Presented at linux.conf.au 2012 - more details in speaker notes when downloading presentation
Dave Neary of the GNOME community recently penned a post [0] on mentoring programs for FOSS communities, and his findings were a bit disheartening. Of all those mentees taken in under various mentoring programs, from Google Summer of Code to the Great Documentation Project, only about 1 in 4 became regular contributors to their mentor's projects. Based on these figures, it appears that mentoring programs are actually quite a poor return on investment and mentors would be better off simply doing the work themselves.
Right? Well, sort of. Well, no, actually.
In this talk, Leslie Hawthorn argues that FOSS communities approach mentoring in a problematic manner. Our current approach focuses on the problem from the lens of software development, such as scaling our mentoring processes and measuring return on investment. Rather than focusing on these as measures of success, Leslie will discuss alternative ways to conceptualize the mentoring process and explore the broader social and cultural implications of mentoring folks in FOSS. She will also discuss alternative models for mentoring the next generation of contributors, including recommendations for implementing these models in your projects.
[0] - http://blogs.gnome.org/bolsh/2011/05/31/effective-mentoring-programs/
Designing for touch interactions on an ever-growing array of devices and screen sizes can be daunting. We will discuss efficient ways to focus mobile features, tips for designing for touch and approaches to implement a “responsive” design that adapts to any screen size.
Designing for touch interactions on an ever-growing array of devices and screen sizes can be daunting. We will discuss efficient ways to focus mobile features, tips for designing for touch and approaches to implement a “responsive” design that adapts to any screen size.
“Know thy users for they are not you.” The best way to understand the folks we design for is to go hang out with them, but that can be scary if you’re shy or unprepared. We’ll share some stories from our recent mobile-focused field studies and offer lots of suggestions for how to plan, conduct and analyze such out-in-the-wild audience research so you get what you need out it.
Your nonprofit needs a social media strategyJD Lasica
Here's the presentation that JD Lasica and Carla Schlemminger of Socialbrite.org are giving at the Nonprofit Technology Conference in San Francisco on April 5, 2012. The focus is on 5 approaches nonprofit organizations can take to strategically advance their missions.
My books- Learning to Go https://gumroad.com/l/learn2go & The 30 Goals Challenge for Teachers http://amazon.com/The-Goals-Challenge-Teachers-Transform/dp/0415735343
Resources at http://ShellyTerrell.com/VLE
My books- Learning to Go https://gumroad.com/l/learn2go & The 30 Goals Challenge for Teachers http://amazon.com/The-Goals-Challenge-Teachers-Transform/dp/0415735343
Resources at http://shellyterrell.com/techtips and http://teacherrebootcamp.com
You will learn
1. 3 Tactics, using Google + That Will Destroy Your Competitions Morale
2. 3 Of the most notable features of Google +
3. Why You Should, or Should Not Spend Any Time Worrying About Google +
Beginning teachers' readiness to use ICT in education: Validation of the SQD-...Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The goal of this study was to validate an instrument to measure pre-service teachers’ perceptions about the support and training they receive to integrate technology into classroom activities. Specifically, we focused on the strategies included in the inner circle of the SQD-model (Tondeur et al., 2012): 1) using teacher educators as role models, 2) reflecting on the role of technology in education, 3) learning how to use technology by design,
4) collaboration with peers, 5) scaffolding authentic technology experiences, and 6) providing continuous feedback. In supporting the implementation of such strategies, the developed SQD-scale could be used in two ways. First, it can be used to measure the extent to which pre-service teachers experience these strategies and perceive them as supportive. Second, the instrument can encourage TTIs to reflect on their efforts to support
future teachers in the effective integration of technology.
In order to validate the SQD-scale we collected in-depth interviews with beginning teachers. Specifically, we explored 1) how beginning teachers with less than three years of teaching experience integrate technology in their instructional practice and 2) the connections between these beginning teachers’ educational
uses of technology and the strategies (included in the SQD-scale) adopted by their pre-service education programs. The results revealed that all beginning teachers acknowledged the importance of the six strategies but not all of them were addressed during their pre-service learning experiences. It appears that teacher educators as role models of technology use was a strategy that motivated beginning teachers to use technology in their own
teaching, but field experiences seemed to be the most critical factor influencing their educational use of technology.
OSS From the Outside In - A Personal Journey With Akka.NETpetabridge
(From .NET Unboxed Conference 2015)
A year ago, I'd never sent in an open-source PR in my life. Today, I collaborate on Akka.NET with awesome developers and end users in 20+ countries every week. How the heck did THAT happen?!
- How do you get involved in a project and build credibility?
- How do you grok all the new ideas you need?
- Once you're involved, how do you build community around the project so people
actually USE the damn thing?
