WEBVTT 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 this talk is not really about any particular technology 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 in debian 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 its actually a talk about how debian changed my life 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 which seems something that people here maybe intereste in 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 so im here to tell my story, thanks for coming 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 so im gonna start from the begining i was born here in 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 scarborough on an street that looks like this 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 yay canada 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 its canada like the suburbs from totonto you could walk down 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 my street and you look over the ?? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and looked like this 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 you know snow for about 8 months of the year 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 but otherwise incredible beautiful 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 but i didnt actually stayed in canada for that long 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 so when i was for a about 3 years old and 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 my family moved to upstate new york, because my dad 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 got a better job, and i think he was kinda always interested about 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 the american dream basically, he wanted to move to the us 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 you know, being american, so, when i was 3 and a half, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 we moved to this house 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 in ?? new york, which is a suburb ?? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and its generally and incredibly little boring suburnban town 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 so i grew up being a pretty nerdy kid and 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 i also spent a lot of time on this place i like to call the farm 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 which its actually in canada my granma lived here and 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 i runned around on the farm and doing lots of farm things and 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 generally being kinda a dirty, you know, farm kid 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 getting dirty on the mud and 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 i was also a huge nerd so i read a ton of books ?? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 that i readed when i was really young 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 so this is the high school i went to, it was in corn field 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 extremely extremely interesting 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 but i was also pretty active little kid 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 i liked to run a lot, i actually run cross country 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 which is like ?? in middle school 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 i also run track and field 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 this must had been not a good day 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and this is highschool i went to, and in highschool i was also 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 like a music geek so i played the french horn for 10 years 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 so growing up like this was a huge creative outlet for me 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 i was like in the band, i also played trumbet on the jazz band 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and in highschool i actually i gave up cross country in order to do this 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 so my highschool i had a pretty ?? highschool marching band 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 so if you are not familiar with marching band this is a particular 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 kind of marching band which is not like parade band, we didnt march on paredes 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 but we did do whats had likes 8 minutes coreographed show that we would do 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 on football fields, to play in like half time games and 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 whom football games and also this kind of competition circuit and 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 this is actually kinda of like state finals at the cicuit 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and the show was based on this ?? called DS 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 so we are like make this formations and walk around and play music 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and it was really fun 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 but during this whole time, while i was like growing up in a corn field 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and play music and reading books, eventually i discovered computers 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and i guess it was about mostly around middle school i would say 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 so i got into computer through games and i have like really vivid 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 ?? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and one of the things i found on games was scape 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 so town i grew up was super boring 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 i kinda looked into computers for adventure, so i really like games 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 that gave me hability to kinda explore worlds 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and they didnt necesarely have like linear story lines 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 but like this is wind commander privateer which i loved and 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 one of the things i really liked about it is that you didnt have 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 to follow the story line if you didnt want to 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 you could just like go around and run missions and make a lot of money 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and like upgrade your ship 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and you could do the story if you wanted, but you didnt have to 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 so my gamming experience is really driven by this dessire to explore new worlds 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and control my own experience 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and this is my room in probably about 7th grade 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 i had this compact desktop machine that i think we got at somewhere like pc 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 it was like big bucks store that was popular in the early 2000 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 i think it was from circuit city 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and you can actually see im running windows xp on it, so it is before 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 the debian days 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and i was also like a huge soccer player, you can see like my soccer 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 team photos and i hate to admit this but i also had this obsession with horses 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 [laughts] which you might noticed from the decor 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 so, back to gaming, and my gamming experience which I said was driven by this 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 dessire of exploration, eventually let me to get involved in this 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 online text games called MUDS and in particular i was like one day 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 like 9 or 10 grade after marching band ended 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and marching band took a lot of time so, i had practices basically 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 3 days a week for like 4 hours at the time, plus we had competitions 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 so marching band ?? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 my life was empty, like i have nothing to do except for school 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and surf the internet, so it was like after 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 ?? