Podcast appearances and mentions of portia burton

How does a biological anthropologist become a professional docs auditor? Portia Burton, founder of DocumentWrite, narrates her meandering journey from biological anthropology to ESL China, through blockchain technology community engineering, all the way to content audit services. We talk about what to look for in an audit, and what is often critical for a successful content inventory [spoiler: speed]. Where to dive in to make the most of the existing content for the future?

Guest Chris Coleman Panelists Richard Littauer | Justin Dorfman Show Notes Hello and welcome to Sustain! The podcast where we talk about sustaining open source for the long haul. Today, we have a really cool guest joining us, Chris Coleman, who is the Professor of Emergent Digital Practices and Director of The Clinic for Open Source Arts at the University of Denver. Chris takes us through his journey of creating The Clinic for Open Source Arts (COSA), what they're focused on, and some cool projects they are working with. He goes in detail about open source artists and what creativity means for COSA. Also, we learn why we need Web3, some thoughts on Crypto, and a conference coming up that Chris is really excited about. Go ahead and download this episode now to find out more! [00:01:48] Chris tells us what he does and how he created The Clinic for Open Source Arts (COSA). [00:03:13] Chris defines what an open source artist is. [00:05:15] When Chris talks about being creative we find out what he means by this, as well as how he teaches artists who are open source people. [00:08:11] Justin wonders what opportunities there are for Web3 and NFTs to fund open source. [00:09:51] Since there's a huge problem with trust in the NFT space, Justin wonders how we get over this unfortunate situation we're in with NFTs and Web3 being the future of sustain open source and funding. [00:13:05] Richard and Chris share their thoughts on Crypto. [00:15:57] Chris tells us about some cool projects they are working with such as Bitsy, a Feminist Data Set by Caroline Sinders, and Close Isn't Home. [00:18:30] Find out why we need Web3, why it's so interesting, and what COSA is focused on. [00:21:21] Chris tells us where we can access COSA stuff. [00:22:40] We learn about a conference Chris is most excited about. [00:24:32] If you want to get involved with COSA find out here, and Chris tells us the hardest thing about his job. [00:28:28] Find out where you can follow Chris and COSA online. Quotes [00:07:07] “There are some people whose time is best spent innovating, and there are some who's joy is helping.” [00:11:12] “If you want diverse voices to show up to the table, they need money.” [00:14:00] “You don't have to work in advertising, there are new ways of selling your work.” Spotlight [00:29:50] Justin's spotlight is a new podcast called, Let's Talk Docs, with Portia Burton and Erik Holscher. [00:30:40] Richard's spotlight is Cybraphon. [00:31:22] Chris's spotlight is the Open Source Afro Hair Library. Links SustainOSS (https://sustainoss.org/) SustainOSS Twitter (https://twitter.com/SustainOSS?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor) SustainOSS Discourse (http://digitalcoleman.com/) Richard Littauer Twitter (https://twitter.com/richlitt) Justin Dorfman Twitter (https://twitter.com/jdorfman) Chris Coleman Website (http://digitalcoleman.com/) Chris Coleman Twitter (https://twitter.com/digitalcoleman) Chris Coleman LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/digitalcoleman) The Clinic for Open Source Arts (https://clinicopensourcearts.org/index.php) The Clinic for Open Source Arts Twitter (https://twitter.com/clinic_os_arts?lang=en) Clinic for Open Source Arts-GitHub (https://github.com/OpenSourceArts) cosa@du.edu (email) (mailto:cosa@du.edu) Bitsy (https://github.com/le-doux/bitsy) Feminist Data Set by Caroline Sinders (https://carolinesinders.com/feminist-data-set/) Close Isn't Home (https://closeisnthome.com/) Sustain podcast-Episode 107: Caroline Sinders on building healthy OSS Communities (https://podcast.sustainoss.org/107) Sustain podcast-Episode 112: Mike Saunders on The Document Foundation and LibreOffice (https://podcast.sustainoss.org/112) Electric Zine Maker (https://alienmelon.itch.io/electric-zine-maker) Introducing COSA, the Clinic for Open Source Arts (Medium) (https://medium.com/@chris.d.coleman/introducing-cosa-the-clinic-for-open-source-arts-af4c38fda0d3) Clinic for Open Source Arts (Medium) (https://medium.com/@chris.d.coleman) Let's Talk Docs podcast (https://ltd-podcast.sustainoss.org/) Cybraphon (https://www.nms.ac.uk/explore-our-collections/stories/science-and-technology/cybraphon/) Open Source Afro Hair Library (https://afrohairlibrary.org/) Credits Produced by Richard Littauer (https://www.burntfen.com/) Edited by Paul M. Bahr at Peachtree Sound (https://www.peachtreesound.com/) Show notes by DeAnn Bahr Peachtree Sound (https://www.peachtreesound.com/) Special Guest: Chris Coleman.

