Full Name Peter Gervai Nationality Hungarian | Name Peter Gervai | |
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Born January 7, 1972 (age 52) ( 1972-01-07 ) Debrecen
Hungary Other names Gervai Grin Peter or grin (online alias) Title Founder of the Hungarian Wikipedia Awards Lifetime Achievement Award
eFestival 2009 | ||
Board member of Wikimedia Hungary | ||
Péter Gervai (born 7 January 1972) is a Hungarian IT development engineer, the founder of the Hungarian Wikipedia and the chair of Wikimedia Hungary. He was one of the pioneers of Internet culture in Hungary, as operator of the LifeForce BBS and the author of a snarky webpage about chain emails which was widely used to educate senders of such mail.
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Personal life
Péter Gervai is married and has two children. Besides his native Hungarian, he speaks fluently in English and German.
Career
He graduated from Fazekas Mihály Gimnázium in 1990. Then he studied at Kandó Kálmán Műszaki Főiskola in Budapest. He worked at FidoNet as a moderator, and he was the maintainer of the LifeForce BBS, which was among the pioneers in Hungary. The starter of the Mozilla Open Directory's Hungarian part, He participated in several open source projects. He was elected as president of the newly formed "Hungarian Wikimedia Association" on 27 September 2008. He has a diverse interest mainly focused on technical areas, computers, mostly internet access and service providing, security, network design and programming, but he also likes reading and writing literature.
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