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"Kandra Labs hired Sumana Harihareswara to do some consulting during the early days of Zulip ... I think this was one of the best decisions I made early on: it was incredibly helpful to have her to both help with direct work on setting up the community and bounce ideas off of and talk about what types of things we should be doing to help make Zulip a project that a community can grow around."

— Tim Abbott

Founder and CEO of Kandra Labs, co-founder of Zulip

Clients we have worked with

Python Package Index

Warehouse powers the next-generation replacement for the Python Package Index -- basic Python community infrastructure.

Tidelift

Harihareswara occasionally provides advice to Tidelift on connecting with and serving open source software maintainers, …

Python Packaging Authority

The Packaging Working Group of the Python Software Foundation engaged Changeset to coordinate and improve …

HTTPS Everywhere

The Electronic Frontier Foundation hired Changeset to help improve HTTPS Everywhere's project workflow for developers …

Open Tech Strategies

Via the consulting firm Open Tech Strategies, and as part of Solution Guidance Corporation, Harihareswara …

OpenNews

Following a sprint with OpenNews in December 2016 to help write a guide to newsrooms …

Zulip

In early 2016, Zulip's documentation was split among multiple README files and sub-sites, and Zulip …

Wikimedia Indonesia

Wikimedia Indonesia, a non-profit organization dedicated to free knowledge and free culture, worked on a …

founder

About our founder

Sumana Harihareswara

Blogs at Cogito, Ergo Sumana

Sumana Harihareswara is an open source software contributor (GitHub) and project manager with over fifteen years of experience in the software industry. She has managed open source projects for the Python Software Foundation, GNOME, Wikimedia Foundation, OpenNews, Electronic Frontier Foundation, and more, and managed work on Autoconf, pip, PyPI, Zulip, MediaWiki, Mailman, and more. Her past leadership in nonprofit, academia, industry, and volunteer organizations earned her an Open Source Citizen Award in 2011 and the Google Open Source Peer Bonus in 2018. She lives in New York City and founded Changeset in 2015.

Quotes

If you hate bad meetings, you should talk to @ChangesetLLC.

I’ve walked away from every meeting run by @brainwane with a sense of awe and wonderment rather than crankiness and regret.

Efficient, painless, productive.

Ee W. Durbin III, Director of Infrastructure at the Python Software Foundation

My view is that an open source project without a healthy external community doesn't provide most of the benefits of open source....

Kandra Labs hired Sumana Harihareswara to do some consulting during the early days of Zulip ... I think this was one of the best decisions I made early on: it was incredibly helpful to have her to both help with direct work on setting up the community and bounce ideas off of and talk about what types of things we should be doing to help make Zulip a project that a community can grow around.

Tim Abbott, founder and CEO of Kandra Labs, co-founder of Zulip

Whenever I wonder 'What has Sumana been up to lately', I see her working on some excellent new project, cleaning out a neglected backlog, organizing training materials, helping people start an event, documenting something undocumented, prodding WMF to get smarter -- in other words, she's been tirelessly, fearlessly, capably making things better for our dev community, which in turn benefits the quality of the software we build together.

Erik Möller while VP of Engineering and Product Development at Wikimedia Foundation; now Principal Project Manager at Freedom of the Press Foundation.

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