# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/damien-sandras
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:59:30.335Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/damien-sandras"
name: "Damien Sandras"
slug: "damien-sandras"
description: "Damien Sandras is known in the free software community due to his work on GNOME, more specifically on Ekiga, the leading open-source softphone for the Linux desktop. He is one of the founders of FOSDEM, an event dedicated to free software developers in Europe."
tagline: "Belgian developer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Damien_fosdem.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Developers"
  slug: "developers"
profileType:
  name: "Developer"
  slug: "developer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5482740"
birthDate: "1976-11-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           36.71
  momentum:             20.23809523809524
  historical:           4.402304
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 246
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://blog.ekiga.net"
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B3"
    title: "داميان ساندراس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damien_Sandras"
    title: "Damien Sandras"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damien_Sandras"
    title: "Damien Sandras"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damien_Sandras"
    title: "Damien Sandras"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damien_Sandras"
    title: "Damien Sandras"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q540385"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump