Farewell from Sarah

I had a wonderful time working at the Free Software Foundation this summer, but it is time for me to return to Hampshire College as my internship comes to a close. It was great working closely with the FSF staff and I have learned a great deal. I spent the majority of my time working on LibrePlanet and defectivebydesign.org.. My internship was overall productive but unfortunately there is one project that I really wanted to get up and running that was not realized. Even though my internship is ending, this will not be the end of my involvement in the free software community and I am hoping to get it started in the near future.

The project is the creation of a web page that explains free software to people who have never heard of it, or are just learning about it. There should be a place on fsf.org or gnu.org, where someone who is new to free software can be shown key concepts in a non-technical, direct, fun way. It is extremely important for us to reach out to more people, and I think this website is a great way to start.

The website should be very user-friendly and have very short explanations of the most important concepts that one needs to know in order to understand free software. I'm hoping that you, the free software community, will help me with the creation of this "Introducing Free Software" website. I've made a wiki page on LibrePlanet that I hope you will use by contributuing ideas you have for the site. Perhaps you could share the most successful ways you have been able to explain free software to people. Please e-mail me at campaigns@fsf.org if you would like to volunteer some of your time to make this website a reality. I can't wait to work with the community on the creation of this site and I hope I will see some of you at Software Freedom Day in Boston on September 19th.