As more and more of our lives are played out in digital space, can we mitigate anxiety in the tools that we create and use everyday?

As the majority of marginalized developers risk financial stability to attend industry events, our primary goal, too, goes ignored: building the resources and capital to finance our work.

Giving people the recognition and respect they deserve is the start of helping evolve open source software into a more sustainable ecosystem.

We cover picking a price point, promoting your sponsorships, developing ethical guidelines, and how sponsors help us make MVC.

How we think about and use crowdfunding at MVC, and what social justice/feminist/community platforms can learn from us.

Building sustainable funding that supports your mission and goals, allows you to grow, and develops community connection.

Although we can rightly celebrate the progress that we have made thus far, we must also recognize just how far we still have to go in making this phase in our cultural evolution a success.

I spoke to the founders and editors of Femsplain, CirclePlus.co, Black Girl Nerds, Thurst and Autostraddle to find out what it takes to create safe spaces online.

Simply telling people to use the ignore function is not going to curtail decades-long problems in video games communities.

Confronting the darkness that lies with anonymity as a defining factor of online spaces.