This is the website about Matt Lee...
Matt Lee is a stock-photography model, occasional musician, writer and free software activist. Mostly a stock-photography model, though.
Matt Lee is the founder and one of the principal creatives behind Foo Communications, a company/experiment in music, publishing and artistry, including Libre.fm, a new social media site that offers musicians exclusive promotion and play in exchange for licensing their music under a free culture license, and GNU social, a decentralized free software social network.
Free software as activism
Both Libre.fm and GNU social are written in PHP and licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License.
Matt is also the campaigns manager at the Free Software Foundation, creators of the GNU operating system which is now most commonly used with the kernel Linux to form the GNU/Linux operating system. At the FSF, Matt leads campaigns against Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) as well as campaigns to promote and protect computer user freedom.
As an invited expert, Matt also serves on the working groups for HTML5 and Social Web at the World Wide Web Consortium.
Art
Matt Lee has been using the internet and web since 1992, and free software since 1993 and has been involved in the GNU project since the early 2000s. Matt Lee is the founding developer of the GNU FM and GNU social projects and part of the team behind Libre.fm.
Matt is part of the internet sensation, furny, one of the first bands to establish themselves in free culture. Their first album, 1999-2005 is banned due to its heavy use of unauthorized sampling. Their second, More Mature Escapades in Hi-Fi is released under a copyleft license.
In 2008, Matt Lee wrote and produced the short film, “Happy Birthday to GNU” — featuring the British comedian and writer, Stephen Fry.