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| | 41 | <h1>Internship with the FSF tech team</h1> |
| | 42 | <p>by <a href="https://bndl.org"><b>bandali</b></a> |
| | 43 | on May 29, 2020 <small>(also |
| | 44 | in <a href="fsf-internship-intro.txt">plain text</a>)</small></p> |
| | 45 | |
| | 46 | <p class="box">Originally published on the Free Software Foundation's |
| | 47 | sysadmin blog:<br /> |
| | 48 | <a href="https://www.fsf.org/blogs/sysadmin/introducing-bandali-intern-with-the-fsf-tech-team">Introducing |
| | 49 | Amin Bandali, intern with the FSF tech team</a></p> |
| | 50 | |
| | 51 | <p>Hi there, I'm Amin Bandali, often just <code>bandali</code> on the |
| | 52 | interwebs. I wear a few different hats around GNU as a maintainer, |
| | 53 | webmaster, and Savannah hacker, and I'm very excited to be extending |
| | 54 | that to the Free Software Foundation (FSF) as an intern with the FSF |
| | 55 | tech team for spring 2020.</p> |
| | 56 | |
| | 57 | <p>Growing up around parents with backgrounds in computer engineering |
| | 58 | and programming, it did not take long for me to find an interest in |
| | 59 | tinkering and playing with computers as a kid, and I first came into |
| | 60 | contact with GNU/Linux in my teenage years. My first introduction to |
| | 61 | the world of free software came a few years later, when a friend |
| | 62 | kindly pointed out to me that what I had vaguely known and referred to |
| | 63 | as "open source" software is more properly referred to as free |
| | 64 | software, and helped me see |
| | 65 | <a href="https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html">why |
| | 66 | "open source" misses the point of free software</a>. After learning |
| | 67 | about and absorbing the ideas and ideals of free software, I have |
| | 68 | since become a free software activist. As a computer scientist who |
| | 69 | enjoys studying and hacking on various programs and sometimes writing |
| | 70 | my own, I have made a point of releasing all I can under strong |
| | 71 | copyleft licenses, particularly the |
| | 72 | <a href="https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl.html">GNU AGPL</a> |
| | 73 | license.</p> |
| | 74 | |
| | 75 | <p>My involvement with the <a href="https://www.gnu.org">GNU |
| | 76 | Project</a> started in 2016, first as a volunteer webmaster, and later |
| | 77 | as one of the maintainers of |
| | 78 | <a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/">GNUzilla and |
| | 79 | IceCat</a> late last year. Also around the same time, I led a group |
| | 80 | of volunteers in organizing and holding |
| | 81 | <a href="https://emacsconf.org/2019">EmacsConf 2019</a> as a |
| | 82 | completely online conference, using only free software tools, much |
| | 83 | like the excellent |
| | 84 | <a href="https://libreplanet.org/wiki/LibrePlanet:Conference/2020">LibrePlanet |
| | 85 | 2020</a>. I love <a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/">GNU |
| | 86 | Emacs</a>, and use it more than any other program. GNU Emacs helps me |
| | 87 | do a wide variety of tasks such as programming, reading and composing |
| | 88 | emails, and chatting via IRC.</p> |
| | 89 | |
| | 90 | <p>More closely related to my internship with the FSF tech team, I |
| | 91 | have been familiarizing myself with various pieces of the |
| | 92 | <a href="https://savannah.gnu.org">GNU Savannah</a> infrastructure |
| | 93 | with help from veteran Savannah hacker Bob Proulx, gradually learning |
| | 94 | and picking up tasks helping with the administration and maintenance |
| | 95 | of Savannah. I am also a member of the Systems Committee of my |
| | 96 | university's computer science club, overseeing and maintaining a large |
| | 97 | fleet of GNU/Linux servers for our club members.</p> |
| | 98 | |
| | 99 | <p>For my internship with the Free Software Foundation, I will be |
| | 100 | working with the FSF tech team on a number of tasks, including helping |
| | 101 | with |
| | 102 | the <a href="https://www.fsf.org/blogs/sysadmin/coming-soon-a-new-site-for-fully-free-collaboration">free |
| | 103 | software forge</a> project, as well as various improvements for |
| | 104 | gnu.org. I look forward to learning many new things and picking up |
| | 105 | valuable skills through my internship with the FSF's exceptional tech |
| | 106 | team, who do <em>so much</em> for the GNU project and the wider free |
| | 107 | software community.</p> |
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| | 111 | <summary>Copyright © 2020 bandali</summary> |
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| | 113 | modification, are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the |
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