Welcome to Marco Fioretti's website!
I am a freelance writer, activist and teacher about open digital standards, Free Software, digital technologies and the their relations and impact on education, ethics, civil rights and environmental issues. I regularly write about all these topics at Stop! / Zona-M.
Besides what's available at Stop! / Zona-M and more than 200 other articles already published on several Italian and international magazines (from USA and UK to India, Germany and Spain), I am the author of the Family Guide to Digital Freedom, "the one book on software and digital technologies that no parent can ignore" and a co-autor of Open Government: Collaboration, Transparency, and Participation in Practice (O'Reilly, Jan. 2010). My most important non technical articles are listed in a separate page.
I am a public speaker and trainer on several subjects related to all the themes above. A selection of my public talks is shown in the left bar of this website.
I enjoy teaching and usually get very good feedback from my students. I'm available for technical training at different levels about Linux, Shell or Perl scripting and OpenOffice, as well as telecom-related topics and digital IC design. I am also interested in writing manuals and other course material on the same subjects.
I currently am a contributing editor of Linux Journal and maintain the Linux column of Pc Professionale. Recently I started to write about my other great interest, backpacking. Occasionally I also work freelance as English to Italian translator and FPGA designer.
I am completely rebuilding this website. After the final version of this home page I will add a detailed resume, a searchable database of my publications, an Italian version of all these pages and more.
You can write me at the address marco, at digifreedom.net.