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+<p>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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