Intro myself / General interest voicing / rant you can ignore

Hi VPRI,

I'm somebody programming too much for too long to be a conventional
Theology student, but that (Theology student) I am (unconventionally).

Since seeing Aza Raskin on Google Video a few times and since I got an
OLPC XO-1, I have recently been hooked into thinking about ways to make
computing fundamentally better.  I found out about your STEPS research
project over http://lwn.net/Articles/278531/ and am very interested in
your work.  It's as if I found the intersection between the hacker
culture and the top innovators.  I'm glad you got the resources to do
this important work; computing needs to stop being frustrating, slow,
limiting, ecological wasteful, complicated, etc.

I'm interested to have a closer look at your work and maybe (given I
have something valuable to say) contribute to it in some ways, given my
other priorities (learning Hebrew using the XO) allow me to do this.

For example, I just had a look at some of your published papers and
would like to have a closer look at your JavaScript + OMeta + IS system
and to try to understand it and give feedback and/or questions in some
way (mailing list).

Greetings,
Felix Rabe

Hi VPRI,