RE: My Tech Journey: From Childhood Curiosity to Lifelong Passion
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I think the difference between you and me is that I made a switch in my mind. When I was a teen I realized the difference between a consumer and a creator. I decided that if I want to really participate in tech I needed to build things. So that's when I stop being a gamer with some tech savvy knowledge of the hardware to a person that studies computer, operating systems and software. Reading the first Linux documents make me realize how much stuff I was missing and how the world is tech really moves.
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I think I am now in the stage of not wanting to be a consumer any longer and want to be a creator, a builder. Be able to build things of my own. Yeah, I know about Linux. At some point in my life, I was taking a course in cloud computing.
Yeah Linux has conquered the backend, unfortunately Linux was build for the everyday user. But like most commercial things, indie projects always take the back seat, even when the innovation is many times better.
At a point I had to build with the community, and focus my efforts with the KDE and Gnome community. I worked with the office suite and OpenOffice.org project. That's what made me an open source developer. I have used Linux as my main desktop since 2003 and been exposed to great projects such as raspberry pi, Linux component projects, python and other communities.