[Replicant] Call for a community manager

[Kurtis Hanna]

My fellow Replicants,

I believe I would be an ideal fit for the role of community manager 
primarily due to the fact that I already volunteer for the project in a 
very similar capacity.

Since joining Replicant’s Redmine platform roughly 7 years ago I’ve 
contributed to over 140 issues, provided regular user support in the 
forums and on IRC, and edited numerous wiki pages. I have helped teach a 
Replicant flashing workshop at 34C3, co-presented a talk on Replicant at 
privacyweek.at, staffed a Technoethical booth selling Replicant and 
other free software compatible hardware at LibrePlanet, and assisted in 
the organization of two Replicant leadership meetings at FOSDEM.

I regularly follow projects and organizations to identify developers, 
code, concepts, collaboration opportunities and trends that could 
benefit Replicant including the FSF, Tor, LineageOS, PostmarketOS, 
Pine64, the Linux Kernel, more GitHub repositories and issue trackers 
than I’d like to mention, and XDA Forums.

My four year liberal arts degree from central.edu focused on Religion 
and Philosophy. Nearly every class I took had very writing intensive 
coursework. Since then, I’ve co-founded three nonprofits and was a 
member on all of their Boards of Directors, the most recent of is 
cyberia.club, a regional free software computer club.

I have five years of customer service experience in the food service 
industry, had a part time tech support job at my college, co-founded and 
taught classes on cryptography tools as a volunteer member of my local 
CryptoParty, CryptoPartyMN, and provided hardware and customer support 
for Libreboot, Trisquel, and Replicant users while working with 
Technoethical.

The NSA whistle blower revelations of 2012 and 2013 was what first 
instigated my study of free software philosophy. Quickly thereafter I 
became an FSF member, began regularly attending the LibrePlanet 
conference, learned how to Libreboot laptops, and changed my daily 
driver operating systems to Replicant, Trisquel, Debian, and Tails.

I have volunteered for over a decade as a mass surveillance and drug 
policy reform citizen lobbyist at my city hall and State legislature 
where I regularly engage in technical writing in the drafting of 
legislation, create coalitions of supporting organizations, and have 
difficult conversations with adversarial policy makers and other 
lobbyists in formal and informal settings.

Essentially, I would like to continue the work that I already have been 
doing with the knowledge and skills I’ve acquired over the years with 
the additional tasks of writing a regular newsletter, creating 
promotional materials, and helping the Replicant Steering Committee with 
tasks surrounding the funding of developers that create and maintain the 
code that we all depend on for our software freedom, privacy, and security.

In Solidarity,
Kurtis Hanna
https://redmine.replicant.us/projects/replicant/wiki/People#Kurtis-Hanna