Presented by

  • Wm Salt Hale

    Wm Salt Hale
    @altsalt
    https://sal.td

    Salt is a Seattle local who has been involved with the Free Software movement since 1996. Currently, he works at IEEE SA Open while volunteering as Impresario of SeaGL and Community Director of Snowdrift.coop. Salt attended five years of graduate studies at the University of Washington where he focused on the intersection between communication, computer science, and law. Salt tries to be very approachable and will always be found wearing a kilt.

  • Michael Siepmann

    Michael Siepmann
    https://msiep.com

    Michael is an interaction designer and user researcher with a PhD in psychology, decades of mindfulness practice, and great enthusiasm for making life better for all of us through psychosocially insightful and compassionate design of systems big and small. He has been involved with FOSS since 2015, when he started volunteering for Snowdrift.coop. His contributions there have included user research, interaction design, message design, coining the term "crowdmatching", and proposing an approach to crowdmatching in which donations are adjusted monthly to match the extent to which the crowd's total pledge meets the project's goal. Recently, he started a closely related project, IwillifWecan.org.

Abstract

Several panelists will discuss, with opportunities for audience participation, the challenges, incentives, and possibilities around funding free/libre/open (FLO) projects.