Bogomil "Bogo" Shopov

Current

• Founder at Zero Crew
• Product manager, Internet infrastructure and payments at SEP Bulgaria Inc.
• Member at Electronic Frontier Bulgaria

• Board chair at WebTech Conferences and BlogCamp 2008

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Past

• Member at Open Projects Foundation
• PHP Maniac at Software Technologies
• Consultant at OpenIdeasCompany

• IT Manager at Partner24 Bulgaria
• Web architect at NetInfo JSCo
• Web Application developer at WebGate JSC
• Web Developer at Xi-Tec Technologies Gmbh
• Radio Electronic War at Ministry of Defence of Bulgaria

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Connections

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Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• Zero Crew
• Blog

Bogomil "Bogo" Shopov’s Summary

Currently I am Product Manager "Internet infrastructure and payments" at SEP Bulgaria in Sofia. Also I am board chair of Web Technology Conference - WebTech and Enterprise 2.0 conference, editor of 2 bulgarian e-magazines about Web 2.0 and OpenSource.

I am proud member of Open Projects Foundation (OPF), Free Software Foundation (FSF) and Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).

I am running for a Member of the European Parliament on the 2009 elections. I would like to work for FOSS adoption, for our nature, for our civil and digital rights, for open standards and open ideas. My campaign is under Creative Commons license . Yes, YOU can help.

Bogomil "Bogo" Shopov’s Specialties:

Open Source, Development, Publishing, IT Management, Free Software, Community Relations. FOSS, Politics, Digital Rights.

Bogomil "Bogo" Shopov’s Experience

• Founder

  Zero Crew

  (Privately Held; Internet industry)

  January 2008 — Present (9 months)

  "Zero Crew" is a new media consultancy and development company.

• Product manager, Internet infrastructure and payments

  SEP Bulgaria Inc.

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  June 2007 — Present (1 year 4 months)

• Member

  Electronic Frontier Bulgaria

  (Non-Profit; Information Technology and Services industry)

  September 2006 — Present (2 years 1 month)

  The purpose of the present project is to:
  
  * Promote free software, open source software and open standards in the State Administration (SA) of the Republic of Bulgaria and in other fields of the management, economics and households.
  * Actually united companies dealing with development, integration and promotion of open source, free software and culture.
  * Organize events and campaigns to promote the implementation of open source, free software, open standards and technologies.
  * Cooperate with similar organizations for protection of the digital rights, software freedom and ideas.
  * Participate in projects, researches and cooperative initiatives related to open source, free software and culture and for to the preservation of digital rights.
  * Stimulate and promote open source or free software projects developed in Bulgaria.
  * Assist small and medium enterprises in finding ways for open technological development.

• Board chair

  WebTech Conferences and BlogCamp 2008

  (Internet industry)

  March 2004 — Present (4 years 7 months)

  The WebTech conferences started out in the beginning of 2004. The initiative aimed at making internet culture better, showing the internet technologies and building up the IT image and technological development.
  
  First edition of BlogCamp 2008 in Sofia will be held in late February 2008.

• Member

  Open Projects Foundation

  (Non-Profit; Computer Software industry)

  March 2007 — May 2008 (1 year 3 months)

• PHP Maniac

  Software Technologies

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  March 2007 — June 2007 (4 months)

• Consultant

  OpenIdeasCompany

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  May 2006 — March 2007 (11 months)

  OpenSource Research. Building communities, organizing events and more ...

• IT Manager

  Partner24 Bulgaria

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  August 2006 — March 2007 (8 months)

  IT manager

• Web architect

  NetInfo JSCo

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  March 2004 — May 2006 (2 years 3 months)

• Web Application developer

  WebGate JSC

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  September 2002 — March 2004 (1 year 7 months)

  Web Application developer. PHP,MySQL,XML ...

• Web Developer

  Xi-Tec Technologies Gmbh

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  April 2001 — August 2002 (1 year 5 months)

  Web Developer and web master.

• Radio Electronic War

  Ministry of Defence of Bulgaria

  (Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Military industry)

  September 1996 — April 2001 (4 years 8 months)

Additional Information

Bogomil "Bogo" Shopov’s Websites:

• Zero Crew
• Blog

Bogomil "Bogo" Shopov’s Interests:

PHP, OpenSource, MySQL, Free Software, Open Standarts

Bogomil "Bogo" Shopov’s Groups:

No Software patents

•    TEN - Top Executives Net
•    eLiberatica - The Benefits of Open and Free Technologies
•    Renewable Energy Network
•    TopLinked.com (Open Networkers)
•    Open Source
•    Community Managers

Bogomil "Bogo" Shopov’s Contact Settings

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• business deals
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