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Reload to refresh your session. You signed out in another tab or window. Reload to refresh your session. You switched accounts on another tab or window. Reload to refresh your session. Dismiss alert abbycabs Follow Overview Repositories 135 Projects 0 Packages 0 Stars 57 More * Overview * Repositories * Projects * Packages * Stars abbycabs Follow Abby Cabunoc Mayes abbycabs Follow open source @github @sustainers @openjs-foundation alum: @mozilla @mozillascience @OICR @WormBase @uwaterloo 📸 CC BY-NC-SA Faces of Open Source 1.5k followers 0 following * GitHub Staff * Toronto, Ontario * http://abbycabs.github.io/ * https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4959-3049 * @abbycabs * @[email protected] * @abbycabs.dev Achievements x2 x2 x3 Achievements x2 x2 x3 Organizations Block or report user Block or report abbycabs Block user Prevent this user from interacting with your repositories and sending you notifications. Learn more about blocking users . You must be logged in to block users. 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More about me: * 🌍 Founded Mozilla Open Leaders , a global mentorship program that supported 600+ open projects * 🧠 Led open source engagement for Mozilla’s Trustworthy AI efforts and built digital public goods initiatives with organizations like UNICEF * 🛠 Built open science prototypes as Mozilla Science’s lead developer & earlier, for WormBase * 🎤 Speaker and thought leader featured at events like OSCON , Strange Loop , SciPy , and EuroSciPy * ✍🏽 Founding editor of the Journal of Open Source Software , organizer for SustainOSS , and board member of the OpenJS Foundation * 🙌🏽 Named in 100 Awesome Women in Open Source , State of the Octoverse , and Faces of Open Source 📚 Featured writing: * ✨ Abby’s 2023–2024 Year in Review * ⛰ Creating Pathways That Invest in New Maintainers 📬 How to reach me: * @abbycabs on Twitter (or X) * abbycabs [at] gmail.com 📸 Photo credit: Faces of Open Source / Peter Adams Pinned Loading * mozilla/ open-leadership-training-series mozilla/open-leadership-training-series Public archive Best Practices Working Open CSS 80 114 * mozilla/ leadership-training mozilla/leadership-training Public archive INACTIVE - http://mzl.la/ghe-archive - 14 week online mentorship program on Working Open CSS 45 44 * openjournals/ joss openjournals/joss Public The Journal of Open Source Software Ruby 1.9k 215 * codemeta/ codemeta codemeta/codemeta Public Minimal metadata schemas for science software and code, in JSON-LD Python 352 102 * mozillascience/ PaperBadger mozillascience/PaperBadger Public Issuing badges to credit authors for their work on academic papers JavaScript 95 43 * github/ maintainermonth github/maintainermonth Public A month for maintainers to gather & share JavaScript 241 66 Something went wrong, please refresh the page to try again. 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