Presentations and Publications

Occasionally, Dreamwidth owners, contractors, and volunteer staff speak at tech conferences and other such things.

Sometimes those talks are helpful to reference in the future.

Conference Presentations

Collected slides of many, but not all, Dreamwidth-affiliated presentations

2010 January

• LCA2010 dw_news update, Slides: Build Your Own Contributors, One Part At A Time

2015 June

Timeline: Open Source Bridge, Portland, OR, USA

• Staff
  • sarah
    • Calculating Guilt: Using open-source software in forensic DNA testing Youtube Link
  • karzilla and fu
    • How We Learned To Stop Worrying And Love (Or At Least Live With) GitHub Youtube Link
  • denise
    • When Your Codebase Is Nearly Old Enough To Vote Youtube Link
  • misskat
    • Write It Down: Process Documentation from the Ground Up Youtube Link
    • From the Inside Out: How Self-Talk Affects Your Community Youtube Link
• Non-Staff
  • azurelunatic
    • Community Moderation: you can't always halt a flamewar with one raised eyebrow (but it rarely hurts to try) Youtube Link
• Friends
  • Alex Byrne
    • The Public Library As An (Almost) Open Source Institution Youtube Link
  • Sumana Harihareswara
    • HTTP Can Do That?! Youtube Link
  • Frances Hocutt
    • A Developer's-Eye View of API Client Libraries Youtube Link
  • emceeaich
    • Desigining for Renaming Youtube Link
  • Asheesh Laroia
    • Five years, 1000 students: The story of Open Source Comes to Campus Youtube Link
    • Economics of Volunteer Labor: Three stories from Debian Youtube Link
  • Jon Pincus
    • Building Diverse Social Networks Youtube Link
  • Heidi Waterhouse
    • Cassandra at the Keyboard: Whistleblowing at all scales Youtube Link

2016 June

Timeline: Open Source Bridge, Portland, OR, USA (unofficial conference)

• Staff
  • denise:
    • Hard Problems in Terms of Service Enforcement & slides
• Et Cetera
  • azurelunatic
    • Yelling As A Service: Adventures in Unofficial QA
• Friends
  • Alex Byrne
    • Postcards from the Edge Case: When One Size Doesn't Fit All
    • Librarians and Open Source: We Need Code, Too!
  • Frances Hocutt
    • Exit Condition: when to ragequit, raise hell, or duck and cover
  • Emma Humphries
    • The Folk Knowledge of Bugzilla
  • Jon Pincus
    • Supporting diversity with a new approach to software

Articles/Publications

By Dreamwidth Folks

denise: Mavrix v LiveJournal: a crash course on DMCA immunity

About Dreamwidth

2009-12-23 -- LinuxPlanet: Dreamwidth's Diversity is its Strength