Rebecca Fernandez

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Raleigh, NC

Rebecca Fernandez is a Principal Program Manager at Red Hat, leading projects to help the company scale its open culture. She's an Open Organization Ambassador, contributed to The Open Organization book, and maintains the Open Decision Framework. She is interested in the intersection of open source principles and practices, and how they can transform organizations for the better.

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Authored Content

Critical thinking: Why our students need it and resources for teaching it

If you believe in conspiracy theories, enjoy posting political links, or are an apologist for alternative medicine, you probably don’t want to be my Facebook friend. You see…

Six ways to build a solid community

Recently, fellow opensource.com writer Chris Grams remarked that our collection of articles and tips on community-building was getting rather large. Perhaps we had the…

Open collaboration: A look at nine (very) different communities

Incredible work comes out of open source communities. But communities far removed from the world of software development often thrive following the same principles. Openness…

To tweet or not to tweet: How companies are reining in social media

Social media like Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn enable ordinary people to do international live broadcasting. It's little wonder companies worry about the potential damage to…

On cookbooks, orphans, and out-of-print books

Several years back, I sought one rather elusive cookbook. I first spotted The Use-It-Up Cookbook (A Guide for Minimizing Food Waste) in a used bookshop during a weekend…

Seven things I would change about my schooling

Teacher-bashing and union-bashing seem to go hand-in-hand these days, especially in the opening remarks of school reform discussions. Yet when I look back with a critical eye…

Authored Comments

Rebecca

25 Sep 2015

Sometimes you have to put the moose on the table

This was a great article, Sam! I've been thinking a lot about this topic lately, in connection to a project I've been working on, so it was very timely.

Rebecca

21 Sep 2015

The Open Organization book club: Reclaiming meritocracy

This is a great point, Laura. I happened to be on a call with Dr. Caroline Simard from Stanford's Clayman Institute for Gender Research last week, and she said something that really stuck with me:

The more meritocratic a company *believes* itself to be, the less meritocratic it actually behaves.

So the paradox with meritocracy seems to be that the only way to sustain a meritocratic environment is to continually question (and even doubt!) whether you actually have one.