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-Internship with the FSF tech team
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-
- 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
-
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- -*-
-
-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/fsf-internship-intro.txt
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