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 We need more designers to work on FOSS projects if we want more ppl to use FOSS projects. 

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 I am a software engineer with 20+ years of experience and I am looking to contribute to freedom tech. This is could be anything related to Bitcoin, Nostr, or similar. 

Most of my work has been for embedded systems, so a lot of C and even some Verilog on everything from bare metal to Embedded Linux.  Over the past 2 years, I have been writing PC applications in C# and Matlab and I have experience with Java, Lua, Ruby, and C++, so I'm comfortable with higher level languages.  I'd be happy to learn Rust, Go, or anything else that will make me useful.

If anyone has any thoughts, big or small, technical or personal, as I start this journey, feel free to respond. 
 Thanks, Chip.  I'll take a look. 
 That is my plan.  While I have done a ton of Linux driver-level in the embedded space for my career, it has always been for corporate stuff.  I have never just jumped on a project as a community contributor.  It's definitely something I have always wanted to do. 
 I am a software engineer with 20+ years of experience and I am looking to contribute to freedom tech.  This is could be anything related to Bitcoin, Nostr, or similar.  Compensation is not particularly important and I'm happy just to be community contributor to get started.

Most of my work has been in embedded systems, so a lot of C and even some Verilog on everything from bare metal to Embedded Linux.  Over the past 2 years, I have been writing applications in C# and Matlab and I have experience with Java and C++, so I'm comfortable with higher level languages.  I'd also be happy to learn Rust, Go, or anything else that will make me useful. 

If anyone has any thoughts, big or small, technical or personal, as I start this journey, feel free to respond.