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this talk is not really about any particular technology

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in debian

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its actually a talk about how debian changed my life

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which seems something that people here maybe intereste in

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so im here to tell my story, thanks for coming

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so im gonna start from the begining i was born here in

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scarborough on an street that looks like this

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yay canada

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its canada like the suburbs from totonto you could walk down

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my street and you look over the ??

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and looked like this

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you know snow for about 8 months of the year

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but otherwise incredible beautiful

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but i didnt actually stayed in canada for that long

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so when i was for a about 3 years old and

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my family moved to upstate new york, because my dad

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got a better job, and i think he was kinda always interested about

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the american dream basically, he wanted to move to the us

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you know, being american, so, when i was 3 and a half,

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we moved to this house

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in ?? new york, which is a suburb ??

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and its generally and incredibly little boring suburnban town

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so i grew up being a pretty nerdy kid and

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i also spent a lot of time on this place i like to call the farm

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which its actually in canada my granma lived here and

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i runned around on the farm and doing lots of farm things and

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generally being kinda a dirty, you know, farm kid

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getting dirty on the mud and

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i was also a huge nerd so i read a ton of books ??

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that i readed when i was really young

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so this is the high school i went to, it was in corn field

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extremely extremely interesting

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but i was also pretty active little kid

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i liked to run a lot, i actually run cross country

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which is like ?? in middle school

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i also run track and field

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this must had been not a good day

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and this is highschool i went to, and in highschool i was also

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like a music geek so i played the french horn for 10 years

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so growing up like this was a huge creative outlet for me

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i was like in the band, i also played trumbet on the jazz band

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and in highschool i actually i gave up cross country in order to do this

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so my highschool i had a pretty ?? highschool marching band

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so if you are not familiar with marching band this is a particular

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kind of marching band which is not like parade band, we didnt march on paredes

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but we did do whats had likes 8 minutes coreographed show that we would do

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on football fields, to play in like half time games and

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whom football games and also this kind of competition circuit and

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this is actually kinda of like state finals at the cicuit

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and the show was based on this ?? called DS

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so we are like make this formations and walk around and play music

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and it was really fun

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but during this whole time, while i was like growing up in a corn field

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and play music and reading books, eventually i discovered computers

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and i guess it was about mostly around middle school i would say

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so i got into computer through games and i have like really vivid

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??

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and one of the things i found on games was scape

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so town i grew up was super boring

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i kinda looked into computers for adventure, so i really like games

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that gave me hability to kinda explore worlds

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and they didnt necesarely have like linear story lines

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but like this is wind commander privateer which i loved and

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one of the things i really liked about it is that you didnt have

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to follow the story line if you didnt want to

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you could just like go around and run missions and make a lot of money

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and like upgrade your ship

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and you could do the story if you wanted, but you didnt have to

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so my gamming experience is really driven by this dessire to explore new worlds

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and control my own experience

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and this is my room in probably about 7th grade

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i had this compact desktop machine that i think we got at somewhere like pc

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it was like big bucks store that was popular in the early 2000

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i think it was from circuit city

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and you can actually see im running windows xp on it, so it is before

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the debian days

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and i was also like a huge soccer player, you can see like my soccer

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team photos and i hate to admit this but i also had this obsession with horses

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[laughts] which you might noticed from the decor

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so, back to gaming, and my gamming experience which I said was driven by this

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dessire of exploration, eventually let me to get involved in this

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online text games called MUDS and in particular i was like one day

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like 9 or 10 grade after marching band ended

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and marching band took a lot of time so, i had practices basically

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3 days a week for like 4 hours at the time, plus we had competitions

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so marching band ??

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my life was empty, like i have nothing to do except for school

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and surf the internet, so it was like after

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??

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so you actually you ?? terminal

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and log into the MUD server via telnet

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and so this is like the login screen for shadows of isildur

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which was this mud that i got into

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and it was a particular kind of mud in that it was called

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like role playing instensive mud, so people will form this characters

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and put a lot of story into them

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this is the character i played in this mud in like 3 years

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and people would put a lot of effort into like painting the stories

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behind their characters, so i had like text files and text files

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that are like, my character love story and the description of her

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and like important events on her life, people she knew that i could

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reference that when i was playing in the game and make sure i was

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staying in character and i think this character was very much

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a representation of like my want for adventure and being the good kid at

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school and not wanting to be the good kid online

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but this character had this kind of sordid past and kinda was up to no good

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got into some trouble, but i got so into this game that i actually

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?? helping running

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and this was my administrator kinda like persona on the game

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she was a norse god, my family is norwegian by the way

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this is also a major part of my upbringing so

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i had this alter ego kinda ??

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viking and like ??

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so people would thought i was tough ??

