Celeste Horgan is a writer, speaker and leader. She solves documentation problems at scale, and advocates for inclusivity across the industry.

Affiliations

Aiven

Developer Educator

December 2022 -

I currently work with the Developer Relations team to produce high quality technical content for Aiven database & cloud native developers.

Inclusive Naming Initiative

Co-founder

June 2020 - January 2022

I co-founded the Inclusive Naming Initiative with the goal of removing harmful, racist and sexist language from codebases, and reaching quorum on the replacement terms.

I ran two workstreams: Language and Open Source.

Kubernetes

Contributor

March 2020 -

SIG Docs approver

June 2020 - June 2022

Code of Conduct Committee

August 2020 - August 2022

Working Group Naming Chair & Co-Founder

June 2020 - November 2021

I am heavily involved in the Kubernetes community as a result of my work with the Linux Foundation. I have been an approver for SIG Docs since June 2020, founded the naming working group, and currently serve as a member of the Code of Conduct Committee as an individual contributor.

Latest blog post

May. 1, 2023: Bluesky and the quandry of invite-only spaces

A preamble: the most exclusive event I’ve been to A couple of years ago, I sat in a hotel suite in Napa Valley, California. The suite was one of 200 surrounding a golf corse in the Marin County highlands, and nearly the entire resort had been rented out for the Linux Foundation’s Open Source Leadership Summmit , as it was every other year, when the summit wasn’t being held in Aspen....

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