• … started a little open data project about GTIN called ProductTransparency
• … collect scientific papers at Connotea and Mendeley (in progress)
• … share some selected photos on Flickr
• … collect links at ZooTool