Week 1: Introduce Yourself

A brief introduction…

Hello! I’m Roberto Garcia. I am a third year undergraduate student studying Philosophy and Computer Science. While I currently reside in Scotland in the UK, I was born and raised in Mexico. I’ll be working with the Wikimedia Foundation on the project “What’s in a Name?”.

My three core values:

My three core values are curiousity, creativity, and empathy.

I am a very curious person: I’m committed to understanding the entirety of how and why something works the way it does. I believe knowledge is one of the richest experiences we have access to as human beings, and one we should consciously appreciate in the world around us.

I really value creativity. I think basically all fun experiences in the world arise through creative engagement, and having fun makes life worth living!!! Creativity also allows for more fruitful and profound insight about one’s environment.

Finally, I consider empathy to be of utmost importance. Empathy is the basis of meaningful human connection, and allows for preexisting relationships to overcome hardship. Empathy also leads to solutions that consider all humans, not only those we’ve come to (incorrectly) consider the ‘baseline’ of human experience.

Why Outreachy?

Outreachy appealed to me for a variety of reasons. I really value OS software, and consider it to be representative of the good that technology can offer to the world at a time when so many tech companies are blatantly cruel and self-centered. Admittedly, I’ve become very pessimistic about the tech industry, and believed an organisation like Outreachy could help restore some faith. I am also genuinely passionate about the work the Wikimedia Foundation is involved in, and am very pleased to be a part of it!

I also enjoy the remote-work and flexible aspects of the internship. As mentioned by my co-intern Feliciss, money never hurts, too!!!