VALA Tech Camp 2023 was held last week, and I was lucky enough to attend, and to speak on Day 2 in the Open Source stream.
The day started with an excellent workshop on digital search skills in the Data stream. I learnt some very nifty tricks, and played around with a brilliant set of tools I've never used before called Voyant Tools.
(Magical insight + Marvellous idea)/(Minimalist implementation - Minor iteration) = Measurable impact.
Images: Donna + Dall-e
Update: Links to my talk Recording & Slides
A love letter to Everything Open!
As our machine learning, data engineering, and artificial intelligence systems evolve, adapt, and learn, so too must we!
The intersection of the twin revolutions of Agile and Open Source Software development methodologies is a fascinating place. These movements are changing the world, and they have more in common than sets them apart. However the differences are fascinating and fundamental, and we are only starting to respectfully learn from each other.
At Red Hat we try to balance our values of freedom and courage, alongside commitment, and accountability
I love this. It's the key that unlocks the open culture we live and breathe.
Freedom and courage require brave behaviour. Commitment and accountability help ensure we serve our communities, our customers, and our colleagues.
Over the past 3 days, I took part in Team Topologies immersion sessions.
After much urging by many wonderful humans I trust, I finally read one of Brene Browns books. Well I listened to one. My first audio book.
It was Dare to Lead
She prompts her listeners to define two values that matter to them. So I did.
Creativity & Curiosity.
When I am driven by these, I believe I am at my best.
What are yours?
I'm a huge fan of distributed, & open ways of working, but it is not without its challenges. Monitoring the vibe when facilitating a workshop via video conferencing is particularly tricky.
In person, we can easily read people's body language. Those who are not speaking are still contributing their time, their attention and their energy. We can easily see if people have become bored, or are distracted. Online it's hard to sense if lurkers are learning, listening, thinking, multi-tasking, or just completely tuned out.
John Findlay, RIP, thank you so much for teaching me such great etiquette for computer mediated communication.
Who knew it would become so mainstream? You knew!
I shared the Zing Technologies "Talk Type Read Review" meeting method on the Open Practice Library, and was then invited to talk about T2R2 on the Open Practice Podcast last year - and just found I can share that with you here too!