Speaker - Michael Siepmann
Biography
Michael is an interaction designer and user researcher with a PhD in psychology, decades of mindfulness practice, and great enthusiasm for making life better for all of us through psychosocially insightful and compassionate design of systems big and small.
He has been involved with FOSS since 2015, when he started volunteering for Snowdrift.coop. His contributions there have included user research, interaction design, message design, coining the term "crowdmatching", and proposing an approach to crowdmatching in which donations are adjusted monthly to match the extent to which the crowd's total pledge meets the project's goal.
Recently, he started a closely related project, IwillifWecan.org.
Presentations
- Toward an Economy of Open Abundance: Why FLO funding needs donor coordination and how to do it – Sunday 2 p.m.–2:45 p.m. in 328
- FLO funding: A panel discussion of challenges, incentives, and possibilities – Sunday 3 p.m.–3:45 p.m. in 328
