Our Team
Alexandros Melidis
Director

Alexandros Melidis studied Political Science and Public Administration (International European Studies) at the University of Athens and Mass Communications (MA) at the University of Leicester, UK. He is an active member of the open government movement in Greece and is interested in the use of open technologies and standards in digital public participation.

Elena Barka
Office&Communications Manager

Elena Barka holds a BA in Sociology from University of Crete and a MA in Film Studies from University of Sussex, Brighton, UK. She joined the GFOSS team in January 2019.

Marialena Belitsi
Office & Project Coordinator

Marialena Belitsi holds a BA in Marketing & Communication from Athens University of Economics, a MA in Tourism Marketing, and she is currently studying Digital Communication Media and Interaction Environments in National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She joined the GFOSS team in January 2022.

Kostas Papadimas
Content / Community Manager

Kostas Papadimas (pkst) is the Content and Community Manager of GFOSS since 2015. He holds a degree in Communication and Cultural Studies and he is an active open source contributor since 2001.

Kleio Kazana
Office & Project Coordinator

Kleio Kazana studied Political Science and Public Administration at the University of Athens and holds a Master’s degree in Political Science and History (with a specialization in Political Philosophy and Social Theory) from Panteion University. She has worked in administrative positions and in the media as a journalist. She joined the Open Technologies team in December 2024.

Konstantinos Papadimitriou
Web Developer

Konstantinos Papadimitriou has been professionally involved in web development for more than 15 years, utilizing open technologies that he has passed on to new users. He is a graduate of Agricultural Technologicy of Technological Educational Institute of Crete. He is interested in quality assurance and process optimization. He works at GFOSS from January 2019.

Sotiris Andreakis
Systems Administrator

Sotiris Andreakis studied in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Thessaly. He is trained to manage Linux systems and VMs. He is using shell script, Ansible, Nginx, PHP, MariaDB and docker containers. He joined the Greek Free Open Source Software organization on August 2022.

Katerina Zoi
Linguist in glossAPI team

Katerina Zoi is a PhD candidate in syntax, studying at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She has completed her undergraduate studies in Greek Philology and her postgraduate studies in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics. She is interested in syntax, semantics, cognitive linguistics, phonetics/phonology, as well as proofreading/editing. She has been a member of the glossAPI team since April 2024.

Foivos Karounos Zamparloukos
glossAPI Software Engineer

Foivos has studied Computer Science and Psychology and is interested in the development of the technological ecosystem in Greece. He has held various roles related to business strategy, cryptocurrency performance prediction and knowledge theory research. His role in the glossAPI team is Software Engineer.

Ioanna Moura
Linguist in glossAPI team

Ioanna Moura is a computational linguist and interpreter candidate in Greek Sign Language (GSL). She has completed her undergraduate studies in Greek Philology and postgraduate studies in Language Technology, in the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, as an academic fellow of John S. Latsis Public Benefit Foundation. Furthermore she worked as a research fellow at the National Hellenic Research Foundation in the field of Archival Research. Also she was a researcher in Istorima as an oral history collector.He current job at GFOSS – OPEN TECHNOLOGIES ALLIANCE is centered on collecting language resources, annotating data, and machine learning training.


Despina Mitropoulou
Director (2015-2021) & Project coordinator (2010-2015)

Despina Mitropoulou received her BSc (Hons) in Digital Media from the University of Portsmouth and her MSc in Child-Computer Interaction from the University of Central Lancashire.