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	2	+(% style="color:#000000; font-family:Arial; font-size:11pt; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; font-weight:700; text-decoration:none; white-space:pre-wrap" %)**About Me**
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6		-(% style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant: normal; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none" %)I am a software engineer, a buddhist, and a trans and non-binary person. Today,
	5	+(% style="color:#000000; font-family:Arial; font-size:11pt; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; text-decoration:none; white-space:pre-wrap" %)I am a software engineer, a buddhist, and a trans and non-binary person. Today, I work as the Open Source Program Manager for the Azure Confidential Compute team, for which I engage in technical and community building work in both the (%%)[[(% style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none; color:#1155cc; font-family:Arial; font-size:11pt; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; text-decoration-skip-ink:none; text-decoration:underline; white-space:pre-wrap" %)Confidential Computing Consortium >>url:https://confidentialcomputing.io||style="text-decoration:none"]](% style="color:#000000; font-family:Arial; font-size:11pt; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; text-decoration:none; white-space:pre-wrap" %)(CCC) and (%%)[[(% style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none; color:#1155cc; font-family:Arial; font-size:11pt; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; text-decoration-skip-ink:none; text-decoration:underline; white-space:pre-wrap" %)Cloud Native Computing Foundation >>url:https://cncf.io||style="text-decoration:none"]](% style="color:#000000; font-family:Arial; font-size:11pt; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; text-decoration:none; white-space:pre-wrap" %)(CNCF). I am also a member of the (%%)[[(% style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none; color:#1155cc; font-family:Arial; font-size:11pt; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; text-decoration-skip-ink:none; text-decoration:underline; white-space:pre-wrap" %)Kubernetes Code of Conduct Committee>>url:https://github.com/kubernetes/community/tree/master/committee-code-of-conduct||style="text-decoration:none"]](% style="color:#000000; font-family:Arial; font-size:11pt; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; text-decoration:none; white-space:pre-wrap" %), to which I've brought a framework for Consent Culture and a Restorative approach to our incident handling procedures. I previously served on the (%%)[[(% style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none; color:#1155cc; font-family:Arial; font-size:11pt; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; text-decoration-skip-ink:none; text-decoration:underline; white-space:pre-wrap" %)OpenStack>>url:https://www.openstack.org/||style="text-decoration:none"]](% style="color:#000000; font-family:Arial; font-size:11pt; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; text-decoration:none; white-space:pre-wrap" %) Technical Committee, led the (%%)[[(% style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none; color:#1155cc; font-family:Arial; font-size:11pt; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; text-decoration-skip-ink:none; text-decoration:underline; white-space:pre-wrap" %)OpenStack Ironic>>url:https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Ironic||style="text-decoration:none"]](% style="color:#000000; font-family:Arial; font-size:11pt; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; text-decoration:none; white-space:pre-wrap" %) project team, participated as a developer and speaker in the MySQL community for almost a decade, and have contributed to many other projects, such as Ansible, Matrix, Mixxx, Elastic, and OpenVZ. I also served as a board member for the (%%)[[(% style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none; color:#1155cc; font-family:Arial; font-size:11pt; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; text-decoration-skip-ink:none; text-decoration:underline; white-space:pre-wrap" %)Consent Academy>>url:https://www.consent.academy/||style="text-decoration:none"]](% style="color:#000000; font-family:Arial; font-size:11pt; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; text-decoration:none; white-space:pre-wrap" %), a Seattle-based 501c(3) non-profit, for several years. Some of my views on the internal interplay between gender and buddhism were recently published in (%%)[[(% style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none; color:#1155cc; font-family:Arial; font-size:11pt; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; text-decoration-skip-ink:none; text-decoration:underline; white-space:pre-wrap" %)Transcending>>url:https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52531165-transcending||style="text-decoration:none"]](% style="color:#000000; font-family:Arial; font-size:11pt; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; text-decoration:none; white-space:pre-wrap" %).
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9		-(% style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant: normal; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none" %)I work as the Open Source Program Manager for the Azure Confidential Compute
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	9	+(% style="color:#000000; font-family:Arial; font-size:11pt; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; font-weight:700; text-decoration:none; white-space:pre-wrap" %)**Views On Open Source**
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	12	+(% style="color:#000000; font-family:Arial; font-size:11pt; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; text-decoration:none; white-space:pre-wrap" %)In 2021, open source software is used at every company and in many physical products we rely on, from phones to fridges to cars. As a result, some (mostly outside this community) now believe that "open source" is a business model (not true), or that "open sourcing" something is a one-off event (also not true). This lexical confusion continues to pose a risk: views not grounded in experience and an understanding of the legal framework (licensing and governance) belie the complexity of choices which ultimately shape the communities of successful open source projects. A proliferation of mismanaged open source software projects will create unnecessary security and legal risk for our institutions.
