Taavi Väänänen
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Hi! 👋 I'm Taavi (he/him or they/them). I'm a nerd. Currently I'm studying at Tampere University. On the side I help run a private cloud platform that supports various processes in the Wikimedia movement. In the past I modernised most of jQuery's infrastructure . In my free time I'm also involved in some free software projects. In addition those already mentioned, these include Wikimedia, where…
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This is a collection of some of my favourite photos that I've uploaded to Commons .
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"knows much of the Deep Arts" — Lucas "good smart Finnish nerd" :3 — Sammy
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Talks &c.
This is a list of talks and similar I've given at various events , podcast appearances, and similar things. 2025 apt install mediawiki @ Wikimedia Hackathon 2025 ( slides ) 2024 Managing Wikimedia servers with Puppet @ Wikimedia Hackathon 2024 ( slides ) Between the Brackets: A MediaWiki podcast 2023 OpenTofu on Cloud VPS @ Wikimedia Foundation Developer Experience team offsite ( slides )…
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Under construction! Hardware Primary laptop Model Lenovo ThinkPad T14 Gen 6 (2025) CPU Intel Ultra 7 255U RAM 32GiB (2×16GiB) DDR5-5600 Storage 2TB (Samsung 980 PRO NVMe SSD) Display 14" Full HD Stickers Yes OS Debian testing Other Phone: iPhone 14 Pro GPS: Garmin eTrex 20 Software OS: Debian (stable for servers, testing for laptops) Window manager: sway Web browser: Firefox ESR from Debian Search…