Contributors & Supporters
Open Web Advocacy is a not-for-profit organization made up of a loose group of software engineers from all over the world, who work for many different companies who have come together to fight for the future of the open web by providing regulators, legislators and policy makers the intricate technical details that they need to understand the major anti-competitive issues in our industry and potential ways to solve them.
Open Web Advocacy was started in March 2021 by brothers Alex and James Moore. Early contributors include Stuart Langridge and Bruce Lawson were interviewed for a piece in The Register – Web devs rally to challenge Apple App Store browser rules, and we have listed coverage on our press page.
A number of our contributers wish to remain private as they are concerned that publicly confronting gatekeepers will cause issues with their jobs or businesses.
Please note that contributions by individals do not necessarily reflect an endorsement by their employers.
Alex Moore (Australia🇦🇺, UK🇬🇧)OWA Executive Director, Web Developer, Small Business Owner
Feross Aboukhadijeh (USA🇺🇸)Founder & CEO, Socket Security, Wormhole, Visiting Lecturer, Stanford University
Thomas Allmer (Austria🇦🇹)Senior Web Application Developer, Web Components
Dion Almaer (USA🇺🇸, UK🇬🇧)#TeamWeb whether working at Google, Mozilla, or Shopify
John Allsopp (Australia🇦🇺)Web Directions Conference Organizer, Author
Andy Bell (UK🇬🇧)Designer, Front-End Developer, Agency Founder
Frances Berriman (UK🇬🇧, USA🇺🇸)Artist, designer and technologist
Ashley Beshensky (USA🇺🇸)Graphic Designer, OWA Logo
- Steven Beshensky (USA🇺🇸)
Web Developer
Dan Brown (UK🇬🇧)Full Stack Web Developer
Owen Buckley (USA🇺🇸)Independent (Open Source) Software Developer, Speaker / Writer, and Entrepreneur
Kushal Dave (USA🇺🇸)CTO / Engineer, Past: Scroll (acq Twitter), Foursquare, Google
Jesper van den Ende (Netherlands🇳🇱)Game Developer, Developer of narrow.one
Maximiliano Firtman (Argentina🇦🇷)Web App Expert, Author, Trainer & Conference Speaker
Roderick Gadellaa (Netherlands🇳🇱)Designer, Front-End Developer, iOS Safari Expert
Thomas Güttler (Germany🇩🇪)Software Engineer
Scott Jenson (USA🇺🇸)UX Designer (Apple, Google, Symbian)
Chris Lacy (Australia🇦🇺)Link Bubble creator, Native and Web App Developer
Stuart Langridge (UK🇬🇧)W3C Invited Expert, Mobile Web App Specialist, Consultant
Bruce Lawson (UK🇬🇧)W3C Invited Expert, Accessibility Expert, Ex-Deputy CTO of Opera Browser
Michaela Merz (USA🇺🇸, Germany🇩🇪, Switzerland🇨🇭)Lead developer of Packfrog
Danny Moerkerke (Netherlands🇳🇱)PWA/Web Components Specialist, Creator of whatpwacando.today
James Moore (Australia🇦🇺, UK🇬🇧)OWA Regulatory Submissions, Web App Developer
Vincent Morneau (Canada🇨🇦)Oracle, Principal Member of Technical Staff, Mobile and PWA Strategy Lead
John Ozbay (Estonia🇪🇪, Finland🇫🇮)Maker of weird things and Founder/CEO of Cryptee crypt.ee
Tim Perry (Spain🇪🇸)Creator of HTTP Toolkit httptoolkit.com
Ondřej Pokorný (Czech Republic🇨🇿)Freelance Technology Consultant
Benny Powers (Canada🇨🇦, Israel🇮🇱)Principal UX Engineer, Red Hat
Angela P. Ricci (Brazil🇧🇷, France🇫🇷)Web Designer and front-end developer, working for an accessible web
Daniel Roe (UK🇬🇧)Core Team, Nuxt
Jonathan Rowley (UK🇬🇧)Web Developer
Runos (France🇫🇷)UI/UX Developer, iOS Safari Expert
Yuya Saito (Japan🇯🇵)Web Developer, Technical Translation
Christian Schaefer (Germany🇩🇪)Senior front-end developer, podcaster, meetup and conference organizer, lecturer
Isaac Z. Schlueter (USA🇺🇸)NPM Inventor
Dan Shappir (Israel🇮🇱)W3C Invited Expert, Performance Expert, Host of Javascript Jabber
Alistair Shepherd (UK🇬🇧)Lead developer at Series Eight
Paul Trifa (Romania🇷🇴)Senior FE Architect and Tech Lead
Andre Wiggins (USA🇺🇸)Web Developer
James Heppell (UK🇬🇧, Spain🇪🇸)OWA Volunteer, Web Developer, Student
Thomas Powell If you are a contributor or a supporter and wish to be listed above please contact us.
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