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	16	+(% style="color:#000000; font-family:Arial; font-size:11pt; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; text-decoration:none; white-space:pre-wrap" %)To counter this, I believe we need to increase educational outreach with specific focus towards:
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	19	+(% style="color:#000000; font-family:Arial; font-size:11pt; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; text-decoration:none; white-space:pre-wrap" %)- educating business leaders to empower them with the lexical tools to engage
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	22	+(% style="color:#000000; font-family:Arial; font-size:11pt; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; text-decoration:none; white-space:pre-wrap" %) in nuanced discussions about open source strategy;
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	25	+(% style="color:#000000; font-family:Arial; font-size:11pt; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; text-decoration:none; white-space:pre-wrap" %)- encouraging lawyers to develop a deeper understanding at the intersection of
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	28	+(% style="color:#000000; font-family:Arial; font-size:11pt; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; text-decoration:none; white-space:pre-wrap" %) data privacy, technology (ab)use, and international copyright;
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	31	+(% style="color:#000000; font-family:Arial; font-size:11pt; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; text-decoration:none; white-space:pre-wrap" %)- engaging in the discussion around open source software supply chain security as a community issue.
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	35	+(% style="color:#000000; font-family:Arial; font-size:11pt; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; text-decoration:none; white-space:pre-wrap" %)I agree with the objective others have stated in previous years: that the OSI should be sufficiently funded so this work does not entirely fall on volunteers. I would like to see outreach to grow the affiliate network continue so we can support increasing staff dedicated to this mission.
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	39	+(% style="color:#000000; font-family:Arial; font-size:11pt; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; font-weight:700; text-decoration:none; white-space:pre-wrap" %)**Broader Concerns**
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52		-(% style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant: normal; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none" %)I agree with the objective others have stated in previous years: that the OSI should be sufficiently funded so this work does not entirely fall on volunteers. I would like to see outreach to grow the affiliate network continue so we can support increasing staff dedicated to this mission.
	42	+(% style="color:#000000; font-family:Arial; font-size:11pt; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; text-decoration:none; white-space:pre-wrap" %)Our society is, once again, grappling with the realization that technology is not neutral: like any tool, software can be used for both good and evil, to uplift or to oppress. In 2015 I was confronted with this, called on to brief a foreign military on my open source contributions, it became clear they were using software I had built in ways I did not support.
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	46	+(% style="color:#000000; font-family:Arial; font-size:11pt; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; text-decoration:none; white-space:pre-wrap" %)I appreciate the debate on ethical source licenses, and believe this comes from our reflexive care for the impact our work has on society, though I do not believe licenses are the right tool for this. We need better laws regulating the civil and military use of certain technologies, and for more lawyers to become educated in technology and its impact on privacy and civil rights.
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60		-(% style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant: normal; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none" %)Our society is, once again, grappling with the realization that technology is not neutral: like any tool, software can be used for both good and evil, to uplift or to oppress. In 2015 I was confronted with this, called on to brief a foreign military on my open source contributions, it became clear they were using software I had built in ways I did not support.
	50	+(% style="color:#000000; font-family:Arial; font-size:11pt; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; text-decoration:none; white-space:pre-wrap" %)With the current spotlight on the (ab)uses of Facial Recognition Technology, which have already resulted in calls to ban FRT (%%)[[(% style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none; color:#1155cc; font-family:Arial; font-size:11pt; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; text-decoration-skip-ink:none; text-decoration:underline; white-space:pre-wrap" %)in the House>>url:https://www.banfacialrecognition.com/||style="text-decoration:none"]](% style="color:#000000; font-family:Arial; font-size:11pt; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; text-decoration:none; white-space:pre-wrap" %) and in (%%)[[(% style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none; color:#1155cc; font-family:Arial; font-size:11pt; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; text-decoration-skip-ink:none; text-decoration:underline; white-space:pre-wrap" %)some states>>url:https://www.reuters.com/article/us-washington-tech-idUSKBN21I3AS||style="text-decoration:none"]](% style="color:#000000; font-family:Arial; font-size:11pt; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; text-decoration:none; white-space:pre-wrap" %), I believe this will continue to be an important, and emotionally-charged, conversation, in the years ahead.
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64		-(% style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant: normal; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none" %)I appreciate the debate on ethical source licenses, and believe this comes from our reflexive care for the impact our work has on society, though I do not believe licenses are the right tool for this. We need better laws regulating the civil and military use of certain technologies, and for more lawyers to become educated in technology and its impact on privacy and civil rights.