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 so you actually you ?? terminal 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and log into the MUD server via telnet 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and so this is like the login screen for shadows of isildur 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 which was this mud that i got into 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and it was a particular kind of mud in that it was called 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 like role playing instensive mud, so people will form this characters 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and put a lot of story into them 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 this is the character i played in this mud in like 3 years 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and people would put a lot of effort into like painting the stories 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 behind their characters, so i had like text files and text files 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 that are like, my character love story and the description of her 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and like important events on her life, people she knew that i could 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 reference that when i was playing in the game and make sure i was 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 staying in character and i think this character was very much 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 a representation of like my want for adventure and being the good kid at 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 school and not wanting to be the good kid online 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 but this character had this kind of sordid past and kinda was up to no good 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 got into some trouble, but i got so into this game that i actually 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 ?? helping running 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and this was my administrator kinda like persona on the game 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 she was a norse god, my family is norwegian by the way 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 this is also a major part of my upbringing so 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 i had this alter ego kinda ?? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 viking and like ?? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 so people would thought i was tough ?? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 skimo online administrator persona 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 one of the things administrators could do on the game is like you could 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 create your own personal room so when i logged into the game i spawn 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 into this room the great hall of valhalla 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and like you would build this rooms and you could make objects 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 so there was facilities on the game that you ?? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 write the description of all these objects and 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 the porpurse of the administratos on the game was actually to run plots 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and kind of keep the story going 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 because this particular game was incredibly story driven 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and is a text based game, that is all that you had 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and on this game if you died, if your character died 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 your character was dead 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 so this gives an incredible amount of wits to take actions and ?? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 going on the story. but this was the first time i found people that 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 i really connected with and i made really good friends with the other 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 people who runned this game and the lived across the country 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 there was this guy who lived in missury 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 ?? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 he was about the same age as me and most of the other administrators 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 were older, so we talked about life and got into punkrock and talked 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 to this guy, and i think having this outlet for weirdos and nerds was 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 a really big part of me and feeling confortable on my skin on real life 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 such as this 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 so i went into this program when i was 15 where i were into the bay area ?? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 for a week, and doin science nerd things i was actually so into this game 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 that i met up with the person who wrote it ?? streets 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 i didnt tell my parents by the way 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 meeting people from the internet, im 15 years old 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 but hes actually a totally cool guy and he thought i was a totally 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 crazy little thing kid but hes going to the university of santa clara 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 at the time he was considering become a laywer and i think meeting 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 this guy in real life ?? mythos of the creator of this game 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 a little bit 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 he lives in seattle now and i have an open invitation to grab ?? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 sometimes with him so... thats all 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 i also made friends in real life and i found all the weirdos at my school 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 after figuering out how to be able to express myself by meeting people 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 online and the ?? animators at school, we did crazy things like 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 dressing up like the spanish inquisition for halloween and 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 going out to different classrooms in highschool im like 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 ?? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 at the time, i was really into running this game, but it turns out if you 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 ?? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 helped me to install debian on that compact machine that you saw 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 on the previous slide 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 at the time installed debian sarge, it was testing i thing, this was 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 2004 probably and was a pivotal moment for me i started like running debian 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 all the time, i haven ever run any linux distro other than debian 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and it turns out im incredibly entuthiastics about things and 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 curious and i really couldnt keep my hands off debian 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 i was curious about how it worked. its a pretty strange thing 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 like a thousand people all around the world that managed to 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 create somehow this software that is able to run my computer 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 thats pretty amazing and so i was curious as a 15 years old i wanted to 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 learn more, so i guess i started lurking around, subscribed to probably 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 debian-devel started reading planet debian and one day i was reading 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 planet debian and this blogpost was on planet debian 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 this post was about hanna wallach who a bunch of you know 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 ?? a time when debian was really interested in increasing its diversity 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and this organization had pop up called debian women 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 just founded by anna and ?? clarck and a few other people 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 so anna wrote this blogpost talking about debian women on planet debian 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 when i read this blogpost i was like holyshit, this people want me to 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 contribute, that pretty much changed my life like i started getting 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 on irc and met a bunch of this people on irc and ?? funneling my energy 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 