Episode 7 — Sumana Harihareswara
Today, I’m chatting with Sumana Harihareswara, Founder at Changeset Consulting.
- Twitter: @brainwane
- Github: brainwane
- Web site: http://harihareswara.net/ (and blog)
- Dreamwidth: brainwane
- Identi.ca
- MetaFilter
- Wikipedia: User:Sumanah
- Pinboard: brainwane
In this episode
Project management, open source and social justice as tools of empowerment, self-image as a coder, how Sumana got into open source and why, learning programming (and its culture and tools) as an adult, computer science vs software engineering, managers as sysadmins of social infrastructure, media preservation and digitally archiving a literary estate, fixed vs. growth mindsets, debugging as a hero’s journey, the Recurse Center, Hamilton.
Shoutouts to good documentation, Ashley Blewer, and the Internet Archive.
Links
- Sumana’s keynote speeches:
- Code4Lib: UX Is A Social Justice Issue
- Open Source Bridge: Be Bold: An Origin Story
- Wiki Conference USA:“Hospitality, Jerks, and What I Learned”
- Thoughtcrime Experiments, a CC-licensed SF anthology that Sumana co-edited
- PyCon
- Mailman software
- Seth Schoen
- The Peace and Justice Network of San Joaquin County
- The GPL
- The Participatory Culture Foundation, and Miro, their open source podcatcher
- Carol Dweck, known for her work on fixed vs. growth mindsets
- Unlocking the Clubhouse
- Open Hatch and its Boston Python Workshops, organized by the fabulous Jessica McKellar (coincidentally, I cotaught a preconference based on this workshop at ALA Annual in 2013)
- “Why Don’t Schools Teach Debugging?”
- Sumana’s writing at GeekFeminism, including “Google, Gossip, and Gamification” and “body img – the anxiety of learning and how I am beating it”
- The Recurse Center (famed, among other things for its social rules, a wonderful piece of culture-setting in a tech learning environment)
- Software Carpentry and its offshoot Data Carpentry
- Hamilton! Dreamwidth fan group; Lin-Manuel Miranda performing an early version of one of the songs that would ultimately be part of Hamilton
- The John Morearty Archive at the Internet Archive, and Sumana’s blog posts on this work
- Ashley Blewer (web site, Twitter) and her Taylor-Swift-ariffic talk “Don’t know about you, but I’m feeling like SHA-2!” (video, slides)
- California Audiovisual Preservation Project
####Bonus links! Awesome stuff we wanted to talk about but didn’t have time for.
- Sumana’s sci-fi dystopia generator
- Changeset resources on project management, including hackathon planning advice from Sumana’s blog and her Model View Culture essay, and how to improve the bus factor in your open source project
- The archives of MC Masala, Sumana’s weekly column in several SF Bay Area newspapers circa 2006
- “Pipeline”, Sumana’s fanvid/tech cultural critique
- Feminist technology demos
- Gift culture and what FLOSS can learn from fandom (blog post)
- Yuletide 2015, a Secret-Santa-type exchange by fanfic writers
- An extensive list of community archives
- Odd things HTTP can do
- Alternative Python interpreters
- AlterConf