EPISODE · Feb 21, 2020 · 48 MIN
Brunch with Brent: Heather Ellsworth
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Brent sits down with Heather Ellsworth, Software Engineer on Canonical's Ubuntu Desktop Team, a GNOME Foundation Member, and former Purism Librem 5 Documentation Engineer. We discuss her deep history in experimental high energy physics at CERN, the similarities and synergies between the sciences and software engineering, her love of documentation, her newly established maintainership of LibreOffice, and how empathy factors into good bug reporting.Special Guest: Heather Ellsworth.
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Brent sits down with Heather Ellsworth, Software Engineer on Canonical's Ubuntu Desktop Team, a GNOME Foundation Member, and former Purism Librem 5 Documentation Engineer. We discuss her deep history in experimental high energy physics at CERN, the similarities and synergies between the sciences and software engineering, her love of documentation, her newly established maintainership of LibreOffice, and how empathy factors into good bug reporting. Special Guest: Heather Ellsworth. Links: Canonical Ubuntu LibreOffice - Snapcraft Snap Documentation - Snapcraft CERN - European Organization for Nuclear Research CERN - Wikipedia Higgs boson - Wikipedia The GNOME Foundation cherrytree — A hierarchical note taking application Librem 5 - Purism Librem 5 Documentation - Purism Open Source Summit Free Software Foundation Free as in Freedom 2.0 (PDF) — Richard Stallman and the Free Software Revolution Free as in Freedom 2.0, by Richard Stallman - FSF Shop The Cathedral and the Bazaar - Wikipedia The Cathedral and the Bazaar by Eric S. Raymond Onitama - BoardGameGeek A Feast for Odin - BoardGameGeek Magic: the Gathering - BoardGameGeek Brent Gervais - @brentgervais on Twitter
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