The document provides advice for becoming a free software hacker by discussing what a hacker is, recommending using free and open source software, and suggesting ways to contribute such as finding small projects to join, writing code and plugins, participating in discussions, translating software, attending offline events, and publishing your own work under a free license. It also lists some of the author's own translation and coding projects as examples. The document encourages actively sharing knowledge and helping the free software community.

1. How to Become a Free Software Hacker Li Fanxi www.freemindworld.com

3. Hacker: A person who delights in having an intimate understanding of the internal workings of a system, computers and computer networks in particular. - RFC 1392

5. Use mainstream GNU/Linux distribution or similar free operating system

6. Use free GNU/Linux distribution or even GNU/Hurd?

8. Pariticipant in discussion

11. Help to spread the software

13. Knowledge about L18N and L10N

14. gettext

15. Be responsible

17. Consider to publish your code using free software license

19. Actively share your knowledge

20. Actively help the community to ogranize offline activities

22. Thank You! www.nanjinglug.org Nanjing Linux User Goup Ubuntu 11.04 Release Party May 15, 2011