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skimo online administrator persona

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one of the things administrators could do on the game is like you could

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create your own personal room so when i logged into the game i spawn

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into this room the great hall of valhalla

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and like you would build this rooms and you could make objects

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so there was facilities on the game that you ??

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write the description of all these objects and

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the porpurse of the administratos on the game was actually to run plots

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and kind of keep the story going

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because this particular game was incredibly story driven

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and is a text based game, that is all that you had

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and on this game if you died, if your character died

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your character was dead

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so this gives an incredible amount of wits to take actions and ??

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going on the story. but this was the first time i found people that

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i really connected with and i made really good friends with the other

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people who runned this game and the lived across the country

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there was this guy who lived in missury

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he was about the same age as me and most of the other administrators

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were older, so we talked about life and got into punkrock and talked

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to this guy, and i think having this outlet for weirdos and nerds was

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a really big part of me and feeling confortable on my skin on real life

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such as this

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so i went into this program when i was 15 where i were into the bay area ??

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for a week, and doin science nerd things i was actually so into this game

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that i met up with the person who wrote it ?? streets

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i didnt tell my parents by the way

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meeting people from the internet, im 15 years old

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but hes actually a totally cool guy and he thought i was a totally

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crazy little thing kid but hes going to the university of santa clara

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at the time he was considering become a laywer and i think meeting

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this guy in real life ?? mythos of the creator of this game

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he lives in seattle now and i have an open invitation to grab ??

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sometimes with him so... thats all

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i also made friends in real life and i found all the weirdos at my school

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after figuering out how to be able to express myself by meeting people

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online and the ?? animators at school, we did crazy things like

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dressing up like the spanish inquisition for halloween and

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going out to different classrooms in highschool im like

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at the time, i was really into running this game, but it turns out if you

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helped me to install debian on that compact machine that you saw

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at the time installed debian sarge, it was testing i thing, this was

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2004 probably and was a pivotal moment for me i started like running debian

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all the time, i haven ever run any linux distro other than debian

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and it turns out im incredibly entuthiastics about things and

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curious and i really couldnt keep my hands off debian

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i was curious about how it worked. its a pretty strange thing

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like a thousand people all around the world that managed to

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create somehow this software that is able to run my computer

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thats pretty amazing and so i was curious as a 15 years old i wanted to

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learn more, so i guess i started lurking around, subscribed to probably

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debian-devel started reading planet debian and one day i was reading

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planet debian and this blogpost was on planet debian

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this post was about hanna wallach who a bunch of you know

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?? a time when debian was really interested in increasing its diversity

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and this organization had pop up called debian women

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just founded by anna and ?? clarck and a few other people

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so anna wrote this blogpost talking about debian women on planet debian

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when i read this blogpost i was like holyshit, this people want me to

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contribute, that pretty much changed my life like i started getting

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on irc and met a bunch of this people on irc and ?? funneling my energy

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out of the game and into debian

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this is like 2 days after i read that blogpost i wrote my own

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like i had this blog i was running on a subdomain of middleearth.us

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which was the game site because i was ?? yeard old and

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didnt have a server so that was the way i had publishing something

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on the web. I had this ?? blog and i grow really excited so

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i grow this blog response first, which describes on my own words at the time

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how i felt

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so i started learning how to package and started learning python and

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christian perrier, which is another dd took me under his wing and

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i helped with the shadow team which packaged some important utilities

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and that made me feel really important and everybody was super friendly

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and encouraging and i wanted to stay, so i did

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this is me wearing a debian women tshirt that i had to

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ackwardly ask my mother for money to buy because i think it was

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steve mctire?? who had been the person who

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instigated debian women tshirt and he lived in the uk and i was in

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upstate new york so i had to pay dollars to send me a tshirt

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and my mother was like... i dont know, whatever, sure you can

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have some money. what are you doing?

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but... i was hooked and i was 16 years old

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this is actually a quote from my college aplication

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which describes what happened after that

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in my college applications i talked about two things

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one was marching band and two was debian

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before that i didnt really decided on what i wanted to do going forward

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i always had the sense that i was going to be an engineer

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i come from a family of engenieers

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but i guess thats a very broad thing, engenieering

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i could had decided to be a mechanical engenieer or a chemical engenieer

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damn, no, this software stuff, this stuff is filling the world

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its cool, its fun

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so that really changed the way i was thinking about ?? going

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this is hanna wallet and at the time i was applying for colleges

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via my involvement in free software, in debian kinda developed this like

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college crush on MIT. But i was too shy to... i was too unconfident i guess

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to apply there until some day i was talking to hanna wallet in irc

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you know, private messageing each other, and i was talking about college

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applications, i kinda wanna go to MIT but i dont know

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and she was super enthusiastic and was like, you should totally apply to MIT

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and so i did, but i didnt tell anyone... i told my parents, but i didnt

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tell anyone at school because these other smart kid at my school had applied

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to hardward and everyday the other kids would see him and be like, you got

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into hardward yet?, you got into hardward yet?

