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Brunch with Brent: Heather Ellsworth
Jupiter Extras
English - February 21, 2020 12:00 - 48 minutes - 33.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsTechnology Comedy Improv jupiter broadcasting extras feed bonus content interviews open source linux Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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.
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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CanonicalUbuntuLibreOffice - SnapcraftSnap Documentation - SnapcraftCERN - European Organization for Nuclear ResearchCERN - WikipediaHiggs boson - WikipediaThe GNOME Foundationcherrytree — A hierarchical note taking applicationLibrem 5 - PurismLibrem 5 Documentation - PurismOpen Source SummitFree Software FoundationFree as in Freedom 2.0 (PDF) — Richard Stallman and the Free Software RevolutionFree as in Freedom 2.0, by Richard Stallman - FSF ShopThe Cathedral and the Bazaar - WikipediaThe Cathedral and the Bazaar by Eric S. RaymondOnitama - BoardGameGeekA Feast for Odin - BoardGameGeekMagic: the Gathering - BoardGameGeekBrent Gervais - @brentgervais on Twitter