advice
Recently I was asked two very good questions about being involved in free/open source software: How do you balance your paid/volunteer activities? What sort of career advice do you have for people...
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I am a leader in free software. As evidence for this claim, I like to point out that I once finagled an invitation to the Google OSCON luminaries dinner, and was once invited to a Facebook party for...
View ArticleEnbies and women in FOSS Wikipedia edit-a-thon
To be brief, I’ll be hosting a Wikipedia edit-a-thon on enbies and women in free and open source software, on June 2nd, from 16:00 – 19:00 EDT. I’d love remote participants, but if you’re in the Boston...
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biscuits
I love biscuits. Here is my recipe for biscuits. It’s based on the All Purpose Biscuit recipe from the New York Times. Biscuits are good sweet or savory. This particular biscuits are soft and have a...
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Free software activities (May, 2019)
Personal I attended the two-day Open Source Initiative board of directors Spring face-to-face meeting where I joined the Staffing and Fundraising committees and was elected President of the board of...
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Free software activities (June 2019)
I know this is almost a month late, but I am sharing it nonetheless. My June was dominated by my professional and personal life, leaving little time for expansive free software activities. I’ll write a...
View ArticleFree software activities (July 2019)
Again, much belated with apologies. Personal Debian AH rebranded to the Debian Community Team (CT) after our sprint back in June. We had meetings, both following up on things that happened at the...
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Free software activities (August 2019)
August was really marked by traveling too much. I took the end of the month off from non-work activities in order to focus on GUADEC and GUADEC-follow up. Personal The Debian Community Team (CT) had a...
View ArticleThinkers
Free and open source software, ethical technology, and digital autonomy have a number of great thinkers, inspiring leaders, and hard working organizations. I see two discussions occurring now that I...
View ArticleFreedoms and Rights
I want to talk a bit about the relationship between rights and freedoms, and what they are. I think building a mutual understanding around this is important as I dig deeper into conversations around...
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Free software activities (September 2019)
September marked the end of summer and the end of my summer travel. Paid and non-paid activities focused on catching up with things I fell behind on while traveling. Towards the middle of September,...
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Conferences
I think there are too many conferences. Are there too many FLOSS conferences? — Molly dBoo (@mmillions) October 7, 2019 I conducted this very scientific Twitter poll and out of 52 respondants, only 23%...
View ArticleAutonomy and consent
When I was an undergraduate, I took a course on medical ethics. The core takeaways from the class were that autonomy is necessary for consent, and consent is necessary for ethical action. There is a...
View ArticleCocktails: Kyoto
Tech has a drinking problem. I won’t go into it now, but I am generally very hesitant to talk about alcohol on the internet because I don’t want to be part of a culture that -encourages- drinking (even...
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Free software activities, October 2019
A belated hello! I was traveling at the end of October and missed this. Apologies! In October, work was quite busy, though a lot of it was behind-the-scenes stuff I cannot yet update you on. It was...
View ArticleRebellion
We spend a lot of time focusing on the epic side of free software and user freedom: joys come from providing encrypted communication options to journalists and political dissidents; losses are when IoT...
View ArticleHealth care
One of the most important issues for free software within the US is one we rarely talk about: healthcare. That is why I am going to write about it. These days, sustainability in FOSS is a hot topic. In...
View ArticleFree software activities (November 2019)
November brings two things very demanding of my time: Thanksgiving and the start of fundraising season. Free software activities (personal) The Open Source Initiative had it’s twice-a-year face to face...
View ArticleAutonomy
I’ve been stuck on the question: Why is autonomy an ethical imperative? or, worded another way Why does autonomy matter? I think if we’re going to argue that free software matters (or if I am anyway),...
View ArticleEthical Source
This is going to be post one of some unknown number. I think I cannot write everything I want to say in one post, but also that it would just make it undigestably long. Read part 2! Is Ethical Source...
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