@coralineada
Internationally recognized tech ethicist, software engineer, & open source troublemaker. Author, "We Just Build Hammers". Creator, Contributor Covenant and Hippocratic License. Co-Founder, Organization for Ethical Source. Chair, Governance Futures Network.
Calling for systems thinking @coralineada.bsky.social points out the fact that to win a chess game you don’t zoom in on a subset.
You zoom out and understand the whole system.
@coralineada.bsky.social sharing wisdom @xoruby.com
Chicago, we can't wait to see you this weekend! We've got some incredible talks lined up from Aji Slater, @coralineada.bsky.social, and Erin Claudio.
Sat. 9/6 @ Fulton Street Collective
🎟️ Do you have your ticket yet?
Grab yours for $100: xoruby.com/event/chicago/
#rubyfriends #ruby
Do you work in open source community management? I'm curious about how the anti-"DEI" backlash in the US might be affecting the practice, especially around outreach efforts and code of conduct enforcement.
The team behind the new Contributor Covenant builder tool faced a challenge: how to make adoption easy, without making it thoughtless. So we slowed adoption to the speed of trust, with prompts for communities to customize their reporting & enforcement policies.
More at www.contributor-covenant.org
We'll be hosting small regional ruby conferences in Chicago, Atlanta, and New Orleans in September. Tell your friends!
www.xoruby.com/blog/why-i-a...
I'm happy to share that I'm speaking at the inaugural event in Chicago in September! The tentative title of my talk is "Post-Dystopia: How We Got Here (and What We Can Do About It)"
Congratulations go to IBM as the first official adopter of Contributor Covenant 3.0!
See more featured adopters & explore what's new with the premier code of conduct for digital communities at www.contributor-covenant.org
#opensource #EthicalSource #ContributorCovenant #CodesOfConduct
I'm proud to be part of celebrating an advance for governable online spaces—a huge update for @coralineada.bsky.social's Contributor Covenant, the most widely used code of conduct in open source. It is now interactive & supports design for due process.
Take a look! ethicalsource.dev/blog/contrib...
This was a year-long project with a team of dedicated volunteers from around the world. So much gratitude to Greg Cassel, Coraline Ada Ehmke, Gerardo Lisboa, Rynn Mancuso, Mo McElaney, Maryblessing Okolie, Ben Sternthal, and Casey Watts for their dedication and expertise.
To ensure that we were meeting the real-world needs of communities, we surveyed, interviewed, and shared working drafts with over 2 dozen open industry experts to learn about the challenges of code of conduct enforcement and where current tools were falling short. Thanks to those who participated!
The enforcement guidelines section has been reimagined as “Addressing and Repairing Harm,” reflecting an alignment with principles of restorative justice, including finding ways to safely reintegrate someone back into a community after an incident occurs.
Contributor Covenant 3.0 is designed to be more adaptable to different kinds of communities, both online and offline. It is written with clearer, less US-centric language, intended to be easier to understand and translate.
The book is really well-received so far, and I can't be happier with what I'm hearing from readers. Most recently, a young woman just entering tech told me that after reading it, she "didn't feel alone anymore". (Yes, I cried.)
"Book cover titled 'We Just Build Hammers' by Apress. The design features a yellow, white and blue color scheme with an abstract illustration of a hammer. Text on the left reads, 'Stories from the Past, Present, and Future of Responsible Tech.'"
Our Apress title 'We Just Build Hammers' applies a lens of speculative and science fiction to connect you with a historical lineage of thinkers and activists in the responsible tech movement. Its narrative spans a century of major technological upheavals: http://spklr.io/63325hBJc
Same! I love this prompt series.
You're cheating on next week too, eh?
I can't wait to hear how it turns out-- hopefully the same way you hear it in your head. :)
What do we like as a soundcloud replacement that won't use our music to train its AI? Preferably something federated? The first coop to deliver social music sharing wins.
day and night
night 2 of book club is tomorrow! join us.
if you care about the future of tech, you have to be there.
Quoting Edmund Berkeley's final words: "Learning to live together is the biggest variable for a computer field's future."
Join the (m)otherboard community Wednesday April 30th at 8ET/5PT for our bookclub discussion of We Just Build Hammers: Stories from the Past, Present, and Future of Responsible Tech. This week we'll talk about early computers and meet a hero of ethical computing.
www.eventbrite.com/e/motherboar...
The image shows a promotional graphic for a book club called "We Just Build Hammers" hosted by m.otherboard.org. The graphic includes: The book club name and website (m.otherboard.org) A tagline: "The ethical questions facing AI today were first asked 100 years ago. Join us!" Meeting dates and times: 4/16, 4/30, 5/14, 5/28, 8-9:30 PM EST A book club website: m.otherboard.org/book-club A book cover image for "We Just Build Hammers: Stories from the Past, Present, and Future of Responsible Tech" by Coraline Ada Ehmke, published by Apress Photos and names of what appear to be facilitators or speakers: Coraline Ada Ehmke Sara M. Watson Mara Zepeda The graphic uses a yellow and blue color scheme with a hammer icon, suggesting themes of construction, tools, and responsibility in technology.
🔨📚 JOIN OUR BOOK CLUB! 🔨📚
We're kicking off Session 2 of our book club on April 30th with We Just Build Hammers: Stories from the Past, Present, and Future of #ResponsibleTech, a new book by #techethicist and (m)otherboard godmother @coralineada.bsky.social.
m.otherboard.org/book-club/
I'm urgently looking for work 🚨
Engineering manager or staff programmer
20 years ruby/rails
30 years of web dev/design
5+ years of eng mgmt
I'm based in Portland, Oregon
Open to local or remote work
https://linkedin.com/in/veganstraightedge
Hear @coralineada.bsky.social discuss her new book, "We Just Build Hammers," in this episode of @redmonk.com's the MonkCast. We discuss extensible lessons from science fiction, the hacker ethic, & the history of science's connection to contemporary tech justice movements. redmonk.com/blog/2025/04...
I really enjoyed the conversation with Kate, and I hope that you will find something resonant in this episode!
I'm featured in the opening Trans Joy segment on Imara Jones's amazing TransLash podcast on the rise of techno-fascism. Check it out wherever you find your podcasts, for example podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Announcing the 4th and final album by Sudre's Violin!
“Figure Six" uses odd rhythms, sinister piano, fragile guitar, & broken synths to take you on a journey through haunting and haunted postpunk soundscapes.
#FascistsHateMyMusic #SupportTransArtists
coralineada.bandcamp.com/album/figure-6