This is a talk about how a complete outsider gets into open-source quickly, and what possibilities that opens up for you personally and in your career.
Social Networking x Pastoral Care 社交網絡 x 堂會牧養 (2010.09.17@Network Mission 網絡使命)Calvin C. Yu
YouTube: http://bit.ly/mQQWre
Social Networking x Pastoral Care 社交網絡 x 堂會牧養 (2010.09.17@Network Mission 網絡使命)
Sharing about "Social Networking and Pastoral Care on 2010.09.17 @ Network Mission (HKCRM, GNCI, CC Net, Global Chinese Christian Post)
牧養沙龍:社交網絡與堂會牧養,由網絡使命主辦(網絡使命由香港教會更新運動、真証傳播、華信網絡、環球華人基督教新聞社等組成)
Muir Lake School, a part of Parkland School Division, is becoming a 1-to-1 BYOD learning community. The mission behind this initiative is "our students will innovate, collaborate, and be highly motivated about their learning". The goal is that every student will have access to a personal laptop in every class to use whenever it is the best tool for the learning activity. The initiative was piloted in grade 4 and grade 9 and will be expanding to all grades 4 through 9. This presentation outlines the "why" behind the initiative and first steps of Muir Lake School's journey. Google Doc Quick Link → bit.ly/MLS1to1
“Know thy users for they are not you.” The best way to understand the folks we design for is to go hang out with them, but that can be scary if you’re shy or unprepared. We’ll share some stories from our recent mobile-focused field studies and offer lots of suggestions for how to plan, conduct and analyze such out-in-the-wild audience research so you get what you need out it.
Your nonprofit needs a social media strategyJD Lasica
Here's the presentation that JD Lasica and Carla Schlemminger of Socialbrite.org are giving at the Nonprofit Technology Conference in San Francisco on April 5, 2012. The focus is on 5 approaches nonprofit organizations can take to strategically advance their missions.
My books- Learning to Go https://gumroad.com/l/learn2go & The 30 Goals Challenge for Teachers http://amazon.com/The-Goals-Challenge-Teachers-Transform/dp/0415735343
Resources at http://ShellyTerrell.com/VLE
My books- Learning to Go https://gumroad.com/l/learn2go & The 30 Goals Challenge for Teachers http://amazon.com/The-Goals-Challenge-Teachers-Transform/dp/0415735343
Resources at http://shellyterrell.com/techtips and http://teacherrebootcamp.com
You will learn
1. 3 Tactics, using Google + That Will Destroy Your Competitions Morale
2. 3 Of the most notable features of Google +
3. Why You Should, or Should Not Spend Any Time Worrying About Google +
Beginning teachers' readiness to use ICT in education: Validation of the SQD-...Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The goal of this study was to validate an instrument to measure pre-service teachers’ perceptions about the support and training they receive to integrate technology into classroom activities. Specifically, we focused on the strategies included in the inner circle of the SQD-model (Tondeur et al., 2012): 1) using teacher educators as role models, 2) reflecting on the role of technology in education, 3) learning how to use technology by design,
4) collaboration with peers, 5) scaffolding authentic technology experiences, and 6) providing continuous feedback. In supporting the implementation of such strategies, the developed SQD-scale could be used in two ways. First, it can be used to measure the extent to which pre-service teachers experience these strategies and perceive them as supportive. Second, the instrument can encourage TTIs to reflect on their efforts to support
future teachers in the effective integration of technology.
In order to validate the SQD-scale we collected in-depth interviews with beginning teachers. Specifically, we explored 1) how beginning teachers with less than three years of teaching experience integrate technology in their instructional practice and 2) the connections between these beginning teachers’ educational
uses of technology and the strategies (included in the SQD-scale) adopted by their pre-service education programs. The results revealed that all beginning teachers acknowledged the importance of the six strategies but not all of them were addressed during their pre-service learning experiences. It appears that teacher educators as role models of technology use was a strategy that motivated beginning teachers to use technology in their own
teaching, but field experiences seemed to be the most critical factor influencing their educational use of technology.
OSS From the Outside In - A Personal Journey With Akka.NETpetabridge
(From .NET Unboxed Conference 2015)
A year ago, I'd never sent in an open-source PR in my life. Today, I collaborate on Akka.NET with awesome developers and end users in 20+ countries every week. How the heck did THAT happen?!
- How do you get involved in a project and build credibility?
- How do you grok all the new ideas you need?
- Once you're involved, how do you build community around the project so people
actually USE the damn thing?
This is a talk about how a complete outsider gets into open-source quickly, and what possibilities that opens up for you personally and in your career.
