The purpose of this post is to publicly document what I understand regarding the problematic behavior of prominent tech feminist activist and diversity consultant Valerie Aurora. It is not meant to be an unimpeachable accounting but more of a connecting of the dots and a conversation starter. The content here, in its most recent iteration, …
10 Years of Open Source Bridge
The following is the text of the keynote I gave at this year’s grand final for Open Source Bridge on 29 June, 2018. See also Audrey’s post Saying goodbye to Open Source Bridge. Opening 10 years ago planning for the first Open Source Bridge began. 10 years later we are kicking off our 10th and final event, …
My theory: Patreon doesn’t want to be a money services business
tldr: Patreon is changing their fee structure, in part, because the batching of pledge payments from one patron to multiple creators and the use of Patreon balance to pay pledges without processing an external payment requires “holding funds in a balance that can then be redistributed” and makes them look like a money transmitter money …
Join me in Supporting the Recompiler for Year 3
My good friend and colleague Audrey Eschright runs indie publishing company Recompiler Media, which produces the feminist tech zine Recompiler and a companion podcast of the same name that I co-host. It also publishes important books such as the Responsible Communication Style Guide, edited by Thursday Bram. Right now, Audrey is running a Kickstarter campaign …
Using Zapier and OmniFocus to stay on top of meetings
(If you like this post, you might also like Using Zapier to import GitHub issues into OmniFocus.) I use OmniFocus for personal task-tracking and Zapier to automate work when possible. One way I use these two tools in combination is to automatically create tasks when a new event is created on my work calendars. The two …
Using Zapier to import GitHub issues into OmniFocus
I use OmniFocus for personal task-tracking and Zapier to automate work when possible. I also coordinate open source work on GitHub. Recently I was wondering if there was a way to make OmniFocus automatically import any GitHub issue assigned to me. It turns out there is! What you need: Zapier account OmniFocus Pro (desktop) OmniSync …
How could GitHub announce an all-male conference line up the same week it shares results from an OSS demographics survey with 3% women?
(Post adapted from this twitter thread.) This week, GitHub released results from a survey it did regarding the “attitudes, experiences, and backgrounds of those who use, build, and maintain open source software.” Of 5,500 responses from 3,800 open source repositories, only 3% of responses were from women. Also this week, GitHub announced an all-male speaker …
Support indie tech feminist Recompiler magazine + podcast
On Saturday, Recompiler Media, which publishes a print and online magazine as well as a podcast (hosted by me) turned two years old. Yay! Audrey reports about year two accomplishments: We published three issues: #4 (legacy systems), #5 (hardware), and #6 (data). We shared 20 new articles to read for free on our website. Our …