bkühn's Current Projects
This document is an informal and somewhat stream-of-consciousness list of
my current projects and interests. It is meant to be informal and is not
a résumé. Separately, I also
maintain a page of software that I've
written and/or helped write.
●I am the Policy Fellow and Treasurer
of Software Freedom
Conservancy. You can read more about the work that I do there
on the Conservancy's website. Due to the heavy demands of those
positions, I rarely have time for anything else, including updating
this website.
●I (very occasionally) write
a a personal
blog. (You can find professional blog posts that I've made on
SFC's behalf on their website; I sometimes cross-post them here and
other times don't).
●I am slowly but surely working to officially become a Debian
Developer.
●I really did used to be a programmer once upon a time. I try to
do code contributions when I can, and am sad
that I don't get to do more.
bkühn's Old Projects
Here is a list of things I used to work on:
●I used to spend a lot of time playing, thinking about, writing
about and (usually) winning at
poker. Read my online
poker journal if you are interested in that. I don't really play
much anymore, but usually take vacations in places where I can play
live cash games. My best game is probably still NL HE, but I don't
completely suck at Limit HE, PLO, and Limit O/8, and 2-to-7
TD.
●Making a better personal website. I
gave up on this one. My website is a static space without
much information and looks like it was created in the early
1990s (most of it was). That's fine with me; I've learned to
live with it. You should, too. :)
● I used to work for the Free Software
Foundation as its executive director. This meant that I did a lot of
things, most of which involved representing FSF in various public ways and
managing the day-to-day operations. My official duties very rarely
involved hacking software.
●I think that there should be a course for Computer Science
undergraduates designed to teach them how to assimilate into the
Free Software movement. It should teach standard development tools
and methodologies and how to join projects and participate. The
final project should be to get at least three patches accepted into
existing Free Software projects. I never had time to work on
this.
●I taught an introductory
course on poker at the Cambridge
Center for Adult Education.
● The creation of a free Perl tutorial book, called Picking Up Perl. This is an item
from the GNU Task
list.
● I was working on a system to compile Perl to the
Java Virtual machine. That work stopped when I finished my Master's thesis.
It's not clear to me now if this project makes sense. I doubt that I
will ever actually work on it again. I suggest that
the Parrot project might be a
better place to spend one's time.
● My Master's thesis.
I finished it in January 2001.
● I used to teach AP Computer
Science at Walnut Hills High School in Cincinnati, OH.
● Posting and reading a variety of mailing lists and newsgroups. I ran
out of time to read most mailing lists.
●Helping the Cincinnati GNU/Linux Users
Group to dedicate itself more firmly to software freedom, and to
spread the idea of software freedom. I left Cincinnati, so I stopped
working on that.
As you probably noticed, this document is a stream-of-consciousness list
of a subset of my current professional and personal projects. For a more
formal information on my professional and educational background, please
take a look at my résumé.
bkühn@ebb.org