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Father, husband, 20+ years @TheASF, punny guy. We have cats. He/him. #TrademarkTwitter and #OpenSource pundit focusing on community, licensing, public good.
If your 🔥 spicy #WordPress vs. #WPEngine smackdown doesn't talk about #trademarks, you're missing the point. Or, you could just read @adamhjk who's covered all the key details, some you probably didn't know around rights ownership. 🤩 Markets dislike surprises.
Lets talk about #wpdrama. Open source and business friends know I’m a strong believer that trademarks are the most underutilized lever in designing a strategy. They’re powerful, well understood mechanisms designed precisely for what many of us need: a unique brand in the market…
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Entire government agencies are being reshaped, career experts are leaving and power is shifting — often behind closed doors. ProPublica is investigating. 🧵⬇️ (1/6)
X : Any thoughts on Musk's attacks on the US civil service? Me : Not the way to make lasting change. It will have one very concrete result though. X : ? Me : When Trump is replaced, Gov funding and support of SpaceX, Starlink, Tesla etc will dry up very quickly.
What's your long-term succession plan for domain names and open source projects you own? 🪦 Am I the only person who thinks about this stuff? support.github.com/ticket/3112594
😀 Raise your hand if today is Yak Shaving Day! 🪒🐃 🤨 . 🤔 . 😮 ✋ Raise your hand if today is Advocate For Adding The Yak Emoji To Unicode Day! ⌨️
"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us." Celebrate the small wins to help us gear up for the rough road ahead. #BostonStrong
Even news stories can have happy endings, too. @wbznewsradio
At @OpenForumEurope event wondering how we can help #Researchers on #OpenSource to include better project affiliation/size/governance data in their studies. Gotta be some simple data projects can add to signal are at a foundation, do have governance process, etc.
Fascinating idea for one aspect of #OpenSource #Sustainability: using the university endowment model to fund OSS maintenance. Simple question with huge upside, but a really hard problem to align all the different actors. fosssustainability.com/aspects/?s=ofe
Open source lacks sustainable funding that would ensure its proper maintenance at a global scale. I've been excited to notice a potential key to this problem, which comes from similarities between OSS and top universities — the endowment model. kvinogradov.com/oss-universiti…
At #OpenForumAcademy in Boston and loving the @amcasari redone Nebraska #OpenSource maintainer picture. But: the ‘other’ section misses out on all the independently governed Foundations…

Sigh. 😢 Humanity is not ready for the internet. It doesn't really matter if it's foreign bots spreading disinformation, or so influencers gaming the social media algorithim; we got hosed.
I know many many wonderful people who are dedicated to making the world a better place and that's a thing that will not change tonight.
- Harris - - Walz - - Obviously - That pretty much says it all. If that sounds weird to anyone who follows me, finding a broader array of news sources - perhaps some reputable international ones? - is recommended. Hi Taylor!
honestly, I carry a lot of feelings from how it was in 2016 on here (not good), but seeing dudes in tech publicly posting about voting for the future, freedom, and the next generation has been great to see. more of this please. ❤️
"Don't be a sucker." Always relevant.
honestly, I carry a lot of feelings from how it was in 2016 on here (not good), but seeing dudes in tech publicly posting about voting for the future, freedom, and the next generation has been great to see. more of this please. ❤️
What if AI licensing followed a new path? 🤔 "[Lets find] a new, clean slate term of choice – one that accurately conveys the portions of a model that are open, while not falsely advertising its features by applying the open source brand to non-open source assets"
honestly, I carry a lot of feelings from how it was in 2016 on here (not good), but seeing dudes in tech publicly posting about voting for the future, freedom, and the next generation has been great to see. more of this please. ❤️
In today's "reality tries to catch up to fiction" news 🙄 Antrhopic's Claude now offers computer use, where the AI can do everything you can on your computer, including talking to other computers! 🤖 {narrator} Still not as good a backstory as the Terminator franchise. 🎬
Hey @make while it's been cool, it's time to unsubscribe and cancel our account *6588. Sadly, the website doesn't have any cancel action! 😢 Emailed [email protected] and [email protected], just wanted to double-check they'll follow up on the account deletion! Thanks!
🤩 Great #OpenSource #Sustainability article on @InfoWorld by Bill Doerrfeld - broad coverage, and well-sourced quotes from a lot of key people in the FOSS world. See also: fosssustainability.com/aspects/?s=iw infoworld.com/article/355784…
Goodbye #CommunityOverCode! Loved seeing my ASF family, but it’s time to go home for my first family. Here was today’s Hawaiian shirt. Remember, my slides and data are all open source, PRs welcome!

Wonder how #OpenSource Foundations get funded? Preview some of the data for my #CommunityOverCode talk in a few hours here - it's all open source, expecting PRs! buff.ly/3XXuu90
Curious how @TheASF projects are so long-lived, with community governance? The Practical ASF Way has advice on the behaviors you can use! Slides (with notes) from #CommunityOverCode talk today: buff.ly/4eMLwxk