Social Networking x Pastoral Care 社交網絡 x 堂會牧養 (2010.09.17@Network Mission 網絡使命)Calvin C. Yu
YouTube: http://bit.ly/mQQWre
Social Networking x Pastoral Care 社交網絡 x 堂會牧養 (2010.09.17@Network Mission 網絡使命)
Sharing about "Social Networking and Pastoral Care on 2010.09.17 @ Network Mission (HKCRM, GNCI, CC Net, Global Chinese Christian Post)
牧養沙龍:社交網絡與堂會牧養,由網絡使命主辦(網絡使命由香港教會更新運動、真証傳播、華信網絡、環球華人基督教新聞社等組成)
Muir Lake School, a part of Parkland School Division, is becoming a 1-to-1 BYOD learning community. The mission behind this initiative is "our students will innovate, collaborate, and be highly motivated about their learning". The goal is that every student will have access to a personal laptop in every class to use whenever it is the best tool for the learning activity. The initiative was piloted in grade 4 and grade 9 and will be expanding to all grades 4 through 9. This presentation outlines the "why" behind the initiative and first steps of Muir Lake School's journey. Google Doc Quick Link → bit.ly/MLS1to1
Provided by SchoolTechPolicies.com:
This presentation was provided for staff members to discuss electronic tools that could help them throughout their school days
Selling UX in Your Organization - Stir Trek 2012Carol Smith
Bring The Users: Selling UX in Your Organization was presented at Stir Trek 2012 in Columbus, Ohio by Carol Smith. You are convinced that UX work will not only save time and effort, but will also increase profits. Now you need to persuade your team to integrate UX activities into your work. This presentation will give you the facts to back up your convictions. Carol provides you with clear and compelling responses to tough questions about UX and usability methods. You’ll leave with facts about the Return on Investment (ROI) of UX, how to respond to UX skeptics, and how to turn your entire team into UX advocates.
Get set for content success: Preparing your organization for content work Melissa Rach
Workshop presented at the Ragan Content Summit, June 2013 by Melissa Rach and Julie Vollenweider, Dialog Studios
Content is a great way to attract and keep customers—but most organizations aren't set up to support the content process. Planning, creating, reviewing, approving, publishing, maintaining, and archiving content takes time and requires constant attention.
To get the right content online and keep it relevant, you need an effective content workflow that addresses all facets of content—people, processes, and tools.
In this session, we'll discuss how to create a successful content practice in your organization, including how to:
- Align on shared values and goals for content
- Identify what content tasks need to be completed
- Assign content roles and responsibilities
- Establish content processes and structures
- Prepare your organization for change
- Measure success and create ongoing room to evolve over time
VolunteerMatch Solutions BPN Webinar: Trends & Best Practices in Using Social...VolunteerMatch
July 2012 Best Practice Network Webinar, presented by VolunteerMatch
Session Description:
Social media has emerged as an ideal platform for sharing a company's corporate responsibility story with its stakeholders. It's authentic. It's continuous. It's targeted. It's interactive. But as opportunities to inform, engage and activate stakeholders continue to grow with the changing technology, small businesses in particular can face challenges in adapting. What tools are worth the investment of time? How can compelling CSR content be developed and shared most efficiently, without sacrificing engagement?
Georgetown University's Center for Social Impact Communication (CSIC) recently conducted research on how small businesses are thinking about CSR, social media, and the intersection of the two. Join Julie Dixon, deputy director of CSIC, for an interactive discussion on trends and best practices, as well as recommendations on how smaller organizations can share their compelling stories of community involvement and employee volunteerism in ways that meet their unique limitations on resources, staff and time.
About Our Guest Speaker:
Julie Dixon is the Deputy Director of the Center for Social Impact Communication (CSIC) at Georgetown University, where she manages the day-to-day operations of the center including research, curriculum and partnership development, outreach and communications. She's the author of CSIC's recent publication "Small Business, Big Engagement," a comprehensive set of trends and best practices for small businesses looking to use social media to engage stakeholders in their socially responsible business practices. Follow her work at the center on Twitter at @georgetowncsic.
Between 2009 and 2012 HEFCE invested in the area of open education to promote sharing and reuse of learning resources. Alison Littlejohn and Joanna Wild were invited to speak about the impact of the UK OER Programme in its final meeting in November 2012
These slides accompanied an October 2015 webinar for the Mississippi Library Commission. The webinar incorporated two major aspects of 21st Century librarianship: meaningful collaborations between public libraries and schools, and media mentorship.
Social Media Driving Licence 7 - Sharing and caringCJBS smdl
Here are the slides from Week 7, part of the Social Media Driving Licence.
Please note that much of this session involved hands-on/live demo elements which are not covered in these slides.
