thoughts/src/about.htm

92 lines
4.0 KiB
HTML

<h1 id="about">About</h1>
<aside class="sm">
<img src="/images/me-libreplanet-2016.png"
alt="Photo of Mike Gerwitz holding a microphone in front of a blackboard"
title="Mike Gerwitz giving LibrePlanet 2016 Talk 'Restore Online Freedom!'"
class="inline-img avatar" />
<p>
GPG Fingerprint:
<tt>D6E9 B930 028A 6C38 F43B 2388 FEF6 3574 5E6F 6D05</tt>&nbsp;<!--
--><a href="https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/">[?]</a>
</p>
</aside>
<article class="abstract" aria-labelledby="about">
<p>
I am a <a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/">free (as in
freedom) software</a> <a href="https://stallman.org/articles/on-hacking.html">hacker</a>
and user freedom activist with a focus on user privacy and security.
I am a professional software engineer dealing primarily with web development;
compiler construction; and software architecture, and have been
programming for about twenty years.
My other personal interests include mathematics, cryptography,
philosophy and ethics, pedagogy, writing, law, and various other fields.
I also closely follow the work of
the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/">Free Software
Foundation</a>, <a href="http://eff.org/">Electronic Frontier
Foundation</a>, and other entities devoted to free information and free
society.
</p>
<p>
I am a member of the
<a href="https://www.gnu.org/contact/gnu-advisory">GNU Advisory Comittee</a>;
an assistant GNUisance on the maintainers team;
a <a href="https://www.gnu.org/help/evaluation.html">GNU software evaluation team</a>
(gnueval) member;
the author of <a href="https://gnu.org/software/easejs">GNU ease.js</a>;
and volunteer for various other aspects of
the <a href="https://gnu.org/">GNU Project</a> and
the <a href="https://fsf.org/">Free Software Foundation</a>.
</p>
<p>
I am a <a href="https://stallman.org/articles/on-hacking.html">hacker</a>,
not a <a href="https://stallman.org/articles/on-hacking.html">cracker</a>&mdash;the
latter breaks the security of systems, while the former expresses playful
creativity in their work.
</p>
<p>
Outside of my field,
I enjoy time with my family&mdash;including my wife and three
sons&mdash;who
keep me very busy and help to keep me sane.
I also have a fascination with a wide range of sciences that I wish I had
the time to devote to researching.
</p>
<p>
Much of this site is devoted to my thoughts and ramblings on various
matters and so will contain material that is subject to strong bias;
you are encouraged to construct your own opinions.
Formal papers contain no such influence without rationale and references.
</p>
<p>
I may be contacted at mtg at gnu dot org.
I do not make use of &ldquo;social media&rdquo; websites,
though I may (or may not) respond to queries on websites that I am a
member of,
and I do host my <a href="https://mastodon.mikegerwitz.com/">own Mastodon instance</a>.
</p>
<p>
(Note: This website itself is free/libre&mdash;the source code is
available via the commit hash links in the footer of various pages and
the content is licensed for free distribution and, in most cases,
modification.)
</p>
<p>
I changed GPG keys in October&nbsp;2016;
see my <a href="/about/key-transition.txt">key transition statement</a>,
signed with both my <a href="/about/key-transition.txt.new.asc">new</a>
and <a href="/about/key-transition.txt.old.asc">old</a> keys.
</p>
<p>
<a href="about/resume">View my résumé/CV.</a>
</p>
<p>
<span class="attribution"><a href="https://media.libreplanet.org/u/libreplanet/m/session-03-c-ms-png-libreplanet-2016-sessions-ec00/">LibrePlanet
2016 Photo</a> Copyright&nbsp;©&nbsp;2016 Kori&nbsp;Feener,
<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">CC&nbsp;BY&nbsp;4.0</a>;
used with permission.</span>
</p>
</article>