Duane O’Brien

So it seems like this thing might have gotten a little more gravity to it?

We had a blast with #OpenSource #MaintainerMonth! Thank you @duaneobrien.bsky.social, Jessica Tegner, @filippo.abyssdomain.expert, Claire Moss, and our sponsors who made it possible.

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A dumb cat asleep on the floor right next to a giant, luxuriously soft pillow, with a cat-shaped impression in it.

There’s a perfectly good pillow right there my dude…

I don’t know that anyone would have predicted it.

I don’t have any particular comment just… hey. You’re killing it. Keep doing your thing. 💜

@ellearmageddon.bsky.social I had a sudden realization today that I’ve been following your various exploits for like 12 years now.

Life is weird.

I just came from at art show at my kid’s high school.

There was a large amount of art dealing with the fear of being shot to death at school.

So, that’s how we’re doing, folks.

Empathy. Mine also seems to have perfected the art of waking me up to remind me that I’ll need to wake up in a couple hours.

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I don’t mean to cause alarm but this is an emergency.

There is a one hour video of red pandas eating crunchy snacks on the Oregon Zoo’s YouTube channel.

https://youtu.be/UBcVbAFntQo

Hey remember when the front page of Kickstarter always listed a dude who thought he had a pretty good chance of getting The Kinks back together?

The lathe is still under the bed in the bus…

I love these.

Same but wood chisels and fountain pens.

The path from “This security thing is a worthy challenge!” to “Leave me alone to maintain my antique tractor and do not mention cursed calculators to me” was a lot shorter than I expected.

It can be a tough step, to be sure.

How much are you trying to raise?

Much of what I’ve seen in the realm of funding for OSS humanitarian aid projects comes from the philanthropic funding orgs. How much exploraient have you done with grant writing?

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Hey you.

I’ve been driving myself deep into the intersection of funding and open source sustainability, specifically on a quest to change the ways companies support their open source infrastructure. Most corps who write checks for OSS write small ones compared to their revenue. I want to change that.

The crows have come to recognize my truck. They come squawking for peanuts when I come home.

Every day, I get a little closer to my Final Form.

I Am Ready For My Next Role. After being laid off in March, I decided to take a couple months to decompress and create space to think about what I was looking for in my next role. In the interim, I asked that you Hire My Team. Now, I'm ready for you to Hire Me. I’ve

Because I have a weirdly different group of followers here than anywhere else (hi!) :

I’m looking for a new role where I can take bigger risks, lead a diverse organization, write bigger checks for open source, and build partnerships.

More at https://www.duaneobrien.com/i-am-ready-for-my-next-role/

I was going to play Invisible Sun but instead I’m going to drink cider and play pinball until I reboot.

Yes it’s really me.

Hi friends.

I am going to use the hell out of the phrase "critical human infrastructure" (crediting Duane, of course) because we don't prioritize the humans in open source nearly enough.