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-    <title>Meet Andrei and David, two first edition YH4F participants</title>
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-<h1 id="interview-with-Andrei-and-David">Meet Andrei and David, two first edition YH4F participants</h1>
-
-  <p>
-  The coding period of the Youth Hacking 4 Freedom hacking contest has 
-  been running for almost three months now. The
-  competition continues to be a fun contest for young hackers to 
-  test and develop their skills. The previous edition 
-  ended with 35 great projects submitted with inspiring stories 
-  behind them. Read about Andrei's and David's projects.
-  </p>
-
- <p>The rules for the contest are simple: the projects must be Free Software. There are 
- no limits to the possibilities on the kinds of projects that can be 
- submitted. Any technical idea is welcome. This gives each
- participant the chance to create a project according to their wishes, 
- skills, and interests. At the end of the first 
- edition of the <a href="/activities/yh4f/">Youth Hacking 4 Freedom</a> 
- competition, 35 amazing projects had been submitted. Each of these 
- projects has an inspiring story behind it. Let us introduce you to two of these amazing 
- projects. 
- Take a look at Andrei's handy tool for dmenu and David's <a 
- href="https://github.com/david-0609/OpenCV-Hand-Gesture-Control">"OpenCV 
- Hand Gesture Control"</a> project.
- </p>
- 
- <p>
- Before joining YH4F, Andrei was already involved in the Free Software world. He 
- has not only used various GNU/Linux distributions as his main operating 
- system, but also made sure it stays fun with games 
- available for everybody. He recently helped port <a 
- href="https://www.minetest.net/">Minetest (a Free Software game)</a> to 
- the cross-platform library <a href="https://www.libsdl.org/">"Simple 
- DirectMedia Layer" (SDL)</a>, which helps developers to make sure their 
- games are working on different types of operating systems. But instead of 
- sticking to only a technical world Andrei channels his artistic 
- energy into both shell and film scripts. 
-</p>
-
-<p>
-The mind behind "OpenCV Hand Gesture Control" is David. David has a 
-passion for Free Software and software development. He
- learned the basics of Scratch programming in Grade 3. Since then he has 
- improved his skills and widened his knowledge of programming. David 
- started writing scripts in Python and Bash and has now moved on to 
- learning Rust. After the YH4F contest David has also continued to work on 
- projects such as the <a 
- href="https://gitlab.com/david-0609/matrix-modbot">Matrix-Modbot</a>, 
- which is a bot that automatically moderates Matrix rooms.
-</p>
- 
-
- <p><strong><span style="color:#3394ce"> FSFE</span></strong>: Hello 
-    Andrei and David. Thank you for joining us.</p>
-   
-   <p>
-   <strong><span style="color:#3394ce">FSFE</span></strong>: How did you 
-   come into contact with programming and how did you learn to program?
-   </p>
-  
- 
-        <p>
-    <strong><span style="color:#d0f400">David</span></strong>: When I 
-    was in China, in grade 3 I was introduced to Scratch programming and 
-    immediately became fond of it. Then I learned through experimenting 
-    with the program to create simple animations and games. When I got 
-    my first computer, I started to learn Python from a video series for 
-    beginners. After learning the basics, I began to write some small 
-    scripts in Python and Bash for myself. And last year, I managed to 
-    secure an internship position at a software company. There I learned 
-    a lot and this experience also led me to learning about python OOP 
-    design and software design in general. Now I am learning Rust and 
-    working on a project called <a 
-    href="https://gitlab.com/david-0609/matrix-modbot">Matrix-Modbot</a>, 
-    which is an automated bot for Matrix.
-  </p>
-  
-     <p>
-     <strong><span style="color:#ce6d33">Andrei</span></strong>: I used 
-     to go to a programming club a friend of mine invited me to. We were 
-     writing C++ to solve some mathematical problems (things like 
-     greatest common factor, factorial etc.) though we (unofficially) 
-     spent too much time playing games there as well.