Panelists Justin Dorfman Guest Portia Burton · Eric Holscher Show Notes Hello and welcome to Sustain! Today, we have a bonus episode for you to listen to, and we're calling it “Sustain Our Docs.” If you are looking for your place in open source, then you have found it. We'll be sharing with you a new concept around documentation and sustainability and all that kind of cool stuff. We're going to talk about how you can leverage documentation, how you can leverage content to bring more people, more attention, and more funding to your products. We will talk to experts who know how to write content engagingly, interview people who speak about the importance of content having goals, and talk to people who have successfully built projects, used excellent documentation and used the content as the pillar of their success. Our hosts are Portia Burton and Eric Holscher. Portia is the owner of Document-Write, a technical documentation agency, and Eric is the co-founder of Read the Docs, Write the Docs, EthicalAds, and PyCascades. We learn about Portia and Eric's backgrounds, businesses, and visions for this podcast. They also have conversations about the sponsorship model, the multi-pronged finding model, the meaning of funneling, and the importance of documentation and sustainability. So go ahead and download this episode now to find out much more! [00:00:38] We learn all about the hosts, Portia and Eric. [00:02:05] Portia tells us why she is super excited to talk about financial sustainability when it comes to open source projects. [00:05:35] Eric shares his thoughts on how in the software ecosystem, documentation is a huge part of how people get involved in projects, and he talks more about documentation and sustainability. [00:08:09] Portia wonders what kind of conversation Eric has when talking to a maintainer of an open source project about economic sustainability and its connection to documentation. [00:09:18] We learn more about EthicalAds and the sponsorship model. [00:13:45] Portia goes deeper into the multi-pronged funding model. [00:17:01] Eric explains more about what they mean by “funnelling.” [00:18:27] Portia and Eric explain what this podcast is all about. [00:21:50] We learn from Portia why money was the most off-putting part about open source and one of the biggest problems she had with having conversations about money. [00:24:29] Eric touches on the huge benefits to having really good documentation and some great teasers are mentioned for future episodes. Quotes [00:02:58] “I guess you know the vision is I want to see open source developers get paid.” [00:03:14] “And it just breaks my heart to see such talented, smart people not know how to make that next step and to be able to take a little bit of value or monetize, basically the gifts they put out in the world.” [00:04:45] “So I think documentation is a form of ethical content marketing.” [00:07:12] “Yeah, it's one of those things that really brings me a lot of joy is seeing success in open source and people getting paid for the work that they're doing.” [00:09:44] “And advertising is one of the ways, but I think developers know all the issues with online advertising around privacy and everything else.” [00:10:44 “Sponsorship model is a model that you see in other industries such as fitness and beauty, and it's definitely something that open source projects could emulate as well.” [00:13:52] “I think we also need to have more conversations in the open source community about having different revenue streams, as opposed to depending on one.” [00:17:10] “It's all the stuff that the successful projects are already doing.” [00:18:04] “And when you write documentation, when you write your blog posts, you're actively finding your people, and how beautiful is that?” [00:20:42] “ And I'm just remembering, I ran into this thing in the Dev Rel World called the “Orbit Model” or something, and I do think that was a way of rebranding funnels in a way that's a little bit less kinda loaded already.” [00:23:28] “I just think about the person who's dropped from a bootcamp and they go into the ecosystem of software or whatever and they're trying to learn how to be a developer, and they run into so many terrible documentation sites and software that they actually think that the problem is them, when actually the problem is the terrible state of documentation and in many parts of the ecosystem, and working to improve that situation is a huge benefit to lots of people.” Links SustainOSS (https://sustainoss.org/) SustainOSS Twitter (https://twitter.com/SustainOSS?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor) SustainOSS Discourse (https://discourse.sustainoss.org/) Portia Burton Linkedin (https://www.linkedin.com/in/portialburton) Portia Burton Twitter (https://twitter.com/agencycecil?lang=en) DocumentWrite (https://documentwrite.dev/) Eric Holscher Linkedin (https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-holscher-2b975111b) Eric Holscher Twitter (https://twitter.com/ericholscher?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor) Eric Holscher Website (https://ericholscher.com/) Read the Docs (https://readthedocs.org/) Write the Docs (https://www.writethedocs.org/) Ethical Ads (https://www.ethicalads.io/) PyCascades (https://2021.pycascades.com/) Credits Produced by Justin Dorfman (https://www.justindorfman.com/) Edited by Paul M. Bahr at Peachtree Sound (https://www.peachtreesound.com/) Show notes by DeAnn Bahr at Peachtree Sound (https://www.peachtreesound.com/) Special Guests: Eric Holscher and Portia Burton.

