I missed the Queers for Harris call last week, but I'll be joining the White Dudes for Harris call on Monday! Secretary Buttigieg will be one of the speakers.
I hope my fellow white guys join me in coming along and contributing. We are, after all, the voting demographic that has the most to answer for where we find ourselves these days. Let's show up 👏🏻
Emelia does an extraordinary amount of work to make the fediverse a better place for all of us, and basically contributes to all the top fedi projects. Let's help make that sustainable for her!
@ntnsndr Yeah, the ecosystem definitely has some work to do on the UX front!
As someone wiser than me recently said, in many categories proprietary tools have largely plateaued and their "innovation" now is typically for the benefit of shareholders rather than end users... so now is the time for FOSS to finally catch up.
As always, it's tradeoffs all the way down. There is no single correct answer.
When I think about Discord, which seems to be the thing as Slack has gotten shittier with people:
Yeah probably fine for a small group who understand the privacy tradeoffs. But for a public community that one hopes to grow and nurture over the course of many years? Nope nope nope.
Choosing to host a community on a "free" proprietary platform offered by a for-profit is choosing short term ease and long term pain, and often comes at the expense of privacy. These tools _will_ get shitty and extractive. And what then?
Community migrations are painful and lossy.
We must select tools for our community while considering a time horizon longer than the economic boom/bust cycle.
I'm looking at moving my Nextcloud and Matrix servers to my home network.
Folks with servers on your home network: any suggestions of guides you found helpful, or machines or storage solutions you recommend (or advise against)?
If you're looking for a new place to get stickers made, I'm seeing people recommend Sticker App, Sticker Ninja, Bumperactive (a union shop!) and I have been using Jukebox Printing.
A reminder: epidemics and pandemics are expected to increase in frequency as the climate crisis advances [1] and as humans build deeper into wildlands [2].
So what do we do?
1) Address the climate crisis! 2) Embrace urbanism, controlled growth, and leave wildlands alone. 3) Push for infrastructure improvements for indoor air quality. 4) Push for better healthcare and sick leave policies. 5) Advocate for better funding for scientific research.
I only have direct influence over small and mid-sized events.
Ultimately, it's going to take someone who has influence in organizing larger events mustering a bit of courage and conviction to step up and join PyCon US.
We cannot sit by and let PyCon US be the only flag bearer at that scale. We must rise to the level of their excellence.
Personally, I'm hoping to see the Drupal or Ruby communities step it up.
The organizers of @pycon have given community organizers a massive gift 🎁
Let's not squander it!
A *sold out* #PyConUS 2024 proved that even large events can prioritize safety and inclusion for caregivers and immunocompromised people by way of requiring masks, and gathering venue data to calibrate their policy from year-to-year. Smaller events have proven it's possible at that scale, too.
Now is the time for at least one other large event to step up.
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