[Office-commits] r9876 - trunk/campaigns

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Author: www-data
Date: Thu Oct  1 10:32:17 2009
New Revision: 9876

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+Tal Schechter is a new intern at the FSF for the Fall of 2009, where he is 
working remotely.  He is currently enrolled full-time at Hampshire College 
where he is a third-year student concentrating in science communication and 
ancient Jewish text scholarship.  He has been playing with computers since his 
parents got an Apple II classic in the early nineties.  Questions of "Tal, why 
does this not work anymore?" were soon to follow.  Finally, when 13, he broke 
away from Macs, with the first PC to enter the house-hold.  Both before and 
after the new PC, Tal had been going to computer camp, where he first heard 
about "Linux."  It only took a couple of years after getting that first PC 
before it had a "Linux" install on it.  Ubuntu's Breezy Badger, in fact (the 
geeks at computer camp had insisted on Gentoo, but Tal was not at that level 
yet).  
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+An avid "Linux" user for some time, it was not until his first year of college 
that Tal encountered the concept of GNU/Linux and Free Software as opposed to 
open source.  With the aid of the GLUG there, he learned about the importance 
of the user's freedoms.  While Tal was aware of the openness of "Linux," it was 
not until he learned about the freedom aspects of Free Software that he was 
propelled into a proactive projection directed at other people that GNU/Linux 
is a better choice of operating system from economic, moral, ethical, and 
social standpoints.
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+At this point, he reaches out to both avid computer users and to those who 
feel they don't know anything about computers, to try and educate them about 
the merits of using Free Software.  As a person concentrating in science 
communication he is concerned with the lack of laymen's explanations of Free 
Software.  He hopes that in his work as in an intern at the FSF and beyond, he 
will help explain the importance of user freedom to everyone regardless of 
prior computer knowledge.