bkuhn's Current Projects

This document is an informal and somewhat stream-of-consciousness list of my current projects and interests. It is meant to be informal and is not a résumé. Separately, I also maintain a page of software that I've written and/or helped write.

I am the President and the Distinguished Technologist of Software Freedom Conservancy. You can read more about the work that I do there on the Conservancy's website.

I am a member of FSF's Board of Directors.

I write a a blog.

I post on identi.ca's instance of the pump.io social network.

I am the editor-in-chief of copyleft.org, which hosts a book entitled Copyleft and the GNU General Public License: A Comprehensive Tutorial and Guide.

I co-host (with Karen Sandler) of Free as in Freedom, a bi-weekly oggcast on policy and legal issues in the software freedom world.

I am slowly but surely working to officially become a Debian Developer.

I really did used to be a programmer once upon a time. I try to do code contributions when I can, and am sad that I don't get to do more.

bkuhn's Old Projects

Here is a list of things I used to work on:

I used to spend a lot of time playing, thinking about, writing about and (usually) winning at poker. Read my online poker journal if you are interested in that. I don't really play much anymore, but usually take vacations in places where I can play live cash games. My best game is probably still NL HE, but I don't completely suck at Limit HE, PLO, and Limit O/8, and 2-to-7 TD.

Making a better personal website. I gave up on this one. My website is a static space without much information and looks like it was created in the early 1990s (most of it was). That's fine with me; I've learned to live with it. You should, too. :)

I used to work for the Free Software Foundation as its executive director. This meant that I did a lot of things, most of which involved representing FSF in various public ways and managing the day-to-day operations. My official duties very rarely involved hacking software.

I think that there should be a course for Computer Science undergraduates designed to teach them how to assimilate into the Free Software movement. It should teach standard development tools and methodologies and how to join projects and participate. The final project should be to get at least three patches accepted into existing Free Software projects. I never had time to work on this.

I taught an introductory course on poker at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education.

The creation of a free Perl tutorial book, called Picking Up Perl. This is an item from the GNU Task list.

I was working on a system to compile Perl to the Java Virtual machine. That work stopped when I finished my Master's thesis.

It's not clear to me now if this project makes sense. I doubt that I will ever actually work on it again. I suggest that the Parrot project might be a better place to spend one's time.
My Master's thesis. I finished it in January 2001.
I used to teach AP Computer Science at Walnut Hills High School in Cincinnati, OH.
Posting and reading a variety of mailing lists and newsgroups. I ran out of time to read most mailing lists.

Helping the Cincinnati GNU/Linux Users Group to dedicate itself more firmly to software freedom, and to spread the idea of software freedom. I left Cincinnati, so I stopped working on that.

As you probably noticed, this document is a stream-of-consciousness list of a subset of my current professional and personal projects. For a more formal information on my professional and educational background, please take a look at my résumé.

bkuhn@ebb.org