out of the game and into debian 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 this is like 2 days after i read that blogpost i wrote my own 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 like i had this blog i was running on a subdomain of middleearth.us 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 which was the game site because i was ?? yeard old and 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 didnt have a server so that was the way i had publishing something 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 on the web. I had this ?? blog and i grow really excited so 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 i grow this blog response first, which describes on my own words at the time 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 how i felt 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 so i started learning how to package and started learning python and 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 christian perrier, which is another dd took me under his wing and 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 i helped with the shadow team which packaged some important utilities 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and that made me feel really important and everybody was super friendly 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and encouraging and i wanted to stay, so i did 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 this is me wearing a debian women tshirt that i had to 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 ackwardly ask my mother for money to buy because i think it was 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 steve mctire?? who had been the person who 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 instigated debian women tshirt and he lived in the uk and i was in 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 upstate new york so i had to pay dollars to send me a tshirt 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and my mother was like... i dont know, whatever, sure you can 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 have some money. what are you doing? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 [laughs] 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 but... i was hooked and i was 16 years old 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 this is actually a quote from my college aplication 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 which describes what happened after that 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 in my college applications i talked about two things 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 one was marching band and two was debian 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 before that i didnt really decided on what i wanted to do going forward 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 i always had the sense that i was going to be an engineer 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 i come from a family of engenieers 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 but i guess thats a very broad thing, engenieering 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 i could had decided to be a mechanical engenieer or a chemical engenieer 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 damn, no, this software stuff, this stuff is filling the world 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 its cool, its fun 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 so that really changed the way i was thinking about ?? going 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 this is hanna wallet and at the time i was applying for colleges 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 via my involvement in free software, in debian kinda developed this like 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 college crush on MIT. But i was too shy to... i was too unconfident i guess 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 to apply there until some day i was talking to hanna wallet in irc 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 you know, private messageing each other, and i was talking about college 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 applications, i kinda wanna go to MIT but i dont know 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and she was super enthusiastic and was like, you should totally apply to MIT 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and so i did, but i didnt tell anyone... i told my parents, but i didnt 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 tell anyone at school because these other smart kid at my school had applied 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 to hardward and everyday the other kids would see him and be like, you got 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 into hardward yet?, you got into hardward yet? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and i didnt want to get harass about it 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 so i didnt tell anybody 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 but i got in 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 i never expected that to happen, it was incredibly exciting 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 from the minute i got my aceptance letter, which actually had a 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 hand write note on it from the admisions officer, talking about 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 i had ?? wax about free software ?? debian and hacking on my assets 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and the admissions person wrote on my admision letter than 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 he thought i would really fit into MIT because of my interest in 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 freesoftware and opensource and kinda hacker culture 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 so i was sold 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 so i visited MIT on april 2006, they had this preview weekend 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 where ?? students come and checkout the campus 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and put you up with the current students 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 so i did that, and i was staying on this dorm called east campus 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 that looked just like this 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 it was actually a photo from my visit 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 visiting MIT kinda blew my mind 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 here there are a bunch of neds just sitting around super kinda grindy 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 dorm with computers and ?? equipement 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 they did some crazy things when i was there 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 they did this thing where they put pingpong balls 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 in a microwave that was that designed to ?? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and they caught of fire, they were throwing all this LCD monitors 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 off the roof and it was crazy, i dont know 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 it kinda blew my mind, and i was totally sold 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I thought, this are my people, im coming here 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and during this trip, i also had come a day early 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 because i was taking the train from upstate newyork 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 to boston and that meant i got there the day before 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 where i actually had a host on campus so of course i emailed debian 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 ?? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 i need a place to stay on wednesday night 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and benjamin ?? responded to that email and ?? crash on his couch 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 his house is called the asitarium, so i stayed at the asitarium 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and this is my stuff at the floor at the asitarium version 1.0 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and they threw a party for me, it was amazing 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 at least they said the party was for me 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 it might had been just a party 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 [laughs] 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 so yeah, i stayed there, just meeting people from the internet in the 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 real life i didnt tell my parents about, but on this trip 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 another amazing thing happened, that was, because 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I was staying with miko?? he gave a tour of the MIT media lab 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 that was where he worked at the time and on that tour 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 i met this game that was working on the lab and this was looking for 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 hackers to employee for the summer, so i went home and got an email 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 from this guy that was like, you want a job? because miko 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 introduced me as this debian hacker and so hes like 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 wow, awesome like a highschooler whose probably unnemployed 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and i need some help, so, despite the fact they werent going to pay me 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 very much and i was going to be living alone in an expensive city 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 i said YES! 