Nathan Oostendorp is an American technologist, author, and entrepreneur. He is from
Holland, Michigan and is a co-founder of the technology news website and community
Slashdot and founder of the online community
Everything2.
Biography
Oostendorp was a contributor and content editor of Slashdot as well as an author of the
SlashCode software—Slashdot's
freely licensed technological platform. He was a founder of the firm Blockstackers Intergalactic (BSI) which managed and developed the website.[citation needed][1] In addition to his work on Slashdot, Oostendorp's work at BSI included the creation of the early online encyclopedia project
Everything2,[2] and the
Perl programming web community
PerlMonks which used the
Everything Engine. After the sale of BSI to
Andover.net and subsequently to
VA Linux Systems (which became
Geeknet), Oostendorp worked as a developer and manager at the
free software and
open source hosting platform
SourceForge.
Oostendorp founded the
Ann Arbor, Michigan-based
Internet of Things startup Sight Machine[6] (formerly Ingenuitas) focused on industrial applications of computer vision techniques.[7] He is the author of the software SimpleCV[8] and holds a patent related to computer vision.[9]
^Oostendorp, Nathan; Rahul Sami (2009).
"The Copied Item Injection Attack"(PDF). Recommender Systems & the Social Web. 1001: 1. Retrieved November 9, 2013.
^Zhou, Daniel Xiaodan; Nathan Oostendorp; Michael Hess (2008).
"Conversation pivots and double pivots". Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. pp. 1009–1012. Retrieved November 9, 2013.
^Demaagd, Kurt; Anthony Oliver; Nathan Oostendorp; Katherine Scott (July 31, 2012). Practical Computer Vision with SimpleCV: The Simple Way to Make Technology See (1 ed.). O'Reilly Media.