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and i didnt want to get harass about it

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so i didnt tell anybody

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but i got in

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i never expected that to happen, it was incredibly exciting

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from the minute i got my aceptance letter, which actually had a

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hand write note on it from the admisions officer, talking about

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i had ?? wax about free software ?? debian and hacking on my assets

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and the admissions person wrote on my admision letter than

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he thought i would really fit into MIT because of my interest in

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freesoftware and opensource and kinda hacker culture

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so i was sold

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so i visited MIT on april 2006, they had this preview weekend

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where ?? students come and checkout the campus

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and put you up with the current students

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so i did that, and i was staying on this dorm called east campus

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that looked just like this

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it was actually a photo from my visit

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visiting MIT kinda blew my mind

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here there are a bunch of neds just sitting around super kinda grindy

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dorm with computers and ?? equipement

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they did some crazy things when i was there

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they did this thing where they put pingpong balls

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in a microwave that was that designed to ??

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and they caught of fire, they were throwing all this LCD monitors

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off the roof and it was crazy, i dont know

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it kinda blew my mind, and i was totally sold

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I thought, this are my people, im coming here

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and during this trip, i also had come a day early

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because i was taking the train from upstate newyork

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to boston and that meant i got there the day before

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where i actually had a host on campus so of course i emailed debian

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??

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i need a place to stay on wednesday night

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and benjamin ?? responded to that email and ?? crash on his couch

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his house is called the asitarium, so i stayed at the asitarium

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and this is my stuff at the floor at the asitarium version 1.0

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and they threw a party for me, it was amazing

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at least they said the party was for me

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it might had been just a party

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[laughs]

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so yeah, i stayed there, just meeting people from the internet in the

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real life i didnt tell my parents about, but on this trip

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another amazing thing happened, that was, because

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I was staying with miko?? he gave a tour of the MIT media lab

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that was where he worked at the time and on that tour

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i met this game that was working on the lab and this was looking for

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hackers to employee for the summer, so i went home and got an email

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from this guy that was like, you want a job? because miko

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introduced me as this debian hacker and so hes like

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wow, awesome like a highschooler whose probably unnemployed

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and i need some help, so, despite the fact they werent going to pay me

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very much and i was going to be living alone in an expensive city

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i said YES!

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because i really wanted to get out of my town

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so i pretty much went from this, it was a saturday in june 2006

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and on monday, it was this

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on sunday, the day after i graduated, my dad drove me to

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cambridge, matchachusen, in the family minivan, unloaded

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all of my stuff on my new cambridge aparment and drove off

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and left me there the same day

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so, luckyly, i knew some people in cambridge already

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miko and this friend of miko basically adopted me for that summer

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so, because i didnt really know anyone, not any students

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all of the other students of my year werent there yet

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i pretty much spent my entire time hanging with debian people

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that summer and miko fed me with delicious vegetarion food

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because i had never cooked before in my life

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and that was my social group

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we did things like rode bicicles... and they were kind enough

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to introduce me to another mit students

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there are some of them on this picture

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the summer went on... and at the end of the summer

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i actually moved into mit

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this is east campus which is the place where i lived my first year

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many campus do with this thing where they build this giantic

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crazy contramptions

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this is this thing they were calling jesus deride??

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which ended up bieng like a giant cross that had this cannon ?? on it

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and they were strap people to it then put them on the ground

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and they were like... papapapa

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until your nose was to feet from the ground

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and then the cannon waited. It was careful calibrated to make sure

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that you are just go back

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so, i was pretty sold this was the place to live

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[laughs]

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safety first, right?

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eventually i ended up moving into this crazy coop on campus

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bradening my skillset in hacking, such as building bicicles

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building crazy contraptions in the basement

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yeah, this is a giant tesla coil

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actually, my involment in this part it was this

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[laughs]

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i was honestly quite terrified that we were goint to blow up the entire house

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also had this crazy shannenigans with fire

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might had been involved into putting somethings on roof tops

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a different kind of mit hacking

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and you know, like hacking on computers and

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generally my experience on mit can be summed up in this picture

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its a very kinda love/hate place, its super intense

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and would definetly do it again but, im glad is been 4 years

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it might had taken me 2 years to say that i would do it again

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and this is another picture of how i experienced mit

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audience: is that in a bathroom?

