30 Dec 2014, 9:03 a.m.

Stumptown Syndicate Challenge Match Extended to Tomorrow

We extended the deadline. You have one more day to make me write a $15,000 check for inclusive tech instead of $6K. The new deadline is December 31, 4:30pm ET/1:30pm PT, so I have time …

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28 Dec 2014, 12:43 p.m.

Various Thinky Or Funny Links

Enjoy! Donors so far have only matched a quarter of my USD$15,000 donation to Stumptown Syndicate, and the deadline's tomorrow. Past Open Source Bridge talks on getting better at fundraising or finding investors: "How to …

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26 Dec 2014, 22:42 p.m.

Yuletide Recommendations

Every year the Yuletide fanfic exchange delivers a bounty of fun and goodness, and enables me to refuel my participation in fandom. (Last night at the Hacker School holiday potluck (I brought beet juice), I …

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26 Dec 2014, 21:10 p.m.

*crackle*

After we watched The Ref and ate our Thai takeout, I web-sought a fire log video and started playing it. "It's amazing that people make these," I said. Beat. "I am sort of waiting for …

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26 Dec 2014, 12:09 p.m.

Textboxing Day

I've known Brendan for more than a decade. Today I went back and read a bunch of his old blog posts. I clicked back and back and back, through jobs, girlfriends, cities, games, stories. He …

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24 Dec 2014, 23:48 p.m.

Good And Bad Signs For Community Change, And Some Leadership Styles

So let's assume you want to improve a particular community, and you've already read my earlier pieces, which I am now declaring prerequisites: "Why You Have To Fix Governance To Improve Hospitality", "Hospitality, Jerks, and …

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21 Dec 2014, 22:10 p.m.

Why You Have To Fix Governance To Improve Hospitality

Fundamentally, if you want to make a community hospitable,* you need to work not just on individual rules of conduct, but on governance. This is because the particular people implementing rules of conduct will use …

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19 Dec 2014, 12:53 p.m.

Join Me In Donating to Stumptown Syndicate and Open Source Bridge

I'm donating up to $15,000 to the Stumptown Syndicate -- depending on how much you are willing to match by December 29th Updated: 31st at 1:30pm Pacific Time. Please join me by donating today and …

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17 Dec 2014, 11:08 a.m.

Some Fanvids I've Enjoyed Recently

Many of these came to my attention thanks to singlecrow's link to a rec post; thanks! "Level Up", a Buffy vid by such_heights. A great match of song and topic, with an inspiring focus on …

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17 Dec 2014, 0:04 a.m.

My Next Few Months

Last week I got back from AdaCamp Bangalore, some family visits, the community-builders' meeting within Mozilla's workweek, and some volunteering with Stumptown Syndicate to support Open Source Bridge 2015. I set off on those travels …

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