From d2b20422c8f1e3f52bb7f7308c11c4ff78f79885 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Justine Tunney Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2020 16:57:37 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Add about section to readme --- README.md | 20 +++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 6180f0637..a30504277 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -250,7 +250,7 @@ You can audit your source filesystem using ZIP GUIs e.g. Win10, InfoZip. If you want to be able to distribute binaries in binary only form, then please send $1,000 to Justine Tunney on PayPal, for a license lasting 1 year. This README will be updated in the event that -this needs to change. Feel free to reach if there's anything you need. +this needs to change. Please reach out if there's anything you need. ## Contributing @@ -269,7 +269,25 @@ and [libc/sysv/syscalls.sh]. Magic numbers are usually stabler than API interfaces cf. NPM but we should ideally have fewer of them, similar to how SI has sought to have fewer defining physics constants. +## About +Cosmopolitan mostly stands on the shoulders of giants and has few novel +ideas, aside from taking care of low-level build system toil, so coding +can become more beautifully pleasant. + +Cosmopolitan is maintained by Justine Tunney, who previously worked on +projects like TensorFlow, [Operation Rosehub], [Nomulus], and Google's +tape backups sre team. She's also helped radical activists by operating +the [Occupy Wall Street] website. Justine Tunney currently isn't on the +payroll of any company. She's been focusing on Cosmopolitan because she +wants to give back to Free Software which helped her be successful. See +her [LinkedIn] profile for further details on her professional history. + + +[LinkedIn]: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jtunney +[Nomulus]: https://github.com/google/nomulus +[Occupy Wall Street]: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/11/28/pre-occupied +[Operation Rosehub]: https://opensource.googleblog.com/2017/03/operation-rosehub.html [ansitrinsics library]: libc/intrin [ape/ape.lds]: ape/ape.lds [dsp/scale/cdecimate2xuint8x8.c]: dsp/scale/cdecimate2xuint8x8.c