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Christine: no this is a room, but is like a... sad selfie

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it might had been during some period of crushing depression

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inpending exams or something

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but, this stuff was happening at mit, i was also

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still involved in debian

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i actually spent two summers like ?? around europe

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and went to debconf7 with my own money that i had earn

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with jobs that i had gotten via debian actually

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like i worked at on campus helpdesk, so answering like

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linux help questions, and helping people with computers

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i also got this job at this company called best practical

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which makes this thing called RT and the way i got this job

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was like the owner of the company had heard of me

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and my debian cred and tracked me down was like, do you want

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a job? and of course i sais yes

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he was so awesome he let me run around?? and go to europe

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on the summer while i was working for him

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this is more debconf7, skyland is full of castles

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and david ?? is apparently on the camera

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and i kept going to debconf, went to debconf9 and this is

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the tshirt best practical gave me, a very ?? tshirt

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and this is me at guadec at 2008 in gran canaria

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and mit, i also got involved in the student group that was

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called the student information processing board

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which is basically the computer club at mit, except it is

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so old they didnt call computing, computing when it started

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it was actually started to manage the time sharings on this

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multex?? server

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this organization is full of tens of hackers so obviosly I was

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drawn to it, because of my experience in debian and the

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student group did a lot of really cool things like they revent

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the entire campus linux distro and was there wanted to be based

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on debian actually, and still is to this day

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and my favourity class i took at mit was the operating

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system clas which kinda changed my life in that

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i decided i wanted to do operating systems research

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i was very close to go to grad school at mit

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and doing a masters with perl and distributed operating

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systems group, except for my spring on the seniour year

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ive been sponsoring packages for this guy, tim abaut??

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he was a friend of mine from sippy?? he was doing a whole

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bunch of work on ?? software ?? that he was trying to get

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to debian and i was sponsoring his stuff

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and he just started this company called ksplice

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and so this one time he emailed me asking for sponsorship

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to upload a package and he was also like, hey, we are

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looking for interns for ip?? which is this gen?? term at mit

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like, do you want a job?

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so i started to work for ksplice before i finished mit

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i still intended to go to grad school, but it turned out

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that at the end of my senior year, they just gave me

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a full time offer and i was like i dont really want to go

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to grad school, i rather get a job where they pay me

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so i started working for this company called ksplice which

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develped this tecnhology where... its basically a

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kernel module for linux that would allow you to take a patch

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to the linux kernel and you do this binary differencing

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so you can then load the changing running kernel without

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having to restart it

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which was pretty novel at the time.

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I never interviewed to this job, it was like, I sponsored

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my friends debian's packages and he knew me from sippy and

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I demostrated there via my intership that i was like a good

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person to work with so, i ended up working there for 3 years

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?? eventually was sold to oracle and that was a

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learning experience

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[laughs]

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so at the end of a year and a half at oracle i just decided

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i was going to leave eventually and i was trying to figure

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out what i wanted to do afterwards and decided i was also

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going to leave boston and this is like a big thing for me at

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the time, because ive been living at boston for 7 years and

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it was the only place i have really lived as an adult

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its like moved form upstate newyork to boston and stayed there

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so as a part of the process to leaving boston I had this

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whiteboard in my room and i went through and listed all

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the things i was going to miss and clinging on

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things that you miss in a nostalgic way like ??

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the snow and terrible weather

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and how sweaty it gets in the summer there

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but i looked back on all those things now and

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damn, i kinda miss them

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so i think writting everything down was it was a good way

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to cut and go and move on

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but i ended up moving to bay area

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to okland and the the reason i moved to the bay area

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was to start this company with a friend of mine

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ive been talking to this friend for a long time

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i met him at the sophomore year at mit

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he was like a year behind me and he had been trying to

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built stuff on top of email for his undergraduated ??

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we sometimes taked email and tried to do stuff on top of it

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like run a bug tracking system

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not that i know anyone here that has done that

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and he found out that he spent all of this time

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trying to work with email and so he decided

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someone needed to make the bottom level tools

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better before we can create anything interesting

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that uses email, so i was pretty sold in the idea

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and i started working with him so i moved to the bay area

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and this is us back at mit in last fall i guess

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pulling an extremelly ill advice on nighter

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before hes giving a talk.

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this is actually in one of the ?? coaster at mit

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and we had gone in the campus convenience store

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for a bunch of snacks and im never doing this again

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but it was a thing at the time and the talk was fine

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except it would had probably been better if had ??

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and this a ?? from a website and this is an example of

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things you can do with innbox, which is this company

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that we started

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the way we have been going about the company has also

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really influced by my experience in debian

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like for example we release our code as agpl

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which i wouldnt had even knonw that existed

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without my experience in debian and freesoftware

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so this is an example of using our api

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we provide this high level api for interacting with email

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it uses threads across all providers, not just gmail

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it allows you to easily marks things as read in the archive

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this is a tags based api

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and we do that across all providers

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even your dovecot isolation

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we are trying to evolve email from the inside out

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but making something compatible with what we already have

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and im pretty exiceted with where thats going

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but the main reason i wanted to give this talk is to say

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thank you, because i wouldnt be who i am without

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the amazing comunity that is debian

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so thanks for doing what you do

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[applause]

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