The afternoon had been pleasantly sunny. I’d packed my jacket away in my suitcase on the train ride from Paris. Now I was trying to dig it out, in an empty tent, outside a castle, and the light was fading. Jet-lagged and exhausted, I didn’t know who to talk to…

Old offline patterns lead to lacklustre online approximations—we can have better virtual meetings & conferences. — Since the start of the pandemic, many more people are experiencing remote teams, online conferences, and collaboration through technology. It’s a strange and wonderful world of cat lawyers in courtrooms and robot graduations. …

I’m an intuitive cook, improvising on recipes freely when I use them at all. That’s why Salt Fat Acid Heat is the perfect cookbook for me. It’s an exploration of the underlying principles of good cooking, explaining the science behind how ingredients behave and the why behind the norms of…

Full Circle Leadership highlights the strengths of eight diverse kinds of leadership. But each also comes with a shadow side. — Full Circle Leadership is a framework for understanding the forms leadership takes in non-hierarchical groups, and for mapping project life-cycles in emergent environments without top-down project planning. To learn even more, read the original article, extend it with patterns and loops, watch the video, or take a course.

Patterns, loops, and what we can learn from playing with the model. — Since developing Full Circle Leadership, I’ve run numerous workshops and courses based on it, and every time the discussions inspire new discoveries. I love how the model itself is simple, but more depth emerges the more different people explore it. These extensions reveal interesting dynamics about leadership in collaborative groups.

How creating a Steering Group became the game-changer for Universal Viewer, propelling this long-running project into a whole new phase. — Interview with Edward Silverton, maintainer of the Universal Viewer project. What’s the origin of the Universal Viewer? In 2012 I was contracted by Digirati to work on the “Wellcome Player” for the Wellcome Library in London, a unified viewer for all of their digital catalogue items (high-res deep-zoomable images, audio/video, PDFs), which allowed people to download content…

How learning from Māori has enriched my life — I recently attended a hui on the theme of Te Ao Māori with the Asia New Zealand Foundation Leadership Network. It was special for many reasons, first of all because it was at Waitangi, at the Treaty grounds and historic Te Tii marae. Note: I use a number of Māori…

As fiscal host to 1300+ open source projects on Open Collective, we’re on a mission to help the whole ecosystem thrive. — Join a Maintainer Support Group While open source is inherently collaborative, maintainers can sometimes feel isolated. We’re connecting the humans behind the code, to support each other’s learning and growth, personally and professionally. Join us! Maintaining the Maintainers: Open Source Peer Support Group The Open Source Collective, home of 1300+ open source projects on Open Collective, is starting peer-support calls for…medium.com

Preview of Collective page redesign, join an open source support group, OSC opening up, Witchcraft interview, and more. — Collective Page Redesign We are making massive improvements to the design of Collective pages. We’d love your feedback before we roll it out. To preview, append V2 to the end of any Collective URL. Examples: https://opencollective.com/babel/v2 https://opencollective.com/cryptpad/v2