This is sort of a New Year's resolution... In no particular order:
- Write a book.
- Learn at least one new programming language.
- Donate money to (or become member of) either the EFF, the FSF, the CCC, or another similarly important organization.
- Make use of my rights as a citizen and write letters to elected politicians, urging them to promote certain topics/issues/laws (privacy, democracy, transparency) and to combat others (software patents, voting computers, data retention, mass surveillance and lots more comes to mind).
- Work on and support selected Free Software projects in my spare time, especially projects which are of a greater importance to the Free Software movement (or the Free Culture movement; or freedom; or privacy; or anonymity; or democracy) than the 158th IRC client or the 276th tetris clone. Some examples: LinuxBIOS, Nouveau, Tor, Gnash, and Democracy Player to name just a few projects. General motto: Choose your battles!
Oh, and one more thing: Do the most important duty as a citizen of any democratic country — help to save democracy by killing voting computers.
Yeah, so that makes six things I plan to do in 2007. Sue me.