Peter Tandler Picture of Peter

Hi, there!

Nice that you’re here!

Unfortunately I do not know what you are interested in and why you are here. Therefore I write some general infos: I’m a computer scientist (full-stack developer and software architect), consultant for IT-supported cooperation and participation (currently also for IKU_DIE DIALOGGESTALTER) and one of the founders of teambits. Before, I was working as a researcher at Fraunhofer Gesellschaft.

All this has in common that I have been working a lot on software support for synchronous collaboration (e.g. in meetings and large group moderation) and distributed systems: This includes conception, UX and methodology as well as robust technical implementation that still works reliably even under difficult WLAN conditions.

I’m also interested and really love to experiment with “new work” / “agile transformation” / “integral-evolutionary organizations” (as called by Frederic Laloux in one of my favorite books “Reinventing Organizations”). I am fascinated by the philosophy of Ken Wilber, which I started studying since I came across it (among others) via Laloux who quotes him several times, as well as the evolution model of Spiral Dynamics (by Graves/Beck). Both together can also be used very well for organizational development, as for example demonstrated by imu with their Integral Competence Model.

And in general, I would like to contribute my share to the current ecological-social-cultural-economic change. I’m especially pleased that I can also help at IKU facilitate deep discussions on some very relevant societal issues in citizen dialogue events through digital tools.

In addition, you might want to check my profiles, or contact me if you share interests:

Consultant for online cooperation and participation

During my time at Fraunhofer and afterwards at teambits, I have been working very intensively on how IT systems can support collaboration and enable participation.

Peter as consultant :-)

It is important to me that IT is chosen and used in a way that it really supports and that the human qualities of cooperation are still promoted (or at least not hindered 😉). Technology—if used in the right way—can definitely help:

  • to better structure interaction processes,
  • to involve more people more easily,
  • to enable an exchange of views at eye level (digital tools can help democratize),
  • to facilitate the exchange of information, and
  • store the information generated by groups and process it more easily (for example, make it available on the Internet or intranet for those who could not participate themselves).

I see these as important areas of application:

  • participation processes in large groups
  • Spatially distributed, simultaneous cooperation (i.e., if you cannot / may not / want to / would not be economical / is not possible because of Corona / … meet in person)
  • Asynchronous cooperation

I am happy to support you on the whole topic of “IT-supported cooperation”. I also provide practical help when it comes to adapting a director’s plan for online interaction or controlling tools as a technical director at an event.

Please contact me if you have a need in this context and this sounds interesting to you.

teambits

teambits logo teambits helps digitizing workshop facilitation and information processes in on-site live event and over the internet. We founded teambits in 2008 as a spin off of Fraunhofer Gesellschaft.

Please go to www.teambits.de for more information.

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Publications

During my time at Fraunhofer Gesellschaft my research topics were computer-supported collaborative work (CSCW), human-computer interaction (HCI), ubiquitous computing (UbiComp), roomware, i.e. interactive tabletop surfaces and walls, and digital moderation and facilitation.

You can find a list of my publications at these places:

Here I like to mention:

Open Source

I like open source in general, and I like to contribute whenever I have time (which is not as much as I’d like to). Some examples:

  • Mini-Calc Cinnamon Desklet • Sources (on GitHub) is my first tiny Gnome, well to be precise Cinnamon, extension, that I developed. Actually, GJS/CJS is not that much different from NodeJS, but uses Gtk instead of HTML.
  • Mini-Calc Cinnamon Applet • Sources (on GitHub): I converted the desklet to an applet, because it’s a bit tricky for a desklets in Cinnamon to get the keyboard focus. With an applet this works much better. So this is the version I continue to develop.
  • Enneagram explorer • sources (on GitHub): this is an app I wrote to get more familiar with Vue.js and TypeScript on the technical side—but also with the Enneagram on the other side.
  • vuepress-theme-single-page-sections is the VuePress theme I developed for this homepage. What I really like, is the possibility that I can pass additional contact information via URL parameter to my homepage. I use this for a link e.g. in my email signature that contains also my mobile number and messanger IDs that shouldn’t be visible to everyone in the whole wide web.

Music

Bevor wir

Well, it’s a while since I played music regularily. However I still love playing! And I still enjoy listening to the stuff we recorded years ago with our Irish and Scottish folk band called “the tuners” (we choose this band name because we had to keep over 50 strings in total in tune somehow …)

the tuners Homepage • MusicBainz • facebook page

Credits & Legal

Credits

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