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In the summer of 2009 Sarah Adelaida McIntire was a Residency Program Fellow (RPF). During her time as a RPF Adelaida served as the [http://www.fsf.org/ Free Software Foundation's] first campaign intern. She spent a great deal of time editing the [http://groups.fsf.org/wiki/Main_Page LibrePlanet] wiki and fighting the evil forces of proprietary software one [http://www.defectivebydesign.org/ anti-DRM blog post] at a time. | |||
Adelaida loved her residency program so much she came very close to serving a second term- living in the library- during the summer of 2010. Instead, she ended up as the 2010 summer Activism/Meme team intern at the [https://www.eff.org/ Electronic Frontier Foundation] in San Francisco. | |||
Adelaida studies [https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Gender_studies Gender]/[http://feministing.com/ Feminism] and [https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Science_and_technology_studies STS] at [http://www.hampshire.edu/ Hampshire College] in Amherst, Massachusettes. She is interested in studying [https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Identity_%28social_science%29 identity] especially in relation to gender, sexuality and technology. That is, how gender/sexuality/technology influence identity formation and what identity means for people a given social context. | |||
Adelaida finally decided to ask people to call her by her middle name Adelaida, instead of her first name Sarah during her time as a RPF. | |||
Guide to pronouncing Adelaida: | |||
ă-duh-līd-ᵊ | |||
or | or | ||
A as in Apple | |||
A as in Apple | Del as in Dell computers | ||
Del as in Dell computers | Ai as in eye | ||
Ai as in eye | Da as in duh | ||
Da as in duh | |||
Revision as of 16:16, 1 July 2010
In the summer of 2009 Sarah Adelaida McIntire was a Residency Program Fellow (RPF). During her time as a RPF Adelaida served as the Free Software Foundation's first campaign intern. She spent a great deal of time editing the LibrePlanet wiki and fighting the evil forces of proprietary software one anti-DRM blog post at a time.
Adelaida loved her residency program so much she came very close to serving a second term- living in the library- during the summer of 2010. Instead, she ended up as the 2010 summer Activism/Meme team intern at the Electronic Frontier Foundation in San Francisco.
Adelaida studies Gender/Feminism and STS at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusettes. She is interested in studying identity especially in relation to gender, sexuality and technology. That is, how gender/sexuality/technology influence identity formation and what identity means for people a given social context.
Adelaida finally decided to ask people to call her by her middle name Adelaida, instead of her first name Sarah during her time as a RPF. Guide to pronouncing Adelaida:
ă-duh-līd-ᵊ
or
A as in Apple Del as in Dell computers Ai as in eye Da as in duh
