Tag: geek communities

Why I’m ending my short experiment with Gittip [now Gratipay], or: why we can’t have nice things, part 2,039

I love doing teaching and research, but I also want to be doing more to engage and build communities outside of academia. Recently, I decided to start experimenting with Gittip [Edit: this has now been rebranded as Gratipay] as a way to support that. Gittip "is a way to give small weekly cash gifts to … Continue reading Why I’m ending my short experiment with Gittip [now Gratipay], or: why we can’t have nice things, part 2,039 →

The protections of statehood and hacker armies

This has also been posted to the Geek Feminism blog. Lately, I've seen quite a few claims that hackers are persecuted minority floating through my streams. It's not hard to believe, when we've seen the affects that the aggressive prosecution of Aaron Swartz had, that one of the hackers who helped to bring attention to … Continue reading The protections of statehood and hacker armies →