Notices by Shauna GM (shauna@social.coop)

@baconandcoconut one of the hard parts is that when you're posting your speaking in many modes and to many groups at once. I wish modern social media was less individualized and more about collectively cultivating spaces

@cwebber @spritely one day I will make it out to FOSDEM. one day. hope y'all have an amazing time!!

Nobody ever asks me how to make their talk proposals better but if they did I would tell them: add more detail, please for the love of god add more detail

Do you know of open source environmental projects that can use funding?

https://openclimate.fund is looking to give 100€ each to up 100 open source environmental projects

This is their first funding round - the hope is for the initiative to grow in the future and get these projects more substantial support

Hey friends! Do you have any recommendations for resources (of any kind - articles, books, blog posts, videos, talks, etc) on data governance?

FYI the official #NWSL soccer account on Bluesky has enabled BridgyFed so you can follow it at @nwslsoccer.com

@cwebber oh my god that's one of the most depressing things I've ever heard

Been watching people's reactions to the assassination of the healthcare CEO.

At the same time I've been reading Sidney Dekker's Just Culture which opens with the story of a pediatric nurse who faced criminal charges for an accident that led to a newborn's overdose. Despite systemic issues that led to the accident.

I've also been thinking about cancel culture.

People blame and punish individuals when systemic change feels unreachable. But too often punishing individuals protects the system.

Did you know Pro Publica has an online form that lets you easily request all the notes and documents your insurer used to deny you coverage?

https://projects.propublica.org/claimfile/

HT fizbin@bsky.social, can't seem to find the original post on search

@maco

also my cat's birthday (I don't know what actual day she was born, but it's in June sometime so I decided to give her my half birthday)

I have received two birthday party invitations and two holiday party invitations for this weekend, the weekend on which I'd celebrate my birthday if I was bothering to celebrate it.

I dislike being a December baby.

One of these years I'm going to celebrate my birthday in June and have the pool party I've always wanted

Anyone have recommendations for open source alternatives to google forms?

I need email notifications when a new form is submitted, ideally without extra configuration (baserow lets you get email notifications with zapier but I'd love to not have to fiddle with that)

@dalias @aud

It's possible I'd be happier on Debian but Ubuntu's always worked well enough for me, and I always got the vibe that Debian was better for folks who like to configure and tinker with things, whereas I like to think about my operating system as little as humanly possible

@dalias @aud

I mean, I do in fact use Ubuntu and have for years. So I don't want to say that I've never benefited from their work. But they clearly have some problems.

@aud

I have never applied for a job at Canonical and I doubt I ever will. I may have actually learned about their hiring practices from the thread you wrote (or maybe from the one you were linked to - it was definitely a Mastodon thread) and I've since brought it up a few times and have friends confirm how bad it is.

I'm sorry they put you through that

@aud I really appreciate you sharing because as an open source professional Canonical is exactly the kind of org I might have naively applied to. Now I know not to bother

Hey Mark Shuttleworth's bonkers interview process for jobs at Canonical made Ask a Manager!

https://www.askamanager.org/2024/11/job-application-is-fixated-on-high-school-academic-performance.html

(The letter doesn't name the company, but a commenter recognized it - as did I, while reading the letter - and the letter writer confirms in the comments.)

Is anyone else having intermittent trouble finding people on Bluesky via BridgyFed? Sometimes it works fine, but sometimes people tell me they've followed @ap.brid.gy yet I can't find them by searching my own instance. Seems random.

I also like this quote about movement building. It's very reminiscent of how I try to help people contribute to open source. It's about embracing the whole person and and helping them make an authentic connection.

"Rather than recruiting people to fulfill the roles that we envision for them, Dixon stresses the importance of learning what people are passionate about and 'finding an intersection' between someone’s interests and the work at hand."

(full quote in image)