The first open source tour is now posted!

In it, I interview Maxime Garcia (@gau) of NF-core (@nf_core) an open source project for building bioinformatics pipelines.

Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJB6_UL_49I

Transcript coming soon (I hope🤞definitely turns out to be the most labor intensive part)

I loved talking with Maxime and learning about nf-core. If you're interested in doing an open source project tour please DM me! More info here: https://social.coop/@shauna/115181669879846479

#RelationalTech
#OpenSourceTour

“Safe enough? Learning enough? Loved enough?”
sev’s slide presentation shared generously for all to see at
https://past5.github.io/EoWPresentation/presentation.html

Gratitude in pics
1. Sugar cookies made by BFF given to me last nite to enjoy with late night tea & girl talk
2. Economy of Wisdom Foundation founders presented at FediCollective Brew Build 2
3. Group pic with cohosts, speaker, guest
4. What I learned from sev geraskin

#RelationalTech #EthicalAI #IRL #techforgood #FediverseClub #ThirdSpaces #CoffeeWithCrissy

Lemme share about #RelationalTech i.e. tools that center care, connection, and emotional intelligence, not just scale or speed.

Tomorrow noon, I’m hosting a cozy coffee chat via #FediCollective here in Metro Vancouver to explore what this could look like IRL:
🧶 Soft leadership
🕯️ Grief-informed #design
🎲 Community-led tools that feel like a hug
💻 Tech that supports how we actually live

I have guest speakers tomorrow to my sold out event: Sev Geraskin & April AI from Economy of Wisdom Foundation will join me, along with co-host Wen Ray (ISS of BC Mentor in Cybersecurity).

We’ll be diving deeper into Relational Tech this winter and into 2026 as part of our BIPOC x LGBT outreach series ❄️🌈

More soon—come hang out if you’re curious 🐾

Thoughts I’ve been sitting with...
Death shaped my summer i.e. losing a family member and a close friend unexpectedly.

I still showed up with care, even without being on an “official” volunteer list.

Recently, I was quietly removed from a WhatsApp group chat I’d been contributing to.

No heads-up. No conversation. Just gone.

It stung. Not because I need titles—
but because I believe in #RelationalTech, in showing up with softness, and in honouring grief as part of leadership.

So I’m choosing to go where I’m wanted,
not where I’m merely tolerated.

Where grief isn’t punished.
Where care is reciprocal.
Where soft leadership is seen as strength.

If you’re in Metro Vancouver building spaces like that (or want to), let’s connect 🐾

I’m here for federated futures and the people who make tech feel like a hug.

Thanks for your inclusiveness and #HumanKindness.

#TechForCare #SoftLeadership #GriefInformed #LGBT