diff --git a/content/english/about/index.md b/content/english/about/index.md index 2d75640..eb80e6a 100644 --- a/content/english/about/index.md +++ b/content/english/about/index.md @@ -16,11 +16,11 @@ features: img: "/images/starry_night.png" grid: - title: "Sponsor-free tech events" - 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." + content: "**100% indie.** 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 software industry." color: "#FC6D36" content_class: "text-white" - title: "An obligation to software quality" - 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." + content: "Our 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" @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ features: 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 job booth rentals: straightforward, mom-and-pop transactions." + 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." color: "#60E3C4" content_class: "text-white" button: @@ -53,6 +53,6 @@ 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.

Born and raised in Puerto Rico, 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 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.

Abner started 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 grow meetups full-time. (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.

Born and raised in Puerto Rico, 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 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.

Abner started 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 become a full-time community organizer. (He still loves [programming](https://terminal.click) though.)" ---