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Travis Vachon

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Oakland

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I'm Travis.

I've been building open source software professionally since 2005. I believe that open source software can be a tool for empowerment and have seen first hand the impact that open, participatory standards can have on our ability to effectively organize towards a better world.

After ten years in the Silicon Valley tech industry, I took a break in 2017 to take stock of my life and my role in the larger systems within which I was working. I spent a year working with the team at Whysaurus to rethink how we communicate with each other online and learning how to be a better anti-racist ally with SURJ San Francisco.

After this year of experimentation and growth, I started working with the CoLab Cooperative, building software for cooperatives, non-profits and other organizations focused on improving the material conditions of the lives of their constituents. During this time I have come to believe that we need to dramatically restructure our relationship with the software that mediates our daily lives and take back control over our "digital bodies" in a way that gives us true sovereignty over the data we create online.

To that end, I'm currently spending as much time as possible building itme, a Solid Pod hosting service designed to be your new home on the Web. Your sponsorship will allow me to spend more time building toward a better world and less time trying to navigate the complexities of surviving under capitalism.

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Having a solid base of $4000 per month would allow me to focus all of my time on building software to support the emerging Solid ecosystem.

Featured work

  1. travis/progressbar

    Easy progress bars in Clojure.

    Clojure 16
  2. travis/concept

    a collaborative zettelkasten built on Solid (https://solidproject.org/)

    HTML 16
  3. HTML 1

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Thanks! Your support is deeply appreciated, and to prove it I'll send you a thank you card in the mail with a bespoke picture of one or both of my cats. They're super cute and you won't be disappointed!

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Thank you, generous sponsor! In addition to all of the rewards from the lower tiers, I'll also spend four hours every month on something you're interested in. We'll spend our 15 minutes talking about what you're excited about and I'll spend at least half a day on software, research, writing or whatever you'd like. At this level we'll be building a relationship, and I'll be showing up with an eye toward collaboration.