Hartmut Pilch (born July 7 1963 in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany) founded the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure or FFII, and is a simultaneous conference interpreter, translator and software developer, who lives in Munich, Germany. He is a former employee of SuSE and former president of the FFII. He also founded the Eurolinux Alliance. Pilch's work as a translator focuses primarily on Chinese and Japanese.[1] He is also a student of Lojban, a constructed language.