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Free Software Foundation (FSF) Added Dr. Miriam Bastian as Program Manager to Its Staff Page Some Time Last Month



Better late than never (there's still a typo):

Free Software Foundation's (FSF) Dr. Miriam Bastian: Miriam fell in love with GNU/Linux when her old, slow computer could no longer process the bloated and inefficient operating system that came preinstalled. She was not going to accept that throwing away the otherwise good computer was the only option. Free software gave the old computer new life! Prior to coming to the FSF, Miriam completed her PhD in ancient history at the University of Zurich and worked as a freelance journalist and teacher. Miriam loves being in nature, playing Dungeons & Dragons, riding her bike to work, mountains, vegan food, and a (not so vegan) latte with espresso from the portafilter.



Summary: Techrights has just noticed changes in the Staff and Board page of the FSF; Dr. Miriam Bastian has joined as staff (with personal E-mail address). The Wayback Machine saw her yesterday, a fortnight ago (still with the same typo in the job role/title), one month ago, on May 7th but not on the first of May; as far as we can gather, there was no formal announcement about her joining, but she wrote for the FSF this past December, she is indexed as staff, she was point of contact for talks this past March (or last year), and the FSF mentioned her as staff this past January (albeit only in social control media). Please welcome Miriam!

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