About me

I am Franz Liedke, web developer and open-source enthusiast from Berlin, Germany.

I finished my studies of IT-Systems Engineering with a Master of Science from the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam.

Much of the time I have besides my job as a developer atopenHPI, I use to co-lead the development ofFlarum.Designed byToby Zerner, Flarum is a next-generation forum software that's made to be easy to use, extend and install.

To build Flarum, we're using components of theLaravel web development framework.Since I discovered Laravel, I have been an enthusiastic learner, used it for quite a few projects, and have become acorecontributor andmeetup founder.

My enthusiasm for forum software was born from my involvement in theFluxBB development team.FluxBB is a free, open-source forum software that strives to be fast, light-weight and easy to use while only offering the features that are essential for running a forum.I found FluxBB when I was literally searching for a forum that was easy to install and just worked.FluxBB is still maintained - it is considered mostly feature-complete, but I am currently working on modernizing the aging PHP codebase.

I like to program in PHP, but have lots of experience with Ruby and JavaScript, too.