@joelle oooo nice! Didn't know this existed.

@sabderemane
@hugovk @django @mariatta this is another good one (yes it says power point slides but it applies to all slides really)

https://www.gov.wales/how-create-accessible-powerpoint-presentations

Picard management tip: When you make a mistake, apologize right away. Embrace humility over defense.

@ocefpaf
Oh no! Sending big hugs.

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@amcasari.... how long do you have for this conversation? 🫠✨

@brettcannon I truly admire your perseverance.

@lorenipsum
If you can't find one let's design and print our own 😬

@danielskatz
Whaaaaat!? This is something I did not see coming

The update nobody asked for: we are now a team of 5 utterly overwhelmed people as we got close to 5000 applications in a couple of weeks (before that the largest pool had been 570 ish in a month).

Has anyone dealt with this effectively? Note we take about 8 interns per year so we've been quite methodical in the past and gone through every application, cover letter and portfolio.

https://chaos.social/@trallard/114076852152011248

@su_liam
@dstndstn lol we did not consider "traditional" captchas as AI tools are good at bypassing these, so we've been tweaking stuff as we go with no luck.

@ogi absolutely! We opened this internship especially to create more opportunities for underrepresented folks in OSS but we cannot process them as we have in the past and I am absolutely livid.
@melissawm

@hugovk
Despite our best efforts, strengthening spam filters, updating the application process, pausing applications we have continued to get thousands of applications.
We've had three members of our HR/recruitment team helping and everyone is just overwhelmed.

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We opened applications for our yearly OSS internship and in less than a day we got over 1.3K applications, and in less than a week we have totalled close to 3K. That is a big jump from previous years, but on close inspection a LOT of those seem to have been automated with AI tools.
That makes it impossible for the two of us to go through all the apps as every year, even bringing in other folks we cannot keep up. As a small company these tools are more trouble than anything else 🫠

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@sovtechfund yay

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I wrote a blog post explaining what the #PSF Conduct WG does since I have heard some people get it wrong https://snarky.ca/what-the-psf-conduct-wg-does/

@sethmlarson
@davidism @chrisjrn samesies, been (im)patiently waiting for the recording 🍿