Advisory Board
Abner Coimbre
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img: "/images/starry_night.png"
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- title: "Sponsor-free tech events"
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content: "We reject sponsorship deals because we must be allowed to criticize anyone’s software. Accepting “free” bags of money destroys our ability to change the industry."
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content: "**100% indie.** We reject sponsorship because we must be allowed to criticize anyone’s software. Accepting “free” bags of money destroys our ability to change the software industry."
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color: "#FC6D36"
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content_class: "text-white"
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- title: "An obligation to software quality"
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content: "The industry’s incentives are about imposing control and fleecing customers. We’ve abandoned the user’s quality of experience, agency over their software, and privacy."
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content: "The industry’s incentives erode ownership to extract rent from consumers. We’ve abandoned the love for our craft, the user's quality of experience, and their right to privacy."
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color: "#A456EA"
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content_class: "text-white"
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- title: "Self-host wherever possible"
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content: "Anything essential to our conferences is processed in-house. E.g. When you register for an event we personally handle the process to generate your ticket—removing spying middlemen like Ticketmaster."
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content: "Essential services for our conferences and meetups are processed in-house. For example, our servers personally generate your conference ticket—removing spying middlemen like Ticketmaster."
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color: "#6B8EE8"
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content_class: "text-white"
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- title: "Healthy expansion"
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- title: "Reasonable growth"
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content: "As a [polyglot](https://vimeo.com/661662233), our founder intends to expand even outside the United States. Since we wish to retain independence, however, we’re only growing through increased audience support."
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color: "#60E3C4"
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content_class: "text-white"
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start_dark_color: "black"
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bg_color: "#060610"
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content_class: "mt-4"
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content: "[Abner](https://abnercoimbre.com) is the founder of Handmade Cities and sole organizer for our conferences.<br><br>His professional story began when he left Puerto Rico for a yearlong internship at NASA. Abner was mentored on how they make software and after winning NASA’s Intern of the Year, he published an essay on their programming philosophy ([featured](https://observer.com/2017/07/a-look-into-nasa-coding-philosophy-kennedy-space-center-programming/) in the news.) He was promoted to launch control engineer.<br><br>Abner also started the [Handmade Network](https://handmade.network/), an online community learning to make quality software. He went on to work for Jonathan Blow multiple years and then Cyan Worlds to help ship the [Myst remake](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1255560/Myst/).<br><br>His concern of declining standards—both ethical and technical—pushed Abner to run tech conferences full-time, with ironclad conviction that we need independent organizers more than ever."
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content: "[Abner](https://abner.page) is founder of Handmade Cities and the sole organizer for our conferences.<br><br>At a young age he was mentored by Kennedy Space Center on how they make software. After winning NASA’s Intern of the Year, Abner published an essay on their programming philosophy: featured in the [news](https://observer.com/2017/07/a-look-into-nasa-coding-philosophy-kennedy-space-center-programming/). He was subsequently promoted to launch control engineer.<br><br>Abner founded the [Handmade Network](https://handmade.network/), an online community learning to make quality software. He went on to work under Jonathan Blow for several years and finally Cyan Worlds to ship the [Myst remake](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1255560/Myst/).<br><br>Now in his early thirties, Abner's mounting concern of declining software standards—both ethical and technical—pushed him to run conferences and meetups full-time, with a conviction we need independent organizing more than ever. (He still loves [programming](https://terminal.click) though.)"
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- title: "Our Advisory Board"
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title_class: "mb-20 text-center text-white"
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image: ""
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side: "center"
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content_class: "mt-16 mb-12"
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bg_img:
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parallax: true
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img: "/images/starry_night.png"
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- title: "Zac Nowicki"
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content: "Tech lead at [Kagi](https://kagi.com) Search."
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color: "#9B8EE8"
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content_class: "text-white"
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- title: "Mary Bush"
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content: "Seattle indie developer (formerly in logistics/healthcare tech)."
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color: "#9B8EE8"
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content_class: "text-white"
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- title: "Jon Stevens"
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content: "Senior game developer at Bitshift Entertainment: new studio by Notch, creator of Minecraft."
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color: "#9B8EE8"
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content_class: "text-white"
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- title: "Matt Nite"
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content: "Organizer at [Software You Can Love](https://softwareyoucanlove.ca): plus meetups, workshops, and more."
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color: "#9B8EE8"
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content_class: "text-white"
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- title: "Unlisted Member"
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content: "Indie dev. Former co-worker and colleague of Abner's. Values privacy but willing to share more when requested."
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color: "#9B8EE8"
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content_class: "text-white"
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- title: "NASA Observer"
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content: "Unofficial observer with no voting power. Well-regarded hardware engineer at NASA. Due to current climate, their involvement is anonymous."
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color: "#9B8EE8"
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content_class: "text-white"
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notice: "**Note:** The board is a volunteer role. Member's opinions are their own, not their employer's."
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- title: "Morgan Rammell"
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content_class: ""
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section_class: "!pt-16 !pb-32 text-white"
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content: "Devon is a guy who makes things.<br>(like a PSX style souls like in C on [stream](https://twitch.tv/tek256))"
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- title: "Mr. Perkins"
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title_class: "text-white"
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subtitle: "Secretary"
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subtitle_class: "!text-[#F7CE3B]"
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bg_color: "#060610"
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content_class: ""
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section_class: "!pt-16 !pb-32 text-white"
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content: "Mr. Perkins is Abner's part-time assistant, always working through his backlog of texts, emails or invoices."
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