2025-08-10 –, Cassiopeia
Language: English
A brief retrospective over the past 16 years of organized voluntary repair initiatives and a look at the breakthroughs for the right to repair movement
When Martine Postma organized her first Repair-Café in Amsterdam, would she have imagined the kind of traction that her initiative would gain worldwide? With rampant enshittification of services, but also products ("planned obsolescence") comes resistance from consumers and politics. I'll show a few blatant examples and outline the recent progress in EU legislation.
Andreas, known as "Fraxinas" in the FOSS community, holds a degree in electrical engineering and information technology from the University of Applied Sciences in Aschaffenburg. He specializes in Rust, GStreamer and Embedded Linux. A regular speaker at conferences worldwide, he has also contributed to fostering a culture of repair and sustainability as the founder of multiple Repair Cafés. For eight years, he was a familiar face on German television as the "Repairfox" in ARD Buffet.
Passionately tinkering in the Schaffenburg Hacker/Makerspace. LGBT Youth activist, furry, musician, mountain biker and Japanese learner.