- Scrub Gently: On Data Scrubbing in a Community Survey.
Recently, my team with the CHAOSS Project had a data concern emerge when I was working on a project to run a community survey. This community had never run a survey before, and it was the first notable event where the project made an explicit, …
- CHAOSS DEI Review: Midyear Reflection
Since February 2021, the CHAOSS Project is conducting a funded, long-term review of its governance, practices, and processes in a diversity, equity, and inclusion (D.E.I.) “audit.” I originally joined as an internal community liaison and initially …
- 4 Metrics to Measure Sustainable Open Source Investments.
How do we understand value when we talk about sustainability? What does investing in open source mean? The meaning is different for many people because of an implicit understanding of what open source means. This post is a reflection on the past year …
- Cryptographic Autonomy License (CAL-1.0): My First License Review
The bookmark was creeping on my browser’s toolbar for months. “Cryptographic Autonomy License” CAL-1.0 on the Open Source Initiative webpage. But today, I decided it was time to do my first amateur license review. This is a fun exercise (for me). …
- How Five Queen Songs Went Mainstream in Totally Different Ways
Originally published on the MusicBrainz blog. Making graphs is easy. Making intuitive, easy-to-understand graphs? It’s harder than most people think. At the Rochester Institute of Technology, the ISTE-260 (Designing the User Experience) course …
- Statistics Proposal and Self-Hosting ListenBrainz
This post is part of a series of posts where I contribute to the ListenBrainz project for my independent study at the Rochester Institute of Technology in the fall 2017 semester. For more posts, find them in this tag. This week is the last week of …
- Exploring Google Code-In, ListenBrainz Easyfix Bugs, D3.js
This post is part of a series of posts where I contribute to the ListenBrainz project for my independent study at the Rochester Institute of Technology in the fall 2017 semester. For more posts, find them in this tag. Last week moved quickly for me …
- How to Set Up a ListenBrainz Development Environment
This post is part of a series of posts where I contribute to the ListenBrainz project for my independent study at the Rochester Institute of Technology in the fall 2017 semester. For more posts, find them in this tag. One of the first rites of …
- On the Data Refrain: Contributing to ListenBrainz
A unique opportunity of attending an open source-friendly university is when course credits and working on open source projects collide. This semester, I’m participating in an independent study at the Rochester Institute of Technology where I will …