Re: Working for Linux/Debian

[Zayd Ahmed <zayd.ahmed92@gmail.com>]

Responding to these messages after a long time but I took a bootcamp and hope to pursue further education in order to learn more computer science so then I can hopefully find a career in the field!

> On Aug 8, 2021, at 12:00 AM, Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk> wrote:
> 
> Quoting Agata Erminia Pennisi (2021-08-06 23:56:10)
>> *Red pill r*efers to (becoming enlightened to) the truth about 
>> reality, especially a truth that is difficult to accept or exposes 
>> disillusions.
> 
> Funny you should emphasize redpill in the context of how to make a 
> living off of Free software, because it is at the heart of my work.
> 
> My use of the term is summarized here¹:
> https://web.archive.org/web/20190811015333/http://support.redpill.dk/redpill/
> 
> In my use, a "Redpill" is a standardized way of sharing ICT resources 
> across multiple organisations, without the need for sharing secrets 
> (access codes or content).
> 
> It grew from my strong interest in long-term sustainability of my work.  
> When at the beginning working independently I mostly did tuning of 
> desktop/laptop systems, I realized that it became quite repetitive for 
> me, without being easy to codify the steps I made.  I noticed the same 
> when moving to maintaining servers and networks, and wanted to try 
> standardize some of the structures, in a modular way to still serve each 
> client uniquely yet do so with reusable components.
> 
> My first steady client paying me a monthly subscription fee (established 
> after 1-2 years of charging by the hour) was a small business 
> university, but also a related business consultancy firm and a small 
> team of volunteer activism consultants in their backyard.  I developed a 
> computer setup for them all, called "Homebase", and slowly generalized 
> that into something reusable for other groups of organizations - called 
> "Redpill".
> 
> Now, 25 years later, Homebase still exists (see the dusty documentation 
> at https://support.homebase.dk/ and a newer draft at 
> https://docs.homebase.dk/ ) but the business university recently decided 
> to switch to a Microsoft solution so its future is uncertain.
> 
> One other experimental Redpill exists, consisting of my own network also 
> used by my life partner in her business as a graphics designer using 
> purely Free software, a server run by another Debian developer and 
> friend of mine, and another friend of mine in couple of his projects on 
> ICT education and eco activism in Germany.
> 
> My hope is to introduce redpill as packages in Debian, but I am not 
> quite there yet.  If anyone wants to help, please to get in touch :-)
> 
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> - Jonas
> 
> 
> ¹ I reference an archive.org snapshot both because that main web page 
> (which is also what you would be redirected to if you went to 
> https://redpill.dk/ ) is not currently online, and because it might 
> interest you for how long that web page has existed.
> 
> -- 
> * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt
> * Tlf.: +45 40843136  Website: http://dr.jones.dk/
> 
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