- 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.
- 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.
- Your Software Freedom Is Not My Software Freedom: A Reflection on Chadwick Boseman
Trigger warning: Grief, police violence, death. This blog post was first written on August 28th, 2020. Today is a sad day. Chadwick Boseman is dead. At 43 years old, he lost a terminal battle with stage IV colon cancer. As his great light dims, I am left to wonder what
- 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?
- What Does It Mean to Be an American?
What parts of our culture make us proud and content or disappointed and shameful? I started to wonder about my identity and what it means to be an American.
- 2017 - My Year in Review
2017 was a fully-packed year for me. This post walks through my last year and reflects on the experiences I had. Would you believe my passport is running out of pages?