Sumana Harihareswara

@brainwane

Founder of . FLOSS geek, feminist, programmer, fanvidder. alumna. She/her. Married to .

Astoria, NY
Joined August 2009

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  1. Also, super that I get penalized for treating my mental health issues instead of ignoring them.

  2. My BMI* and history of depression will cost me $40/mo in extra life insurance costs. Yet another little freelancer ouch. *BMI rant here

  3. Potlatch 2016 (March 19, in San Jose + online, free) chooses Constellation Games as its Book of Honor! Poster:

  4. In case you missed my Zen Cho & Hamilton musings since October:

  5. New post, with video transcript: What Software Freedom Conservancy Does, Why It's Important, & Why You Should Give

  6. What does, and why I support them: Get your donation doubled:

  7. . explains our work so it's easy to understand for those new to software freedom. Share w/ family/friends!

  8. It's natural to ask peers to help us for free, rather than learning to make a compelling business case, but the latter is more sustainable.

  9. Yes, organisations woefully underinvest in sustaining engineering. Donating your time to mitigating their mistake perpetuates the problem :(

  10. Important point to remember as an open source contributor: it's not your responsibility to help others work around broken corporate cultures

  11. then at some point in my 20s I thought "there's always exactly a week between Christmas & New Year's! ohhhhhhhh......"

  12. and I knew from TV, but hadn't grokked, really important distinctions between things you do on "Christmas Eve" & on "Christmas Day"

  13. In college I dated a guy whose family celebrated Christmas so I started learning important Christmas taboos, e.g., presents must be wrapped

  14. and it seemed like most of the important dates moved around, right? Mother's & Father's Day, Passover, Easter, Thanksgiving, Election Day...

  15. my family didn't celebrate it, & "Christmas" stuff seemed to happen throughout late December and into early January, so I didn't notice...

  16. I revealed to several Christian relatives yesterday that until my twenties I did not realize Christmas is on the same date every year

  17. .'s the only org actively doing GPL compliance work. A great point by about how critical it is

  18. as in conversation with & "Drunk History"

  19. . on Hamilton, metatextual historical fiction, Hark! A Vagrant!, sf, adventure, fanfic, and more.

  20. . explains how HAMILTON: AN AMERICAN MUSICAL uses history the way science fiction does:

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