[Office-commits] r10073 - trunk/campaigns

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Author: johns
Date: Thu Oct  8 17:04:24 2009
New Revision: 10073

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   trunk/campaigns/introletter.mdwn

Modified: trunk/campaigns/introletter.mdwn
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--- trunk/campaigns/introletter.mdwn    Thu Oct  8 17:00:49 2009        (r10072)
+++ trunk/campaigns/introletter.mdwn    Thu Oct  8 17:04:24 2009        (r10073)
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-Hi, my name is Tal Schechter, and I am the new campaigns intern at the FSF for 
the Fall of 2009, where I am working primarily remotely.  I am currently 
enrolled full-time at Hampshire College as a third-year student concentrating 
in science communication and ancient Jewish text scholarship.  I have 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, I broke away from Macs, with the first PC to enter 
the house-hold.  Both before and after the new PC, I had been going to computer 
camp, where I had 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 
I was not at that level yet).  
+Hi, my name is Tal Schechter, and I am the new campaigns intern at the
+FSF for the Fall of 2009. I am currently enrolled full-time at
+Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, as a third-year student
+concentrating in science communication and ancient Jewish text
+scholarship. I have been playing with computers since my parents got
+an Apple II Classic in the early nineties. Questions of "Tal, why does
+this not work anymore?" were soon to follow. Finally, at 13, I broke
+away from Macs, with the first PC to enter the household. Both before
+and after the new PC, I had been going to computer camp, where I had
+first heard about Ubuntu, Gentoo, and other things people called
+"Linux."
 
-An avid "Linux" user for some time, it was not until my first year of college 
that I encountered the concept of GNU/Linux and Free Software as opposed to 
open source.  With the aid of the GLUG there, I learned about the importance of 
the user's freedoms.  While I had been aware of the openness of "Linux," it was 
not until I learned about the freedom aspects of Free Software that he was 
propelled into a proactive projection to convince other people that GNU/Linux 
is a better choice of operating system for them from economic, moral, ethical, 
and social standpoints.
+An avid "Linux" user for some time, it was not until my first year of
+college that I encountered the concept of GNU/Linux and free software
+as different from open source. With the aid of the GLUG there, I
+learned about the importance of the user's freedoms. While I had been
+aware of the openness of the operating system I was using, it was not
+until I learned about the freedom aspects of free software that I was
+propelled into a proactive projection to convince other people that
+GNU/Linux is a better choice of operating system for them from moral,
+ethical, social, and economic standpoints.
 
-At this point in time, I reach 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, I am concerned with the lack of laymen's explanations of Free 
Software.  I hope that in my work as in an intern at the FSF and beyond, I will 
help to explain the importance of user freedom to everyone, regardless of prior 
computer knowledge.
+At this point in time, I reach 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, I am concerned with the lack
+of lay explanations of free software. I hope that in my work as an
+intern at the FSF and beyond, I will help to explain the importance of
+user freedom to everyone, regardless of prior computer knowledge.