Marten Timan

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About Me:: After finishing highschool in the Netherlands, Marten decided to live in Canada for a year as an exchange student. It was there that he got interested in computers and webdesign. Back in the Netherlands he studied Multimedia Design & Technology at Saxion College in Enschede. He graduated on a masters course in Interactive Multimedia at the HKU in Hilversum. He finished his degree with his project Simuze and a thesis about Open Content and the music industry.

After his graduation he further developed Simuze (www.simuze.nl) together with a few enthousiastic people and got funding for the project. He is also the chairman of the Open Media Foundation which supports the creativity within a wide range of media and the sharing of the knowledge thereof. As a freelance webdeveloper, Open Source and Open Content have become an important factor in Marten’s online and offline activities.

He is also active as a bassplayer with the Dutch band We vs Death. The band has already toured Belgium, France, England, Denmark, Germany , Poland, Russia, Japan and Canada and has released several albums already. Making music has always been an important part of his life. He also loves to travel, design, and program. He is a pragmatic idealist and couldn’t live without music.
How did you come across this network?: by invitation
Website:: http://www.open-media.nl/marten
Other:: http://www.simuze.nl
Other:: http://www.atypisch.nl