Hi everyone,

    I work as the public geek at the Takoma Park Maryland Library, a  
close-in suburb of Washington DC.  Our library offers 28 Linux  
stations for public access seven days a week. I help youth and adults  
use these computers.

    I also blog for the PCWorld.com web site, often mentioning FOSS as  
the most logical solution for different computer tasks. (I tend to  
sing a lot about Ubuntu, Firefox, and Firefox extensions.)  see

http://tinyurl.com/q83577

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCSQorBmO58

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5MfzKXCRI0

      I also teach a graduate class in educational technology at  
American University where I quite often explain that FOSS makes the  
most sense when building a more inclusive world.

        In my free time I take donated computers to youth and adults  
who don't have them. I mostly place Macs these days, but in the right  
situation I also place Linux computers. (I have a steady supply of  
donated Macs coming my way.)

         As with others on this list, I'm also involved with free  
content projects -- most recently I worked on the Cooked Rice  
Vocabulary Project.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/164938/article.html

         I'm sure thrilled to meet the others on this list. If we  
apply the right force in the right place, we'll move the world. We  
should move carefully, but deliberately. We can't afford mistakes when  
we're fighting for freedom.

             Phil

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