	54	+(% style="color:#000000; font-family:Arial; font-size:11pt; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; font-weight:700; text-decoration:none; white-space:pre-wrap" %)**My Background**
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	57	+(% style="color:#000000; font-family:Arial; font-size:11pt; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; text-decoration:none; white-space:pre-wrap" %)In 2003, before I knew about the OSI or OSD, I had an epiphany as I started my second job: I could no longer use tools I had built simply because that code was owned by my former (and already out of business) employer. That epiphany started me down the open source path, and I quickly came to see how this approach, if generalized, was more ethical than the alternative: if everyone could share their tools, we could all build better technology (and products) faster. Automation, the *building and sharing* of tools so that others may more quickly create better tools, is (%%)[[(% style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none; color:#1155cc; font-family:Arial; font-size:11pt; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; text-decoration-skip-ink:none; text-decoration:underline; white-space:pre-wrap" %)one of humanity's greatest and most unique(% style="color:#000000; font-family:Arial; font-size:11pt; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; text-decoration:none; white-space:pre-wrap" %) (% style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none; color:#1155cc; font-family:Arial; font-size:11pt; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; text-decoration-skip-ink:none; text-decoration:underline; white-space:pre-wrap" %)strengths>>url:https://aeon.co/essays/the-offloading-ape-the-human-is-the-beast-that-automates||style="text-decoration:none"]](% style="color:#000000; font-family:Arial; font-size:11pt; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; text-decoration:none; white-space:pre-wrap" %) (not my article, but captures my views well).
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	61	+(% style="color:#000000; font-family:Arial; font-size:11pt; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; text-decoration:none; white-space:pre-wrap" %)In the early 2010's, while building OpenStack, I had the opportunity to work with several of OSI's former board members, who helped me deepen my understanding of the effect which the OSD had had on my career (unbeknownst to me before that). I've come to value this framework and the thought and care that has gone into creating and sustaining it over the years. I would like the opportunity to contribute back to the community.
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76		-(% style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant: normal; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none" %)In 2003, before I knew about the OSI or OSD, I had an epiphany as I started my second job: I could no longer use tools I had built simply because that code was owned by my former (and already out of business) employer. That epiphany started me down the open source path, and I quickly came to see how this approach, if generalized, was more ethical than the alternative: if everyone could share their tools, we could all build better technology (and products) faster. Automation, the *building and sharing* of tools so that others may more quickly create better tools, is (%%)[[(% style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant: normal; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration-skip-ink: none" %)one of humanity's greatest and most unique(% style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant: normal; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none" %) (% style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant: normal; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration-skip-ink: none" %)strengths>>url:https://aeon.co/essays/the-offloading-ape-the-human-is-the-beast-that-automates||style="text-decoration:none"]](% style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant: normal; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none" %) (not my article, but captures my views well).
	65	+(% style="color:#000000; font-family:Arial; font-size:11pt; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; font-weight:700; text-decoration:none; white-space:pre-wrap" %)**What's In A Name?**
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80		-(% style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant: normal; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none" %)In the early 2010's, while building OpenStack, I had the opportunity to work with several of OSI's former board members, who helped me deepen my understanding of the effect which the OSD had had on my career (unbeknownst to me before that). I've come to value this framework and the thought and care that has gone into creating and sustaining it over the years. I would like the
	68	+(% style="color:#000000; font-family:Arial; font-size:11pt; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; text-decoration:none; white-space:pre-wrap" %)If you've known me for more than the last few years, you would have known me with a different name: "Devananda" never felt appropriate, only barely sufficient. The timing of the pandemic and the nature of open source community interaction means that I haven't had the chance to
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	71	+(% style="color:#000000; font-family:Arial; font-size:11pt; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; text-decoration:none; white-space:pre-wrap" %)connect with a lot of old colleagues and friends since changing my name. Humans are social by nature, and our identities, even our sense of self, is deeply connected to how our family, friends, and community know us. However, like open source software projects that sometimes must rebrand themselves, I found that I needed to change my name, no matter how disruptive it would be. I mention this here in the hopes of connecting with folks who may not recognize "Aeva", but who would recognize my previous name.
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91		-(% style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant: normal; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none" %)If you've known me for more than the last few years, you would have known me with a different name: "Devananda" never felt appropriate, only barely sufficient. The timing of the pandemic and the nature of open source community interaction means that I haven't had the chance to
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	77	+(% style="color:#000000; font-family:Arial; font-size:11pt; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; text-decoration:none; white-space:pre-wrap" %)You can reach me on (%%)[[(% style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none; color:#1155cc; font-family:Arial; font-size:11pt; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; text-decoration-skip-ink:none; text-decoration:underline; white-space:pre-wrap" %)Twitter at @aevavoom>>url:https://twitter.com/aevavoom||style="text-decoration:none"]](% style="color:#000000; font-family:Arial; font-size:11pt; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; text-decoration:none; white-space:pre-wrap" %) or by email at "aeva at aeva dot online". More ways to contact me can be(%%)[[(% style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none; color:#1155cc; font-family:Arial; font-size:11pt; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; text-decoration-skip-ink:none; text-decoration:underline; white-space:pre-wrap" %) found here>>url:https://aeva.online/contact||style="text-decoration:none"]](% style="color:#000000; font-family:Arial; font-size:11pt; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; text-decoration:none; white-space:pre-wrap" %).