Communia Co-ordinating Team

• Juan Carlos De Martin - Network coordinator Associate Professor at the Politecnico di Torino's Information Engineering School, where he leads the Internet Media Group, he previously spent several years at Italy's National Research Council, two years as Visiting Scholar at the University of California, and two years in Dallas as Texas Instruments technical staff member and as adjunct professor at the University of Texas. Since 2003 he has been leading the Creative Commons Italy project, and in 2006 founded NEXA Research Center for Internet and Society at the Politecnico di Torino. He is also a IEEE member and author or co-author of over ninety international scientific publications. Address: Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica Politecnico di Torino Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24 10121 Torino - Italy Email: coordinator [at] communia-project [dot] eu Phone: +39 011 5647065 Fax: +39 011 5647216

• Melanie Dulong de Rosnay - Publication manager She is currently a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School and at Science Commons. Her postdoctoral research focuses on open data policy, copyright, libraries, open access, information science. Beside teaching copyright law, she co-edited a book and worked on legal metadata and ontologies, rights expression languages, and technical standardization. Since 2003 she is Creative Commons France legal lead at CERSA University of Paris 2. Email: publications [at] communia-project [dot] eu

• Luca Leschiutta - System administrator After graduating in Electronic Engineering, he pursued a PhD in Information Technology at Politecnico di Torino, where he currently is a post-doc researcher in the Internet Media Group. His preferred fields have always been image compression and wireless networking. He also teaches programming and networking courses, and in the past he worked at Alenia Spazio, where he was mostly involved in the ISS project. Email: webmaster [at] communia-project [dot] eu Phone: +39 011 5647218

• Maria Teresa Medina Quintana - Administrative assistant Holding a Bachelor degree in International Business with a multicultural background, she is assistant researcher at the Politecnico di Torino, where she coordinates event managements for the Internet Media Group. Her former experiences include the organization of international events for the World Trade Organization and the World Economic Forum, and a federal agent job in the Mexican government. Email: administration [at] communia-project [dot] eu Phone: +39 011 5647217

• Bernardo Parrella - Dissemination manager US-based freelance journalist, translator, consultant and activist on digital culture and technology matters. He is involved with several collaborative projects and publishing venues, including Assignment Zero, Web Skills Working Group, Apogeonline, MondoWeb, Stampa Alternativa. His many (English-Italian) translations include "Fans, Bloggers, and Gamers" by Henry Jenkins (FrancoAngeli, 2008) and "Free Culture" by Lawrence Lessig (Apogeo, 2005). Email: press [at] communia-project [dot] eu

Past members

• Andrea Glorioso - Former project manager He is a graduate researcher at the Internet Media Group and at the Politecnico of Torino's NEXA Research Center for Internet and Society. For the past 10 years, he has been a consultant on FLOSS technologies and business methodologies (as system/network administrator, software developer, pre-sales agent, project manager, etc.) for many public and private institutions, including University of Padova, Linuxcare Inc., World Intellectual Property Organisation, European Commission.