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-<h1>Internship with the FSF tech team</h1>
-<p>by <a href="https://bndl.org"><b>bandali</b></a>
-on May 29, 2020 <small>(also
-in <a href="fsf-internship-intro.txt">plain text</a>)</small></p>
-
-<p class="box">Originally published on the Free Software Foundation's
-sysadmin blog:<br />
-<a href="https://www.fsf.org/blogs/sysadmin/introducing-bandali-intern-with-the-fsf-tech-team">Introducing
-Amin Bandali, intern with the FSF tech team</a></p>
-
-<p>Hi there, I'm Amin Bandali, often just <code>bandali</code> 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.</p>
-
-<p>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
-<a href="https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html">why
-"open source" misses the point of free software</a>. 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
-<a href="https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl.html">GNU AGPL</a>
-license.</p>
-
-<p>My involvement with the <a href="https://www.gnu.org">GNU
-Project</a> started in 2016, first as a volunteer webmaster, and later
-as one of the maintainers of
-<a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/">GNUzilla and
-IceCat</a> late last year. Also around the same time, I led a group
-of volunteers in organizing and holding
-<a href="https://emacsconf.org/2019">EmacsConf 2019</a> as a
-completely online conference, using only free software tools, much
-like the excellent
-<a href="https://libreplanet.org/wiki/LibrePlanet:Conference/2020">LibrePlanet
-2020</a>. I love <a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/">GNU
-Emacs</a>, 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.</p>
-
-<p>More closely related to my internship with the FSF tech team, I
-have been familiarizing myself with various pieces of the
-<a href="https://savannah.gnu.org">GNU Savannah</a> 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.</p>
-
-<p>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 <a href="https://www.fsf.org/blogs/sysadmin/coming-soon-a-new-site-for-fully-free-collaboration">free
-software forge</a> 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 <em>so much</em> for the GNU project and the wider free
-software community.</p>
-
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-<p id="copy">Copyright © 2020 bandali</p>
-<p id="license">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.</p>
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