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 because i really wanted to get out of my town 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 so i pretty much went from this, it was a saturday in june 2006 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and on monday, it was this 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 on sunday, the day after i graduated, my dad drove me to 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 cambridge, matchachusen, in the family minivan, unloaded 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 all of my stuff on my new cambridge aparment and drove off 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and left me there the same day 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 so, luckyly, i knew some people in cambridge already 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 miko and this friend of miko basically adopted me for that summer 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 so, because i didnt really know anyone, not any students 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 all of the other students of my year werent there yet 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 i pretty much spent my entire time hanging with debian people 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 that summer and miko fed me with delicious vegetarion food 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 because i had never cooked before in my life 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and that was my social group 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 we did things like rode bicicles... and they were kind enough 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 to introduce me to another mit students 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 there are some of them on this picture 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 the summer went on... and at the end of the summer 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 i actually moved into mit 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 this is east campus which is the place where i lived my first year 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 many campus do with this thing where they build this giantic 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 crazy contramptions 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 this is this thing they were calling jesus deride?? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 which ended up bieng like a giant cross that had this cannon ?? on it 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and they were strap people to it then put them on the ground 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and they were like... papapapa 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 until your nose was to feet from the ground 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and then the cannon waited. It was careful calibrated to make sure 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 that you are just go back 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 so, i was pretty sold this was the place to live 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 [laughs] 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 safety first, right? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 eventually i ended up moving into this crazy coop on campus 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 bradening my skillset in hacking, such as building bicicles 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 building crazy contraptions in the basement 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 yeah, this is a giant tesla coil 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 actually, my involment in this part it was this 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 [laughs] 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 i was honestly quite terrified that we were goint to blow up the entire house 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 also had this crazy shannenigans with fire 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 might had been involved into putting somethings on roof tops 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 a different kind of mit hacking 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and you know, like hacking on computers and 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 generally my experience on mit can be summed up in this picture 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 its a very kinda love/hate place, its super intense 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and would definetly do it again but, im glad is been 4 years 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 it might had taken me 2 years to say that i would do it again 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and this is another picture of how i experienced mit 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 audience: is that in a bathroom? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Christine: no this is a room, but is like a... sad selfie 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 it might had been during some period of crushing depression 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 inpending exams or something 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 but, this stuff was happening at mit, i was also 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 still involved in debian 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 i actually spent two summers like ?? around europe 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and went to debconf7 with my own money that i had earn 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 with jobs that i had gotten via debian actually 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 like i worked at on campus helpdesk, so answering like 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 linux help questions, and helping people with computers 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 i also got this job at this company called best practical 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 which makes this thing called RT and the way i got this job 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 was like the owner of the company had heard of me 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and my debian cred and tracked me down was like, do you want 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 a job? and of course i sais yes 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 he was so awesome he let me run around?? and go to europe 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 on the summer while i was working for him 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 this is more debconf7, skyland is full of castles 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and david ?? is apparently on the camera 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and i kept going to debconf, went to debconf9 and this is 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 the tshirt best practical gave me, a very ?? tshirt 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and this is me at guadec at 2008 in gran canaria 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and mit, i also got involved in the student group that was 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 called the student information processing board 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 which is basically the computer club at mit, except it is 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 so old they didnt call computing, computing when it started 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 it was actually started to manage the time sharings on this 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 multex?? server 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 this organization is full of tens of hackers so obviosly I was 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 drawn to it, because of my experience in debian and the 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 student group did a lot of really cool things like they revent 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 the entire campus linux distro and was there wanted to be based 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 on debian actually, and still is to this day 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and my favourity class i took at mit was the operating 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 system clas which kinda changed my life in that 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 i decided i wanted to do operating systems research 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 i was very close to go to grad school at mit 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and doing a masters with perl and distributed operating 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 systems group, except for my spring on the seniour year 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 ive been sponsoring packages for this guy, tim abaut?? