- Win-Win for All: How to Run a Non-Engineering Outreachy Internship
The contribution phase of Outreachy can be intimidating. Check these best practices for mentors organizing a non-coding Outreachy internship.
- "I Am the Wilderness": On Trust & Community
Brené Brown suggests seven elements to trust in her book, "Braving the Wilderness". You can remember these elements as an acronym: "BRAVING".
- CHAOSS DEI Review: Midyear Reflection
In 2021, CHAOSS initiated a review of its diversity, equity, and inclusion practices. This post summarizes progress made by the team in 2022.
- 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.
- 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?
- Introducing UNICEF Open Source Mentorship
2020 saw the launch of a formalized Open Source Mentorship programme for the UNICEF Innovation Fund. Learn more about it in this reflection.
- The Day Open Source Died: A Story About Minecraft, Bukkit, and the GPL
Once upon a time, I volunteered in the Minecraft open source community with Bukkit and Spigot. This is a story about FOSS and young folks.
- DevConf CZ 2020: Play by Play
DevConf CZ 2020 took place from Friday, January 24th to Sunday January 27th in Brno, Czech Republic: DevConf.CZ 2020 is the 12th annual, free, Red Hat sponsored community conference for developers, admins, DevOps engineers, testers, documentation writers and other contributors to open source technologies. The conference includes topics on Linux,
- Sustain OSS 2018: Quick Rewind
A quick recap of the Sustain OSS 2018 conference, covering topics such as human aspects of governance, financial sustainability models, diversity, and more.
- Keep Your Open Source Project Organized With GitHub Project Boards
Managing an open source project is hard work. Learn how to make your open source project more transparent and organized with GitHub project boards.