GlobalGiving hosted an online fundraising workshop in Washington DC for more than 75 great nonprofits on January 12, 2012. The attached slides comprise presentations by the three speakers - Alison Carlman, Marc Maxson and Manmeet Mehta.
Fear of Failing Fast: How to Avoid Sabotaging Your SuccessLeslie Hawthorn
Presentation delivered July 15, 2016 for Cerner DevCon, an annual internal conference held for technologists at Cerner Corporation.
Video forthcoming at https://www.youtube.com/user/CernerEng
This presentation is Creative Commons licensed and you are welcome to contact me for an editable version of the slide deck.
Abstract:
While it’s easy to pay lip service to the idea of innovating by failing fast, humans are both neurally geared and financially incentivized to avoid failure. We’ve all heard the tales of woe: blameless reviews that were anything but blameless; encouragement to work on an experimental project with punishment being the primary result of its failure; and the associated fear of doing anything new, speculative or untried. The results are simple: individuals, teams, and companies that stagnate slowly.
So how can we create an environment that makes failing fast safe for the participants and their organizations? In this talk, we’ll cover key strategies for creating an environment that fosters rapid innovation in your organization, including:
* Conducting effective and truly blameless project post-mortems
* Creating an organizational culture of failing the right way
* Measuring the impacts of positive failure – and failing to fail – on your organization’s bottom line
Attendees will leave this presentation with concrete strategies to conquer their own fear of failure, and to help their organizations do the same.
Closing talk at Eurucamp 2015, presented with Dajana Günther. Video to follow. This version is slides only, with speaker notes available at http://www.slideshare.net/lhawthorn/cutlivating-empathy
Talk abstract:
When considering how to design products, teams, or even common every day household objects, empathy doesn't end up on the required features list. Yet, without empathy, teams with enormous technical skills can fail in their quest to deliver quality products to their users. Incredible projects fail to create communities because they don't exercise it. Fail at empathy, and your chances of failing at everything skyrockets.
Contrary to what you may have heard, empathy is not something you're innately born with - it's a skill that can be learned, cultivated, refined and taught to others. In this presentation, your lovely co-speakers will discuss the value of empathy, how you can cultivate it in yourself and your organizational culture, and conclude with concrete steps for leveling up in your interactions with your fellow human beings.
Closing talk at Eurucamp 2015, presented with Dajana Günther. Video to follow. This version includes speaker notes, with the slides only version at http://www.slideshare.net/lhawthorn/cutlivating-empathy-slidesonly
Talk abstract:
When considering how to design products, teams, or even common every day household objects, empathy doesn't end up on the required features list. Yet, without empathy, teams with enormous technical skills can fail in their quest to deliver quality products to their users. Incredible projects fail to create communities because they don't exercise it. Fail at empathy, and your chances of failing at everything skyrockets.
Contrary to what you may have heard, empathy is not something you're innately born with - it's a skill that can be learned, cultivated, refined and taught to others. In this presentation, your lovely co-speakers will discuss the value of empathy, how you can cultivate it in yourself and your organizational culture, and conclude with concrete steps for leveling up in your interactions with your fellow human beings.
Checking Your Privilege: A How-To for Hard Things Leslie Hawthorn
Presented at linux.conf.au 2015. This talk is an extended version of the keynote address presented at OSCON 2014.
Video will be posted at: https://www.youtube.com/user/linuxconfau2015/videos
Over the past 3 years, we’ve witnessed the discussion of the role of women and other underrepresented groups in technology grow broader, deeper and louder. From Wired to the Wall Street Journal, we’ve heard the message that we all have a problem. Even more exciting, major tech employers are just starting to respond with hard demographic data to back up years of academic research – and lived experiences – on the gender gap.
So, the first step is admitting we have a problem. But where do we all go from here?
The answer is simple, but the solutions are not: understanding one’s privilege requires hard work. Doing something productive with that understanding is even more difficult. We’ll all require a great deal more empathy for individuals whose lives we’ve never led, whose experiences we’ve never shared and whose challenges are all the same, but still quite different – and often greater – than our own.
In this talk, I’ll provide the audience with a how-to for journeying on the path to greater self-awareness and empathy:
* Understanding your own biases
* Taking the first steps toward leveling up in your interactions
* Having more useful conversations and collaborations with everyone you know
The purpose of this talk is to reexamine the topic through the lens of concrete things individuals can do to check their privilege – and to put it to work serving themselves and others.
http://linux.conf.au/schedule/30258/view_talk?day=wednesday
The Human Element in Development: What Your Tools Say About Your CultureLeslie Hawthorn
Presented as the closing keynote at GOTO Berlin 2014.
Video forthcoming from the conference organizers.
