Hello! I am a happy Framework Laptop user. I had been working for mainly web based systems as a Software Engineer for 20+ projects in several industries, and as a Analyst in marketing for retention based system (gaming). Now I have been working for the Ruby project (ruby-lang.org) + Ruby ecosystem, Fedora project and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. I had lived in Japan and Singapore, and I had stayed for 10 months in several countries as a backpacker, then started to live in Czech Republic 5+ years ago. In my spare time, I am spending time on Framework Laptop and genome sequencing in computing biology (bioinformatics) attending community events. I like traveling, and I am a kind of minimalist and ketogenic diet practitioner.
I had been a Fairphone user before knowing Framework. I remember I found Framework at the Framework company’s first blog at the end of February 2021, then shared the article to my colleagues after 1 week. Then after spending some time in this community forum to make Fedora work on Framework updating Fedora 34 wiki and communicating the maintainers of the RPM packages to be fixed for Framework, I bought Batch 2 on my own risk. I felt that I didn’t regret to donate my money even if the Framework didn’t work without any support in the worst case.
My interest is to democratise bio technology and health. I have a portable genome sequencer MinION device by the company called Oxford Nanopore and the glucose monitor FreeStyle Libre (sensor) by the company called Abbott. I had wished those kinds of hardware devices and research activities in academia would be more open and democratised for anyone in the future. And Framework was a very good start for me to live with the open hardware movement. When I found Framework, the vision and how to run the business, looked beautiful and sensible. I felt the smell of the open source project from the Framework. Do you know the book Reinventing Organization? For me, this company looked Teal organization written in the book.
I love opportunities to learn hardware and Linux as a desktop environment in this forum.