“I am the wilderness”: On trust & community
There are seven elements to trust. Each element is a resource for being honest, authentic, and genuine. You can remember these seven elements as an acronym: “BRAVING”.
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There are seven elements to trust. Each element is a resource for being honest, authentic, and genuine. You can remember these seven elements as an acronym: “BRAVING”.
Continue readingThe answer suddenly appeared that the only way to solve my dilemma of two split paths was to find the middle path. Those two separate paths were my personal life and my career. I walked both paths, but both paths were distinctly separate and isolated from the other.
Continue readingRecently, I came across three product roadmaps from Proton, the company behind several open source, privacy-centered products. They did a great job with creating transparent product roadmaps. Here is what they did and excerpts from their roadmaps.
Continue readingA brief meditation on why you should write yourself into obsolescence and also what kind of writing matters most when documenting yourself and your responsibilities.
Continue readingShould we be too quick to discard negative, harmful responses in a community survey? This short review considers a time when an Open Source community is evaluating its community with a survey. What did we decide to do in the end?
Continue readingIn February 2021, the CHAOSS Project initiated a review of its diversity, equity, and inclusion practices. This post summarizes the progress made by the review team in 2022 and looks ahead to Justin’s aspirations for 2023.
Continue readingOn 27 September 2022, I authored an article on unicef.org highlighting my work with the UNICEF Venture Fund in providing mentoring to startup companies pursuing compliance with the Digital Public Goods Standard. Discover the UNICEF Technical Assistance programs and the Venture Fund mentoring strategy in the last year.
Continue readingOn 6 February 2022, the CrystalCraftMC forums officially closed down. This announcement gives some history about the forums, why the decision was made to close the forums, and what happens next.
Continue reading“Sustainability” is almost a buzzword now. But how do you measure it in an open source ecosystem? This post shares four CHAOSS metrics to help shape the next year of open source data exploration in the UNICEF Open Source Mentorship program.
Continue readingA story in which I visit the Fedora Council ticket tracker and advocate for Fedora contributors from Iran.
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