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Bo Arne Leuf was the author

Author

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of the book The Wiki Way
The Wiki Way
The Wiki Way: Quick Collaboration on the Web is a 2001 book about wikis by Bo Leuf and Ward Cunningham. It was the first major book published about using wikis. Cunningham is the inventor of wikis, having created WikiWikiWeb, the first wiki website software...

(2001), written in collaboration with WikiWiki inventor Ward Cunningham

Ward Cunningham

Howard G. "Ward" Cunningham is an American computer programmer who developed the first wiki. A pioneer in both design patterns and Extreme Programming, he started programming the software WikiWikiWeb in 1994 and installed it on the website of his software consultancy, Cunningham & Cunningham , on...

. His book Peer To Peer (2002) discusses different P2P solutions both from a technical and legal point of view.

Bo Leuf lived in Gothenburg

Gothenburg

Gothenburg is the second-largest city in Sweden and the fifth-largest in the Nordic countries. Situated on the west coast of Sweden, the city proper has a population of 519,399, with 549,839 in the urban area and total of 937,015 inhabitants in the metropolitan area...

, Sweden

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

. He was a candidate for the Pirate Party in the Swedish general election 2006

Swedish general election, 2006

A general election was held in Sweden on 17 September 2006, to elect members to the Swedish parliament. All 349 seats were up for election: 310 "fixed seats" in 29 constituencies and 39 members at a national level for what are called "adjustment seats", used to ensure that parties have...

and was also on its board as treasurer

Treasurer

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Trivia

Bo Leuf's nickname in High School was 'Le Boeuf', 'the beefanator'.

Trivia

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