Bo Leuf

Swedish politician and writer (1952–2009)

Bo Arne Leuf (July 9, 1952^[1] – April 24, 2009)^[2] was co-author of the book The Wiki Way (2001), written in collaboration with wiki inventor Ward Cunningham. His book Peer To Peer (2002) discusses different peer-to-peer (P2P) solutions both from a technical and legal point of view.

Bo Leuf lived in Gothenburg, Sweden.^[3] He was a candidate for the Pirate Party in the Swedish general election in 2006^[4] and was also on its board as treasurer.^[5]

In 1971, he came from Västernorrland to Gothenburg to study engineering physics at Chalmers University.

In 1979, he opened a book shop called Wizard in Gothenburg.^[6] Later, when he moved to Malmö in 1992, he opened a new shop, this time under the name of Daggshimmer. At this time in Malmö, he also helped his wife and mother-in-law to run the Demaret's School of Languages, a former Berlitz language school still using the same teaching method. He got married on June 2, 1984 and had two children. He died of cancer on April 24, 2009.^[7]

Publications

Bo Leuf, Ward Cunningham, The Wiki Way: Quick Collaboration on the Web, Addison-Wesley (April, 2001) ISBN 0-201-71499-X
Bo Leuf, Outlook in a Nutshell: A Power User's Quick Reference, ISBN 1-56592-704-4
Bo Leuf, Peer to Peer: Collaborating and Sharing over the Internet, ISBN 0-201-76732-5
Bo Leuf, The Semantic Web: Crafting Infrastructure for Agency, John Wiley & Sons, 2006, ISBN 0-470-01522-5

References

^ Vilka är vi? (in Swedish) (Piratpartiet forum, retrieved 2007-02-19)
^ Posted by his son, Edward Archived 2011-07-07 at the Wayback Machine (in Swedish) (Atari Talk Forums, retrieved 2009-05-25)
^ Www Bio (leuf.com, retrieved 2007-02-19)
^ 11. Bo Leuf, 56, Göteborg Archived October 20, 2006, at the Wayback Machine (in Swedish) (Piratpartiet, retrieved 2007-02-19)
^ Styrelse Archived 2007-02-18 at the Wayback Machine (in Swedish) (Piratpartiet, retrieved 2007-02-19)
^ "Balder: Wizard - Butiken som var". Archived from the original on 2014-04-20. Retrieved 2014-02-11.
^ "Bo Leuf, R.I.P." Zhurnaly. 2009-05-28. Archived from the original on 2022-10-30. Retrieved 19 Jun 2023.