Contributing in New Ways

My personal challenge for 2024: I believe that contributing to communities in new, courageous ways will add value to the communities I'm part of and grow my own knowledge and skills.

This challenge is work in progress. I will share more as I proceed on this journey, so stay tuned! :)


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Courageous Community Contributions

The following endeavors are currently being worked on.

  • Launch an open space security conference together with Claudia Bothe, Claudius Link, Dave van Stein, Janina Nemec, and Ulrich Viefhaus. The Open Security Conference (#osco) will take place on 4-6 October 2024 in Rückersbach, near Frankfurt in Germany. Our website is public (and constant work in progress), first social media presences initiated on Mastodon and LinkedIn. The event will be a full open space conference with the addition of two keynotes to kick it off - one amazing and well-known speaker is already confirmed. We're looking for sponsors, if you have a suggestion for us it's appreciated! 
  • Create a security card game together with Martin Schmidt and Philipp Zug. This idea has its origins at SoCraTes 2023. We have the main concept, a constantly evolving set of rules and deck of cards. Thanks to Martin we also have a way to play remotely; who knows if we'll also turn it into a physical card deck at some point. In any case, we hope to bring it to open space conferences and the world. Check out our Security Card Game Github org in case you want to follow along, and make sure to read Martin's SecCardGame post to get a first impression of the game.
  • Build a full-stack open-source practice platform as an ensemble with Ben Dowen and Vernon Richards. We are taking the roles of the employees of the fictive company "Make-Believe Labs", taking on "Project Snack Shop" for a customer who wants to digitalize their well-running snack shop business by offering an online shop. This is intended as an as realistic as possible practice platform for all kinds of development activities. From our own vision, to the actual project offer and context, to the first proof of concepts, to team agreements, to design documents, to architectural decision records, exploring walking skeleton options with code, and more. Not everything is publicly shared yet, but you can follow our main Snack Shop repository for updates.
  • Offer Shiva Krishnan's and my leadership workshop series to the community. This program proved to be valuable to lots of people in the past, and it definitely helped both us grow immensely. Finally, the time has come to spread the word further and transform our workshops to an open community offer. This year we want to try it out with a small cohort. In the first instance, we won't have public registrations, yet will build on our networks for this first community proof of concept. If this goes well, there are plans for more afterwards.

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