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==A Little Bit About Me== | ==A Little Bit About Me== | ||
| − | My name is Roger Prather, and I'm relatively new to the free software movement. Although I grew up as the modern digital age came to be, I | + | My name is Roger Prather, and I'm relatively new to the free software movement. Although I grew up as the modern digital age came to be, I never really had the resources to learn all I wanted to about computers. Even though I had a computer at home since my sophomore year in high school, I didn't have any way to get at the knowledge I needed. I didn't know anything about the internet until entering college in 1997. |
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| + | Fast forward and now, thanks to a full-time job with a degree in a non-tech field, I have the resources, desire, and motivation to learn. | ||
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| + | I'm currently studying software engineering through distance/independent methods, and hope to pursue an independent/freelance career in software and web development. | ||
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| + | ===Current Projects=== | ||
| + | My skills are still limited because I'm still learning many of the basics of software development, but nonetheless, I have ambitious plans to pursue a number of project ideas. | ||
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| + | Currently, I'm in the early developmental stages of creating a comprehensive online library of FLOSS documentation resources. | ||
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| + | ===How I came to the Free Software Movement=== | ||
| + | Ideologically and politically, I'm very much a libertarian without any strict devotion to dogma or demigod. This leads me (like so many others) to see the freedom-promoting potential of modern technology. Thus, my involvement in the FSF and related efforts is driven not just by a belief in what free software means, but what software in general can do ''for freedom''. | ||
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Revision as of 11:05, 11 June 2011
A Little Bit About Me
My name is Roger Prather, and I'm relatively new to the free software movement. Although I grew up as the modern digital age came to be, I never really had the resources to learn all I wanted to about computers. Even though I had a computer at home since my sophomore year in high school, I didn't have any way to get at the knowledge I needed. I didn't know anything about the internet until entering college in 1997.
Fast forward and now, thanks to a full-time job with a degree in a non-tech field, I have the resources, desire, and motivation to learn.
I'm currently studying software engineering through distance/independent methods, and hope to pursue an independent/freelance career in software and web development.
Current Projects
My skills are still limited because I'm still learning many of the basics of software development, but nonetheless, I have ambitious plans to pursue a number of project ideas.
Currently, I'm in the early developmental stages of creating a comprehensive online library of FLOSS documentation resources.
How I came to the Free Software Movement
Ideologically and politically, I'm very much a libertarian without any strict devotion to dogma or demigod. This leads me (like so many others) to see the freedom-promoting potential of modern technology. Thus, my involvement in the FSF and related efforts is driven not just by a belief in what free software means, but what software in general can do for freedom.
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This user is a member of LibrePlanet Massachusetts. |
