Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder
Leonard and I met because of the open source movement. We owe our livelihoods to open source, and its values -- inclusiveness, compassion, empowerment, equal and fair treatment for all -- help make us who …
Leonard is listening to the History of Rome podcast and tells me the best bits. Lessons include: An emperor is a single point of failure. Be proactive about answering your mail (paging Caracalla). If the …
Now that I'm something of an expert on it, I have Opinions on how to structure a workshop or collaboration event for newbies. Summary of my answer: define your goals very clearly and specifically skip …
Video interview with me about Wikimedia's openness on multiple levels.
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).
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 …
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 …
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 …
Tomorrow's Picture of the Day on Wikimedia Commons is really nice. An interesting thing I learned while pasting this: if you are linking to Wikimedia web pages, you can leave out the protocol.
I'll be keynoting the Open Source Bridge conference this year (late June, Portland, Oregon, USA). It's an honor to be asked to give a keynote address to this exciting and inspiring conference. "<body> <img> -- …