Just a quick note to say that I’ll be in North America starting next week, for about two weeks:
- San Francisco April 6th-10th (meetings, coworking, jetlag recovery, tacos, etc)
- Montreal April 10th-15th (AdaCamp Montreal — I’m fully booked up from the afternoon of the 12th onward, I’m afraid, but have some time before that)
- Ottawa April 15th-19th (friends, maybe meetings, coworking, etc)
- San Francisco, again April 19th-21st
If you’re in any of those places and you’d like to catch up, ping me! I’ve got a fair bit of flexibility so I’m up for coffee/meals/coworking/whatever.
I’m particularly interested in talking with people/groups/orgs about:
- Open food data, open source for food growers, etc — especially interoperability and linked open data!
- Sustainable (open source) tech for sustainable (green) communities — why do so many sustainability groups use Facebook and how can we choose tech that better reflects our values?
- Community management beyond/outside the tech bubble (we didn’t invent this thing; how do we learn and level up from here?)
- Diversity beyond 101 level — how can we keep pushing forward? What’s next?
I should probably also note that I’ve got some capacity for short-medium term contract work from May onward. For the last 6 months or so I’ve been doing a lot of diversity consulting: I organise/lead AdaCamps (feminist unconferences for women in open tech/culture) around the world, and more recently I’ve been working with the Wikimedia Foundation on their Inspire campaign to address the gender gap. I’m interested in doing more along the same lines, so if you need someone with heaps of expertise at the intersection of open stuff and diversity/inclusiveness, let’s talk!