About Gijs
I have more than 22 years experience as a journalist, communicating to a variety of audiences. I have worked as a journalist for all sorts of media: daily, weekly, radio and internet. The past few years I wrote about it-trends, databases, large scale business software, and Unix, Linux and open source software. I appeared in several Dutch TV news and radio programs.
My office uses mostly Debian GNU/Linux. Currently this runs on a Thinkpad Z61m
I am 42 (in 2009). I have a major in Physical Geography from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam & a graduate degree in Journalism from the Erasmus University in Rotterdam. I will sometimes be found at computer science classes at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, but if this will ever lead to a Bsc. remains to be seen.
I'm the news editor of the European Commission's 'Open Source Repository and Observatory'. 
Also, I work and have worked for
- Automatiseringgids (circulation 60.000 a weekly IT-newspaper & website
- Management Team
- Inquirer.net
- Digitaal Bestuur
- CIO
- Economist Intelligence Unit
- Computable (circulation 80.000) a weekly it-magazine & website
- Linux Magazine (The Netherlands) (circulation 5000)
- ICT-zorg (ict in healthcare)
- Arts & Auto
- Management Scope
- Planet.nl (one of the larger Dutch news sites)
- Energiegids
- SDU Select Werken voor de Overheid
- Stripschrift
- Technisch Weekblad
- IT beheer magazine
Tags
Open Source software, Information Systems, TCO, software development, databases, labour market, trade unions, public IT policy, government, intellectual property, software patents, GNU/Linux, Unix