Thanks to Agile, the DevOps movement and other new methodologies in software engineering, our industry now has a greater focus on how our human interactions impact our technical creation processes. However, it’s pretty easy to understand how our tools work (Your Mileage May Vary), but understanding our colleagues motivations or how our corporate culture impacts those motivations is much trickier. In this talk, Leslie Hawthorn will reverse engineer collaboration anti-patterns from stories of how specific organizations use their development tools. Attendees will leave amused, inspired and with some great ideas of how to best use tools to facilitate optimal human functioning.
You've heard all about how the practice of DevOps helps your business be more efficient: faster insights into your systems and data, better processes and continuous improvement. What may be far more interesting about the practice of DevOps, however, is not the impact on your workflows, but on all the folks at your business doing the actual work.
In this presentation, Leslie Hawthorn will cover some highlights of DevOps processes, all through the lens of taking a DevOps oriented approach to people management. Attendees will leave this talk with a better understanding of how to make themselves, and their employees and co-workers most successful.
Presented at Forum Internacional Software Livre 2014, aka FISL 15, fisl.softwarelivre.org
Presented in English with simultaneous translation into BR-PT
Community 2.0: Beyond Using Software Livre
Software Livre powers the most important systems we use today, most notably all those servers that connect us to the Internet and each other. Following from Brasil's early lead, governments worldwide are adopting policies that ensure they will create - or buy - software livre. Many of them have committed to publishing the code or data streams they produce under livre licenses. Tons of big businesses now
use software livre, publish their own code and pay programmers to work on software livre projects.
So, perhaps software livre has "won the war." If everyone is using it, there must not be much more work needed to improve the software livre world.
Right?
Maybe not.
In this talk, Leslie Hawthorn will talk about the importance of not just using software livre, but contributing back to the software livre community in a variety of ways: translation and localization, writing software, hosting teaching sessions for people not using software livre, and more. Drawing on years of experience as a community manager at Elasticsearch, Red Hat and Google's Open Source Department, she will share real-world stories of how you can contribute to software
livre at the local and international level.
Having been to FISL before - and having interacted with many programmers in Brasil through the Summer of Code program - Leslie is always amazed by the passion in the Brasilian and South American software livre communities. She hopes this talk will inspire more people to share their wisdom and passion with the wider community of
software livre users and developers.
Why Checking Your Privilege is Good For *You*Leslie Hawthorn
This talk was delivered as a keynote address at SoCal Linux Expo 2014.
Abstract:
We've seen lengthy discussions about the position of women in technology for the past several months, to the point where Wired is covering debates about civility on the Linux Kernel Mailing List. While it's been useful to raise awareness of issues within the open source and technical communities, I haven't seen anyone discussing why evaluating and checking one's privilege is actually good for the individual. In this talk, I will discuss why it's worth your while to understand your own innate privilege - or, as I like to think of it, 'stuff' you get that other people don't - and how doing so will make you more successful in your career and as a human being.
Amongst other matters, I'll discuss:
* Understanding bias - what it is, why it is and why it is worth examining your biases
* How to handle it when other people are "angry"
* How to be a useful ally and why this makes your way much smoother
* How to ask for more information without being an uneducated jerk
* How to have more useful conversations with each person you meet
The purpose of this talk is to reexamine the topic through the lens of concrete things individuals can do to check their privilege - and to put it to work serving themselves *and* others.
Negotiation Theory for Geeks Redux PechaKuchaLeslie Hawthorn
Slides used for PechaKucha (a.k.a "Ignite") presentation at T3CON 2013. Video of delivery available at:
http://t3con13de.typo3.org/program/community-day/hear/pecha-kucha/
This presentation was given at DevConf.cz 2013 and borrows heavily from a negotiation seminar led by David Eaves that I participated in prior to OSCON 2011, with slides adapted from a presentation (unpublished) on this same topic by Dave Neary.
Abstract:
The best Open Source hackers are great at the "soft skills" related to hacking - resolving conflict, gathering support around a direction for the project, and understanding what the user *really* wants in a bug report. Every feature request and implementation discussion, bug report and mailing list thread is a negotiation.
There is a well established, common sense, very effective way to think of negotiations which will help you improve as a developer, and make your project better at the same time, from the Harvard Negotiation Project. Using this theory, you will be able to get better outcomes when dealing with frustrated users, colleagues and bosses. You can even apply the principles to domestic debates, wage negotiations and dealing with used car salesmen.
The Keeper of Secrets: The Dance of Community LeadershipLeslie Hawthorn
This talk was delivered as the closing keynote at the FOSDEM 2013 Conference.
Video is available at http://video.fosdem.org/2013/maintracks/Janson/The_Keeper_of_Secrets.webm
This content is licensed CC-By-3.0, so please use, remix and share widely!
