- XPOST: Spurring New Digital Public Goods
This post describes my coaching and mentoring work with the UNICEF Venture Fund in 2021-2022 on the Digital Public Goods Standard.
- Synchronized
A poem that found me while riding my bicycle in the early evening hours of Georgia.
- CrystalCraftMC Forums Sunset
On 6 February 2022, the CrystalCraftMC forums officially closed down. This announcement shares history and why the decision was made.
- 4 Metrics to Measure Sustainable Open Source Investments.
How do we understand sustainability when we talk about open source investments? Here are four CHAOSS metrics to help you measure it.
- On Free Software, Red Hat, and Iran
A story in which I visit the Fedora Council ticket tracker and find an important opportunity to advocate for contributors from Iran.
- 2020/2021 in Open Source at UNICEF Innovation Fund
The UNICEF Innovation Fund offers a unique Open Source mentorship programme. This article looks back at the highlights of 2020/2021.
- Better Than I Knew Myself.
There are moments I reflect back on my life when I met someone who interacted with me in an impressive way. Though unknown to me then, I feel now that they perceived my authentic, true self when I was still searching.
- Committee Risk: A Governance Challenge for Open Source
Open Source communities often turn to a committee model for governing their projects. Sometimes it works, but other times it does not. Why?
- Saying No.
This is a story about how I learned to say "no", when the pressure to say "yes" was so great. Learning how to say no became my new superpower.
- What if Open Source Dependencies Weren't Software?
What if dependencies took a human-centered, or community-centered, approach? We describe dependencies in machine terms, but we miss something.