Benjamin Mako Hill is a free software activist,[1] hacker,[2] author, and professor.

In 2006, he married Mika Matsuzaki and used mathematically constrained wedding vows at the marriage ceremony.

[11] Hill is also a core developer and founding member of Ubuntu, and continues to be an active contributor to the project.

[25] He spends a significant amount of his time traveling and giving talks on FOSS and intellectual property primarily in Europe and North America.

[26] At the lab, he has worked in both the Electronic Publishing and Computing Culture groups on collaborative writing and decision-making software.

One project, Selectricity is a voting tool which received prizes and grants from MTV and Cisco.