Daniel, 46, is cofounder, core member, and chairperson of the board of directors of the Tauri Programme within the Commons Conservancy. Previously he was a volunteer at the Gängeviertel Hamburg and a core member of the Quasar Framework team. Today, as an active member of both open-source and real-world activist communities, he strives to empower people to create better a better world using strong cryptography, sound security principles, ecological points of view, and respect for privacy. He speaks and writes about holistic engineering, and is based in Malta.