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- Outreachy May 2024: A letter to Fedora applicants
To all Outreachy May 2024 applicants to the Fedora Project, Today is May 2nd, 2024. The Outreachy May 2024 round results will be published in a few short hours. This year, the participation in Fedora for Outreachy May 2024 was record-breaking. Fedora will fund three internships this year. During the
- 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.
- Storytelling: 2023 was a quiet blog year. In 2024, I recommit to storytelling.
When I was a student, I wrote about what I learned, but I stopped writing regularly. Now I want restart my storytelling habits again in 2024.
- Digitalism: An engineer's poem
"Digitalism" is a poem I originally wrote in August 2022. the poem's birth came from being stuck between the analog and digital worlds.
- "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".
- Three great examples of open source product roadmaps
Recently, I came across three product roadmaps from Proton. They did a great job creating transparent product roadmaps. Here is what they did.
- Write yourself into obsolescence.
A brief meditation on why you should write yourself into obsolescence and also what kind of writing matters most when documenting yourself and your responsibilities.
- Scrub gently: On data scrubbing in a community survey.
Should we be too quick to discard negative, harmful responses in a community survey? This short review considers a time when an Open Source community is evaluating its community with a survey. What did we decide to do in the end?
- 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.
- 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.