Abstract:
Leaders in communities that value openness and transparency are faced with a difficult challenge: people confide in you constantly, but your role as a leader is to promote positive change in your project; change only proceeds where information flows. How does one negotiate the need to maintain trust and harmony in the human sides of our interactions in development communities, while still ensuring that the social problems that may inhibit community progress are mitigated? How does one manage to do all this while keeping one’s commitments to one’s friends and to project values like transparency and openness?
In this talk, Leslie Hawthorn will explore the role of secrets and disclosure in our open development communities. Specifically, she will explore how good leaders know when to discuss secrets, when to remain mum and, in particular, how to tell secrets "the right way". Drawing on six years of experience working with 100s of FOSS communities, she will discuss some of the most contentious and hilarious social problems she’s encountered and how they were addressed, with names and details omitted sufficiently well to keep her own commitments to confidentiality.
Collaboration and Compromise: Engaging FOSS Contributors in the Age of Clou...Leslie Hawthorn
Presented at Open World Forum 2012.
Abstract:
As FOSS communities look to bring on new contributors, we're faced with a fundamental challenge - our new would-be users, contributors and advocates are largely operating in a world of non-free software. While the fact that most folks are using proprietary software - and that FOSS advocates would prefer they use FOSS - is nothing new, the rise of cloud computing puts a different spin on the problem. The ease of use promised by software as a service applications, the ubiquity and popularity of non-free social networks and the great increase in non-free real-time communications tools presents us with a more difficult use case: how do we convince folks of the value of FOSS when they expect things to "just work" and want to "hang out" where their friends are?
In this talk, Leslie Hawthorn will explore the tensions between effectively engaging our audience of would-be converts to FOSS while maintaining the values of software freedom. Specifically, she will explore the activist roots of the free software movement and how these activist principles can be channelled to effectively amplify the value of FOSS amongst users of cloud services and other non-free tools. Last but not least, she will discuss some libre tools that can be used in our community outreach activities, allowing us to effectively engage with our audience's user experience expectations while preserving software freedom in our discourse.
The Smart Woman's Guide to Getting Things Done: 7 Essential Skills to Cultiva...Leslie Hawthorn
Workplace success requires more than expertise and diligent work. Achieving career success requires balancing many needs: those of your organization, team, management and your own satisfaction. In this talk, Amye Scavarda and Leslie Hawthorn will explore seven essential skills that ensure that you can balance those needs effectively while continuing to excel in your technical career: negotiation, communication, setting boundaries, networking, information discovery, navigating social structures & using unproductive times to your advantage.
Powerpoint version.
The Smart Woman's Guide to Getting Things Done: 7 Essential Skills to Cultiva...Leslie Hawthorn
Workplace success requires more than expertise and diligent work. Achieving career success requires balancing many needs: those of your organization, team, management and your own satisfaction. In this talk, Amye and Leslie explore seven essential skills that ensure that you can balance those needs effectively while continuing to excel in your technical career: negotiation, communication, setting boundaries, networking, information discovery, navigating social structures & using unproductive times to your advantage.
Keynote version
This presentation was given to women at Oregon State University to explore the potential career opportunities for women who'd like to work in the high tech field. Basically, an excellent opportunity for me to highlight a few of the amazing women I've met through my career and showcase them as role models to women at OSU planning careers in STEM.
Presentation to educate students at Oregon State University about the Grace Hopper Conference. Talk is also a how-to on applying for scholarships to the conference. Slides will be useful to anyone wishing to give an infosession to students at their school.
Student Involvement in Open Source: Why, How and Where to Get StartedLeslie Hawthorn
Delivered in the education track for the 2011 POSSCON conference.
As more companies build their business using open source software and development methodologies, gaining an understanding of these technologies gives students a leg up when searching for careers in industry and internships. Participation in open source software communities also brings a host of other skills that empower participants for future success: the ability to communicate effectively, the aptitude to understand diverse points of view and the skills to persuade team mates that a particular solution is best. In this talk, Leslie Hawthorn will draw on her years of experience working with university students engaged in open source development, highlighting the value of involvement for student members of the audience and giving a clear roadmap to those who are ready to get started participating.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Elevating Tactical DDD Patterns Through Object CalisthenicsDorra BARTAGUIZ
After immersing yourself in the blue book and its red counterpart, attending DDD-focused conferences, and applying tactical patterns, you're left with a crucial question: How do I ensure my design is effective? Tactical patterns within Domain-Driven Design (DDD) serve as guiding principles for creating clear and manageable domain models. However, achieving success with these patterns requires additional guidance. Interestingly, we've observed that a set of constraints initially designed for training purposes remarkably aligns with effective pattern implementation, offering a more ‘mechanical’ approach. Let's explore together how Object Calisthenics can elevate the design of your tactical DDD patterns, offering concrete help for those venturing into DDD for the first time!
