(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 …
Thoughts on recent Drupal governance decisions
(Content warning: This post discusses BDSM and abuse.) [Updated 12:20 PDT 28 March 2017: Corrected spelling errors and added a few clarifications, including the opening notes 1-3 below.] [Update 9:30 PDT 31 March 2017: Dries and Drupal Association have posted a thoughtful follow-up regarding this situation. Link added in-line below as well.] [Updated 18:50 PDT …
[quote] The oppressor consciousness…
Note: Much longer than usual quote from Freire today. It’s more important than ever to understand the oppressor mindset that Freire illuminates for us in the discourse below. While I could have shared bits of the following discourse over a few posts, I felt it important to keep this part of the analysis whole. The …
[quote] When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people…
“When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people…the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.” — Martin Luther King, Jr. (1967)
An Analysis of the Fantasyland Learning Code of Professionalism (FCOP)
Update 17:15 PDT 2017-04-12: The FCOP has been modified since I wrote the analysis below. I do not believe any of the updates resolve any of the concerns I raise below. If you’re curious about which version I analyzed, it was probably commit 9a5fa97. And if you want to see what’s been updated since then …
[quote] Freedom is acquired by conquest, not by gift.
The oppressed, having internalized the image of the oppressor and adopted his guidelines, are fearful of freedom. Freedom would require them to reject this image and replace it with autonomy and responsibility. Freedom is acquired by conquest, not by gift. It must be pursued constantly and responsibly. Freedom is not an ideal located outside of …
[quote] information wouldn’t need to be free if no one were impoverished
That mankind’s information should be free is idealistic, and understandably popular, but information wouldn’t need to be free if no one were impoverished. — Jaron Lanier, Who Owns the Future? (Amazon, Goodreads)