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The One Where We Geek Out on Accessibility with Rynn Mancuso
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About our guest:
Rynn Mancuso (they/them) is the developer community manager at Honeycomb.io, a contributor to OpenTelemetry, and a CNCF Ambassador. They led developer communities at Honeycomb, New Relic, Tidelift, Mozilla and Wikimedia. They're also an editor of Contributor Covenant 3 with the Organization for Ethical Source.
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Find us on:
- All of our social channels are on bento.me/geekingout
- All of Adriana's social channels are on bento.me/adrianamvillela
Show notes:
- Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
- ARIA (web accessibility)
- CNCF Ambassador Program
- CNCF Deaf and Hard of Hearing Working Group
- Adaptive Climbing
- CNCF AI Working Group
- Contributor Covenant
- Organization for Ethical Source
- OpenTelemetry Has Gone Multi-Lingual!
Transcript:
ADRIANA: Hey, fellow geeks, welcome to Geeking Out, the podcast about all geeky aspects of software delivery, DevOps, Observability, reliability, and everything in between. I'm your host Adriana Villela, coming to you from Toronto, Canada. And geeking out with me today, I have Rynn Mancuso. Welcome, Rynn.
RYNN: Hi, glad to be here.
ADRIANA: Super excited to have you. And where are you calling from today?
RYNN: Oakland, California.
ADRIANA: Awesome. Okay, well, we shall start off first things first with our lightning round questions. Are you ready?
RYNN: Yes.
ADRIANA: All right, let's do this. First question, are you a lefty or a righty?
RYNN: Righty.
ADRIANA: Do you prefer iPhone or Android?
RYNN: Android.
ADRIANA: Do you prefer Mac, Linux, or Windows?
RYNN: Mac.
ADRIANA: What's your favorite programming language?
RYNN: JavaScript.
ADRIANA: All right, do you prefer dev or ops?
RYNN: Ops.
ADRIANA: Do you prefer JSON or YAML?
RYNN: You know, I kind of hate them both, but my friend has cats named JSON and YAML. And so I'm going to say JSON is a shadow of a black cat who is very attractive, but YAML is extremely sweet. So I'm going to say YAML wins the day.
ADRIANA: All right, love it. Next question. Spaces or tabs?
RYNN: Spaces.
ADRIANA: And then do you prefer to consume content through video or text?
RYNN: Text.
ADRIANA: And finally, what is your superpower?
RYNN: Building relationships.
ADRIANA: Awesome. Congratulations for being the fastest responder to the lightning round questions. Well, I wanted to. One thing that I wanted to talk about today is accessibility in tech and the importance of