Ecobytes is run by Matthew Carroll and Meinhard Benn. Our infrastructure consists of two servers (Otter/Berlin, Polecat/Nuremberg) and our personal laptops. The long term vision of our hosting project is to supply Internet hosting on servers built from the least environmentally harmful parts and powered entirely by renewable energy. Our latest addition "Polecat" already runs on hydroelectric energy provided by power plants along the Rhine river.
We also envision to become a resource for knowledge about environmentally sound and socially just computing. In our personal work we combine our common passion for sustainability and information technology by assisting various groups and individuals with their day to day computer work, and especially with their Internet related activities.
We strongly believe in Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) and therefore our server is running on Debian GNU/Linux and we almost exclusively use FLOSS for our work. We encourage our users and everyone else to use FLOSS applications and help people to migrate to FLOSS. Meinhard also gives speeches and workshops about FLOSS related topics along his travels.
Ecobytes came into existence around June 2006 when we decided on a name for our hosting project (before that it was just called benn.org hosting). It has never formally been founded, but organically grew out of our work on the same web server and the desire to give this activity its own identity. Matthew and Meinhard work together since 2004 when they met at the EYFA winter meeting in Pula/Croatia.
Contact
Ecobytes
Meinhard Benn e.K.
Am See 41
19065 Pinnow
Germany
Email: info@ecobytes.net
Tax authority (Finanzamt): Finanzamt Schwerin
Tax account (UStNr): 090/205/05068
Disclaimer
A German court order says that we can be held liable for the content of pages that we link to. To exclude this we need to state the following: We are not responsible for any contents linked or referred to from our pages - unless we have full knowledge of illegal contents and would be able to prevent the visitors of our site from viewing those pages. If any damage occurs by the use of information presented there, only the author of the respective pages might be liable, not the one who has linked to these pages. Furthermore we are not liable for any postings or messages published by users of discussion boards, guestbooks or mailinglists provided on our page.