Tag Archives: oscon

Kirrily Robert: “Standing Out in the Crowd”

Jul 29th – 12pm

I was happy to see Kirrily Robert’s “Standing Out in the Crowd” OSCON keynote (slides) make the rounds after she published a lengthy transcript of her talk on her blog. Given that diversity in technology is something that I’ve written about before, I find Kirrily’s approach insightful and useful. Rather than being accusatory, she offers [...]

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The Community Ampflier

Jul 23rd – 1am

I am honored to be a recipient of this year’s Google O’Reilly Open Source Award for being the “best community amplifier” for my work with the microformats, Spread Firefox and BarCamp communities! (See the original call for nominations). Inexplicably I was absent when they handed out the award, hanging out with folks at a Python/Django/jQuery [...]

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