Micky Metts
Hacker, Activist, Organizer & Member, Agaric
Micky Metts – a member of Agaric, a worker-owned tech and web development cooperative. I am known as FreeScholar, an Activist Hacker – Industry Organizer – Public Speaker – Connector – Advisor and Visionary. I act as a liaison between the Solidarity Economy Network (SEN) and The United States Federation of Worker Cooperatives (USFWC), with an intention to bring communities together.
I am a member of MayFirst.org, Platform Cooperativism Consortium, Free Software Foundation and Drupal.org, a community based on free software.
I grew up in Weston, CT and now live in Boston, MA with my long-time partner John M. Crisman.
My Sessions
Empowering digital collaboration: Introducing the open app ecosystem
Great HallOpen source apps are the holy grail for increased efficiency and collaboration but are less useful if they do not talk to each other. The open app ecosystem is a concept in which all apps are interoperable (meaning they can talk to each other), which has the potential to radically enhance productivity.
Working session: Designing interoperable apps for the open app ecosystem
300Ed Russell
Jen Williams
Niran Babalola
Henry Story
Irina Bolychevsky
Jack Thorp
Laura Hilliger
Micky Metts
Juho Makkonen
Matt Wallis
Tim Davies
Victor Matekole
Dr Doug Belshaw
Ricard Espelt
Oliver Sylvester-Bradley
This session, aimed at software developers, will explore the various platforms and groups working on interoperable apps and projects with the objective of encouraging greater collaboration and standardisation within open source software development.