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[ad_1] Andreia Gaita is giving a talk at this year’s OSCON, titled Confessions of a cross-platform developer. She’s a long-time open source and Mono contributor, and develops primarily in C#/C++. Andreia works at GitHub, where she’s focused on building the GitHub Extension manager for Visual Studio. I caught up with Andreia ahead of her talk to…

[ad_1] Back in 2014, my colleague Crystal Beasley started a thread of women in tech/hackers posting their “nerd stories” in response to some comments out there on the Internet about the lack of women in tech. This is my nerd story, shared with you because I do believe in role models, and I do believe…

[ad_1] For open source developer Mike Gifford, founder and president of OpenConcept Consulting Inc., any mention of Drupal accessibility after his name is redundant. He has spent the better part of 10 years improving and cementing accessibility in Drupal, enough to earn the role of official core accessibility maintainer for the project. Accessibility awareness has…

[ad_1] “I’m disappointed.” These were the first words to come from Damien in a recent one-to-one conversation we had. “I feel like the team doesn’t respect my position,” he told me. “I’m trying to engage with them, but they aren’t reciprocating.” Damien was clearly frustrated. “They had a meeting last week, for example, and I…