Community

Reports and reflections on meetups, DemoCamps, sprints, hackathons, and other local and online community gatherings.

2025-05-16Appearance on SustainOSS Podcast
2024-10-11How to Be Interviewed
2024-08-21Teaching Workshop in September 2024
2024-05-07Code for Thought Interview
2023-12-05Please Help If You Can
2023-09-28Embedded.fm Podcast Appearance
2023-08-20Teaching Workshops for Rainbow Railroad
2023-04-11Fundraising Talks
2023-02-23It Will Never Work in Theory: April 2023 Lightning Talks
2022-10-29Throttling
2021-08-18Software Design Webinar
2021-08-05Software Design Rules
2021-04-20Scorecards
2021-03-09Books for Africa
2021-02-22Strategies for Change
2020-12-04Productivity and Collective Action
2020-08-31Governance
2019-12-13Synchronous Online Active Classes
2019-11-25How I Teach Today
2019-10-30First Do No Harm
2019-10-17So You've Been Fired
2019-09-27Managing a Queue of Learners
2019-08-14It Feels Good to be Useful
2019-06-14Software Isn't Sustainable
2019-05-11Positive and Negative Openness
2019-04-21Contrarians
2019-04-20Leading Questions for Creating a Learning Commons
2018-12-31How Feasible is a Harassment Canary?
2018-11-09Building Powerful Community Organizations
2018-11-01Twelve Questions
2018-10-06Flake and Collins, Mark and Jack and Tobi
2018-04-30GSoC 2018
2018-03-09Budgets
2018-02-28Workshop on Organizing for Progressive Community Change
2018-01-03Teaching Tech Together Toronto: January 2018 Meetup
2017-12-30Wanted: A Workable Lesson Competition
2017-12-15What Does Peripheral Participation in Data Look Like?
2017-09-08Bridge and Evolution
2016-10-30Close Cousins
2016-03-31Throttling
2016-02-19More of a Difference Than You Realize
2015-06-12Learning in Both Directions
2014-11-04A 'Joel Test' for Grassroots Programming Groups
2014-09-10Please Help Trans Tech
2012-12-21Code of Conduct
2012-12-08ElmCity Reaches Toronto
2012-04-17GitHub for Education
2012-04-03Maybe That's Why
2012-01-27Work As Though You Lived in the Early Days of a Better Nation
2011-12-07How to Teach Webcraft and Programming to Free-Range Students
2011-11-10Vulgarity Isn't Honesty (or, Who's Welcome Here?)
2011-10-24Demand Fair Play for Fauja Singh
2011-08-06Learning Lernanta: We're Live!
2011-07-29Team!
2011-07-13Learning Lernanta
2011-06-10Hermes FTW
2011-06-04Thanks, Google!
2011-05-28You Doesn't Exist
2011-03-12Dying Breeds
2011-01-13Jon Udell in Toronto Jan 18 2011
2009-11-11Following Up on the Toronto Innovation Showcase
2009-11-05Toronto Innovations Showcase
2009-11-02There's No Such Thing As KeepItGoingCamp
2009-10-29Organizing a Tech Event?
2009-08-24EveryBlock and Toronto
2009-07-29DemoCamp 21
2009-07-21DemoCamp 21 Lineup
2009-07-16Data Collaboration
2009-06-29Four Crowdsourcing Lessons
2009-05-01Something I Don't Know How to Fix
2009-04-23What We Mean When We Say 'Community'
2009-03-03DemoCamp 19: Layers of Veggies and a Massive Slice of Ham
2009-03-01DemoCamp 19: Who Do You Know?
2009-02-22'…And Thousands of Their Closest Friends'
2009-02-11Thanks, Guys
2008-04-08Our Own Little DemoCamplet
2008-04-07More DemoCamps
2008-03-26DemoCamp in the News
2008-02-06Congratulations to David Crow
2008-01-28First Figure Out What You Want to Change
2007-12-04DemoCamp 16: two w00ts
2007-11-10Why It's Worthwhile
2007-10-25Today Was More Fun
2007-10-17DemoCamp 15 Lineup
2007-09-18DemoCamp 14: Best Yet
2007-02-16Toronto Technology Week May 28 - June 1
2006-11-21DemoCamp 11
2006-10-24DemoCamp 10: Congratulations
2006-09-27An Unrepresentative DemoCamp
2006-07-26DemoCamp 8
2006-07-06What I Know About Playing the Bass
2006-07-05DemoCamp7 (and 8, and 9)
2006-05-31DemoCamp 6 redux
2006-04-26DemoCamp5 Redux
2006-04-09Mesh: Good News and Bad
2006-02-21DemoCamp: Googling for People