Navigating Technology Standards and other topics

Matt Borja: Navigating Technology Standards
Together, we’ll survey:

• HTML forks, Unix wars, and the ongoing OpenPGP divide with actionable steps to stay relevant without full-time immersion.
• Core governance structures and decision-making processes
• Entry points for non-insiders: mailing lists, draft feedback, public tools
• Power dynamics: drafters vs. implementers, why non-adoption kills specs
• Efficient tracking methods-no PhD required
• Six historical schisms and their measurable fallout
• OpenPGP split: RFC 9580 vs. LibrePGP-probabilities, risks, merger paths
• Throwback: ed25519 key generation review and preparation for key signing

Participants should leave with a better understanding of governance mechanics, developer leverage, and insights to navigating and surviving these shifts in industry.

Annette DeMarco: Wordpress-based HOA site
Annette will show the WordPress-based website she built for her self-governed HOA. She will explain how she got into the predicament of having to build a website, what other choices she looked at and why she picked WordPress, and then she'll lift up the hood to show you the standard and customized features of the website.

Darrell Denlinger: Analysis of a Cloudflare September 12 Outage
It is good to understand outages in famous companies large and small and learn from their mistakes. Cloudflare is one of the backbones of the internet so when they have an outage we should take notice. We will walk through what happened to Cloudflare just a few days ago on September 12. Timeline and root cause.