At the end of July, I was appointed Bradford, Vermont’s Interim Town Health Officer (THO), after the resignation of our previous officer. This is a new role for me, so I reached out to VLCT for information on what THO do....
There have been a lot of questions lately about who gets to speak (and otherwise participate) in SelectBoard meetings. Here’s what I know: The Selectboard is governed by Vermont’s Open Meeting Law (The specific statute - 1 V....
The information below is part of a larger conversation about Open Source Program (or Project) Offices (OSPOs)in academic (university) settings. Ways to Contribute [VERSO] has compiled a list of ways to contribute to open source, especially if you are not a coder....
This week I got to present at DrupalCon (again! I love the Drupal community) and talk about what it means to think about making software with transgender users in mind. Given the diverse audience, the talk is also a bit of a trans 101....
Since my first semester in graduate school, I’ve been posting my reading lists and general themes for the month. Since my comprehensive exams in May, I have certainly been reading, though not nearly as much....
As part of a series of posts that I’ve been calling “Open Source PhD,” I’m posting some of the materials that I prepared as I was studying for my comprehensive exams....
This week I attended three conferences - The Rightful Place of Science, Digital Democracies, and HASTAC 2019. The three were very different, but each gave me an opportunity to interact with other grad students and with professors of all levels....
Hi. In a way, everything feels terrible right now, doesn’t it? I’m pretty tired of feeling terrible, and super tired of feeling like the country is in a new level of shit, when - let’s be honest - it’s been shit for everyone but white men since the beginning....
Until this month, I tracked each book that I read and shared them here. During the spring semester, I’m reading for my comprehensive exams and so already know what I’ll be reading for the next few months....
This is just a quick overview post on what’s happening with Drupal.org (owned by the Drupal Association) collecting demographic information on it’s members. The current proposal is that the user profile form will have fields at least for gender and “ideally” for other demographic categories (race, sexual orientation, etc)...
This month marked the LAST SEMESTER OF PHD COURSEWORK for me. I completed another draft of my second year project, a revise and resubmit (accepted!), and got my comprehensive exam reading lists approved....
A deadline for a revise and resubmit meant not a lot of other reading got done. Below was reading required for classes. Abbate, J. (2000). Inventing the Internet. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press....
Welp, September is the first full month of the semester and it sure felt like it. This fall I’m in a class on Surveillance and Society with Marisa Duarte and Andrew Brown, and reading a book a week with Emma Frow....
This summer I wrote my second year project. As I gathered items, it didn’t make sense to list them all as “read” since I did a lot of skimming and extracting rather than wholesale reading....
Today, I was honored to give the opening keynote at TexasCamp. The organizing team has done such a good job with this camp that the logistics have become invisible. Below is the video of my talk:...
This month, I rewrote my second-year project proposal for the third and fourth times. (First and second iterations happened in January and February). Each complete rewrite brought with it a new or expanded set of literature....
Before it all evaporates into internet ephemera, and in lieu of a proper blog post, here is my DrupalCon in tweets: Great start to the #DrupalCon Community Summit - unconference in progress....
On March 31, I had the great opportunity to speak at TEDxASU. You can watch the video here:
This month, I spoke at TEDxASU. Preparing for that took nearly all of the time I would have normally spent reading. Oops! In my main seminar, we were assigned a few books instead of a slew of articles, so it’s a short list....
I had the great privilege of being selected as a Sackler Symposium Student Fellow this year. The Fellows Symposium had 48 speakers presenting their work, and it was a long and wonderful whirlwind....