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What I do

• I am pursuing a BA in English Language and Literature (currently preparing for my 4th year), and I hope to continue specialising in Linguistics at a Masters level
• I am engaged with Linguistics research above and beyond what's required for a BA student
• I regularly contribute to online and print publications with articles about Linguistics, and political aspects of technology
• I occasionally hack together small libre-software projects, as I am currently teaching myself programming
• My work is always released in the commons, using suitable copyleft licenses such as the GPL and CC-BY-SA

Why I need your help

• I am working two part-time jobs while being a full-time student and a full-time activist: I'd like to afford being able to work less so I can focus on my studies and research more
• Initially I hope I can earn enough donations to pay for my web hosting expenses
• As a mid-term goal, I wish to be able to afford to participate in linguistics conferences and workshops without worrying about how I can pay rent this month

What have I done lately

• Among other articles, I wrote The Data Union: A positive step in the wrong direction, an editorial on a local online magazine
• I coded id3-unicodify.py, a copylefted Python 3 script that tries to autofix audio metadata stored in the wrong encoding
• I created a Cypriot Greek XKB layout and a Cypriot Maronite Arabic XKB layout for GNU/Linux users
• Together with a colleague, we presented a sociolinguistics research project at a conference and on local radio

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I'm dkr, a Linguistics student and Free Culture/Free Software advocate from Cyprus.

I'm particularly interested in how language is implemented in the brain, its relation to cognition, and how language varies (or doesn't) across modalities.

I'm a staunch supporter of preserving and enriching knowledge commons, and I believe that freedom-respecting software is an indispensable component of this struggle.