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www/people speakers.html
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"><address@hidden></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"><address@hidden></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>