{"id":2,"date":"2006-12-25T20:58:08","date_gmt":"2006-12-26T04:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/?p=2"},"modified":"2018-04-10T11:54:14","modified_gmt":"2018-04-10T19:54:14","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/image-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/image-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"selena\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3634\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/image-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/image-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/image-1-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/image-1.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Selena Deckelmann is senior director of engineering for Firefox and was a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.postgresql.org\/community\/contributors\/\">major contributor to PostgreSQL<\/a>. She&#8217;s been involved with free and open source software since 1995 and began running conferences for PostgreSQL in 2007. In 2012, she founded <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meetup.com\/PyLadies-PDX\/\">PyLadiesPDX<\/a>, a portland chapter of <a href=\"http:\/\/pyladies.com\">PyLadies<\/a>. She founded <a href=\"http:\/\/opensourcebridge.org\">Open Source Bridge<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/postgresopen.org\">Postgres Open<\/a> and speaks internationally about open source, databases and community. You can find her on twitter (@<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/selenamarie\">selenamarie<\/a>) and on <a href=\"http:\/\/chesnok.com\/daily\">her blog<\/a>. She also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ehgO7pwkad4\">keeps chickens<\/a> and gives a lot of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/conferences\/\">technical talks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>She was an advisor for two years to the <a href=\"http:\/\/adainitiative.org\/\">Ada Initiative<\/a>, an organization dedicated to increasing the participation of women in open source and technology communities.<\/p>\n<h2>Media Coverage<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Portland Business Journal: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/portland\/news\/2018\/04\/04\/mozillas-office-grows-in-portland.html\">Mozilla&#8217;s office grows in Portland<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Register Guard: <a href=\"http:\/\/registerguard.com\/rg\/news\/local\/36323813-75\/state-appoints-public-records-law-panelists.html.csp\">State appoints public records law panelists<\/a><\/li>\n<li>RWW: <a href=\"https:\/\/readwrite.com\/2012\/01\/23\/failure-is-an-option\/\">Failure is an option<\/a><\/li>\n<li>BikePortland.org: <a href=\"http:\/\/bikeportland.org\/2007\/05\/04\/chris-king-employees-speak-about-sustainability-at-city-hall-3576\">Chris King employees speak about sustainability at City Hall<\/a><\/li>\n<li>DotFiveOne: <a href=\"http:\/\/dotfiveone.com\/2008\/10\/geek-of-the-week-selena-deckelmann\/\">Geek of the Week: Selena Deckelmann<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Me quoted<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Verge: <a href=\"https:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/8xkvb3\/webauthn-google-chrome-microsoft-edge-mozilla-firefox\">Biometric and App Logins Will Soon Be Pushed Across the Web<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The Register: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2018\/03\/20\/mozilla_firefox_test_of_privacy_mechanism_prompts_privacy_worries\/\">Mozilla&#8217;s opt-out Firefox DNS privacy test sparks, er, privacy outcry<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Consumer Reports: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.consumerreports.org\/privacy\/how-to-control-web-cookies-and-boost-online-privacy\/\">How to Control Web Cookies and Boost Online Privacy<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Threat Post: <a href=\"https:\/\/threatpost.com\/mozilla-patches-certificate-pinning-vulnerability-in-firefox\/120747\/\">Mozilla patches certificate pinning vulnerability in firefox<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The Next Web: <a href=\"http:\/\/thenextweb.com\/insider\/2012\/03\/25\/a-week-of-sexism-in-the-technology-sector-highlighted-on-the-web\/\">A week of sexism in the technology sector highlighted on the web<\/a><\/li>\n<li>WikiNews: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikinews.org\/wiki\/Web_startup_Sqoot_loses_sponsorship_after_failed_advert_deemed_sexist_by_social_media\">Web startup Sqoot loses sponsorship after failed advert deemed sexist by social media<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Linux Weekly News: <a href=\"http:\/\/lwn.net\/Articles\/327938\/\">Postgres 8.4: We&#8217;ve got momentum<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Oregon Business: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oregonbusiness.com\/on-the-scene\/4473-on-the-scene-at-emma\">On the scene at Emma<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Web Worker Daily: <a href=\"http:\/\/webworkerdaily.com\/2009\/03\/17\/community-organized-events-vs-traditional-conferences\/\">Community organized events vs. traditional conferences<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Want to know more?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/selena.deckelmann.usesthis.com\/\">The Setup: Selena Deckelmann<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/linkedin.com\/in\/selenadeckelmann\">LinkedIn<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.portlandonfire.com\/selenadeckelmann\">Portland On Fire profile<\/a> from January 6, 2008.<\/li>\n<li>Free Software Foundation: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fsf.org\/working-together\/profiles\/selena-deckelmann\">Selena Deckelmann Profile<\/a> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Writing<\/h2>\n<p>Selena tends to write about things like: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oreillynet.com\/pub\/a\/womenintech\/2007\/09\/28\/to-sir-with-love-how-to-get-more-women-involved-in-open-source.html\">women in Open Source<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/opensourcebridge.org\/2009\/03\/open-source-world-domination-part-i\/\">Open Source World Domination<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com\/tip\/0,289483,sid39_gci1351721,00.html\">features that make PostgreSQL rock<\/a>. She likes writing, generally. And can usually be convinced to write about things she&#8217;s up to. She also likes to draw <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/selenamarie\/sets\/72157623591946477\/\">monkeys<\/a>. And <a href=\"\/daily\/postgres\/\">Postgres<\/a>. She&#8217;s a contributing writer for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.booki.cc\/gsoc-mentoring\/\">Google Summer of Code Mentor Manual<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.booki.cc\/gsocstudentguide\/\">Student Guide<\/a>. You can contact her at <a href=\"&#109;&#97;&#105;&#108;&#116;&#x6f;&#x3a;&#x73;&#x65;&#108;&#101;&#110;&#97;&#109;&#x61;&#x72;&#x69;&#x65;&#64;&#103;&#109;&#97;&#105;&#x6c;&#x2e;&#x63;&#x6f;m\">&#x73;&#x65;&#108;&#101;&#110;&#97;&#109;&#x61;&#x72;&#x69;&#x65;&#64;&#103;&#109;&#97;&#105;&#x6c;&#x2e;&#x63;&#x6f;m<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>About photos on the site<\/h2>\n<p>Anything unattributed is a photo my husband has or I have taken. Most of them are up on my flickr site. I shoot with a Nikon D40 (currently out of commission), an Cannon Elph, an iPhone 3G, a Droid 3 or a 30+ year old Fujica film camera.<\/p>\n<h2>About chesnok<\/h2>\n<p>&#8216;chesnok&#8217; means garlic in russian. I studied Russian for two years in college. I was obsessed with Marina Tsvetaeva, Anna Akhmatova and Osip Mandelstam. My accent is terrible, and I can only barely read simple Russian anymore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Selena Deckelmann is senior director of engineering for Firefox and was a major contributor to PostgreSQL. She&#8217;s been involved with free and open source software since 1995 and began running conferences for PostgreSQL in 2007. In 2012, she founded PyLadiesPDX, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/about\/\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5542,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/5542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}