Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder

Posts for 2012

27 Jun 2012, 3:57 a.m.

Be Bold: An Origin Story

I'm getting very positive reviews for my opening keynote from Open Source Bridge. Video (starts around 6:00), speaker's notes (text that needs updating to match the audio).

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19 Jun 2012, 6:17 a.m.

Conference Seasoning

You know you're traveling too much when you completely stop updating the "where I'm going to be" feeds (example). Regardless: I'll be in San Francisco starting late today, and then in Portland on Monday the …

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19 Jun 2012, 5:54 a.m.

Challenge

Wikimedia Foundation is hiring a leader for volunteer software testing. I have ideas on what this person should do and how to do it* -- indeed, this position reports to me -- but more than …

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15 Jun 2012, 22:39 p.m.

"A clipboard to catalog all my finds"

The first few times I hung out with Leonard in person, he brought me to his friend's parties. Kevin Maples and his pals were interesting, of course, but somehow -- two Fridays in a row …

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08 Jun 2012, 13:00 p.m.

Riddlish

A big long book, cities in Italy and Alaska, my flat, a journey, the most internationalized and accessible desktop environment, an igloo.

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06 Jun 2012, 23:54 p.m.

"But your news is not true."

Fun things from tonight: Reading bits of Hamlet aloud with Leonard. Some bits do really well if you do them as Jerry Seinfeld and George Costanza. George: "Pity me not, but lend thy serious hearing …

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05 Jun 2012, 14:37 p.m.

Fuzzy

Back from Berlin, trying to cure my cold with sleep, lots of healthful snacks, light reading, spicy soup, herbal tea, limeade, and whiskey. And a day off. Makes sense, since I worked the whole weekend. …

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28 May 2012, 16:08 p.m.

Snapshot

I'm not at WisCon, for the first Memorial Day weekend in several years, because I knew I would not be able to enjoy it. Scifi conventions and work meetups use similar energies, for me, and …

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23 May 2012, 23:45 p.m.

A Local Maximum

By the way, I got promoted. It's quite an honor. Wikimedia Foundation's new Engineering Community Team, which I lead, is a renaming of the TL;DR group. We've written a draft summary of our goals for …

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17 May 2012, 10:58 a.m.

Mysterious Dependencies

The more I thought about buying a smartphone the more my sentimental side rose up in protest against buying an Android device. So I got a Nokia N9. I've compared the N900 to the Apple …

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