I am delighted to add to the roster another person who has contributed few stories to the Art Of Community.
This time it is Celeste Lyn Paul, a senior interaction architect at User-Centered Design, Inc. Celeste helps make software easier to use by understanding the user’s work processes and designing interactive systems to fit their needs. [...]
I am delighted to announce another source of excellent stories and interview content for the book. This time it is Chris Messina who is behind Spread Firefox, BarCamp, and coworking and open web standards initiatives.
Chris arrived in San Francisco four years ago and began volunteering for the Mozilla Foundation, leading the Spread Firefox community marketing [...]
I am delighted to announce a good friend who is contributing some further thoughts to the book is Leslie Hawthorn, the Program Manager for Google’s Open Source Programs Office, where she’s the Community Manager for the Google Summer of Code community. Leslie has already sent me her thoughts and I am looking forward to merging [...]
I am delighted to announce that I recently received some excellent interview content from Paul Hudson, the editor of Linux Format magazine.
Paul and I go back a long way. Many moons ago I used to write for Linux Format. In fact, I cut my journalistic teeth with Linux Format and wrote a number of articles [...]
I like Jeremy Allison. Not only do I admire his contributions to Samba and Free Software, but we also share a sense of brotherhood as cantankerous Brits in California. Jeremy has been a consistent voice in the Free Software movement and is never afraid to lay down the law.
I am delighted he is interested in [...]
Another quick update on some more content I am gathering for the mighty tome…
Mike Linksvayer joined Creative Commons as CTO. Previously the co-founder Bitzi, he has over ten years’ experience as an enterprise software, web, and multimedia developer and consultant and holds a B.A. in economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I worked [...]
I am pleased to announce that another person who is contributing interview content to the book is Cristina Verduzco, the Volunteer/Outreach Manager for the East Bay SPCA organisation that provides animal welfare services. Cristina is responsible for all facets of the volunteer program, coordination and planning of multiple events, and coordination of mobile adoptions. She [...]
Over the coming weeks I am going to be posting some updates on some of the people who have contributed content to the book, and some of the examples and stories that are featured. I think this will give you folks a definitive idea of the kind of content that is coming into the book.
One [...]
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