Is Linus not looking as if he just walks through the air?

Just a little more than 7 years ago, around Christmas 1999, I was asked by a professor at TUHH to support him in a preparation meeting for a new European research projectin. The goal of this project was the development of an online solution for democratic decision processes based on moderated discussions. This request had far-reaching consequences for me:

• it brought me to Berlin,
• it made me experience the high time of the New Economy,
• and made me feel the downfall hardly with personal consequences,
• it led to my meeting my beloved wife,
• it had the consequence of my my meeting my current boss,
• and that I now may/can/must commute between Berlin and Hamburg.

The project application in the end was successful and of course the project now has come to an end. The project manager now is my colleague and manages a small department in our company. This department keeps a small but interesting blog about e-Participation and e-Democracy in German, the DEMOS Monitor. I think it is quite readable, so just check it out if you know German.

My personal story will be told later at a suitable moment.