Jonah Duckles

Beautiful view of my favorite part of Aotearoa!

MODIS Terra, September 18th, 2025 Can't believe that satellite is still taking such gorgeous pics for 26 years now! 😱 Gonna be so sad when she's retired.

Gosh I hate it when I suffer from "mental health"

Key takeaways for #OpenSource contributors:

- Celebrate your wins
- Address leadership burnout
- Improve onboarding processes
- Embrace strategic thinking

Read the full report to learn how JupyterHub is evolving and what other projects can apply:
voicesofjupyterhub.orgmycology.com

The Voices of Jupyter Hub Report -

🚀 Open source success story: JupyterHub's journey and lessons learned 📚

JupyterHub has empowered hundreds of thousands of learners and researchers. But like any project, it faces challenges.

voicesofjupyterhub.orgmycology.com

#OpenScience #Jupyter

Wind power firm departs, amid fast-track controversy over seabed mining A plan for an offshore wind power generation site has been abandoned as the company has pulled out, as controversy continues over seabed mining also planned for the area.

New Zealanders electricity bills are already high. When Luxon blocks offshore wind, by fast tracking seabed mining in the same place, he is driving electricity prices higher, while blocking new low emissions generation. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

@fernandoperez.org was just looking out for us all long ago 😆

Worksheet - Open Source Project Security Developing a Security Mindset for Your Open Source Project Authors: Georgia Bullen, Robert P. Davey, Beth Duckles, Jonah Duckles, Eriol Fox, Kate Hertweck, Dan Sholler, David Swenson, Kirstie Whitaker...

🚨 We've just released a new resource from our work with CZI EOSS projects around developing a security mindset in your Open Source project. We hope this is broadly useful! Use it and adapt it to plan a 1-2 hour conversation with your contributor community.

TFW an AI hiring bot sends you a snapshot of your GitHub that says you’re in the top 1% of HTML engineers globally. My response “tell your algo to go home, it be drunk”. Should I have played along 🤔?

Now why would you ever consider including learners (students) in the change being proposed? 🫠 Omiting learners from the process tells me all I need to know. Luckily my kids are done with that system now.

Lovely snaps from 30 June and 5 Jul of Aotearoa ❤️

Image of a screenshot of news headline, saying, "WhatsApp is getting ads using personal data from Instagram and Facebook Forced Consent & Consent Bypass / 16 June 2025 Meta announced today that it also wants to introduce ads on WhatsApp, which will be based on personal data from Facebook and Instagram. This further integrates WhatsApp into other Meta services - an originally independent app, which initially was available for just $1 per year without ads or data usage. This also means that Meta is consolidating its social networking monopoly. EU law was actually supposed to prevent this."

Use Signal. We promise, no AI clutter, and no surveillance ads, whatever the rest of the industry does. <3

Ensihtification USA Edition: Ring doorbell, rings the doorbell on your phone as a push notification. No more pesky doorbell sounds in the house. Family member leaves to go to the store & asks you to wait for their package. Doesn't help that it rings their phone. 😆 What problem are we solving again!?

When I can swing it, I try to work 4-day weeks in my consulting work. It is a MUCH better pace of life. farmingdale-observer.com/2025/05/10/i...

Globalization did not hollow out the American middle class The protectionist narrative is more myth than fact.

An interesting counterpoint to "Globalization wasn't good for the USA" - www.noahpinion.blog/p/globalizat...

Yesterday I went and became a kiwi citizen with my whānau. Here is a beautiful picture of Aotearoa from space (MODIS Terra from Mar-30) to celebrate. Can't wait to lean into this new phase of life here.

"If economists wished to study the horse, they wouldn’t go and look at horses. They’d sit in their studies and say to themselves, ‘What would I do if I were a horse?’"

pluralistic.net/2025/04/02/m...

Do you have existing academic / industrial open source collaborations? We'd love to talk to you and learn more about what makes them tick, how they formed and what you hope for them in the future.

📖 Check out OrgMycology's latest shared resource!

We've been doing a lot of work with academics who seek to deepen their collaborations with industry. Would love to hear feedback from both side here, did we hit the mark, what areas did we miss?

orgmycology.com/10-simple-ru...

A few thinking prompts about the below 10-simple rules:

What are some ways you lead groups you don't have formal authority over?

How do you nudge, cajole, encourage, direct, and get people excited about the work?

Do you find this kind of thing comes naturaly for you, or takes intention & focus?

10. Expect and prepare for community turnover

Work to cultivate an environment that seeks to prevent contributor burnout

People will need to leave/do other things, this is not a bad thing.

9. Make it easy

If you want people to join you, make it easy to join.
If you would like money, make it easy to pay you.
If you want contribution, make it easy to contribute.

8. Listen and adapt to develop contributor motivation

Understand that individuals’ professional / personal lives change, and so too might their motivation and availability.

7. Empower others in the group

Encourage people to step up and do more than even they might know they can do, when they are interested in doing more and have the bandwidth (i.e., don’t overburden people).

6. Foster inclusivity

Know what you don’t want in your group’s dynamics and be sure to bring up things like toxic behavior and in group behaviors that can be exclusionary.

5. Intentionally build THIS group’s “culture”

Collectively hold the community’s expectations and guidelines.

4. Create agency for community members

If community members find personal and career agency in the work they do with you, they'll be able to grow, and grow your organization's reach and impacts.

3. Align incentives for contribution and participation

What do community members gain from participation and engagement?

2. Lead by example, both in doing the technical work and creating culture

The community will keep leadership accountable by deciding whether or not to contribute to the project. Authority is given to leaders by the community.

1. Establish and overcommunicate the project’s mission and vision

Your mission and vision on what contributors are here for. You can't communicate it too much.

🧵 10 Simple Rules for Leadership Without Formal Authority

A resource to use when you're leading and growing teams you don't have formal authority over.

Full resoruce at: eoss-om-communitycalls.github.io/2024-08-27-1... y también en Español eoss-om-communitycalls.github.io/2024-08-27-1...