Author Archives: Greg
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A culture of hate
Today I broke up my first playground bully fight as a dad. It involved blood (the bully drew blood on two others; mouth punches). They were probably around the age of 9. I could have, and should have, stopped it before blood was drawn, but I didn’t know it was real and I dislike being [...]
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Daddy, why are you sad?
Oh Petey, it’s ok, grown ups sometimes disagree with what each other are doing. It doesn’t mean we don’t love you anymore, just, I don’t get along with Canonical. Canonical and I had a long, wonderful relationship. They brought a lot of wonderfully smart and committed individuals in, paid them great, and let them build [...]
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The more things change
It’s official. I’ve signed the paperwork. I’ve told everyone at CC. On February 19th I begin as Release Manager at the Wikimedia Foundation. I can say a ton more about my time at CC; experiences, what I learned, who I worked with, all that. But instead of saying too much, and not enough, I’ll just [...]
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Secrecy part 2: Accountability
In my previous post in this series (Secrecy is power over others) I began the exploration on secrecy in today’s world. It was a very primitive exploration without much depth, admittedly. I ended it attempting to outline a few of the common excuses used for not sharing secrets. I need to expand, clarify, and generally [...]
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Grandpa’s tool chest
My grandpa (Grandpa Jenks, mom’s dad) was an amazing guy. Actually, I could just say: My grandpa was the guy you think of who lived through the depression and World War 2. He built a house with hand tools. Was a farmer. Was a carpenter. And raised 3 kids with an equally amazing wife. He [...]
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Excerpts from “Subsistence: Perspective for a Society Based on Commons”
by Veronika Bennholdt-Thomsen, released under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 license. Essay from the wonderful book The Wealth of the Commons: A world beyond market & state. The argument isn’t complete in the article (thus also not in my excerpts) but it does appear there is a book-length work on the [...]
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Capitalism Heresy
When will things like this, said by the ever awesome Carl Malamud, not be heresy? “The standards [organizations] definitely need money, but when one looks at the million-dollar salaries these nonprofits pay their CEOs, some of the highest salaries in the nonprofit world, one can’t help but think that maybe they don’t need quite as [...]
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Secrecy is power over others
[Think of this post as something like a public draft, fittingly enough. I'm looking for feedback. Poke holes. Make it (or make me make it) better.] Secrecy is power over others. Seems like a pretty obvious statement right? Obviously when you keep something a secret you are the one choosing whether someone else can know [...]
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Work for Creative Commons
We’re looking for a special person over at Creative Commons; someone to lead the tech team and also lead development of tools and products for the entire organization. The announcement I wrote for the CC blog: Paul Cutler / CC BY SA. Creative Commons is looking for an experienced, innovative, and technically inclined individual to [...]
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Where I’m going
I actually find these types of blog posts useful. I tell you I’m going to be a certain city for a while and would love meeting up with interested folks and if you’re in that city you come hang out. It’s great! 
Leave a comment if you want to meet up and you don’t [...]