marilu’s blog
Why an internship at FSFE?
Wow!….the 14th of December I was invited to speak about Free Software , in Bolzano, at the meeting: “school – jobs – economy: being part of the Free Software ecosystem”.
As my first talk I couldn’t receive better invitation!
In fact I started to believe in a Free Software ecosystem after read about the works of the FSFE.
The talk was about my personal experience: why I decided to begin an internship at the Free Software Foundation and why I suggest to the other people, who, as me are not part of the informatic world (ops.. weren’t part of the informatic world!) to support it.
Was a pleasure to partecipate: there were a lot of interesting and motivated people.
People who really believe in the free software ethics and try to change the real world by inserting Free Software in school projects and in public offices.
So…Why Free Software?
First because the " Free Software is socially useful"; the Free Software is a system where there are excellent programmers, but is also a system that permits to the users to be conscious on what they are working.
The logic of this system is not only been an economic resource, but permits to everybody to be part of a common project.
Overall people use everyday computers to study or to work; for this reason everybody has to control what is in front of his or her.
Stop being only passive spectators; is time to be conscious on what happened around us!
As my first talk I couldn’t receive better invitation!
In fact I started to believe in a Free Software ecosystem after read about the works of the FSFE.
The talk was about my personal experience: why I decided to begin an internship at the Free Software Foundation and why I suggest to the other people, who, as me are not part of the informatic world (ops.. weren’t part of the informatic world!) to support it.
Was a pleasure to partecipate: there were a lot of interesting and motivated people.
People who really believe in the free software ethics and try to change the real world by inserting Free Software in school projects and in public offices.
So…Why Free Software?
First because the " Free Software is socially useful"; the Free Software is a system where there are excellent programmers, but is also a system that permits to the users to be conscious on what they are working.
The logic of this system is not only been an economic resource, but permits to everybody to be part of a common project.
Overall people use everyday computers to study or to work; for this reason everybody has to control what is in front of his or her.
Stop being only passive spectators; is time to be conscious on what happened around us!
The access to the source code has a big value also if we are not programmers; the fact that 24 hours a day all over the world the software is developing, realize the idea of being part of a system, and this is in contrast on using only a program.
The Free Software encourage everyone to learn, doesn’t want that technology is controlled only by an élite.