Open Source Practitioner • bullish on kindness

• Email in profile, erlend on Discord.
• Hanging out in the chat rooms of Muni Town and Spicy Lobster.

Working on Weird (in Muni Town) and Fish Folk (in Spicy Lobster studio)

I've been working in open source, games and web tech for the past ~20 years. My most notable projects lasted for 5+ years each:

• jMonkeyEngine – Project Lead. We made a fully functional game engine together, still in use by professionals and hobbyists today.
• Discourse – first as a Community Advocate, then VP of Community and lastly a 6 month stint as a Product Lead.
• Amethyst organisation – Project Manager. Founding member of the Rust GameDev Working Group.

See my full work bio for more.

I practice openness to the greatest extent possible, in my professional as well as my personal life. I described some of what that looks like in the open source booklet called Open Source Explained. Most of the source material for that work is listed in my Open Source Curriculum.

These are some of the key influencers of my thinking as a digital activist and my practice of loving-compassion:

• Douglass Rushkoff – Media theory
• Krista Tippet – Poetic existentialism
• Cory Doctorow – Digital reform
• Erin Kissane – Digital research
• Nate Hagens – Systems thinking
• Sam Harris – Mindfulness
• Tara Brach – Embodiment
• Alan Watts – Spirituality
• Ram Dass – Mysticism

I love tending to my thoughts as a digital gardener. These are my essential pieces:

• Open Source Explained
• Reclaiming my digital identity
  • Weird web pages
  • Assembling Community OS
• Web of the People
  • Age of Coordination
• Communal Bonfires
  • Chat is minimum-viable anything
  • Federated Webrings
• Big AI Commons