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{{< figure src="plesse.png" alt="Image of the Plesse castle" title="The Plesse castle (© Daniel Kraus)">}}

I'm a physician-scientist from Germany.

[Bovenden](https://www.bovenden.de) is the name of the village/small town
in lovely Lower Saxony, Germany, where I grew up. Hence I'm a bovender --
not _the_ bovender, of course, just one of many, but proud to be one :-)

Not far from our village is the [Plesse
castle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plesse_Castle) which was built c. 1015 AD
and which is one of my favorite places to be.

Computers have been part of my life ever since I programmed my dad's
calculator back in the 1980's.

## Portfolio -- websites

### [ggap-ev.org](https://ggap-ev.org)

GGAP is a registered charity in Germany. This NGO uses donated money to fund the
vocational training of young adults on the Philippines who would otherwise have
to "earn" their living in an unlawful way.

{{< figure src="ggap-ev.png">}}

### [nephrowiki.de](https://nephrowiki.de)

NephroWiki is a closed wiki system that has been up and running since 2011.

{{< figure src="nephrowiki.png">}}

## Portfolio -- software

### [Daniel's XL Toolbox](https://xltoolbox.net)

Daniel's XL Toolbox is an add-in for Excel that assists with data analysis
and visualization.

{{< figure src="xltoolbox.png">}}

Even though I haven't been able to work on this project for quite some time,
I am very happy to see that the latest release has been downloaded more than
100,000 times. :-)

### [LinkTitles](https://github.com/bovender/linktitles)

LinkTitles is a [MediaWiki](https://mediawiki.org) extension that automatically
links terms to existing pages in a Wiki.

### [PubmedParser](https://github.com/bovender/pubmedparser)

PubmedParser is a [MediaWiki](https://mediawiki.org) extension to include and
reference articles from [Pubmed](https://pubmed.gov) by PMID.

### Github Star History

[![Star History Chart][sh-img]][sh-link]

## Server administration

I have 10+ years experience with running and administrating my own server.
This includes running a mail and an IMAP server, hosting my own
[Nextcloud](https://nextcloud.com) and [Gitea](https://gitea.io) instances,
[Mastodon for Nephrology](https://neph.social)
and more. Almost all of my services are dockerized.


[sh-img]: https://api.star-history.com/svg?repos=bovender/linktitles,bovender/pubmedparser,bovender/imapcli,bovender/xltoolbox&type=Date
[sh-link]: https://www.star-history.com/#bovender/linktitles&bovender/pubmedparser&bovender/imapcli&bovender/xltoolbox&Date