Advocacy and Awareness

The Advocacy and Awareness Award is envisioned to honor individuals advancing European open source on the policy-making stage, and has demonstrated dedication to boosting open source recognition and awareness.

Lydia Pintscher

Lydia Pintscher, Head of Section – Advocacy & Awareness, is the Portfolio Lead for Wikidata at Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. and a passionate advocate for free software and open knowledge. With over 18 years of experience contributing to free software projects, she studied computer science at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and serves as Vice-President of KDE e.V.