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21 | <h1>Internship with the FSF tech team</h1> | |
22 | <p>by <a href="https://bndl.org"><b>bandali</b></a> | |
56af22d0 | 23 | on 29 May 2020 <small>(also |
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26 | <p class="box">Originally published on the Free Software Foundation's | |
27 | sysadmin blog:<br /> | |
28 | <a href="https://www.fsf.org/blogs/sysadmin/introducing-bandali-intern-with-the-fsf-tech-team">Introducing | |
29 | Amin Bandali, intern with the FSF tech team</a></p> | |
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31 | <p>Hi there, I'm Amin Bandali, often just <code>bandali</code> on the | |
32 | interwebs. I wear a few different hats around GNU as a maintainer, | |
33 | webmaster, and Savannah hacker, and I'm very excited to be extending | |
34 | that to the Free Software Foundation (FSF) as an intern with the FSF | |
35 | tech team for spring 2020.</p> | |
36 | ||
37 | <p>Growing up around parents with backgrounds in computer engineering | |
38 | and programming, it did not take long for me to find an interest in | |
39 | tinkering and playing with computers as a kid, and I first came into | |
40 | contact with GNU/Linux in my teenage years. My first introduction to | |
41 | the world of free software came a few years later, when a friend | |
42 | kindly pointed out to me that what I had vaguely known and referred to | |
43 | as "open source" software is more properly referred to as free | |
44 | software, and helped me see | |
45 | <a href="https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html">why | |
46 | "open source" misses the point of free software</a>. After learning | |
47 | about and absorbing the ideas and ideals of free software, I have | |
48 | since become a free software activist. As a computer scientist who | |
49 | enjoys studying and hacking on various programs and sometimes writing | |
50 | my own, I have made a point of releasing all I can under strong | |
51 | copyleft licenses, particularly the | |
52 | <a href="https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl.html">GNU AGPL</a> | |
53 | license.</p> | |
54 | ||
55 | <p>My involvement with the <a href="https://www.gnu.org">GNU | |
56 | Project</a> started in 2016, first as a volunteer webmaster, and later | |
57 | as one of the maintainers of | |
58 | <a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/">GNUzilla and | |
59 | IceCat</a> late last year. Also around the same time, I led a group | |
60 | of volunteers in organizing and holding | |
61 | <a href="https://emacsconf.org/2019">EmacsConf 2019</a> as a | |
62 | completely online conference, using only free software tools, much | |
63 | like the excellent | |
64 | <a href="https://libreplanet.org/wiki/LibrePlanet:Conference/2020">LibrePlanet | |
65 | 2020</a>. I love <a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/">GNU | |
66 | Emacs</a>, and use it more than any other program. GNU Emacs helps me | |
67 | do a wide variety of tasks such as programming, reading and composing | |
68 | emails, and chatting via IRC.</p> | |
69 | ||
70 | <p>More closely related to my internship with the FSF tech team, I | |
71 | have been familiarizing myself with various pieces of the | |
72 | <a href="https://savannah.gnu.org">GNU Savannah</a> infrastructure | |
73 | with help from veteran Savannah hacker Bob Proulx, gradually learning | |
74 | and picking up tasks helping with the administration and maintenance | |
75 | of Savannah. I am also a member of the Systems Committee of my | |
76 | university's computer science club, overseeing and maintaining a large | |
77 | fleet of GNU/Linux servers for our club members.</p> | |
78 | ||
79 | <p>For my internship with the Free Software Foundation, I will be | |
80 | working with the FSF tech team on a number of tasks, including helping | |
81 | with | |
82 | the <a href="https://www.fsf.org/blogs/sysadmin/coming-soon-a-new-site-for-fully-free-collaboration">free | |
83 | software forge</a> project, as well as various improvements for | |
84 | gnu.org. I look forward to learning many new things and picking up | |
85 | valuable skills through my internship with the FSF's exceptional tech | |
86 | team, who do <em>so much</em> for the GNU project and the wider free | |
87 | software community.</p> | |
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90 | <p id="copy">Copyright © 2020 bandali</p> | |
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