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
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Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
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And...
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Charlie Greenberg, Host
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3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
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Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
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DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
5. UC Berkeley
• Participant in the
Undergraduate
Research
Apprentice
Program
• My contributions
to the the
corpus of
scholarly work in
Medieval lit = 0
Sather Gate image courtesy of Flickr user livenature
Anne Middleton photo taken from http://english.berkeley.edu/profiles/94
6. The FOSS Mentor’s Lament
• Mentees don’t
become long-term
contributors
• Mentoring programs
don’t scale
• Return on
Investment
considered poor
Watch image courtesy of Flickr User ribbitvoice
7. Dave Neary on
Mentoring Programs
http://bit.ly/MentorROI
• Excellent analysis of
why mentoring ‘fails’
• Poor retention rates
= better to DIY?
• Decrease the time it
takes to vet mentees
No Tourists image courtesy of Flickr User jenniferwoodardmaderazo
8. Retention Rates
• Search Google for
“good conversion
rate”
• 2%, 2.5%,10%,
15%, 18%
• Prequalifying is
best practice with
any recruitment
process
St. Ignutius image courtesy of Flickr User interdev
10. Getting & Retaining
New Contributors
This is a good and noble goal.
I’ve come to the conclusion that
having this as the ultimate goal
completely misses the point.
Holy Grail Ale image courtesy of Flickr User brostad
11. How Newbies Help You
Whether They Stick Around Or Not
They are the people who know
everything you have forgotten.
Suck button image courtesy of Flickr User jessamyn
12. New Perspectives
The opportunity for introspection provided by
newbie feedback is vital to a project’s health.
Ignorance is Strength image courtesy of Flickr User drtiki
14. Arguments for
Contributing to FOSS
• Resume fodder
• Portfolio builder
• Opportunity to gain new
skills
• Get an awesome job
• Get the boss to pay for
you to come to LCA!
Roll of 20 USD bills image courtesy of Flickr User Images_of_Money
15. When We’re Talking ROI
There’s a Total Mismatch
• Desired Mentor ROI • Desired Mentee ROI
• Decrease my bus factor • Learn stuff so I can
• Get work in my project done • Get cool job
faster
• Find fame and glory
• Finally have time to fix that
#$@!@$% bug that’s been in my • Retire at 40 on tropical island
queue for 3 years
20. Promoting Our Values
• Importance of high quality
output
• Pride in one’s craft
• Joys of exploring and
tinkering
• Impact of collaborating
across geographies and
cultures
• Most importantly: freedom
21. Importance of Influence
People may not agree with you and
they may not do the things you’d
like them to do, but the power of
impacting their thought process is
immeasurable.
Influence Ripples image courtesy of Flickr User cambodia4kidsorg
22. FOSS Mentoring is a Lab
Not
a
Business
Mad Scientist image courtesy of Flickr User jarich
27. Legal
• This presentation is licensed CC-BY-3.0:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
• Unless otherwise indicated, all images or
logos are the property of their respective
copyright holders and are considered fair
use or used with permission.
Editor's Notes
Thank yous: organizers, sponsors, audience; Donna, Mary, Jacinta & Deb for reviewing abstract & helping me refine it.\nBefore we get into the meat of this presentation, I’d like to give you a bit of my background and some insights into why I’m giving this particular talk.\n
Just joined a Portland, Oregon based startup - language agnostic PaaS company\nWeek 3, day 3 and given holidays in states it’s more like 2 weeks all told\nNot relevant experience for this talk but they hired me because of ....\n
Home of some of the world’s largest open source projects - shameless plug, osuosl.org/donate\nLinux Foundation, Apache, Drupal (yay Drupal Down Under!!!)\nMentoring is an integral part of the lab’s operations\nStudent “grads” highly sought after - successfully acquired companies, Mozilla, Fortune 100 jobs\n
Managed Google Summer of Code 2006-2010, 18+ yrs\nCreated contest now known as Google Code In in 2007, pre-university 13-18 yrs\nSome of the world’s best known FOSS mentoring programs, get paid to work on FOSS\n\n
Undergraduate Research Apprentice program - extremely prestigious program\nProfessor studying the interplay between 14th century law courts and creators of literary works (specifically secular texts)\nMade a lot of photo copies in the basement of the Boalt Hall Law Library and spent a lot of time with Prof. Middleton learning about the roots of the English legal system\nI am a failed mentee, but we’ll come back to this later\n
25% “conversion rate”\nhuman intensive interactions cannot be automated - we’re used to automating out repetitive tasks\nRTFM is our closest approximation and it doesn’t yield useful results\n\n
Dave’s post talking about his experiences in Summer of Code and those he’s heard of\nPercival Graham on the Great Documentation Project for LilyPond\n25% retention rate for Mr. Graham, attendees at Community Leadership Summit report 1/6 retained from programs like GSOC\n\n\n
