I am Don Watkins, a free and open source software (FOSS) advocate, I am a writer who curently blogs here and also writes for Both.org, Allthingsopen.org and TechnicallyWeWrite. I was a correspondent at Opensource.com for eight years. I am an advocate of public libraries and teach Python programming to children and adults. You can find me on Mastodon, BlueSky and LinkedIn. I have recently been experimenting with Ollama and other large language models. I have been a Linux user for nearly twenty-five years. My daily driver is Linux Mint Cinnamon on an Intel NUC.
I am husband, father, grandfather, US Navy Veteran with an affinity for mindfulness and cookies.
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