Remy DeCausemaker

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Rochester, NY

At the Fedora Project Remy served as Community Action and Impact Lead, bringing more heat and light to the distro's user and contributor base. As resident Hackademic, Remy led the Fedora Council's University Involvement Initiative, expanding and replicating the models used in RIT's courses on Humanitarian FOSS Development and Business/Legal Environment of FOSS that built the first academic minor in FOSS and Free Culture at a university in the United States. With help from Sugarlabs, TeachingOpensource, The Software Freedom Law Center, Aleph Objects, and many others, Remy brings The Open Source Way to campuses, conferences, and campaigns everywhere he can. You can keep up with his story via Twitter and his decauseblog.

Open Source Champion Moderator's Choice Award 2013 Author Founding Member Top Contributor

Authored Content

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You don't know JavaScript, but you should

This is a partial transcript of a meeting with Kyle Simpson, an Open Web Evangelist from Austin, TX, who's passionate about all things JavaScript. He's an author, workshop…

If you write code, this is your golden age

This is a partial transcription of the two keynotes from day 1 at the All Things Open conference in Raleigh, NC held on October 22nd and 23rd. Keynote from Jeffrey Hammond, VP…

Head of Open Source at Facebook opens up

What is seen hereafter is a partial transcription of James Pearce's OSCON session Rebooting Open Source at Facebook. For hundreds of years, open has trumped closed—sharing has…

Code.org on reaching the next 100 million computer scientists (SIGCSE keynote)

The following is an adapted transcription from the keynote address given at the 2014 SIGCSE conference by Hadi Partovi, founder of Code.org. Thanks for the warm welcome! Last…

Hacking computer science education at Khan Academy

The following literary transduction is based on a lecture by John Resig given at the Rochester Institute of Technology's ( RIT) Center for Media, Arts, Games, Interaction, and…

Google Summer of Code annual Mentor Summit

Wrapping up the Summer of Code at the Googleplex

Over 280 attendees representing 177 mentoring organizations gathered for a two-day, code-munity extravaganza celebrating the conclusion of Google Summer of Code with the…

Authored Comments

RemyD

22 Sep 2011

Open government dead - pass the beer nuts...

OpenGovernment didn't die, it was born premature, and before the baby made it out of the NICU incubator, the plug was effectively pulled. The IT dashboard was not the end-all-be-all of OpenGov. It was an example of what could be done with open data to save real dollars (a.k.a the only likely 'quantifiable outcome' the 45% folks care about from <a href="http://www.meritalk.com/pdfs/ogov-survey-results.pdf">slide #6</a>). <a href="http://codeforamerica.org">CodeForAmerica</a> <a href="http://codeforamerica.org/2011/01/06/day-two-follow-the-data-iterating-and-the-1200-problem/">tells a great story</a> about San Francisco saving over a million dollars using Open data (small potatoes at the federal level, but the process is what's important).I'd like to shout things like "the downstream markets for government data are immature, but growing" and "if it was funded for just a bit longer...", but I'm a bit too disenchanted make a real fuss. All we can do now as civic hackers is mirror what data is still available before it goes dark, keep our heads down, and continue building use-cases, while our country gets stuck on the wrong side of yet another digital divide.

RemyD

18 May 2011

Transparency for All, Until It Affects Me

<blockquote>If you’ve made a contribution as an individual, anyone can look that up. The same goes for corporations.</blockquote> Individuals:http://www.opensecrets.org/indivs/index.phpCorporations:http://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/search.php