25% is actually a great conversion rate if we are talking about a biz perspective (tyvm Jacinta)\nGentoo has gotten that up to 80% with pre-qualifying tasks\nLowering time spent on prequal is a decent enough point\n\n
I take my role as a mentor and role model for the various communities I serve very seriously\nI also don’t scale (but now you know why I talk this fast)\nbalancing personal need with needs of community - be as available as possible - set office hours if you need to\nlimited time resources - quick vetting process needed - set a pre-qualifying task before future follow up\n\n
we’ve turned this into the holy grail of why you’d mentor\nthe point of the holy grail was that it was really, really hard to find\n
Newbies ignorance has immense value - they are your “this sucks” button - credit Josh Gay\nSometimes “this sucks” isn’t useful, but often it is; Document what sucks is a great vetting task\nLet’s get recursive: simply having new people approach the project makes the project better able to have new people approach it\n
the best “new blood” challenges status quo in project’s approach to everything\n
so now that I’ve argued that just getting new people in the door provides ROI\nwe’re looking at this process and analyzing through SW dev lens: ROI, scalability and efficiency\nthis is inherently flawed - let’s consider what that approach does for our mentees\n
You can learn about version control! You can learn how to work in distributed teams! You’ll learn how to program from some of the best people in the industry! You’ll learn all the things you need to know to be hired by top employers! I know all these arguments because I’ve made them. They are also accurate. All of this is essentially an argument that investing your time will lead to a cash payout for you - ROI - and we generally agree that cash is not always great for FOSS. Remember Stormy’s keynote from 2008 - “Would You Do It Again for Free?”\n
When we’re looking only at ROI, that’s not a long-term motivator for anyone on either side to keep on keeping on. Discussions of ROI come from places like balance sheets, where you care about annual revenue at best and quarterly revenue most of the time.\n\n
How many of us got involved due to ROI? - show of hands (betting there will be zero)\nROI has got fsk all to do with what we’re trying to do here\n\n\n
So, let’s be clear. This is conference rule #1. Frankly, it’s life rule #1. And note too - we don’t say “be excellent to each other as long as I get something out of it” or “be excellent to each other as long as it scales” or “be excellent to each other as long as there is sufficient ROI.” Part of being a mentor is simply being excellent to each other. But beyond that ....\n
While this is a quote attributed to Jesus Christ, I’ve always thought it was the essence of the GPL.\nIt is easy for us to forget that we are highly privilegedi people. No matter what our financial circumstances, if we’re working in tech and attending this conference we’re quite intelligent. That in and of itself is a great privilege. The fact that we have those privileges means we ought to use them well.\n\n\n
We are freed by our native intellect. We are freed by our connections to each other that help us get things done, the economic empowerment that working in a well paid field brings us. I’ll argue that it is our responsibility to help others. Period.\n
You can expose someone to these ideas in seconds. I was: learned about FOSS from seeing the GNOME foot when attempting to restart a music player. Took me years to do something about it, but it took 2 minutes for me to be permanently inspired.\n
I use a macbook air, I’m presenting using keynote and I work for a PaaS company.\nI consider myself a free software free culture advocate. I helped edit the FSF’s last call for contributions.\nI believe in the power of these ideas and I advocate for them everywhere. \n
we cannot expect to see immediate quarterly or even annual returns\nit’s research and development and may lead to absolutely no immediate benefit\nyou have no idea what the value of your time will eventually be. you may never know. \nthat doesn’t mean you shouldn’t invest your time and energies.\n\n
So, here’s the kicker folks. Because of that internship at Cal, I got a job working as a marketing assistant for a patent attorney who was the VP of Biz Dev at a comms semi start up. Because I worked for him, I started being interested in patent and copyright law. And things like the EFF. And because I knew about those things, I ended up being assigned to recruit for open source based teams at Google. Which led to my job on Google’s Open Source Team.\n
Prof. Middleton is a Guggenheim fellow and UCB is well funded. She certainly had budget to get those photocopies made without having to spend hours talking to me about Piers Plowman and Chaucer.\nI have produced fsk all in the academy. I have contributed nothing to the research area in my academic field.\nBut I am here with all of you today because of what she taught me and the time she spent with me.\nI bet she has no clue what I’m up to, but I really hope she’d be proud of what I’ve accomplished\n