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- title: "Self-host wherever possible"
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."
content: "Our services live in-house: we operate our own chat server and newsletter system. For payments, Stripe/PayPal ping our servers to process any orders ourselves."
color: "#6B8EE8"
content_class: "text-white"
- title: "Direct funding approach"
content: "We grow through obvious means, funded primarily through ticket sales, followed by independent donations and fixed-rate booth rentals: straightforward, mom-and-pop transactions."
content: "We grow through obvious means, funded through users buying our own Handmade software. No investors."
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content_class: "text-white"
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label: "Founder's Vision"
link: "/founders-vision"
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label: "Official Memos"
link: "/memos"
icon: "fa fa-ticket pl-2"
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content: "[Abner](https://abner.page) is founder of Handmade Cities and the sole organizer for our conferences.<br><br>Born and raised in Puerto Rico, he was mentored by Kennedy Space Center on how they make software. After winning NASA’s Intern of the Year, Abner penned 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 started the [Handmade Network](https://handmade.network/), an online community learning to make quality software. He went on to work under Jonathan Blow followed by Cyan Worlds to ship the Myst Remake.<br><br>Now in his early thirties, Abner's concern for declining software standards—both ethical and technical—pushed him to become a community organizer. (He still loves [programming](https://terminal.click) though.)"
content: "[Abner](https://abner.page) is founder of Handmade Cities and full-time [indie dev](https://terminal.click).<br><br>Born and raised in Puerto Rico, he was mentored by Kennedy Space Center on how they make software. After winning NASA’s Intern of the Year, Abner penned 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 started the [Handmade Network](https://handmade.network/), an online community learning to make quality software. He went on to work under Jonathan Blow followed by Cyan Worlds to ship the Myst Remake.<br><br>Now in his early thirties, Abner's concern for declining software standards—both ethical and technical—pushed him to become a community organizer."
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