Anna e só is a systems weaver born, raised and based in the heartland of Brazil. Over the last decade, they’ve helped organizations of different sizes and natures to design, implement and improve open technology solutions to collect, store, process and distribute information of any kind in order to support their mechanisms of control, coordination and decision-making. Holder of a Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems from Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG). Her name is pronounced /ˈɐ̃.nɐ e ˈsɔ/.
Anna currently works with the following organizations:
- Software Freedom Conservancy, leading Outreachy
- Lab Livre/UnB, leading research on:
- Minoritized groups in the technology field
- Digital social participation and technopolitics
- Free and open source governance and sustainability
Their previous organizations and clients include:
- OLS (2026)
- Secretaria de Estado de Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação (SECTI) de Goiás under Sukatech (2025)
- Internews (2025)
- Open Collective (2018)
- MediaLab/UFG under Laboratório de Políticas Públicas Participativas (L3P) (2018)
- Wikimedia Foundation (2017)
Anna cares for and photographs cat colonies in her neighborhood alongside their spouse, Getúlio. They live a happy life with their own rescue cats, Morceguinho and Panterinha.
Contact me
- Through a series of intricate rituals (Fediverse)
- Through a corporate platform (LinkedIn)
- The old-fashioned way,
oi@notapplicable.dev(Email)
Talks & workshops
- Para onde vai o software livre? (2026)
- Anatomy of an open internship program: How we run Outreachy (2025)
- Thinking about free and open source software, systemically (2023)
- Community design for inclusivity (2021)
- Redes descentralizadas (2020)
- Fazendo a sua primeira contribuição em um projeto aberto (2020)
Interviews
- Software Freedom Conservancy (2024)
- Angola Open Source Community (2023)
- Peixe Babel (2021)
- LKConf (2020)
- Casa Hacker (2020)
- Big Open Source Sibling (2020)
- Mozilla Open Leaders (2018)