<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">I remember the first time I met RMS, it was about 10 years at a Sci Fi
Convention. I told him that I respected what he'd done for computer
software. His first reaction was to ask me if I was a Hacker. I told
him that I wasn't. He told me that it was really important that I find
a way to contribute to the free software movement. I told him I would
try. I haven't really done anything since then to produce, till I
started working on BLAG.<br>
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I intend to keep working, as BLAG or on my own. When I started after
jebba left, I really didn't know much, and my system knowledge was not
that strong. I never even had built an RPM before. I had compiled
some tar balls, and even compiled a src RPM, but that was about it. I
think I had only built two servers for production before the repo box.
So I've had to learn a lot. <br>
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If I do this mostly on my own, it will probably drift away from a BLAG
feel as I don't have the same style as jebba. So if it's going to
continue to be BLAG, I'll need others. Also, it will make the
difference between making BLAG a respin of fedora with a new theme and
custom repo, or it's own feel with it's own options. Do want
Ctril-alt-backspace to keep restarting X? Then we'll need to deviate
from upstream. <br>
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I do have a lot of other things going on, it's true. Working on BLAG
is the first time since I got a job in IT that I've work on computers
just for fun. And that feel pretty darn good.<br>
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-Jason<br><br>aim: noldrin<br></td></tr></table><br>