diff --git a/assets/images/people/abner_2024.png b/assets/images/people/abner_2024.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bad0af5 Binary files /dev/null and b/assets/images/people/abner_2024.png differ diff --git a/assets/images/people/perkins.png b/assets/images/people/perkins.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9e7e217 Binary files /dev/null and b/assets/images/people/perkins.png differ diff --git a/content/english/about/index.md b/content/english/about/index.md index 1d16c52..7799f8b 100644 --- a/content/english/about/index.md +++ b/content/english/about/index.md @@ -27,8 +27,8 @@ features: 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: "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." + - title: "Direct funding philosophy" + content: "We grow through obvious means, funded primarily through ticket sales, followed by independent donations and fixed-rate job booth rentals: straightforward, mom-and-pop-style transactions." color: "#60E3C4" content_class: "text-white" @@ -36,8 +36,7 @@ features: title_class: "text-white -mt-2" subtitle: "Founder" subtitle_class: "!text-[#F7CE3B]" - image: "/images/people/abner_2022_512.webp" - image_class: "rounded-full" + image: "/images/people/abner_2024.png" section_class: "text-white" transition: start: "/images/transition3.svg" @@ -48,7 +47,7 @@ features: start_dark_color: "black" bg_color: "#060610" content_class: "mt-4" - 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.)" + 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. (He still loves [programming](https://terminal.click) though.)" - title: "Our Advisory Board" title_class: "mb-20 text-center text-white" @@ -64,7 +63,7 @@ features: color: "#9B8EE8" content_class: "text-white" - title: "Mary Bush" - content: "Seattle indie developer (formerly in logistics/healthcare tech)." + content: "Seattle indie developer, formerly in logistics/healthcare tech." color: "#9B8EE8" content_class: "text-white" - title: "Jon Stevens" @@ -109,7 +108,7 @@ features: content: "Phil Homan, who goes by [PH Test](https://phtest.tv/), is a Seattle developer with a knack for multidisciplinary work: live-performance visuals, experimental programs, games, and video production—often with tools he made himself!
Phil joined Handmade Cities to help Abner with matters related to streaming, recording, and A/V support at the conferences." - - title: "Devon ([tek256](https://tek256.com))" + - title: "Devon aka [tek256](https://tek256.com)" title_class: "text-white" subtitle: "Editor" subtitle_class: "!text-[#F7CE3B]" @@ -118,14 +117,16 @@ features: image_class: "rounded-full" 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))" + content: "Devon is a guy who makes things.
(Like a PSX-style souls game in C on [stream](https://twitch.tv/tek256))" - title: "Mr. Perkins" title_class: "text-white" subtitle: "Secretary" subtitle_class: "!text-[#F7CE3B]" bg_color: "#060610" + image: "/images/people/perkins.png" + image_class: "rounded-full" 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." + content: "Mr. Perkins is our year round part-time assistant, usually plowing through our backlog of texts, emails and invoices." ---