- DevConf US 2026: Lessons Learned About Reaching Students in Open Source & Linux
What our joint Fedora and CentOS presence at Boston University taught us about university students, Linux defaults, and modernizing our event playbook.
- Guten Tag! My relocation to Germany 🇩🇪
I am moving to Germany by the end of 2026. This is a personal update on family, joining Red Hat GmbH, and shifting my open source focus to Europe.
- Eventually for eternity.
A poem to describe love from a constantly suspended state of waiting and wonder. "And the stolen moment, promises eventually for eternity."
- Better than I knew myself.
There are moments I reflect back on my life when I met someone who interacted with me in an impressive way. Though unknown to me then, I feel now that they perceived my authentic, true self when I was still searching.
- Përshëndetje nga Tiranë 🇦🇱
Përshëndetje nga Tiranë, or hello from Tirana in Albanian. I am residing for a short time in Tiranë (pronounced Ti·ra·na), Albania.
- Breakfast in Bosnia.
Four years ago, on March 13th in 2017, I woke up for breakfast in the city of Sarajevo in Bosnia & Herzegovina. As I ate breakfast on the morning of March 14th of 2021 in the seemingly eternal era of COVID-19, it struck me.
- FOSDEM 2020, pt. 2: Can Free Software include ethical AI systems?
This post is a follow-up to FOSDEM 2020, pt. 1: Play by play. This post summarizes the talk given by me and my colleague, Mike Nolan, at FOSDEM 2020. FOSDEM 2020 took place from Saturday, 1 February, 2020 to Sunday, 2 February, 2020 in Brussels, Belgium (shortly after Sustain OSS
- CopyleftConf 2020: quick rewind
CopyleftConf 2020 took place on Monday, 3 February, 2020 in Brussels, Belgium. This event report summarizes key takeaways and thoughts from CopyleftConf.
- FOSDEM 2020, pt. 1: Play by play
I attended FOSDEM 2020 on behalf of RIT LibreCorps to represent our engagement with the UNICEF Innovation. Here is a play-by-play recap of FOSDEM 2020!
- CHAOSScon EU 2020: play by play
CHAOSScon EU 2020 took place on Friday, January 31, 2020 in Brussels, Belgium. This event report is a play by play recap of the sessions and conversations.