Author: femmetech

Digital Information Security: Explaining the Two Main Issues & How To Deal With Them

[download this resource as a PDF:infosec_resources_femmetechdec2016-1] While the current political climate in the US is spawning mass interest in digital security, the situation as it stands has been created over the last 20 years or so, with concern and activism around the issue rising with the tide of technologies that are fueling the problems. Here… Continue reading Digital Information Security: Explaining the Two Main Issues & How To Deal With Them

UX, CRM & Database Imports and Integration, Webform & Payment, Communications: UDC

In 2014 and again in 2016 as part of Openflows I worked with the UDC to create a WordPress + CiviCRM solution to managing their membership, conference registration, and communications: http://www.democraticcommunications.org/ They required a business needs analysis, a SWOT analysis, a full software and communications analysis and technology development. 

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So You Want to Make A Digital Archive? Three Strategy Questions

Managing physical and digital files, metadata-gathering, and enabling complex internal or public searches of cultural production, ephemera, archives and/or born-digital assets are issues faced by many organizations: large, small, funded, volunteer… At Openflows, I build digital catalogs and archives regularly and want to share some of those specific strategies we use at the outset of a… Continue reading So You Want to Make A Digital Archive? Three Strategy Questions

Glitter & Grit, Book (2015)

Glitter and Grit is a 352-page anthology with 144 images, 12 pages of magazine-style spread, and design elements created in InDesign, using master page templates, paragraph and character styles. It was printed in Portland, OR and published by Publication Studio in 2015. (It also was nominated for a Lambda Literary award!). Front cover (illustration by… Continue reading Glitter & Grit, Book (2015)

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Web UX, Site Architecture, Data Migration, Logo Development: Openflows.com

In 2015 I undertook to re-design and re-architect the Openflows Community Technology Coop website, since we’d been so busy since 2008 we hadn’t had a chance to touch our old Drupal 6 site, and as the drupal community knew, Drupal 6 was about to cease having security updates supported. Specs: WordPress + ParallaxOne theme on… Continue reading Web UX, Site Architecture, Data Migration, Logo Development: Openflows.com

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Digital Security Options for Punk Community Spaces

[from a mini-discussion 9/29/15 at QUILTBAG++, with much thanks to Roo Khan of Palante Tech for skills and recommendations] Recently I was presented with a technology problem: the downloads in a rural, well-traveled, punk/artist community space are threatening that spaces’ security to retaining internet access. Is a strongarm solution – hard limits to the www –… Continue reading Digital Security Options for Punk Community Spaces

Data Mapping, Project Management: ArtSpan

ArtSpan is a community arts support organization based in the San Francisco Bay area who run the annual SF Open Studios. “We support emerging and established artists who contribute to San Francisco’s inimitable creative energy.” Until recently they run a Drupal 6 site and CiviCRM with a complex interface and custom code between the two. I created… Continue reading Data Mapping, Project Management: ArtSpan

Digital Catalog, Data Migration, Schema & Architecture Analysis: WLCC Research Lab

From 2014-2015, I worked with researchers and digital conservationists at the Warren Lasch Conservation Center at Clemson University to create a digital collection management system for the archeological research on The Hunley. Using CollectiveAccess as our destination, we imported over 90,000 records from MicrosoftAccess, cleaning the data and mapping it onto a more modern metadata… Continue reading Digital Catalog, Data Migration, Schema & Architecture Analysis: WLCC Research Lab