From 1301e23824e157a477de7da8ea4fd7b3a68913b9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Abner Coimbre Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2025 15:32:12 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Advisory Board --- content/english/about/index.md | 54 ++++++++++++++++++++--- layouts/partials/components/features.html | 11 +++-- 2 files changed, 57 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/content/english/about/index.md b/content/english/about/index.md index 1921d8d..1d16c52 100644 --- a/content/english/about/index.md +++ b/content/english/about/index.md @@ -16,18 +16,18 @@ features: img: "/images/starry_night.png" grid: - title: "Sponsor-free tech events" - 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." + 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." color: "#FC6D36" content_class: "text-white" - title: "An obligation to software quality" - 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." + 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." color: "#A456EA" content_class: "text-white" - title: "Self-host wherever possible" - 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." + 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." color: "#6B8EE8" content_class: "text-white" - - title: "Healthy expansion" + - title: "Reasonable growth" 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." color: "#60E3C4" content_class: "text-white" @@ -48,7 +48,42 @@ features: start_dark_color: "black" bg_color: "#060610" content_class: "mt-4" - content: "[Abner](https://abnercoimbre.com) is the founder of Handmade Cities and sole organizer for our conferences.

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.

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/).

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." + content: "[Abner](https://abner.page) is founder of Handmade Cities and the sole organizer for our conferences.

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.

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/).

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.)" + + - title: "Our Advisory Board" + title_class: "mb-20 text-center text-white" + image: "" + side: "center" + content_class: "mt-16 mb-12" + bg_img: + parallax: true + img: "/images/starry_night.png" + grid: + - title: "Zac Nowicki" + content: "Tech lead at [Kagi](https://kagi.com) Search." + color: "#9B8EE8" + content_class: "text-white" + - title: "Mary Bush" + content: "Seattle indie developer (formerly in logistics/healthcare tech)." + color: "#9B8EE8" + content_class: "text-white" + - title: "Jon Stevens" + content: "Senior game developer at Bitshift Entertainment: new studio by Notch, creator of Minecraft." + color: "#9B8EE8" + content_class: "text-white" + - title: "Matt Nite" + content: "Organizer at [Software You Can Love](https://softwareyoucanlove.ca): plus meetups, workshops, and more." + color: "#9B8EE8" + content_class: "text-white" + - title: "Unlisted Member" + content: "Indie dev. Former co-worker and colleague of Abner's. Values privacy but willing to share more when requested." + color: "#9B8EE8" + content_class: "text-white" + - title: "NASA Observer" + content: "Unofficial observer with no voting power. Well-regarded hardware engineer at NASA. Due to current climate, their involvement is anonymous." + color: "#9B8EE8" + content_class: "text-white" + notice: "**Note:** The board is a volunteer role. Member's opinions are their own, not their employer's." - title: "Morgan Rammell" title_class: "text-white" @@ -84,4 +119,13 @@ features: content_class: "" section_class: "!pt-16 !pb-32 text-white" content: "Devon is a guy who makes things.
(like a PSX style souls like in C on [stream](https://twitch.tv/tek256))" + + - title: "Mr. Perkins" + title_class: "text-white" + subtitle: "Secretary" + subtitle_class: "!text-[#F7CE3B]" + bg_color: "#060610" + content_class: "" + section_class: "!pt-16 !pb-32 text-white" + content: "Mr. Perkins is Abner's part-time assistant, always working through his backlog of texts, emails or invoices." --- diff --git a/layouts/partials/components/features.html b/layouts/partials/components/features.html index 4088983..b6c2c65 100644 --- a/layouts/partials/components/features.html +++ b/layouts/partials/components/features.html @@ -53,9 +53,6 @@
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