This MHPR episode 118102 entitled, an intomue with Emily Hump, turnily Huck's fast-not-west volunteer,
and in part of the series, intomue.
It is posted by David Whitman, and in about 7 minutes long.
The summary is, an intomue with Emily Hump, turnily Huck's fast-not-west volunteer.
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This is David Whitman, and I'm at the Linux Fest Northwest with a volunteer, and tell
us your name.
My name is Emily Humpton, and her husband, Arthur, is standing here, but he's not going
to be talking apparently.
So I wanted to get a perspective of the Linux Fest from someone who does volunteer work
that's maybe one of the unsung heroes of the Linux Fest that helps put it together.
So how many years have you been working on the Fest, Emily?
I have been a volunteer organizer for this is my third Fest that I've helped organize.
And have you attended other years then?
Yes, I have.
This is my fifth Fest.
Yeah, fifth.
This is the fifth year I've been to the Fest.
But three that you worked as on the Organizing Committee.
What tasks have you done for the Organizing Committee?
When we started, I suggested that we get a Google Plus page, and no one said they didn't
have time to run it, so I volunteered to run the Google Plus page.
So the first year that I volunteered was the first year that we had, that we'd had
Settle Myer Hall, and we needed the pipe and drape.
We needed a vendor for the pipe and drape for the Gold Sponsor booths.
So I was the one who called around to do that originally.
Okay, and what jobs are you doing this year?
Not much.
I'm still doing the Google Plus promotion.
And at the Fest, I've just been running errands when people need me to.
Okay, so have you had a lot of errands to run then?
Not a lot.
Not a lot.
Not a lot.
Yeah, I've just been helping out when I can, if I see something that needs to be done,
and don't see a whole lot of people to do it, I'll step in and do.
How many volunteers do you think there are?
I don't have them, I'm not the one who has the numbers on that.
I can't tell you that without the BTC students, we could not run the Fest.
They're just, they are absolutely wonderful.
They are so organized.
I came in Friday and told them to put me somewhere to do something, but there was nothing
to do.
They had already organized.
Everything.
It was wonderful.
They're fantastic.
Okay, how many people do you think are attending this year?
I was told this morning that we had, let me think, a thousand people register yesterday.
And we still have, people will still register today, so there was a thousand daytime
registration yesterday.
A thousand daytime registration.
Plus the people who just, no, all together, a thousand badges were given out during
yesterday's Fest, yes.
Okay, and then, do you live here in Bellingham?
No, I don't.
I used to, but I'm, I'm actually living down in the Olympia area now.
So I do a lot of, I do a lot of, I try to do some of the tasks that I can do remotely.
Okay.
For the, for the, for the, or committee.
How many people do you think are on the or committee?
Um, it's hard to say because I'm not, I'm not physically present at the meetings now.
We're, we're using Google Hangouts for the, for the meetings because we have, we have
another, we have a few other members who also come in dial in remotely.
So I don't, I don't get to see how many people are there.
So Jacob Perry is still the big chief and correct.
Um, he is our, he's, our spokesman.
He is our webmaster and he has, he has wonderful ideas.
Yeah, and you, of course, is in Portland, so yeah, he's working for the Fest as
a kind of a remote volunteer also.
Yeah, he's, he's also mostly a remote volunteer.
He, he came up two weeks, he came up a week ago and, no, yeah, a week ago, to start getting,
just start getting things ready at BTC though.
What first got you interested in the Linux Fest?
Um, my husband brought me, brought me to my first Linux Fest in,
2010, and I liked the community aspect of it.
I grew up in a household, my mother was, my mother is a diehard libertarian.
And so I grew up with the idea of free speech and that is something that I really like
about Linux is the free as in speech aspect.
The free as in beer aspect, well, it's a nice perk, but I, um, I'm more into the free as
in free as in speech than you run Linux on your personal computers.
I actually am now, okay, what distribution do you like the most?
Well, I'm running open CSAT on my computer at home and, uh, my darling wonderful husband
has rooted my Chromebook and I'm running Debbie and Jesse on that one.
Oh, didn't Debbie and Jesse just come out yesterday?
It was, it was, it was in beta testing though, so he's out.
Yeah, he, he put the beta, he put the beta on for me.
So we put Arthur on this body here for a moment.
Certainly, he would love it.
What do you run on your laptops and your computers are there?
Right now, um, I run, topics for whenever I'm at somebody else's computer, okay.
And on my, yeah, so, topics also, on my hard drive on my laptop, I have windows, but
I hardly ever touch it, I'm usually running, not fix off of it.
Off of a live, um, USB, is that you run off?
Off of a USB, um, and what else, I'm also running Chrome OS on my Chromebook right now,
though I may root it later.
And your, how many years have you used Linux then?
Uh, since sometime in the 90s, I can't give you an exact date.
Okay, so you're a longtime user.
Yes.
Nice to talk to you, too, and, um, enjoy the rest of the fast, and you can look for
your episode to be uploaded at some point to hack a public radio.
In fact, I'll put it on a Google Plus to be able to see it there.
All right, well, thank you.
Thank you, David.
Thank you for your volunteering.
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