JE 057: Brunch with Brent: Heather Ellsworth¶
- Air Date: 2020-02-21
- Duration: 48 mins 42 secs
About this episode¶
Brent sits down with Heather Ellsworth, Software Engineer on Canonical's Ubuntu Desktop Team, a GNOME Foundation Member, and former Purism Librem 5 Documentation Engineer. We discuss her deep history in experimental high energy physics at CERN, the similarities and synergies between the sciences and software engineering, her love of documentation, her newly established maintainership of LibreOffice, and how empathy factors into good bug reporting.
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Episode links¶
- Canonical
- Ubuntu
- LibreOffice - Snapcraft
- Snap Documentation - Snapcraft
- CERN - European Organization for Nuclear Research
- CERN - Wikipedia
- Higgs boson - Wikipedia
- The GNOME Foundation
- cherrytree — A hierarchical note taking application
- Librem 5 - Purism
- Librem 5 Documentation - Purism
- Open Source Summit
- Free Software Foundation
- Free as in Freedom 2.0 (PDF) — Richard Stallman and the Free Software Revolution
- Free as in Freedom 2.0, by Richard Stallman - FSF Shop
- The Cathedral and the Bazaar - Wikipedia
- The Cathedral and the Bazaar by Eric S. Raymond
- Onitama - BoardGameGeek
- A Feast for Odin - BoardGameGeek
- Magic: the Gathering - BoardGameGeek
- Brent Gervais - @brentgervais on Twitter
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