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Details list concrete contributions and outcomes: work on X Window System and contributions around GCC and GDB, running an open source course with 40 students, mentoring and writing the Google Summer of Code mentor and student manuals, seeding conferences (Linux Plumbers, Open Source Bridge) to connect web, kernel, embedded and hardware communities, funding local projects through Google grants, building open hardware ultra low cost rockets for education, and running sessions on trolling tactics and mitigation.

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