Contact Information
- Name: Christopher Antila
- Email Address: crantila at GMail
- Wiki and IRC Username: crantila
- Primary Language: English
- Location: Ontario, Canada
- Working Hours: about 17:00 to 2:00 UTC, but flexible
Why I Want to Work in the Open-Source Community
My previous open-source contributions are limited to bug reports for Fedora, Gentoo, and KDE. I have contemplated larger contributions in the past, but the immense time commitment is forbidding for students during an academic term. When I've been on summer "holidays," my time has been similarly consumed up by a paying job, and the work required to simply maintain musical skills. I did not want to get involved in something that would later be left unfinished.
The values of the open-source community are, in my opinion, essential to the well-being of human societies. The Fedora Project is becoming increasingly adept at marketing this philosophy, and the Four Fs summarize the point. The "freedom" and "friends" Fs are especially important to me: when you have something, you should be able to do whatever you want with it; and advancements made by one entity should be actively shared with others. This is how complex systems work: small contributions combine to make something quite unlike the parts. It would be impossible without sharing resources.