Today's Coin Gamma Podcast Guest is Portia Burton. We are honored to have Portia Burton on our podcast. Portia is the founder of Blockchain Explainer.  Blockchain Explainer creates webinars, and courses designed to make professionals feel confident and knowledgeable about blockchain and cryptocurrencies. Portia started her career as machine learning engineer at Trapit and then she worked as a software developer at The Atlantic Magazine. We dig into Portia's path into the blockchain space and break down the Blockchain basics.   0:30 Portia Burton Background leading into Blockchain 3:30 Dispelling myths about who should get into programming and blockchain 5:40 "Don’t ever discount the importance of having a network and having a blog” - Portia Burton 6:50 What is Blockchain Explainer? 8:30 What is Blockchain? 10:30 What is Bitcoin? 11:09 Why Bitcoin isn’t turing complete 12:40 Discussion about Litecoin 13:45 How Lightning network works 14:50 Is there too much focus on the economics of the blockchain? 16:00 Developing apps on the Ethereum and Hyperledger 17:20 Coding in Solidity 18:06 Thoughts on NEO 21:00 Why Portia likes ZCash Getting in touch with Portia and Blockchain Explainer Blockchain Explainer Website: https://blockchainexplainer.com/ Portia Twitter: @pkafei   Connect with Coin Gamma Website: Coingamma.com Market Data: Market Data Page Twitter:  @coingamma Download our app: Click to Download

A Software Developer With A Position On Using Blockchain For Fair Pay Sex Workers Listening to Portia is kind of like going travelling without even leaving your lounge room. She’s lead a varied, educated and fascinating life from 6 years in China to time in Germany, and then back to China… and yet she carries in her communication a gentle firmness, a way of explaining Blockchain technology which makes a lot of sense – especially when you hear about ways of using it outside of the very well-known cryptocurrency application. Crypto Clothesline interviews a dynamic game-changer guest this week: a software developer with a wealth of life experience and technical expertise when it comes to explaining Blockchain tech and its potential impact on people as varied as money-changers in China to sex-workers enmeshed in mafia scams in Italy… The way Portia voices her opinions with clarity and measure, it’s easy to see why she’s so sought after in the Blockchain world as a speaker and educator, from Amsterdam to Santa Domingo. Having set aside some serious stalker time to read her blogs and interviews with other powerful women, The Blockchain Explainer has become one of my favourite tech parking spots when there’s a cuppa and a spare 10 mins… Find out more: Website: https://blockchainexplainer.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/portia-burton-b9904610/

As part of the Top 5 news, we have identified a few new or current projects we've learned about as a result of the Rare Digital Art Festival on January 13. We've got a lively discussion about the event among ourselves and with our guest, Jason Bailey of Artnome. 1. Art Project Decentralized - This is a blockchain-driven collaborative open source art project by artist Jessica Angel in collaboration with TrueBit. https://vimeo.com/249089063 https://projects.invisionapp.com/share/R6F7UY5CQ#/screens/269818683_Art_Project 2. Scrilla release December 2017 - You Can't Smoke a Bitcoin. Inspiration? One listener commented: "Sound like the theme music for a wolf of wall street sequel" https://soundcloud.com/scrillaventura/cant-smoke-a-bitcoin 3. Creative Tech Week - New York May 3-12, 2018. This is a crowd-funded event with installation locations across NYC. Artists are given an opportunity to install and promote their work. http://creativetechweek.nyc/ 4. 50 Cent Made Millions Off Bitcoin in Album Sales, by Rap-Up, January 23, 2018, http://www.rap-up.com/2018/01/23/50-cent-made-millions-off-bitcoin-in-album-sales/ 5. Codex Protocol annonymous art bidding and registration service launched. A unique crypto-based decentralized title regisry launched in January 2018. http://www.codexprotocol.com/#idteam Knowledge A. Reinventing the Art Lab on the Blockchain, Janury 3, 2018, Lucy Sollitt in Rhizome. http://rhizome.org/editorial/2018/jan/03/reinventing-the-art-lab-on-the-blockchain/ B. The Blockchain Art Market is here, Jason Bailey, our guest for today https://www.artnome.com/news/2017/12/22/the-blockchain-art-market-is-here and What is Cryptoart? https://www.artnome.com/news/2018/1/14/what-is-cryptoart C. Art and Blockchain - Revolution in Art, by Sandra Breslau, January 30, 2018 https://cointelegraph.com/news/art-and-blockchain-revolution-in-art-collectin AOTB About Hosts Posts 1. DJ Pepe Invades Rare Art Festival in New York City, by DJ Pepe https://medium.com/@DJPEPE_/djpepe-invades-rare-art-festival-in-new-york-city-7b7d95843f1e 2. Tokens, Branding and Digital Assets, by Cynthia Gayton, https://medium.com/@squizzi3/tokens-branding-and-digital-assets-37009d9aef79 3. RareAF talks DJ Pepe, by R.A.R.E. Art Labs, January 30, 2018 https://medium.com/@rareartlabs/rareaf-talks-dj-pepe-93f11afb4cce 4. How Much for That Pepe? Scenes from the First Rare Digital Art Auction, by Daniel Penny, January 23, 2018, The Paris Review. https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/01/23/much-pepe-scenes-first-rare-digital-art-auction/ 5. Blockchain Insider: Cynthia M. Gayton, Esq., by Portia Burton, December 21, 2017. https://medium.com/@chain_explainer/blockchain-insider-cynthia-m-gayton-esq-f218b763bbc5 Bitcoin Tips: 1D3DYP4nBC5DqTm1g5GeKf1uWeemLipwpY

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