Mfeilner

mfeilner is Markus Feilner, owner and founder of Feilner IT, Regensburg (Germany) www.feilner-it.net.

Regensburg, my hometown. Feilner IT office on the right. :-)

Who I am

I am a senior IT journalist, I have worked as deputy editor-in-chief of the German Linux-Magazin and Heise IX. I started working with open source and Linux in 1994, founded my own company in 2000 and have been working as consultant and team lead for documentation at Linux vendor SUSE. I have been working together with, for and against many politicians of different political parties, e.g. when uncovering the tools Russian hackers used to take over the German Parliament: "Bundestagshack: Die Ursachen, der Ablauf und die Folgen"

Markus Feilner

What I like

I love to travel and see new and surprising things and talk to people. I am fluent in Englisch, German and Bavarian, I feel comfortable with speaking and understanding French and Italian. I love to take photos and post them on my blogs www.markusfeilner.de or photography.markusfeilner.de, on Twitter (@mfeilner) or in the fediverse. All my photos are CC - feel free to spread them. I do not do Apple, Facebook or similar walled gardens.

Professional Life

For almost 20 years, I have been writing regularly for German and international tech magazines, websites and company blogs and documentation. I am a well-known speaker (from workshops to keynotes at international conferences. My company Feilner IT focuses on open source consulting, documentation, organising and understanding human interactions in IT, both in companies, corporate, political and NGO context. I like to define that as the ISO layers 8,9 and 10: from "security theater" or "mythbusting documentation" to the quirks of leadership. That also includes knowledge management, onboarding and project/process management.

How I contribute to Wikipedia

I am contributing to Wikipedia occasionally, usually for friends and not for money. Years ago, I was asked by a friend to help "create a website for an artist friend of mine". We spent a lot of work in that (unpaid) only to find it wasn't relevant. Same happened to my contributions for the Open Source Business Alliance (up to now). All my other contributions were mostly small changes.

Paid-contributions disclosure

As of December 2023, I have received money from three open source companies for editing/updating their websites or affiliate pages:

• For ownCloud I am keeping the version information of ownCloud's products up-to-date (on English and German Wikipedia pages) Owncloud

(Since 2023 I have been employed at ownCloud as Ambassador ownCloud Infinite Scale.)

• The Austrian groupware vendor grommunio is paying me also to keep personal information of their CEO Norbert Lambing up-to-date and to create a Wikipedia page once their product is relevant enough.
• The Germany-based open source vulnerability management company Greenbone is paying me to translate and maintain a German vulnerability management page.

This information will be updated immediately on every change.

Unpaid contributions for NGOs and friends

• I am helping the Open Source Business Alliance OSBA with their Wikipedia pages. The OSBA understands itself as an lobby group for open source and digital sovereignty. Feilner IT is a member of the OSBA.
• I am helping Torsten Frenzel and his E-Government Podcast Wikipedia page. Torsten Frenzel is an employee of the AKDB, who is a customer of Feilner IT. The podcast is a project not related to his or my work.