-     </p>
-     <p>
-     
-    <strong><span style="color:#3394ce">FSFE</span></strong>: Andrei, can 
-    you tell us what was your first contact with Free Software?</p>
-
-   <p><strong><span style="color:#ce6d33">Andrei</span></strong>: When I was 
-	 going through The Odin Project they required at some point to install a
-	  derivative of Ubuntu (they said nearly half of software engineers use 
-	  it and it’s easier to install software and so on). I was convinced my 
-	  computer would stop booting but went along with it. Xubuntu installed 
-	  fine! Later on I learned all about the parts of the free GNU/Linux 
-	  operating system and how they work together so now I have started 
-	  writing package files (PKGBUILDs) on Arch so that I may too try and 
-	  contribute to this freeing ecosystem.</p>
-  
-  
-  <p><strong><span style="color:#3394ce">FSFE</span></strong>: Andrei, you have already 
-     coded before and used Free Software in your daily life. What motivated you
-    to participate in the YH4F contest?</p>
-  
-   
-    <p><strong><span style="color:#ce6d33">Andrei</span></strong>: I did not 
-    know the FSF had an European sister organisation before and I was really 
-    happy to get involved! I really liked the way the contest gives an 
-    opportunity to choose a concrete, practical task and go through with it. 
-    (Too often I get stuck halfway on coding a cool thing, and that’s not great.)</p>
-    
-    <p><strong><span style="color:#3394ce">FSFE</span></strong>: David, what motivated you 
-    to join the YH4F contest?</p>  
-  
-        <p>
-    <strong><span style="color:#d0f400">David</span></strong>: I saw the 
-    advertisement on Mastodon and became interested in the competition, 
-    so I joined and used my free time to work on the project.</p>
-    
-    <p>
-    <strong><span style="color:#3394ce">FSFE</span></strong>: David, how 
-    did you come up with your project idea to use your hand motion for 
-    executing commands?
-    </p>     
-  	<p>
-  	<strong><span style="color:#d0f400">David</span></strong>: It 
-  	actually started while I was trying to read novels or to watch movies 
-  	on my laptop. When I read, I am usually in a relaxed position and I 
-  	find it cumbersome to reach for the mouse or the keyboard to turn 
-  	pages, so I thought: What if I can turn pages or pause the video with 
-  	the wave of my hand? And that is how I got my idea for the project.<br/>
-  	</p>
-
-<figure>
-		  <iframe title="Hand gesture detection" src="https://download.fsfe.org/videos/yh4f/Hand-Gesture-Detection-Demo.webm" allowfullscreen="" sandbox="allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-popups" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0"></iframe>	
-		  <figcaption>
-		  David demonstrating his "OpenCV Hand Gesture Control" project.
-		  </figcaption>
-		</figure>
-		    
-	<p>
-	<strong><span style="color:#3394ce">FSFE</span></strong>: Andrei, could 
-	you also give us an overview of your project
-	</p>
-	 
-	 <p>
-	 <strong><span style="color:#ce6d33">Andrei</span></strong>: I added 
-	 clipboard functionality to a dynamic menu program called bemenu. 
-	 Pressing ctrl-Y inserts the system clipboard into the command's 
-	 command buffer now.
-	 </p> 
-	 
-	<p>
-	 <strong><span style="color:#3394ce">FSFE</span></strong>: What 
-	 motivated you to work on your project?
-	 </p>
-	 
-	 	<p>
-    <strong><span style="color:#d0f400">David</span></strong>: It was 
-    mainly to solve my own problem, and my program could also be used on 
-    smart TVs or other devices with a camera to control the device 
-    without using a keyboard or a controller.</p>
-    
-    	 <p>
-    	 <strong><span style="color:#ce6d33">Andrei</span></strong>: The bemenu project 
-    	 is written in C, and it sounded nice to maybe learn to do some advanced tasks in 
-    	 C like programmatically copying and pasting. That it would solve a practical 
-    	 problem for me was a nice bonus too.</p> 
-    
-	 <p>
-	 <strong><span style="color:#3394ce">FSFE</span></strong>: Andrei, could you 
-	 briefly explain what a dynamic menu like bemenu is?
