Jessica Lord ~ My Journey into Commons-based Knowledge ~ OS//OS
Channel: Edmund Hillary Fellowship
Date: 04/06/2015

Jessica Lord, a developer at Github, speaks about privilege, community, diversity and her personal journey into open source software, at the Open Source Open Society conference in Wellington, New Zealand

In her path from architecture and government to full time open source developer at GitHub, Jessica has championed and benefited from open source. In this talk, she explores how privilege and community can both derail and strengthen the open source movement.

Jessica has also produced an essay version of this talk here: http://jlord.us/blog/osos-talk.html

Check out all the speakers from the Open Source Open Society 2015 conference on our playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxTt2Nm5dTv0Xiidt5EutoDwdWcevCkV8

Open Source // Open Society Conference 2015
Wellington, NZ
Twitter: @OSOSNZ #OSOS2015
Find out more at: www.osos.nz