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+Internship with the FSF tech team
+---------------------------------
+
+ Originally published on the Free Software Foundation's sysadmin
+ blog:
+ https://www.fsf.org/blogs/sysadmin/introducing-bandali-intern-with-the-fsf-tech-team
+
+Hi there, I'm Amin Bandali, often just `bandali' on the interwebs.
+I wear a few different hats around GNU as a maintainer, webmaster, and
+Savannah hacker, and I'm very excited to be extending that to the Free
+Software Foundation (FSF) as an intern with the FSF tech team for
+spring 2020.
+
+Growing up around parents with backgrounds in computer engineering and
+programming, it did not take long for me to find an interest in
+tinkering and playing with computers as a kid, and I first came into
+contact with GNU/Linux in my teenage years. My first introduction to
+the world of free software came a few years later, when a friend
+kindly pointed out to me that what I had vaguely known and referred to
+as "open source" software is more properly referred to as free
+software, and helped me see why "open source" misses the point of free
+software[1]. After learning about and absorbing the ideas and ideals
+of free software, I have since become a free software activist. As a
+computer scientist who enjoys studying and hacking on various programs
+and sometimes writing my own, I have made a point of releasing all I
+can under strong copyleft licenses, particularly the GNU AGPL[2]
+license.
+
+[1] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html
+[2] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl.html
+
+My involvement with the GNU Project[3] started in 2016, first as a
+volunteer webmaster, and later as one of the maintainers of GNUzilla
+and IceCat[4] late last year. Also around the same time, I led a
+group of volunteers in organizing and holding EmacsConf 2019[5] as a
+completely online conference, using only free software tools, much
+like the excellent LibrePlanet 2020[6]. I love GNU Emacs[7], and use
+it more than any other program. GNU Emacs helps me do a wide variety
+of tasks such as programming, reading and composing emails, and
+chatting via IRC.
+
+[3] https://www.gnu.org
+[4] https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/
+[5] https://emacsconf.org/2019
+[6] https://libreplanet.org/wiki/LibrePlanet:Conference/2020
+[7] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
+
+More closely related to my internship with the FSF tech team, I have
+been familiarizing myself with various pieces of the GNU Savannah[8]
+infrastructure with help from veteran Savannah hacker Bob Proulx,
+gradually learning and picking up tasks helping with the
+administration and maintenance of Savannah. I am also a member of the
+Systems Committee of my university's computer science club, overseeing
+and maintaining a large fleet of GNU/Linux servers for our club
+members.
+
+[8] https://savannah.gnu.org
+
+For my internship with the Free Software Foundation, I will be working
+with the FSF tech team on a number of tasks, including helping with
+the free software forge[9] project, as well as various improvements
+for gnu.org. I look forward to learning many new things and picking
+up valuable skills through my internship with the FSF's exceptional
+tech team, who do *so much* for the GNU project and the wider free
+software community.
+
+[9] https://www.fsf.org/blogs/sysadmin/coming-soon-a-new-site-for-fully-free-collaboration
+
+
+ -*-
+
+Copyright (c) 2020 bandali
+
+Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
+are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright
+notice and this notice are preserved. This file is offered as-is,
+without any warranty.
+
+published: 2020-05-29
+plain text: https://bndl.org/2020/05/29/fsf-internship-intro.txt
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