X-Git-Url: https://git.shemshak.org/~bandali/bndl.org/blobdiff_plain/a0e46d57508b45f23f360daa9ba6432e2b2f19f5..0168c81837341f8434b074bc9659da2bdd83af50:/fsf-internship-intro.txt diff --git a/fsf-internship-intro.txt b/fsf-internship-intro.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 8c9658d..0000000 --- a/fsf-internship-intro.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,80 +0,0 @@ -Internship with the FSF tech team -by bandali on May 29, 2020 (2020-05-29) - - - 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. - -this file: https://bndl.org/fsf-internship-intro.txt