At least a thread would make sense, there doesn’t seem that much going on with OSHW licenses and applying something like the CERN one is just highly confusing and contradictary.
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Can you start a thread with some basic resources in the General category?
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Hi! I’m Ersei! I’m a student at Purdue University studying computer science. I have a deep interest in software in relation to ethical computing, privacy, and security. Currently, my focus is on viewing the free software movement through a social lens and how reducing (or perhaps eliminating) financial incentives in software can improve the quality of software as well as the reach of social initiatives. I write occasionally on my website.
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Hi all. I’m Peter, a software and systems engineer originally from Los Angeles, CA USA but now live in Managua, Nicaragua. So greetings from the tropics.
A bit about me, I’m a father of 2 adult women, own a few businesses (some tech related, some not), sometimes write on my personal website and love to write code.
Being inspired by SourceHut I’m about to release our first fully open sourced product called Link Taco. The idea is to offer most things that Pinboard, Linktree and Bitly offer, and a lot more, in one utility, fully powered by an API (GraphQL). Just some finishing touches, copy/images, and docs needed to be finished for it to be open for registration.
I’ve been involved with open source since the 90’s as a teen who discovered Linux and fell in love. Here we are all these years later. Still on IRC, still on forums, still in love with open source and the general community.
Looking forward to getting to know you all.
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Hi there !
I’m Dala, a french (junior) embedded software developper.
I’ve been introduced to free software during my studies (and gosh, it was the greatest rabbit hole I’ve ever fell in).
Still at the very beginning of my employee life, and everyday discovering more of the crap we can see in companies products.
I would say I’ve basic skills in computer science, the “biggest” thing I’ve ever done was implementing a new machine into QEMU while looking to the Linux kernel sources.
Kinda have an impostor syndrom. I wish one day I’ll have interesting things to share on a blog and have an opportunity to work in free software !
As a classic french guy, I will certainly make some mistake while writing. Feel free to correct me !
Glad to meet you all 
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Hello! My name is Sebastian.
I’m here by way of the SourceHut community. I like to hang around the Hare programming language project.
I use Arch btw.
I like public transit and my folding bike!
Offline, I am a Computer Science student at RIT. I’m into improv and theatre in general. I have some internship experience with Linux-based embedded work.
我学中文（可是不是很好🥲) 。
Nice to meet you all!
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Hi!
I’m Jackson, better known as jacksonchen666 on the internet.
My interest has been vaguely computers. I’ve done little contributions to a wide variety of free software projects. Those projects tend to vary just like my specific interests over time, but I’m interested in free software in general (and again, computers).
My current interest related to free software includes SourceHut (plus other things I couldn’t recall right now).
Here’s some links to my stuff:
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Hi all! I’m Mark Penner from rural midwest US. I work in construction but dabble in programming in my free time. I have contributed a little to KDE projects and hope to find the time to do more. I’m also interested in the social and economic implications of free software.
Thanks for setting this forum up! Looking forward to some thought-provoking discussions!
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Hi all!
I’m Perma!
I have been a professional backend developer for two years and have been involved with free software community, crashing Linux User Groups and etc for the past 15 years.
This year, I have finally made a non-trivial code contribution to an open-source project (Pimalaya).
I usually use Rust and Go as my daily languages.
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I am a defender of free software and a hater of CLAs.
I am highly interested in Permacomputing and practices that allow people to have and develop software they would love.
I have blog that is popular (in my circle of my work colleges of one) at prma.dev. And my repos are at sr.ht/~prma/.
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Welcome, all!
I would be excited to see a thread about this somewhere, if you want to share.
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Hi all,
I’m Lwenn, very new to software, and excited to learn I worked as a philosopher for a while, and am currently working hard at NLNet to review grant applications and proposals. So, dabbling, trying to make work what y’all write, and generally just happy to be involved.
Cheers.
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Welcome NLNet got a mention in the Funding section already – I wonder if you’ll have anything to contribute there?
Also hello as a grateful past recepient of NLNet funding <3
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Hi all, I’m sierra, I’ve been using (and writing) free software for about as long as I’ve been programming. I like to work with low level code and and compiler design. Most of my code is on my personal git forge at https://git.casuallyblue.dev
I daily drive NixOS since I can maintain and deploy the configurations for all my systems from a single git repository, and I’m currently working on and learning mirth, a concatenative functional programming language.
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Hi everyone! I’m pixeldesu, and I’ve been writing free and open source software for as long as I’ve been programming, over 12-ish years by now.
I’m quite varied, and I usually do whatever I feel like in terms of coding, although professionally I’m for the most part a web developer. In my free time I often do work with reverse engineering and data preservation for old/defunct games, of which I also release the tooling publicly of course.
The probably most known project that I built is Retrospring, a fully open-source social Q/A website.
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Hi, I’m Winni from Cologne, Germany. I use FOSS since my early computer years. When I started with MS-DOS in 1993, I quickly became introduced to FOSS via Linux in 1996 (SuSE 4.2, Slackware, etc.) and started using it more and more. Nowadays am a FOSS advocate and write mainly FOSS. While in the olden days I used BASIC and Pascal (as well as some Cobol and Clipper), switching to Unix-like OS, my focus switched to shell scripting and Perl. Nowadays my daily driver is Go but depending on the project I might also resort to TypeScript.
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Cool! I used to work on Minecraft reverse engineering back in the day, and recently I’ve been playing Pokemon Red and I grabbed the disassembly project to patch a few things which were annoying me.
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Hey all! I’m Blain and I’ve been a long time user and writer of free software, but had to make a living writing paid software. Fortunately, I’ve made the choice to start moving away from the big capitalism software scene.
I spend the last 10 years in AAA gaming doing backend and distributed systems work for large games. Now I’m doing security research and also bootstrapping a smaller worker owned tech collective with a few other close friends of mine who have been sick of today’s big tech trajectory.
I can probably figure out and code in most areas, but I’m most comfortable in backend, systems, and networking stuff. I enjoy pure HTML/CSS from time to fulfill my creative side.
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Welcome!
This is really cool – think you’d be open to writing a bit about worker-owned FOSS businesses like yours on the forum?
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I’d be happy to. I kept it vague in this post so it wouldn’t come off as promotional in my first post. If there’s a good spot to go into detail about it I can get something posted there!
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I think it makes sense for the Funding section, probably? I wonder if it should be generalized somehow… in any case I’d find it very welcome there and we can figure out the taxonomy later.
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