The National Open Source Innovation Summit in Dublin, Ireland this month (feb2026) was a wonderful gathering of open source tech, policy and research humans each working on solving different yet overlapping problems. The event started hard-and-fast with Clare Dillon s urgent stark real-world reminders of the changing landscape for technology in government, including timely relevant snippets [ ]
My last post ended with thank you to those who have stayed as well as to those who have left civil service. After several questions from readers, I want to be more explicit on why my “thank you” was deeply genuinely written as well as share suggestions that helped me with my own [ ]
As of 30sep2025, I am no longer a federal employee which is interesting because I never expected to be one in the first place! (That one sentence took a few months to write.) What’s next for me? I ll cover that in a later post. For now, I note that I was not the only [ ]
(Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer or a health care benefits professional. However, I’ve discovered and used this information for myself successfully, and I have had good trusted friends who are HR professionals with federal government experience review this. There are a lot of “usually” and “it depends on” situations here, so if you have [ ]
Well, this is going to be an exciting week here at the United Nations! Just finished a fabulous first day today here with so many wonderful humans from literally all around the globe all using Open Source at scale to help their countries with their Digital Modernization and Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) work. And [ ]
I ve bought many books that looked interesting, only to give up half-way and pass them on. Only a few books end up carefully read (and re-read) all the way to the end, with page markers and highlighted text throughout. The 15 Minute City by Carlos Moreno is a wonderfully readable book full of real-world case [ ]
Did you know the US Federal Government is the largest employer in the United States of America and hiring with 310 remote positions open today? If you want to work in a distributed team doing work that matters and are eager to help improve a public service you personally care deeply about [ ]
Thank you and congratulations to Allan Mulrooney, Stephen Carolan, Leah Fairman, Liam Horan and Pauline Leonard for organizing the Western Development Commission 2023 ConnectedHubs summit in Tullamore, Ireland. This event brought together people, from many different backgrounds and organizations, who all shared one focus: How the workforce shift to distributed teams, supported with neighborhood…
Words matter. It s easy to slip into a habit of using incorrect words. However, over time, repeated use of incorrect words can give an impression of bias to those you speak with. It can even create bias in yourself. Intentionally choosing to use the correct words can help you communicate without bias and help you [ ]
It s only been a few months since GSA opened the doors on our pilot / prototype network of Federal Cowork spaces and we ve already: Full details on all of this are in GSA s official post here. Also, if you work in federal government and are interested in working in, touring or just learning more about [ ]