Updated 'about' page

Setting up a more formal and up-to-date page with more relevant
information.

Signed-off-by: Miquel Sabaté Solà <msabate@suse.com>

1 files changed, 32 insertions, 29 deletions

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-<img src="/images/me.jpeg" alt="Miquel's picture" id="image-profile" title="It's-a Me, Miquel!" width="100" height="100">
+<img src="/images/me.jpeg" alt="Miquel's picture" id="image-profile" title="This is me some years ago..." width="100" height="100">
 
-## About me
+<div class="info">
+    <a href="mailto:mikisabate@gmail.com"><i class="fa fa-envelope"></i> mikisabate@gmail.com</a> -
+    <a href="https://github.com/mssola"><i class="fa fa-github"></i> @mssola</a> -
+    <a href="https://twitter.com/miquelssola"><i class="fa fa-twitter"></i> @miquelssola</a> -
+    <a href="/en/about/cv"><i class="fa fa-address-card-o"></i> CV</a>
+</div>
 
-Hello! I'm **Miquel Sabaté Solà** (yeah, [two
-surnames](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_naming_customs)) and this is my
-personal website. In summary:
+**Miquel Sabaté Solà** (Piera, 1989) has a degree in Computer Science
+([FIB/UPC](https://www.fib.upc.edu/en), 2014) and in Catalan Language and
+Literature ([UOC](https://www.uoc.edu/portal/en/index.html), 2022). He works as
+a Senior Full-Stack Software Developer at [SUSE](https://www.suse.com/), has
+contributed to numerous FOSS projects, and has acted as a mentor in the [Google
+Summer of Code](https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/) program twice: once with
+the [KDE](https://kde.org/) project, and another with
+[openSUSE](https://www.opensuse.org/).
 
-- I was born in [the bleak
-  December](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/48860)
-  28th, 1989.
-- Born and raised in [Piera](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piera), after a short
-  stay in [Nuremberg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg) I ended up in
-  [Capellades](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capellades).
-- The people at [FIB - Barcelona School of Informatics](https://www.fib.upc.edu/en.html)
-  were nice enough to give me a **Bachelor Degree in Computer Science**.
-- I also have a **Bachelor Degree in Catalan Language and Literature** by the
-  [Universitat Oberta de Catalunya](https://www.uoc.edu/portal/en/index.html).
-- I am a member of **Vila de Capellades - CUP**, and I currently also work as a **councilor** of the Capellades town hall.
-- A [Free Software](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software) enthusiast, developer and promoter.
-- I work at [SUSE](https://www.suse.com) remotely.
+He is currently taking the University Master's Degree in Advanced Research in
+Humanistic Studies at the [Universitat Rovira i
+Virgili](https://www.urv.cat/ca/) (2022-2023), where he continues the research
+that he started with his Bachelor's thesis «Poesia completa de Joan Terrer.
+Estudi i edició crítica» (2022, not published), directed by Marc Sogues Marco.
+His main topics of research are the textual criticism of unpublished authors of
+the catalan Barroque period, and their contextualization.
 
-You can also get this information in CV style [here](/en/about/cv.html).
-
-## Where can I found you?
-
-<p>
-You can drop me an email at
-<a href="mailto:mikisabate@gmail.com" title="Send email">
-    <code>mikisabate@gmail.com</code></a>.
-Otherwise, you can also reach me at <a href="https://twitter.com/miquelssola"
-title="@miquelssola">Twitter</a>.
-</p>
+He is also involved in politics, being a member of [Vila de Capellades -
+CUP](http://viladecapellades.cat/), and, during the municipal elections
+celebrated in may 2019, he was nominated as councilor at Capellades. When
+forming up the government of the Town Hall, he was nominated as councilor of
+Youth, Citizen Participation and Transparency; which he [later
+renounced](http://viladecapellades.cat/noticia/309/comunicat-de-vila-de-capellades-cup-en-relacio-a-la-sortida-del-govern)
+in march 2023. Moreover, in october 2020, he also took the position of councilor
+at the [Consell Comarcal de l'Anoia](https://www.anoia.cat/) from
+representatives that left office early, being also a spokesman there for the CUP
+party until 2023 (end of the term).