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Re: Working for Linux/Debian



Lol no problem yeah sorry I had asked for some help on here a while ago breaking into the open source/development stuff and there were a lot of answers. So yeah sort of fell of at some point. Maybe will look through this later and see if there was anything specific that I missed. Good luck with whatever you’re doing!

On Nov 23, 2021, at 10:18 AM, Agata Erminia Pennisi <agataerminiapennisi@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks for your sharing, but this is an excerpt from a closed discussion, which also does not include my complete answers. Discussion that I do not intend to open again.

Il mar 23 nov 2021, 17:01 Zayd Ahmed <zayd.ahmed92@gmail.com> ha scritto:
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/
>
> [x] quote me freely  [ ] ask before reusing  [ ] keep private



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