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 One of the best ways of representing the glasses (in color) is drawing Adam with a screen in front of his face. Each of the lenses has a little bit different anti-reflex coating, giving reflexes tinted greener and redder [like this](http://​www.firmoo.com/​answer/​tag_img/​anti-glare-coating-1.jpg) [TODO: needs more research]. Alternatively,​ different colors of pages / charts / parts of the screen can reflect in each of the lenses, giving similar effect. One of the best ways of representing the glasses (in color) is drawing Adam with a screen in front of his face. Each of the lenses has a little bit different anti-reflex coating, giving reflexes tinted greener and redder [like this](http://​www.firmoo.com/​answer/​tag_img/​anti-glare-coating-1.jpg) [TODO: needs more research]. Alternatively,​ different colors of pages / charts / parts of the screen can reflect in each of the lenses, giving similar effect.
  
-[alxd] I want to leave a lot of freedom concerning his appearance, since I always see some very specific faces of activists I know. Try imagining someone who's in his thirties, looks somewhat proud and a little too serious until he starts talking - when he's friendly and warm, wanting to share his passions. ​+[alxd] I want to leave a lot of freedom concerning his appearance, since I always see some very specific faces of activists I know. Try imagining someone who's in his thirties, looks somewhat proud and a little too serious until he starts talking - when he's friendly and warm, wanting to share his passions. 
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 +## Character 
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 +{{:​art:​characters:​adam:​arucardpl_adam.jpg?​200 |}} 
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 +Most passionate about working with the society, Adam is a great activist. He despises the corrupt goverments and wants everything - including the Space'​s affairs - to be transparent. He organizes school classes, meetups at universities and conferences. He helps a lot of local NGOs with both infrastructure - and does this all with a great enthusiasm. Not everyone around him likes that enthusiasm though, as he is often found nearly bragging about himself and his exploits. People tend to avoid unneeded interactions with him, often leaving him clueless about why. 
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 +With all that, he's a good friend, evangelist and animator. He brings a lot of live to the Space, and thanks to his expertise and enthusiasm is considered a part of the community. 
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 +Adam made a vow before himself never to work for any corporation. His jobs are usually short-term, poor-paid contracts for either NGOs or small, community-responsible businesses. He makes a point of only earning enough money to pay his rent and have a full fridge - and dedicating the rest of his time for his activism. This leaves him quite poor, but not in a mindset of people born in poverty. He seems to hold a lot of self confidence and he probably has some fallback no one in the Space knows. 
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 +He writes a blog or several (depending of how you count the sections) on Free Software, city politics and technologies he uses in his research.  
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 +## Relationships 
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 +Everyone seem to like Adam, but they keep him at a distance thanks to his extravertism. I don't think anyone at the Space could call him a true friend. 
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 +- [Cynic](characters:​main:​c_n1c) really respects his technical skills and will to educate the masses, even if he considers the enthusiasm hopeless. 
 +- [Suzanne](characters:​main:​suzanne) loves his speeches about Free Software and the moral obligation to share - one of them might have brought her to the Space. 
 +- [Amanda](characters:​main:​amanda) sees a lot of Adam's work with the anarchists and feminists and welcomes that a lot, even if she doesn'​t get every issue he's currently supporting. Why try work with the City? 
 +- [Robert](characters:​main:​robert) sees him as one of the pillars of the community, even if troublesome and too political. 
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 +He's had quite a few romantic relationships in the past few years, but due to him being extremely busy (or unwilling to actually listen) they never last long. 
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 +## Areas of Expertise 
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 +Adam is an activist, first and foremost. He is a great networker, knows who to approach to get something done in the NGO world and how to organize a specific protest or happening. 
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 +He is quite fluent in several areas of data science - scraping big volumes of data from webpages with no API, managing databases and finding connections. He doesn'​t really do machine learning or neural networks, but he is able to talk statistics quite well. 
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 +As an open source advocate he loves Linux and has a medium-level knowledge of encryption and defenses. He's able to configure a mail server or a simple firewall, but don't ask him for industrial size load balancers - with all respect, he leaves that to [Cynic](characters:​main:​c_n1c). 
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 +## Pride problems 
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 +One of Adam's plots will focus on his pride problems and treating others instrumentally,​ which are recurring themes of NGOs through the world. Probably the most well-known case is [Jacob Applebaum](https://​en.wikipedia.org/​wiki/​Jacob_Appelbaum):​ 
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 + - [TOR story from Guardian](https://​www.theguardian.com/​technology/​2016/​oct/​11/​jacob-appelbaum-tor-project-sexual-assault-allegations) 
 + - [Sexual Abuse story from Zeit Online](http://​www.zeit.de/​kultur/​2016-08/​jacob-appelbaum-rape-sexual-abuse-allegations)
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