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From: Matt Lee
Subject: www/people speakers.html
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 14:52:37 +0000

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Matt Lee <mattl>        07/07/17 14:52:37

Modified files:
        people         : speakers.html 

Log message:
        added more mako info

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/people/speakers.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.51&r2=1.52

Patches:
Index: speakers.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/people/speakers.html,v
retrieving revision 1.51
retrieving revision 1.52
diff -u -b -r1.51 -r1.52
--- speakers.html       17 Jul 2007 14:11:16 -0000      1.51
+++ speakers.html       17 Jul 2007 14:52:24 -0000      1.52
@@ -235,21 +235,52 @@
   <h3><a name="Mako">Benjamin Mako Hill</a> <a 
href="mailto:address@hidden";>&lt;address@hidden&gt;</a></h3>
   <dl><dt><strong>Biography</strong></dt>
 
-      <dd> <p> Mako is a free software activist, hacker and writer. He
-      currently works in the Computing Culture group of the Media Lab
-      at MIT, in addition to his involvement in <a
-      href="http://mako.cc/#orgs";>a variety of software freedom
-      related organisations</a>. As of June 2007, he is a <a
-      href="http://www.fsf.org/about/leadership.html";>board member</a>
-      for the <a href="http://www.fsf.org/";>Free Software
-      Foundation</a>.  </p>
-
-      <p> A graduate of Hampshire College, Mako now lives in
-        Cambridge, MA. where he writes his weblog, copyrighteous.</p>
-        </p> </dd>
+      <dd>
+
+  <p>Benjamin Mako Hill is an author, technology and copyright
+  researcher, activist, and consultant. He is currently working full
+  time on research into the application of technologies and lessons
+  learned in free software toward the production of other types of
+  creative works a graduate student at the MIT Media Laboratory. He
+  has been an leader, developer, and contributor to the free software
+  community for more than a decade as part of the Debian and Ubuntu
+  projects. He is the author of the Debian GNU/Linux Bible and the
+  Official Ubuntu book.</p>
+
+        </dd>
+
+        <dt><strong>Topics</strong></dt>
+
+    <dd>
+      <p>
+        Mako can speak about:-
+      </p>
+      <ul>
+
+         <li>Introduction to free software priniciples and practice</li>
+
+  <li>Free software development methodology, project management
+    techniques, and best practices</li>
+
+  <li>Issues around financing voluntary free software projects</li>
+
+  <li>Free software and free culture; Extending free software ideas to the
+    world beyond software</li>
+
+      </ul>
+
+      <p><a href="http://mako.cc/talks/";>A more complete list of talks</a> 
that Hill has given is <a href="http://mako.cc/talks/";>also available</a>.
 
     </dd>
 
+    <dt><strong>Languages</strong></dt>
+    <dd>
+      <p>English. He also used to speak <a 
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amharic"; title="Wikipedia entry for 
Amahric">Amahric</a> as well but is very out of
+  practice.
+      </p>
+    </dd>
+
+
   </dl>
 
   <h3><a name="Kuhn">Bradley M. Kuhn</a> <a 
href="mailto:address@hidden";>&lt;address@hidden&gt;</a></h3>
@@ -498,7 +529,7 @@
 <p>
 Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2007/07/17 14:11:16 $
+$Date: 2007/07/17 14:52:24 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 




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