-	 </p>
-	 
-	<p><strong><span style="color:#ce6d33">Andrei</span></strong>: A dynamic 
-	menu takes in a list of things, for example some URLs, or some commands, 
-	or usernames, and allows matching and selecting one of them. For example, 
-	typing in fire or fox will match firefox but still allow selecting fire 
-	or fox by itself. This means, for example, that finding and running a 
-	command is made much easier. Think of it as a start menu, except one 
-	that can be programmed to be taken into other programs, like for example 
-	using it as a password prompt or a confirmation box. This works because 
-	it always gives back the thing that was selected, and that can be used
-	by a different program.</p>
-
-
-<p><strong><span style="color:#3394ce">FSFE</span></strong>: Did any of you encounter 
-any problems during the coding period or the building period?
-</p>	
-
-<p>
-<strong><span style="color:#d0f400">David</span></strong>: I did 
-encounter many issues, and they were mostly some design flaws that I did 
-not anticipate. At that time I had little knowledge about software 
-design and was struggling to make the code clean and cohesive.
-</p>
-		
-<p>
- <strong><span style="color:#ce6d33">Andrei</span></strong>: It turns out 
- getting clipboard data is not the same everywhere! It is one thing on X11, and 
- a different thing on Wayland. At first, writing a clipboard manager myself 
- sounded fine (a likely story!), though eventually I decided on using 
- wl-clipboard and xclip. I am glad I learned to not be excessively afraid of 
- pulling in dependencies where it really solves a complex problem that writing 
- by hand would make little sense.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-<strong><span style="color:#3394ce">FSFE</span></strong>: David, can 
-every user define the shortcuts themself and do you have an example on 
-how your program works?
-</p>
-
-<p>
-<strong><span style="color:#d0f400">David</span></strong>: Yes, and 
-there is an example config file in the git repo of the <a 
-href="https://edugit.org/david-0609/OpenCV-Hand-Gesture-Control">OpenCV-Hand-Gesutre-Control</a>. 
-For example three fingers to the right open a terminal window.
-</p>
-	
-<p>
-<strong><span style="color:#3394ce">FSFE</span></strong>: How did you 
-train your tool to recognise your hand movements?
-</p>
-
-<p>
-<strong><span style="color:#d0f400">David</span></strong>: The hand 
-movement recognition is based off OpenCV, however I used a 3rd party 
-library to provide a trained model as implementing the same model myself 
-would be “reinventing the wheel”, but this time the wheel would probably 
-not spin as well.
-</p>
-<p>
- <strong><span style="color:#3394ce">FSFE</span></strong>: Andrei and David do you think you will
-  continue working on your project and what would be some next steps you would 
-  like to realize?
-</p>	
-
-<p>
- <strong><span style="color:#ce6d33">Andrei</span></strong>: I think I am happy 
- with how the project is right now! They may say code never stops changing, but 
- when something is really finished that is great feeling. I’m sure I’ll be back 
- at it if something feels like it needs improvement though! My confidence is 
- certainly there now. 
-</p>
-
-
-<p>
-<strong><span style="color:#d0f400">David</span></strong>: I think I 
-will work on the project in the future and re-factor the code as it is 
-currently quite messy and somewhat buggy. To make the detection more 
-accurate, I could use the power of python’s data science libraries to 
-make better sense of the input data.
-</p>
-	
-<p>
- <strong><span style="color:#3394ce">FSFE</span></strong>: Thank you for 
- your time and we wish you both good luck with your next steps.</p>
-
-<p>
-The coding period for the second edition of YH4F is still ongoing. 
-For more information about the contest please visit <a 
-href="/activities/yh4f">yh4f.org</a>.
-</p>
-	 
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- <tag key="interview">Interview</tag>
- <tag key="yh4f">Youth Hacking 4 Freedom</tag>
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