- Lisa Dusseault Interoperability standards
Palo Alto, CA USA
Reflections on a career trying to make software systems work together for users, across competing companies and standards bodies.
- Bryan Newbold Protocol engineering
Seattle, WA
A protocol engineer at the social-media platform Bluesky describes building an open protocol around a fast-growing social media platform.
- Robin Berjon Web standards
Brussels, Belgium
The standards that govern the World Wide Web develop at the intersection of profit-seeking companies, nonprofit organizations, and small groups of people with rarefied expertise.
- Evan Prodromou Distributed social networks
Montreal, Canada
A career-long journey to build online social networks that cannot be controlled by a single company, culminating with the ActivityPub standard.
- Amanda Kiessel Community standards
Sri Lanka / United States
Good Market is a digital commons for enterprises that prioritize people and the planet over profit. It enables communities to set and enforce their own standards for doing business.