# History

This section gives an overview when which person became a member of our team and how IT4C became to be.

It all began ~2017, when [Alex](people/alexander-friedland.md), who made the initial website for the DEMOCRACY project, met with [Ulf](people/ulf-gebhardt.md) in Karlsruhe to <!-- textlint-disable write-good-->evaluate<!-- textlint-enable write-good --> the state of election methods available in universities at given time. Ulf started to work with DEMOCRACY and when the project had its public appearance [Wolle](people/wolfgang-huss.md) made contact to work with the project as an influencer.

## Human Connection

Most of us met again 2019 at Human Connection. This time all as developers to <!-- textlint-disable write-good-->implement<!-- textlint-enable write-good --> the envisioned social network. [Wolle](people/wolfgang-huss.md) was first, followed by [Alex](people/alexander-friedland.md) and [Ulf](people/ulf-gebhardt.md). While Ulf left for DEMOCRACY again, [Hannes](people/hannes-heine.html) volunteered and [Moriz](people/moriz-wahl.html) joined the Team, till the project ended 2020 as Human Connection and was transformed into *ocelot.social*.

## Ocelot.Social – End of Human Connection

In the last quarter of 2020 Human Connection was ended as a project and the source code was republished under the name [ocelot.social](https://ocelot.social). [Wolle](people/wolfgang-huss.md), [Alex](people/alexander-friedland.md), [Ulf](people/ulf-gebhardt.md) and [Moriz](people/moriz-wahl.html) continued on the project and released [wir.social](https://wir.social) to keep *ocelot.social* alive.
Let’s try out the social network live on [stage.ocelot.social](https://stage.ocelot.social).

## Gradido

In 2021 most of the team joined the [Gradido](https://github.com/gradido/gradido) project. As always our scout [Alex](people/alexander-friedland.md) was first, followed by [Ulf](people/ulf-gebhardt.md), who was residing in Norway at the time. Soon after [Moriz](people/moriz-wahl.html) joined up and [Hannes](people/hannes-heine.html) came on board in Summer 2021.
When Ulf went on a trip to Italy [Wolle](people/wolfgang-huss.md) could <!-- textlint-disable write-good-->finally<!-- textlint-enable write-good --> be convinced to join, soon followed by [Mathias](people/mathias-lenz.md).

## Yunite.me

During 2022 the Yunite-Team approached the team to get a new social network going based on *ocelot.social*. The new network was release on 01.11.2022 under the name [yunite.me](https://yunite.me).

## IT4C

With the start of 2023 the IT4C brand name and [website](https://www.it4c.dev) was established to allow the team members to present themselves and the team as a whole.