Péter Gervai (born 7 January 1972) is a Hungarian IT development engineer, the founder of the
Hungarian Wikipedia and the chair of
Wikimedia Hungary. He was one of the pioneers of
Internet culture in Hungary, as operator of the
LifeForce BBS and the author of a snarky webpage about
chain emails which was widely used to educate senders of such mail.[1]
Personal life
Péter Gervai is married and has two children. Besides his native Hungarian, he speaks fluently in
English and
German.
Career
He graduated from
Fazekas Mihály Gimnázium in 1990. Then he studied at
Kandó Kálmán Műszaki Főiskola in
Budapest. He worked at FidoNet as a moderator, and he was the maintainer of the LifeForce BBS, which was among the pioneers in Hungary. The starter of the Mozilla Open Directory's Hungarian part,[2] He participated in several open source projects. He was elected as president of the newly formed "Hungarian Wikimedia Association" on 27 September 2008. He has a diverse interest mainly focused on technical areas,
computers, mostly
internet access and service providing,
security,
network design and
programming, but he also likes reading and writing literature.
Milestones
1984–1999, BBS sysop, FidoNet node (and OtherNets nodes), moderator