Brent sits down with Heather Ellsworth, Software Engineer on Canonical's Ubuntu Desktop Team, a GNOME Foundation Member, and former Purism Librem 5 Documentation Engineer. We discuss her deep history in experimental high energy physics at CERN, the similarities and synergies between the sciences and software engineering, her love of documentation, her newly established maintainership of LibreOffice, and how empathy factors into good bug reporting.

Special Guest: Heather Ellsworth.

Links:

Canonical
Ubuntu
LibreOffice - Snapcraft
Snap Documentation - Snapcraft
CERN - European Organization for Nuclear Research
CERN - Wikipedia
Higgs boson - Wikipedia
The GNOME Foundation
cherrytree — A hierarchical note taking application
Librem 5 - Purism
Librem 5 Documentation - Purism
Open Source Summit
Free Software Foundation
Free as in Freedom 2.0 (PDF) — Richard Stallman and the Free Software Revolution
Free as in Freedom 2.0, by Richard Stallman - FSF Shop
The Cathedral and the Bazaar - Wikipedia
The Cathedral and the Bazaar by Eric S. Raymond
Onitama - BoardGameGeek
A Feast for Odin - BoardGameGeek
Magic: the Gathering - BoardGameGeek
Brent Gervais - @brentgervais on Twitter

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