https://xs4all.nl/~becha


About me:

* I'm a hacker, member of Amsterdam hackerspace Technologia Incognita
        My projects at hackerspace: Hackers Tribes, T-shirts flags, BookCrossing, Internet Governance and hackers, Hackerspace Tour, Hackerspaces Exchange, Hacker in Residence, Ladies Night (bridging the gender gap in tech), MeshNet

* I am part of UnCivilization Community: UnCiv.nl (since 2013)
** I moderate UnCiv mailing list: read the archives and/or subscribe

* I'm a mother: here are the pages about my children: Alisa, Charlie, and Olivia

* My visions:

** RIPE Community Resilience: You Are Not Alone, series of 10 articles (March - September 2021)

** Anarchist-Analysis-of-Corona-Crisis-Spring-2020 (March 2020)

** Technical is Political: Ethics in Tech, SHA2017 (2017)

** Commune/Collective Life as an Experiment at Lika Camp (2016)

** Nature is going to have a last word (2014)

** Hackers as tribes can save the world :)

** My article Hackers ethics for the world after collapse from 31st December 2013, for NatureBatsLast blog

** My 2012 publication: "Hackers and philosophers building an utopia together", 1 December 2012, in InternautCookBook by Xs4All

** Reading books is great, sharing them is even better: BookCrossing Shelf


* I work for RIPE NCC as a Community Builder
** (2011-2016) specifically "for Measurements and Tools"
** (2015-2019) I organise hackathons (collaborative coding workshops); I am increasing diversity & inclusion; and I give talks about Ethics in Technology
** (2020) ... with a focus on Sustainability and COVID-19
** 2021: focusing on community resilience & mental health * My LinkedIn Profile (CV)

* Twitter: @Ms_Multicolor

* Email: name @ provider


Yearly Updates
Start of 2022: Cherish Kindness (Disobedience, Offdem, Wordle VS Omicron, Eunice, War) (21-03-22)
Q4 2021: Birthday, Berlin, Boosters (March 2022)
Summer of 2021: Vacations, Visitationas, Presentations (2021-10-05) (also: vaccinations, & cats, & more cats...)
Q2 2021: Cats, Communities, Celebrations (2021-07-11) (prrrr, pride, parenting, pandemic)
Q1 2021: Relatives, Rats and Riots (2021-03-31) (covid continues)
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2020: Isolating in an Oasis (2020-12-31) (covid pandemic)
2019: A year of Loving-Kindness (end-March 2020) (NVC, MBSR, EMDR)
2018: Letting Go (December 2018) (many traumas)
*** Update 20 August 2018: RIP Bogdan
2017: F*ck Off 2017, Slow Down for 2018 (June 2018) (burn-outs)
*** Update August 2017: LikaCamp2016 Report
2016: Year-in-review (January 2017) (peak of roller-coaster)
2015: Good Old Year (January 2016) (climbing up)


Selfies (2021)



Profile-photos-mix (2015):



Historical home-pages: 2013 | 2009 | 2008-february | 2007-july | 2006-october | sept-2006



"Fifty Shirts of Gray"


Some photos that used to be on my blog:



2013's lament: Fotopic is gone; blog at xs4all is gone; I don't use FetLife any more either, nor Dopplr.
Twitter is new, TechInc also.
Orange is out, turoqoise is in :)