If you're in the Bay Area and interested in building local-first software, whether it's figuring out collaboration for your desktop app, making PWAs offline resilient, or working on P2P technology, we're having a get-together of practicioners October 16th. DM me!

Good news! @Acquia is expanding our Drupal Acceleration Team with 4 people! Our team is focused on increasing Drupal adoption through improvements to Drupal core (e.g. Layout Builder, Media initiative, JSON:API, etc). linkedin.com/jobs/cap/view/…

It's our biggest bash of the year & you're invited: join us 10/23 from 5-10 PM for WORLD NIGHT MARKET, to celebrate IA's biggest breakthrus and projects! Get your Passport to knowledge, plus food trucks, demos, DJs, dancing--fun! eventbrite.com/e/world-night-…

For Boston area folks

Ah, what could have been.

The BART panhandling ban is dead! Elections matter: as DEI speedwagon🌹🇵🇸 〽️ just pointed out to me, Janice Li 李正元’s predecessor was notoriously pro-cop. Meanwhile Janice led the charge to oppose this proposal, which ultimately failed by one vote.

Success! Using Yarn workspaces and GatsbyJS themes is a winner for constructing multiple @gatsbyjs sites! Perfect for Gatsby sites that use the same data source, but are for a specific brand, region, language, etc. More tinkering to come 🙃 glamanate.com/blog/yarn-work…

So it turns out Twitter's new open source effort for decentralized social media (Bluesky) is NOT what we were hoping, unfortunately. Thread

🎉 Here it is: Manyverse for iOS! Available now on the App Store: apps.apple.com/app/manyverse/…

Our #CallForPapers is now open! 📝 5 tracks: #CMS #HeadlessCMS #JavaScript/#JAMstack Biz/CXO People/Community 🙋🏿‍♀️ 45% of accepted talks for underrepresented folx + 10% for new speakers! ⏲️ Ends Fri March 5th 11:59pm EST! #Drupal #WordPress #GatsbyJS #GraphQL #Netlify #Gridsome

⏰ Save the date!! Our Networks 2020 is scheduled for August 7-9 in Toronto 📽️🌟 CFP and theme announcements coming soon 😊

The Beaker 1.0 Beta is here! New p2p protocol, new editing tools, new Web APIs, and a lot more. Try it out! beakerbrowser.com/2020/05/14/bea…

This week, we ✅Refused to prosecute peaceful protest ✅Called on state bar to ban DAs from taking police union $ ✅Made resolution to ban hiring police w/ misconduct history ✅Hired new attny overseeing police misconduct ✅New policy preventing false charges of resisting arrest

Terrible news for the global internet freedom, anti-censorship&surveillance community. Open Technology Fund has enabled bllns of ppl around the world to have secure access to a free & open internet by funding accessible, #opensource projects, tools and research. edition.cnn.com/2020/06/17/med…

The Internet Archive’s The Wayback Machine is honored to be helping to ensure massive archives of Open Source material is available for future generations, by working with GitHub to back it up, and bury it in a remote location: github.blog/2020-07-16-git…

2/ Radicle is a new kind of code collab network built on Git. It's: 🤝 Peer-to-peer — no central servers, no censorship 💻 Local-first — everything's stored on your machine 🔐 Secure by design — no accounts, just crypto 🔑 💕 For the collective — a fresh take on sustainability

🚨 Peter van Hardenberg helms Ink & Switch, an independent lab researching tools for thought. He'll be sharing their work on local-first computing, and its implications for software development. 📅 Feb 26 at 09:30a Pacific, streaming on twitch.tv/github octo.github.com/speakerseries/…

Any Senior Drupal Developers in my network looking for full time work? My incredible team at New Relic is gearing up to hire, DMs open.

My incredible team at New Relic is looking for a Senior #drupal developer, apply here: newrelic.careers/en_US/careers/… Shares and referrals are most appreciated!

Our community was hit hard by Hurricane Helene. We were able to evacuate, and are organizing trips back to deliver supplies to community in need. We’d love your help. All money goes directly to purchasing critical supplies. Learn more & donate at: ashevillecommunityrelief.com