You believe that open source can be better

You are...

• a maintainer with big dreams, big problems, or both
• an open source community in conflict or transition
• a community just getting started, or looking to grow
• an OSPO or foundation staffer trying to support your projects
• a tech organizer looking for a new approach to sprints and hack nights
• a funder looking for value-aligned projects
• a ragtag bunch coming together to solve a collective action problem
• a progressive or justice-focused org that wants to build tech in a way that aligns with your values

You get excited by...

• the promise of civic technology, open science, open medicine, or open news
• mixing technology with the arts and humanities
• people from marginalized communities claiming space and raising voices
• nerding out over books like Elinor Ostrom's Governing the Commons
• systems thinking
• design justice and trauma-informed design
• unions and worker cooperatives
• the Indie Web and the Fediverse and Wikipedia
• and just, like, libraries—what did we do to deserve libraries

You're frustrated at how...

• so many open source projects are just not usable
• so many big companies use open source but never fund it
• people ask open source maintainers to do too much with too little
• newcomers to open source too often get frustrated or turned away
• open sources spaces are still so white and male
• progressive orgs and governments keep using and building proprietary technologies
• so much tech is funded by extractive sources like venture capital and private equity
• technology keeps getting built with so little care for who it might harm

You believe that...

• there is power in a union
• people deserve a say in the things that affect them ("nothing about us without us")
• "don't bring politics into this" almost always means "don't point out the politics that was already there"
• diversity is a strength, not a weakness
• people should be able to bring their whole selves to their communities
• the stuff that matters is often the hardest to measure
• we are responsible for how the tech we make is used
• we are all always learning
• we are all of equal value

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