[FBT] on Wear and Waffle
A festival. A wedding. A moment. A sudden death. Collective grieving. 3,632km driving on the left. Hiking and empty beaches, a fairy forest, a missing… Read More »[FBT] on Wear and Waffle
Laura Hilliger
Laura Hilliger is a writer, educator and technologist. She’s a multimedia designer and developer, a technical liaison, a project manager, a conceptual architect, an open advocate who is happiest in collaborative environments. In 2020, she was awarded the Women in IT Digital Leader of the Year award for her work bringing open principles to Greenpeace. She’s a co-founder of We Are Open Co-op, a collective that has spent 10 years helping organisations like Amnesty International UK, MIT, Friends of the Earth and the BBC with thoughtful technology, community and learning projects. She is also an Ambassador for the Open Org Project, and a Mozilla alum. Find her on Mastodon as @epilepticrabbit (https://social.coop/@epilepticrabbit)
[FBT] on Grief and Gardening
One of you once wrote me that “Grief is strange, oddly supple, and rises up in very peculiar waves.” Supple. Merriam Webster provides several definitions… Read More »[FBT] on Grief and Gardening
[FBT] on Sellouts and Savants
“Writing — writing of any sort, not just an email — is a thousands-year-old technological hack to get around not being in person; but that… Read More »[FBT] on Sellouts and Savants
[FBT] on Sovereignty and Stacks
If I weren’t going on sabbatical soon, and if I were so inclined to update my resume, I too would be highlighting the “tech sovereignty”… Read More »[FBT] on Sovereignty and Stacks
Rising Scholars: Sprinting with INASP
cross posted on the WAO blog WAO is working with INASP, an international development organization with over 30 years’ experience of working with a global… Read More »Rising Scholars: Sprinting with INASP
[FBT] on Pull and Perception
As much as mainstream culture is enveloping the force-fed overtone window of suck that is maxxing and efficiency and objectification and dehumanization, there are others.… Read More »[FBT] on Pull and Perception
[FBT] on Timing and Transitions
No news is good news, or so people say when they are trying to convince themselves that not knowing and everything being ok is congruent.… Read More »[FBT] on Timing and Transitions
Time for Change
It’s been a decade since I co-founded We Are Open Co-op with Doug Belshaw and John Bevan, a couple of former Mozilla colleagues, and Bryan… Read More »Time for Change
[FBT] on Witches and Wankers
Susu must have been a nickname for Susanna or Susanne or Suzanne. Susu ist a Chinese name. Or Japanese. Or Hawaiian. Or it’s from the… Read More »[FBT] on Witches and Wankers
[FBT] on Glistening and Gobsmacking
Questions and curiosities serve as the basis of scientific study and are a habitual pattern for lifelong learners. When a human brain suddenly cannot let… Read More »[FBT] on Glistening and Gobsmacking