Dear Comrades for Digital Free Society
Peace be upon you all.
Myself Shazedur Rahim Joardar, nickname Ring (in Bengali- রিং). I am from Bangladesh located in South East Asia. I am volunteering with Software Freedom advocacy since 2002. Got to know about this "Software Freedom, GNU and more" while started running GNU/Linux on my system in 2001. In 2006 I got Cerebrovascular Disease, right side of my body got paralyzed, speech impaired. By the blessings of my parents and the Creator I have got 80%-85% recovered by 2008 and got back to daily life. In 2011 with a team of 21 volunteers founded FOSS Bangladesh and started the advocacy to spread out more and more in organized way. Till 2016, FOSS Bangladesh had organized each SFD, HFD, EFD and CFD along with DADRM, LinuxDay, GNU/Linux installation Fest and 83 local events in various schools and universities here in Bangladesh to spread out about "Digital Freedom" and it's urgency among the next generation people. In 2014 on my invitation Mr. Stallman (RMS, Founder of FSF) visited in Bangladesh. In 2014-2016 I was an Adjunct Faculty member in the software engineering department of a reputed university in Bangladesh.
In December 2016 my health condition got worse again and I had just got home bounded. Later on survived from CoVid-19 in 2021 and Pancreatitis in 2022. But as I am alive and active again, I believe that, I have many more left to do for the society with my software and hardware knowledge and activities to achieve the true "Free Digital Society". In 2022 after the Corona pandemic FOSS Bangladesh had organized a public event in an university and me restarted with my public speeches. FOSS Bangladesh also getting strengthened with it's 88+ volunteers and planning for public events like SFD in 2023.
I am freelancer for my living with a little knowledge in C, C++ and Python. I am very much fond of Open or Free software and not in just any Freeware or
just the Open Source codes. To ensure my digital freedom, I demand for proper commented code, proper
documentation to make use of the code along with the freedom to modify and distribute the modified copy to all. While in freelancing I also deliver the same to my clients with the same digital freedom philosophy. Me also volunteer with Mozilla and LibreOffice and few others local communities and
groups and on online forum sites as I love to provide User Support/Help on using GNU/Linux
distros and Free Software.
Dear Friends of Digital Freedoms,
With the 20
th edition of SFD up the horizon, we need
to look who is willing to step up and put in a helping hand for
the Digital Freedom Foundation (DFF), who is willing to put their
shoulders under respectively SFD, DFD, HFD and EFD?
I will try my best to work with you people.
Are you willing and able to help think about shaping the Digital
Freedom Foundation and help organize their events? Please fill out
this Framadate
page so we can pick a time slot for an online meeting.