Marco Stronati

My main site is now here

Contacts:

Mails:
youfind.marco AT gmail.com - mainly for software stuff
marco.stronati AT gmail.com

IM:
Jabber: use my mail youfind.marco as xmpp contact
Msn: geko10@libero.it I don't like msn, user jabber instead.
Skype: paracetamoloide - in the hope that voip will be soon implemented in jabber
GPG:
key ID: 8B79CB0341F28E50
Fingerprint: 8708 AA20 429C ED9B 8A95 7E32 8B79 CB03 41F2 8E50
public key

Works:

not many :P
currently working on:
marionnet internationalisation, you can find my branch at darcs@darcs.marionnet.org:repos/marionnet_i18n
marionnet developer documentation

Languages:

native italian speaker
good english
surviving level french

Studies:

I'm attending the master course in Computer Science in University of Pisa.
Bachelor's degree in electronic engineering in 2008.

Personal Campains & Interests:

Free Software:

I'm a Ubuntu/Debian user, I strongly believe in free software principles and hope to make a living out of it.
I tought a free ultra-basic gnu/linux course of 7 lessons in 2006.

I strongly advice you to use free software even in your windows environment:
Windows kit: OpenOffice , Firefox , Vlc .

Patents in Europe

DRM

Open Formats:

The format in which we save information is even more important than the software we use to do it, in the past many works valued several men/hours were lost because of close formats.
Use the following formats for daily tasks:
Plain text: .txt
Open Document Format and is derivates: .odt .ods .odp .odg .odf
Pdf
Ogg Theora for video
Ogg Vorbis for audio

Creative Commons Music

...

Vegetarianism

I'm following a vegetarian diet, with minimum usage of eggs and milk, for the following reasons:
Ecological impact of the meet industry: meet production is one of the three major causes of pollution, stopping it will be more effecive than stopping using the car.
Health
Brutality used against animals in the meet industry
If you want a fast track to became vegetarian just watch peta.org videos, that should do.
If you want an extremely compehensive and well documented analysis of plant-based diets I advice reading John Robbins's books, the last being "Healthy at 100".

Atheism

I'm an atheist, I strongly disapprove every theism (except FSM but maybe it's just because I'm italian).

Italy

Italy is a beautiful country, full of opportunity, charming and welcoming people, and interseting things to see: if you are a tourist that live in civilized country.

School books

In Italy each family spends several hundreds of euros every year buying school books for their children, from elementary to high school. Who has more than a child easily notice that each couple of years a new version of each subject's book is released with minor changes (very often only the cover and the page numbers) forcing families to buy twice the same thing. Considering the base knoledge necessary to write these kind of books, teachers could, with little effort, write free (Creative Commons or whatever other free licence) material that would be on-line readable and printable at ultra-low cost by any publishing company (or by the students themself). Moreover some teachers already prefer to prepare few photocopies for each lesson instead of following the book teaching stucture to have more flexibility and up to date material.
libriaperti.org
Questo progetto sembra risolvere esattamente il problema:
- libri per scopo didattico
- licenza CC o GFDL
- scritti in LaTeX
per ora l'autore sta cercando partecipanti e traduttori per dei testi di fisica in inglese già realizzati.

Army

Italy, like many other countries, own and mantain a military force that costs fantazillions of euros each year without even merely use it. Moreover some of this equipment (like the aircraft carrier Garibaldi) can't even be used for civil purpose in combination with Pretezione Civile. I think the most obvious choice is to demilitarize almost completely Italy (we could leave defence forces as a placebo for paranoids) and redirect those investment in University reseach or any other useful activity.

Recycled Paper

I only recently realized that we use regular paper in toilet...what a shame.