Keynote with Stormy Peters¶
Author¶
- Stormy Peters
Web¶
- We should make people aware of how their info is being used
Growing a Community¶
- As companies get involved we wonder about the direction of the community
- Reach out to new people, because it can be intimidating
- When you meet someone, you have 3 seconds to make an impression * Based on your hair * And then shoes
- When you respond to a bug report, or mailing list post, this is their first impression * Make it a good one
- Python groups are great for this outreach
- Study says learning something new is worth a 20% raise * old job needs 20% more money vs. new job with new tech
- Some like to be famous (cue chuckles)
- Some get involved because they are paid to
- Some for ideals of free and available
- Stay because of the community
- Community is better when you can measure the impact of members
Open Web¶
- Believes in an open web * Shows phone that boots to Gecko * Someone in Mongolia wrote about how excited they were for access to books * Could send html books instead of text messages
- People made huge sacrifices to make ease of use with open and free software * Stay up all night to get a modem working
- Free != open * Just because it’s free, doesn’t mean it has the ideals of open software
- We haven’t defined what it means to have an open web service
- I want you to host my data, but what kind of access do I need to make it open?
- You may create a web service that puts you into a position you don’t want to * Give users tools along the way so that they don’t feeel disempowered
- We need to help change the world so we get fewer phone calls
- Things to help this (Mozilla examples) * Do not track movement * Browserid (now Persona)
- Backup is important, as well as delete
- “Are you sober enough to publish this picture?”