What-Its-All-About

This first appeared on the Open Source Initiative Wiki. In light of the election update this year, I am republishing my statement of intent on my personal blog. No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive. Mahatma Gandhi I believe in the value of upholding the Open Source

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

When I launched my blog, I always envisioned writing cute snapshots of insight into my life. As much as I would publish them for the Internet, I was also publishing for myself. Or so, it started off this way.

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

Trigger warning: Grief, death. Two years passed since we last met in Bolzano. I remember you traveled in for a day to join the 2018 Fedora Mindshare FAD. You came many hours from your home to see us, and share your experiences and wisdom from both the global and Italian

Happiness Packets are an open source way to say thanks to others. Take the 2020 #HappinessPacketChallenge to spread cheer from 27 April to 3 May!

CopyleftConf 2020 took place on Monday, 3 February, 2020 in Brussels, Belgium. This event report summarizes key takeaways and thoughts from CopyleftConf.

— Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (1967) I never intend to adjust myself to injustice. “I’m proud to be maladjusted.” https://t.co/TFBiWBy6Xc — Be A King (@BerniceKing) December 12, 2019

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?

This is an unfinished draft from the end of my 2017 study abroad semester in Dubrovnik, Croatia. It includes a parting memory from Sarajevo, Bosnia.