- White Narrative: You Cannot Be What You Cannot See?
Can white privilege and identity become superpowers for love and justice? If I can't wait for that story, maybe I have to take the first step.
- 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?
- Cyclical Nostalgia.
Nostalgia is cyclical at times. Nostalgia keeps us in the past but sticks with us in the present, much like blogging and blogs in the 2020s.
- A Proposal for the End of Accommodations
Language is powerful. Words are subtle building blocks to how we imagine the world around us. So, with the goal of pursuing more equitable language, I propose the end of accommodations.
- What Is Freedom?
When I first saw the letter asking for Richard Stallman and the FSF Board of Directors resignations with merely five signatures, I knew I had to sign. Not because I knew it would be the popular thing to do. But because it was what was true in my heart. Only
- Three Predictions for Free Software in the 2020s
What major changes await Free Software and Open Source in the 2020s? Flory shares three emerging trends that could shape the next decade.
- Cryptographic Autonomy License (CAL-1.0): My First License Review
An amateur license review of the Cryptographic Autonomy License version 1 (CAL-1.0). What makes the CAL-1.0 different from other licenses?
- 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?
- Fedora Appreciation Week: Tribute to a Legacy
I learned more about a man named Seth Vidal by chance. For Fedora Appreciation Week, I wanted to share a personal story surrounding his life and passing.