Community necessarily takes place in what Blanchot has called “unworking,” referring to that which, before or beyond the work, withdraws from the work, and which, no longer having to do either with production or with completion, encounters interruption, fragmentation, suspension. Community is made of the interruption of singularities, or of the suspension that singular beings are. Community is not the work of singular beings, for community is simply their being–their being suspended upon its limit. Communication is the unworking of work that is social, economic, technical, and institutional.

(Jean-Luc Nancy, The Inoperative Community)

Here I list some activities and artifacts that I've pursued to connect with and contribute to communities.

Writing | Study

Synechepedia: A digital (sketch|scrap|note)book

• Ongoing and incompletable.
• Drawing connections, fumbling for expression, taking note
• Full of rough drafts, works in progress, and evocative snippets I've read

Community

opam Repository Maintainer: Socio-technical custodian

• 2024 to present.
• Helping maintain the infrastructure and processes that sustain the opam package repository.

OCaml Outreachy Co-Mentor: Technical mentorship

• Winter of 2022.
• Supported and tutored mentees in learning OCaml.
• Supported mentees in learning how to contribute to OSS communities, how to approach software design and implementation.
• Provided career guidance and mentorship.

ICFP 2020 OCaml Workshop Organizing Committee Member: Supporting the research community

• 2020 .
• I volunteered for the organizing committee for the 2020 ICFP OCaml Workshop. I helped transcribe video presentations in the service of accessibility and assisted in facilitating talks.

Coding Made Easy at IS 62 K (Ditmas): Education in programmatic literacy

• 2016 .
• A New York Cares project partnered with the after-school program at Ditmas Junior High.
• Over 14 weeks, we supported students exploring basic programming concepts, techniques, and technologies
• I helped launch this project as a Volunteer Team Leader, coordinating the volunteers, tailoring the curriculum to the needs of each student, and providing hands-on instruction and support in the classroom on a weekly basis.

/r/prolog: The logic programming subreddit

• Sometime in the 2010s.
• Moderator and contributor for more than 6 years

/r/futurebeats: Omnigeneric haven for experimental beat music

• Some times in the 2000s to 2010s.
• I founded the subreddit, established its core ethos and norms, and recruited the initial team of moderators. I was heavily involved in supporting and nurturing the community for several years. A group of active and talented moderators and contributors have built up a small, but vibrant online ecosystem with this subreddit at its center. It is currently home to a community of over 170k subscribers and something like a musical genera has formed with this community near to its center.
• I have not been involved for years, but I still love bass music and experimental beat-heavy stuff, among all kinds of other music. You can find traces of the music I like -- and even some ancient things I made -- on my SoundCloud.