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Leah Silber

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Portland, OR

Hello friends!

My name is Leah. I'm a long-time open source enthusiast, who believes strongly that everyone can be involved in OSS—not just engineers! My personal path was focused on logistics, events, project governance, and all other sorts of operational things, and yours could really be anything at all. The world of OSS is big, and there's SO much to do.

Aside from what I can fit into my day job (which is thankfully privileged enough provide me lots of time to work on Open Source ecosystems), I'm specifically passionate about helping more women in open source take leadership positions. I do this largely via mentorship, evangelism, and creating and running programs at events and in online communities that further such goals. On all fronts I believe that representation matters, and that most environments can absolutely be tailored to make that happen—just takes a small bit of effort and accomodation.

I spend lots of my free time on projects like Ember Women Helping Women, the Ember Mentorship Program, promoting Babies at work programs, and bouncing around the internet reminding people about all the amazing women and other underrepresented folks who could make wonderful differences in their communities and projects.

I welcome this as yet another opportunity to do the work I love doing, and spread the word about all the improvements folks could be making to their environments, programs and communities. How can I help?

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Featured work

  1. wifelette/atlanta

    The official git repository for Merb Day Atlanta

    Ruby 8
  2. wifelette/website

    Source for emberjs.com

    CSS 4
  3. Ruby 3
  4. wifelette/gogaruco.github.com

    Conference Website, 2011

    JavaScript 3
  5. wifelette/gitbook-plugin-wifelette

    Sample plugin for GitBook

    JavaScript 3
  6. wifelette/json-api

    A shared media type for JSON APIs.

    CSS

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Thanks so much for your support! Every bit helps, and the smaller bits add up to making sure I know folks get benefit from my work and want me to keep it up.

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I appreciate you! Every bit helps. Each year I end up personally funding a couple amazing folks I meet for conference tickets or other professional development opportunities. Non-specific contributions will help me keep this up! Half the battle in raising underrepresented folks to the leadership positions they're so worthy of is noticing who they are: I'm constantly on the lookout!

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Sponsor some office hours! I work hard to spend time on voice or video calls with underrepresented folks new to open source and looking to get their feet wet, folks already here but struggling to make a place for themselves, and honestly really anyone I can help navigate. Sometimes I meet people and proactively offer my time, and sometimes I just get random cold outreach on the internet. This tier covers me spending 30m with either a specific person you're funding my time with (a mentee of yours, an awesome person in your community, an employee, whatever) or a person of my choosing (I keep a list!).

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Your generosity makes a real dent. Thirty minutes for you, two hours for the cause! Sponsors at this tier get a 30m monthly call on the topic of your choosing. Looking to run a conference for your fledgling open source community? Need help bootstrapping your Babies at Work program, to make your environment awesome for new parents? Struggling to attract underrepresented folks to your events? I don't have all the answers, but I've had success with some pretty great ideas, and I'd love to share them with you.

In addition to the 30 minutes we spend, this contribution will allow me to allocate two additional hours per month to focus on my various community initiatives.