Russian plugin, go fuck yourself
This week 43% of the sites on the open web were briefly breached by Russian military propaganda, and that is not even the worst part of it.
All posts tagged: open source communities
I’m going to help the internet to evolve
After a long cold lonely winter, I'm delighted to join Scotland's own MaidSafe as their Head of Policy and Governance.
The speculative fiction novel I want to read this year
Something I read in the news inspired this prompt for a story about open source communities and the game of politics. Perhaps you'll be the one to write it. Or stop it from ever happening.
The world’s most dangerous tech project
It might be yours.
Conference talk: WordPress’s role in a changing web + my retirement from open source
Updated May 2021.
About that WordPress autoupdates thing.
There was a call for comments ahead of this weekend’s scheduled panel discussion at WCUS on the autoupdates plan. I’ve been asked to respond to it from my perspective, so I will.
What I learned in the Mozilla Open Leaders initiative
This week wraps up my training in the Mozilla Open Leaders initiative. It’s been an amazing, very intense 14 weeks of learning, all in support of the team in the cross-project CMS privacy group.
Castles and unicorns: my legacy to the WordPress community
One of my proudest professional achievements was selecting and wrangling speakers for three years of WordCamp Edinburgh. Over the past week, videos of 2017’s talks and most of 2018’s talks have been posted at wordpress.tv.
Interview: on being a privacy advocate in OSS
As part of my new consultancy role as a privacy advisor with Tap My Data, I was interviewed about how I came to become one. I babbled so much the interview had to be split into two parts. Part one starts in the grunge era, while part two ends in the future.
Announcement: Mozilla Open Leaders
On #Privacy Day #DataProtectionDay 2019, I am honoured to announce that I have been selected as a Mozilla Open Leader for my work in support of the cross-CMS privacy working group.
How to defend the open web: a policy primer for open source projects
Open source projects can use our influence to shape the laws and policies which impact our work, and we can do so while defending ourselves, and each other, from the unintentional consequences of project misuse.
Talking about the future of the open web and open source
Yesterday I had the absolute privilege of joining Dries Buytaert (Drupal), DB Hurley (Joomla! and Mautic), Barb Palser (Google), and Tim Lehnen (Drupal Association) for a panel discussion on the future of the open web and open source at Drupal Europe in Darmstadt, Germany.