Notices by Erik Moeller (eloquence@social.coop)

What are people's favorite tools for analyzing/visualizing contributions by _new_ contributors to GitHub (or more generally, git) repositories?

Nonprofit ops/infra jobs alert -- boosts appreciated:

Freedom of the Press Foundation (where I work) is hiring a Senior DevOps Engineer. Budgeted base salary range is $90-$110K/year, remote-friendly for folks working in PT to ET time zones. Working in NYC office is also an option.

Responsibilities will include building out our Continuous Delivery infra using Kubernetes, and supporting the SecureDrop open source project and other technical initiatives by FPF. More:

https://freedom.press/jobs/senior-devops-engineer/

Considering an ops-y career? We're still open for applications for the Associate Site Reliability Engineer role at Freedom of the Press Foundation (remote work possible in American time zones). Also added a fair bit more detail about what kind of projects this person is likely to take on:

https://freedom.press/jobs/job-opening-associate-site-reliability-engineer/

Finished Catherine Nixey's excellent "The Darkening Age", about Christianity's violent role during the slow decline of the Roman Empire.

The Christianity of late antiquity was obsessed with demons and with sexual purity, no less fanatical than ISIS or the Taliban. Zealots burned books, smashed statues and temples, murdered non-Christians. Their targets were, in some cases, the exact same statues ISIS would obliterate so many centuries later.

Full review:

https://lib.reviews/review/6059bf20-981e-4bc5-9d06-b43877b01057

I am now also on Pixelfed (see https://pixelfed.social/ - @pixelfed), the federated alternative to Instagram.

https://pixelfed.social/eloquence

Will occasionally upload hiking & travel pics :)

If you're into working with humans, free software & cryptography, and you love the idea of helping news organizations break their biggest stories based on submissions by whistleblowers, you may want to come work with me! New opening at Freedom of the Press Foundation just went up - boosts appreciated:

https://freedom.press/jobs/job-opening-newsroom-support-engineer-securedrop/

#nonprofitjobs #securedrop

Good NYT #longread on the role of Facebook posts in exacerbating violence in #SriLanka. If you want to see evidence of the life and death consequences of centralized control of social media algorithms, this is about as compelling as it gets.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/21/world/asia/facebook-sri-lanka-riots.html

@mmn Thanks for the response! IMO it's unfortunate that contributors are giving up because they don't see a response to MRs for weeks (see further up thread); the last repo commit was 3 months ago. I would just note that people rarely "line up" to become maintainers -- they may be willing to take on that role if their contributions are well-received, and they're then encouraged to do more.

Regardless, thanks again for your work on GNU Social & your response here. I do appreciate it.

Fantastic step-by-step explanation of how to create a #Wikidata query. The example produces an interactive map of female writers from North African countries, with photos, in 14 lines of code.

https://medium.com/@alexstinson/writing-a-wikidata-query-discovering-women-writers-from-north-africa-d020634f0f6c

Love that my favorite Android Masto app, #Tusky, is open source. Love the fact that #Pinafore and #Halcyon exist as alternative web UIs. Love that #Pleroma is coming along well as an alternative #ActivityPub server. Love that the sex worker community on #Switter is actively working on building open source tech that works for their use case. Love to see instances like #OpenSocialAfrica and vis.social.

Y'all inspire me that this open source/free software thing may actually work out in the end. :)