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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> + +<hr /> +<details id="copy"> +<summary>Copyright © 2020 bandali</summary> +<p>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> +</details> +</body> +</html>