Recently, Jen Kagan has been working on a series of interviews with people who work in open source. Jen previously contributed an article on web browser cookies to Issue 7 with co-author Tara Adiseshan. The most recent interview in the series is with Vesha Parker who co-organizes Progressive HackNight. Jen asks, "What does 'open source' … Continue reading Contributor spotlights: Jen Kagan and Federico Mena Quintero
In Issue 2, Khairani Barokka wrote about disability and hacking. Her most recent project is a book she co-edited: Stairs and Whispers: D/deaf and Disabled Poets Write Back, the first major anthology of UK-based D/deaf and disabled poets, which is a wholly multiformat and multimedia book, including audio links to readings by poets, poetry films … Continue reading Contributor spotlights: Khairani Barokka and Jameson Hampton
In 2013, our podcast host Christie Koehler, fellow technologist Sherri Koehler, and I put together a workbook for a conference workshop we initially called Event Planning for Geeks. We relied on our years of experience planning events like BarCamp Portland, Ignite Portland, open source code sprints, and Open Source Bridge, a conference now going into … Continue reading Announcing our next book project: Community Event Planning, Second Edition
Today a community member is offering a special matching donation for both The Recompiler Year 3 and Lady Science, a magazine about women in STEM. The first $250 of pledges for The Recompiler and donations to Lady Science today will each be matched by our lovely sponsor. The Lady Science team is also throwing a … Continue reading We’re teaming up with Lady Science for a matching pledge day
Today we're launching the Kickstarter campaign for our next year of publishing The Recompiler. We have another four issues planned, more podcast episodes, and even another book. Click through to see more info and to find out about our fabulous rewards (Stickers! Posters! Zines!) We're also throwing a kickoff party tomorrow, Wednesday October 25 from … Continue reading We’re on our way to Year 3
On November 11 we're going to be doing a live broadcast, for our upcoming Kickstarter. Join Christie and Audrey from 10am-4pm Pacific for technology discussion, tech support questions, special guest interviews, and a whole batch of tongue twisters like Christie promised us in May. You can join in by telling us what we should talk … Continue reading Live in November! Our first podcast telethon
In a just one week we're going to be launching our plans for The Recompiler Year 3 with a Kickstarter campaign. We'll have news about what's to come in 2018 and some special rewards. Join us for a kickoff party at Books With Pictures on October 25 from 6-8pm and hear all about it in … Continue reading Next week join us for a kickoff party
Recently Thursday and I met up for a retrospective on The Responsible Communication Style Guide. The book was over a year in the making, and longer if we count from the first time Thursday dreamed of the project. We started planning in July 2016 and shipped the first print books at the start September (2017). … Continue reading Looking back on our book process
At the start of the year we set a publishing schedule, and a few things happened this summer that derailed those plans a little. Now that the book is out, we're putting the final touches on Issue 8, and the dust has settled, it's time to get to work on the next issue! We want … Continue reading We’re reopening the Call for Contributors for Issue 9: Hard problems
Have you heard this one before? "There are only two hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors." The idea for our next issue started when your editor was talking to someone who said, "you could do a whole issue on timezones." So yes, why not? What makes a 'hard problem' has … Continue reading Call for Contributors for Issue 9: Hard problems
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