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| | 7 | <p>Originally published on the Free Software Foundation's sysadmin |
| | 8 | blog:<br/> |
| | 9 | <a href="https://www.fsf.org/blogs/sysadmin/introducing-bandali-intern-with-the-fsf-tech-team">Introducing |
| | 10 | Amin Bandali, intern with the FSF tech team</a>.</p> |
| | 11 | |
| | 12 | <p>Hi there, I'm Amin Bandali, often just <code>bandali</code> on the |
| | 13 | interwebs. I wear a few different hats around GNU as a maintainer, |
| | 14 | webmaster, and Savannah hacker, and I'm very excited to be extending |
| | 15 | that to the Free Software Foundation (FSF) as an intern with the FSF |
| | 16 | tech team for spring 2020.</p> |
| | 17 | |
| | 18 | <p>Growing up around parents with backgrounds in computer engineering |
| | 19 | and programming, it did not take long for me to find an interest in |
| | 20 | tinkering and playing with computers as a kid, and I first came into |
| | 21 | contact with GNU/Linux in my teenage years. My first introduction to |
| | 22 | the world of free software came a few years later, when a friend |
| | 23 | kindly pointed out to me that what I had vaguely known and referred to |
| | 24 | as "open source" software is more properly referred to as free |
| | 25 | software, and helped me see |
| | 26 | <a href="https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html">why |
| | 27 | "open source" misses the point of free software</a>. After learning |
| | 28 | about and absorbing the ideas and ideals of free software, I have |
| | 29 | since become a free software activist. As a computer scientist who |
| | 30 | enjoys studying and hacking on various programs and sometimes writing |
| | 31 | my own, I have made a point of releasing all I can under strong |
| | 32 | copyleft licenses, particularly the |
| | 33 | <a href="https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl.html">GNU AGPL</a> |
| | 34 | license.</p> |
| | 35 | |
| | 36 | <p>My involvement with the <a href="https://www.gnu.org">GNU |
| | 37 | Project</a> started in 2016, first as a volunteer webmaster, and later |
| | 38 | as one of the maintainers of |
| | 39 | <a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/">GNUzilla and |
| | 40 | IceCat</a> late last year. Also around the same time, I led a group |
| | 41 | of volunteers in organizing and holding |
| | 42 | <a href="https://emacsconf.org/2019">EmacsConf 2019</a> as a |
| | 43 | completely online conference, using only free software tools, much |
| | 44 | like the excellent |
| | 45 | <a href="https://libreplanet.org/wiki/LibrePlanet:Conference/2020">LibrePlanet |
| | 46 | 2020</a>. I love <a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/">GNU |
| | 47 | Emacs</a>, and use it more than any other program. GNU Emacs helps me |
| | 48 | do a wide variety of tasks such as programming, reading and composing |
| | 49 | emails, and chatting via IRC.</p> |
| | 50 | |
| | 51 | <p>More closely related to my internship with the FSF tech team, I |
| | 52 | have been familiarizing myself with various pieces of the |
| | 53 | <a href="https://savannah.gnu.org">GNU Savannah</a> infrastructure |
| | 54 | with help from veteran Savannah hacker Bob Proulx, gradually learning |
| | 55 | and picking up tasks helping with the administration and maintenance |
| | 56 | of Savannah. I am also a member of the Systems Committee of my |
| | 57 | university's computer science club, overseeing and maintaining a large |
| | 58 | fleet of GNU/Linux servers for our club members.</p> |
| | 59 | |
| | 60 | <p>For my internship with the Free Software Foundation, I will be |
| | 61 | working with the FSF tech team on a number of tasks, including helping |
| | 62 | with |
| | 63 | the <a href="https://www.fsf.org/blogs/sysadmin/coming-soon-a-new-site-for-fully-free-collaboration">free |
| | 64 | software forge</a> project, as well as various improvements for |
| | 65 | gnu.org. I look forward to learning many new things and picking up |
| | 66 | valuable skills through my internship with the FSF's exceptional tech |
| | 67 | team, who do <em>so much</em> for the GNU project and the wider free |
| | 68 | software community.</p> |
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