Hello :-)

I am a candidate for the affiliate member seat, currently held by Simon Phipps.

Why open-source?

I understand open-source as a method that encourages everyone to build, review, reproduce, improve a technology or an innovation (rather than recreating it).

I see the value of open-source in its ability to help us achieve decent and healthy life for everyone, as it fosters collaboration rather than competition, and reduces barriers to access knowledge.

What is Breathing Games?

An OSI affiliate since 2016, Breathing Games brings people together so that we collectively take care of our respiratory health.

We develop digital games to help asthmatic children manage their crises, to value self- and mutual care for people who live with reduced breath capacity (cystic fibrosis, COPD), and to promote respiratory health to the broader population. Did you know air pollution reduces our life expectancy by 20 months?

We prototyped 20 games and two controllers – most during events –, some of which were recently tested in hospitals. We now develop a multiplayer game where up to four players collaborate to reach the summit of a mountain, with different breathing challenges.

Since 2018, Breathing Games is a member of the Global Alliance against chronic respiratory diseases. Here is a poster we presented in October, which summarizes our work.

Who is Fabio?

I am 37, born in Switzerland. I live frugally, six months in Montreal, and six months in Switzerland and Asia. Before focusing on Breathing Games, I provided guidance to teams in the design and adoption of collaborative technologies (a report for Fujitsu, in French).

I hold degrees in group dynamics (MAS Human Systems Engineering), adult education, game design, communications, and health. I do research on health commons (building on Breathing Games) at Concordia University, Montreal. I led the dossier Recherche et communs for the Acfas magazine.

Currently, I invest my time in organizing the Open Village, a series of activities to promote open-source hardware for health, as part of the Geneva Health Forum and the Open Geneva festival. You may give a look at this short video (subtitled).

Ich spreche Deutsch. Parlo italiano. Je parle français. Hablo español (un poco). ;-)

What contribution for OSI?

To clarify my position, I summarized my colleagues goals. I invite you to read their full profile – I learned a lot about them and their vision doing so. :-)

Anything else?