• I am the president of The Software Freedom Conservancy. You can read more about the work that I do there on the Conservancy's website.
• I am the hacker/lawyer liaison, technical director, and CTO at the Software Freedom Law Center. I can't really write much about the work we do for clients (which is usually legal advice and confidential) but we try to be as public as possible about the technology we develop or improve.

Outside of those official, professional duties, here is the list of some other things that I sometimes work on.

• I used to spend a lot of time playing, thinking about, writing about and (usually) winning at poker. Read my online poker journal if you are interested in that. I don't really play much anymore, but usually take vacations in places where I can play live cash games.
• I think that there should be a course for Computer Science undergraduates designed to teach them how to assimilate into the Free Software movement. It should teach standard development tools and methodologies and how to join projects and participate. The final project should be to get at least three patches accepted into existing Free Software projects.

• Making a better personal website. I gave up on this one. My website is a static space without much information and looks like it was created in the early 1990s (most of it was). That's fine with me; I've learned to live with it. You should, too. :)
• I used to work for the Free Software Foundation as its executive director. This meant that I did a lot of things, most of which involved representing FSF in various public ways and managing the day-to-day operations. My official duties very rarely involved hacking software.
• I taught an introductory course on poker at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education.
• The creation of a free Perl tutorial book, called Picking Up Perl. This is an item from the GNU Task list. Book publishers sell proprietary Perl tutorials, and the The Perl source comes with a great deal of freely redistributable reference documentation, but there is no freely redistributable documentation that is a tutorial. I hoped that Picking Up Perl will be one, but I ran out of time to work on it.
• I was working on a system to compile Perl to the Java Virtual machine. That work stopped when I finished my Master's thesis.

  I was working on this project because of a love for the Perl language, and because free software related to Java is needed. Fortunately, there are others, such as the the Japhar Java Virtual Machine, and The Classpath project working on other parts of free Java. I was working to making Perl run in this free Java environment.

  It's not clear to me now if this project makes sense. I doubt that I will ever actually work on it again. I suggest that the Parrot project might be a better place to spend one's time.

• My Master's thesis. I finished it in January 2001.

• I used to teach AP Computer Science at Walnut Hills High School in Cincinnati, OH.

• Posting and reading a variety of mailing lists and newsgroups. I ran out of time to read most mailing lists.
• Helping the Cincinnati GNU/Linux Users Group to dedicate itself more firmly to software freedom, and to spread the idea of software freedom. I left Cincinnati, so I stopped working on that.

As you probably noticed, this document is a stream-of-consciousness list of a subset of my current professional and personal projects. For a more formal information on my professional and educational background, please take a look at my résumé.