- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Why FOSS Is Still Not on Activist Agendas
In 2006, Bruce Byfield asked why open source was not on activist agendas. Have things changed in 2019? What did Byfield get right? What did he leave out?
- Throwback Draft: Integral of a Community
What is a community and what does it mean to belong to one? What makes a community so important to someone? Read more to understand what community is.
- 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.
- Humanitarian Open Source Work: My Internship at UNICEF
In December, I received the happy news of an offer for a internship position at UNICEF in the Office of Innovation. The Office of Innovation drives rapid technological innovation by rapid prototyping of new ideas and building full-stack products to make a positive impact in the lives of children. This
- Election Night Hackathon Supports Civic Engagement
On November 7, 2017, members of the RIT community came together for the annual Election Night Hackathon held in the Simone Center for Student Innovation.
- 2016 – My Year in Review
2016 was a blur: Bitcamp in Maryland, HackMIT in Boston, WiCHacks 2016, Flock to Fedora in Poland, Vermont with Matt, NYC with Mike, and so much more.
- Students and Professors Work Across the Aisle During Election Night Hackathon
Over 140 students from across campus and across departments gathered together as the election night results rolled in to work on a range of civic projects.