Michael Downey 🇺🇳  

"To drift is to be in hell, to be in heaven is to steer."

- George Bernard Shaw

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Michael Downey 🇺🇳  

"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom."

-- Viktor Frankl

... Thoughts leaving

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Michael Downey 🇺🇳  

Appreciated the reminder of how much freedom we're surrending to tech giants under the guise of free speech or to "make things for others". You are the product. The Internet wasn't designed with this in mind, folks.

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Michael Downey 🇺🇳  

"Art dismantles power. Otherwise, it's propaganda."

-- Cameron Esposito at

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Michael Downey 🇺🇳  

"It's crtitical we keep pushing, fighting, and persevering through it all."

-- @andybaio at

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Michael Downey 🇺🇳  

Let's get this started!

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Michael Downey 🇺🇳  

All right, , bring it on; help me believe in humanity again. Ready for some recharging creativity & inspiration.

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Michael Downey 🇺🇳  

"The Evolution of :"

Embrace
Extend
Extinguish

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Michael Downey 🇺🇳  

Exploring the benefits & challenges of adopting "official" programs like Outreachy with @baconandcoconut from @conservancy at

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Michael Downey 🇺🇳  

Highlights from history of timeline include "WRT-54G code liberated", "open source"/OSI launch, & "Hellwig sues VMware for ongoing GPL violations"

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Michael Downey 🇺🇳  

"If you care about a global community, don't use Google Docs for your project."

-- Daniel Farrell at

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Michael Downey 🇺🇳  

Gervase Markham has died. A huge loss for the world.

Thank you Gerv for your tireless work for & by helping lead 's mission in myriad ways.

As always, it is our task to take all that was beautiful, kind, and meaningful about him and weave it into the tapestry of our futures in such a manner to honor him and give added meaning to our lives.

Such is the nature of life, love, death, and life after loss.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gervas

gerv.net/

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Michael Downey 🇺🇳  

Good morning . Welcome back to !

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Michael Downey 🇺🇳  

For good measure, this shout out for @pixelfed on the Twitter hashtag:

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Michael Downey 🇺🇳  

I love summer in .

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Michael Downey 🇺🇳  

A short glimpse of the awesome interns we have working on projects through my day job as part of & ... "The Power of Community: 23 summer interns bring impact & support to DIAL Open Source Center projects"

digitalimpactalliance.org/the-

Photo: Matthew Dillon CC-BY

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Michael Downey 🇺🇳  

Another work week in the books. Ready to spend an entire weekend at home!

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Michael Downey 🇺🇳  

From Nairobi, Kenya to Lusaka, Zambia: Headed for a week for better understanding of software needs & teaching good open source citizenship!

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Michael Downey 🇺🇳  

"Be my friend on !"
- @baconandcoconut on taking back control of internationalized, centralized capitalism at

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Michael Downey 🇺🇳  

MFW it's 2018 and professionals are still passing around Microsoft Word documents via email for collaboration.

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