---
title: Stand-up comedy about FLOSS
osem_url: https://osem.seagl.org/conferences/seagl2020/program/proposals/732
beginning: '2020-11-13T15:30:00.000-08:00'
end: '2020-11-13T16:00:00.000-08:00'
resources:
  internet_archive_identifier: SeaGL2020-Sumana_Harihareswara-Stand_up_comedy_about_FLOSS
presenters:
- name: Sumana Harihareswara
  affiliation: Changeset Consulting
  osem_url: https://osem.seagl.org/users/1033
  gravatar_id: 3b9a370cdb293427f29e46f7503c3bf9
  biography: |-
    Sumana Harihareswara is a project manager and programmer who led the rollout of the new PyPI.org in 2018, led PyPI's security/accessibility/localization improvements in 2019, helped the PSF communicate about the sunsetting of Python 2, and has worked on Zulip, Mailman, MediaWiki, and several other open source projects. Currently she is managing improvements to pip's dependency resolver and user experience. She earned an Open Source Citizen Award in 2011 and a Google Open Source Peer Bonus in 2018. She lives in New York City and founded [Changeset Consulting](https://changeset.nyc/) in 2015.

    She has also [performed stand-up comedy at several tech conferences](https://www.harihareswara.net/talks.html#stand-up-comedy).
---

What off-the-wall licenses should the OSI consider next? Where's the fine line between maintainer success and maintainer burnout? Should we alias `git reset --hard` to `git regret --hard`?

I've been in free and open source software for years, and I perform stand-up comedy. Sit back and enjoy 20 minutes of jokes about our field.