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 he was a friend of mine from sippy?? he was doing a whole 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 bunch of work on ?? software ?? that he was trying to get 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 to debian and i was sponsoring his stuff 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and he just started this company called ksplice 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and so this one time he emailed me asking for sponsorship 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 to upload a package and he was also like, hey, we are 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 looking for interns for ip?? which is this gen?? term at mit 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 like, do you want a job? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 so i started to work for ksplice before i finished mit 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 i still intended to go to grad school, but it turned out 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 that at the end of my senior year, they just gave me 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 a full time offer and i was like i dont really want to go 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 to grad school, i rather get a job where they pay me 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 so i started working for this company called ksplice which 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 develped this tecnhology where... its basically a 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 kernel module for linux that would allow you to take a patch 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 to the linux kernel and you do this binary differencing 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 so you can then load the changing running kernel without 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 having to restart it 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 which was pretty novel at the time. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I never interviewed to this job, it was like, I sponsored 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 my friends debian's packages and he knew me from sippy and 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I demostrated there via my intership that i was like a good 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 person to work with so, i ended up working there for 3 years 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 ?? eventually was sold to oracle and that was a 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 learning experience 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 [laughs] 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 so at the end of a year and a half at oracle i just decided 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 i was going to leave eventually and i was trying to figure 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 out what i wanted to do afterwards and decided i was also 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 going to leave boston and this is like a big thing for me at 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 the time, because ive been living at boston for 7 years and 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 it was the only place i have really lived as an adult 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 its like moved form upstate newyork to boston and stayed there 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 so as a part of the process to leaving boston I had this 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 whiteboard in my room and i went through and listed all 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 the things i was going to miss and clinging on 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 things that you miss in a nostalgic way like ?? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 the snow and terrible weather 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and how sweaty it gets in the summer there 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 but i looked back on all those things now and 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 damn, i kinda miss them 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 so i think writting everything down was it was a good way 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 to cut and go and move on 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 but i ended up moving to bay area 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 to okland and the the reason i moved to the bay area 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 was to start this company with a friend of mine 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 ive been talking to this friend for a long time 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 i met him at the sophomore year at mit 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 he was like a year behind me and he had been trying to 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 built stuff on top of email for his undergraduated ?? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 we sometimes taked email and tried to do stuff on top of it 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 like run a bug tracking system 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 not that i know anyone here that has done that 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and he found out that he spent all of this time 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 trying to work with email and so he decided 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 someone needed to make the bottom level tools 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 better before we can create anything interesting 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 that uses email, so i was pretty sold in the idea 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and i started working with him so i moved to the bay area 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and this is us back at mit in last fall i guess 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 pulling an extremelly ill advice on nighter 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 before hes giving a talk. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 this is actually in one of the ?? coaster at mit 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and we had gone in the campus convenience store 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 for a bunch of snacks and im never doing this again 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 but it was a thing at the time and the talk was fine 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 except it would had probably been better if had ?? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and this a ?? from a website and this is an example of 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 things you can do with innbox, which is this company 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 that we started 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 the way we have been going about the company has also 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 really influced by my experience in debian 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 like for example we release our code as agpl 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 which i wouldnt had even knonw that existed 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 without my experience in debian and freesoftware 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 so this is an example of using our api 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 we provide this high level api for interacting with email 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 it uses threads across all providers, not just gmail 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 it allows you to easily marks things as read in the archive 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 this is a tags based api 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and we do that across all providers 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 even your dovecot isolation 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 we are trying to evolve email from the inside out 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 but making something compatible with what we already have 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and im pretty exiceted with where thats going 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 but the main reason i wanted to give this talk is to say 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 thank you, because i wouldnt be who i am without 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 the amazing comunity that is debian 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 so thanks for doing what you do 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 [applause] 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999