Connie Benn and Joan Benjamin developed the 4 power model in the 1970s whilst working in the Poverty Education centre at the Brotherhood of St Laurence.  I've always found it to be a useful frame of reference when seeking to understand what's going on in teams, projects and organisations.

Once upon a time, in another century, I directed a student theatre production of Romeo and Juliet. A couple of things went very very wrong.  But in the end, they didn't really matter.

Water color painting of the city of melbourne from southbank looking towards flinders street station.
Image gen: https://huggingface.co/spaces/KingNish/Instant-Image 

I have been wondering about doing an experiment for solar powered data centres that automatically transfers workloads around the world to where ever the sun is shining. Could be fun to try!

We talk of "follow the sun support" what about supporting follow the sun hosting?

image: Sol, cafuego, flickr

I just spent way too long looking for this graphic by Dragan Stepanovic

And then found the rest of his blog to be quite excellent too.

Pair to program, mob to learn.

What is value?

What are values?

Why do we focus on value?

Ultimately, in many ways a value is simply a point of measurement. A small stripe on a ruler or thermometer. A price, a temperature, a height, a weight. A value. A number.

But we use the word in other ways too. We talk of values that are not numbers, we use this word to collect concepts that are much harder to measure.

I've just been doing some maintenance on the Open Practice Library.

This included updating contributors.js to recognise we've now got 220 practices, by 137 contributors.

I reckon that's pretty cool!

Wow.  This year is off to a racing start for me.  We're already 12 days in, and my mind is abuzz with ideas, options, and potential for 2024.

Open unlocks the world's potential.  That's the Red Hat Why.

And Open is my word for 2024. Just one little word. A word I've held tightly for many years now.

The Open Practice Library is filled with useful stuff. Stuff that helps people work together better, build the right thing, and build the thing right. In this session we'll gather ideas and issues from participants, and design potential solutions and pathways together using the Mobius Loop, and the library of open practices. It should be fun, come along!

30 minutes on the 4th of Feb, in Brussels, at FOSDEM.