Write Bio - Site Builder: Bonnie Wolfe

[NivenPrasad]

Dependency

Issue #86 document with all bios in it.

Overview

We need some info to put on our site about you, so that we can market the site.

Action item

• [ ] Provide
  • [x] Name
  • [x] Bio: A 1-2 paragraph professional bio
  • [ ] Quote: A quote from you about automations
  • [ ] Motivations
    • [ ] Internal: What are your internal motivations for building the site?
    • [ ] External: What are your external motivations for building the site?
  • [x] Picture - Can we use your LinkedIn pic? If yes, please provide your LinkedIn URL

Resources

[ExperimentsInHonesty]

Name

Bonnie Wolfe

Bio

Bonnie Wolfe is a serial tech entrepreneur, technical educator, speaker, community builder, software product manager, program manager and consultant. As the current Executive Director of Hack for LA, she has grown the organization to the largest weekly hack night series in the world with 20 project teams of over 400 active participants globally, focusing solely on open source civic tech with projects from resources to fight food insecurity to a global catalog of civic tech open source projects. She is also the Western Regional Representative of Code for America’s National Advisory Council where she spearheads a project to systematize the sharing of effective practices in civic tech, gov tech, edtech and related communities of interest.

Quote:

WIP Navigating the open-source landscape is a largely painstaking process. Developers spend hours researching and testing, then resort to writing code from scratch because what they find can’t be used.

Most developers are looking for functional standards that help them understand what makes good code. The 100 Automations community brings together people committed to making code reusable in open-source and avoiding pitfalls that independent developers might not have encountered yet.

For those who know what to do, and want to add actual valuable, validated work, there’s a community of peers ready to review the work you’ve done. It’s a platform where you can increase the common good."

Motivations:

Picture

[nahyungkim1220]

Quotes from Bonnie from Press Release Draft 6:

• “Developers spend hours researching and testing, then resort to writing code from scratch because it can’t be used.”
• “Too many open-source programs can’t be used because they’re intertwined with the applications using them. 100 Automations is a way of separating and documenting code properly so that people can easily find them wholesale and customize them — the way they’re supposed to be used.”
• “Most developers are looking for functional standards that help them understand what makes good code. This is a community that pulls people together who know what to create in open-source and avoid all the pitfalls.”
• “For those who know what to do, and want to add actual valuable, validated work, there’s a community to review the work you’ve done. It’s a platform where you could do something good and worthwhile.”

[ExperimentsInHonesty]

I Revised the quotes a bit. ill review them in context of the document later.

• ~“Developers spend hours researching and testing, then resort to writing code from scratch because it can’t be used.”~
• “Too many open-source automations or code snipits can’t be used because they’re intertwined with the applications using them. 100 Automations is a way of separating and documenting code well so that people can easily find and customize it — the way it's supposed to be used.”
• “Most developers are looking for functional standards that help them understand what makes good code. The 100 Automations community brings together people committed to making code reusable in open-source and avoiding pitfalls that independent developers might not have encountered yet.”
• “For those who know what to do, and want to add actual valuable, validated work, there’s a community of peers ready to review the work you’ve done. It’s a platform where you can do something for the common good."

[nahyungkim1220]

Thank you Bonnie! Revised quotes have been added to Draft 6.