Episode 9: Open Sourcing Mental Illness with Ed Finkler
In this episode I interview dad, developer, FOSS nerd, and mental health advocate Ed Finkler, aka Funkatron. We discuss his Open Sourcing Mental Illness speaking campaign, a campaign with the aim of changing how we talk about mental illness in the tech community. You'll also learn a little bit about graph databases, how Ed got into programming, and much more.
Mentioned in the Show:
- Open Sourcing Mental Illness
- ColecoVision
- Zine publishing
- Purdue CERIAS
- GraphStory
- Neo4j
- Graph Database
- Cypher
- General Anxiety Disorder
- Depression
- PHP Tech Conference
- Ed's devhell episode on mental illness
- Mental Health First Aid
- National Alliance on Mental Illness
- Mental Health America
- MHPrompt.org
- @coderabbi
Contacting Ed:
- Website: funkatron.com
- Podcast: devhell.info
- Twitter: @funkatron
Help the OSMI Campaign:
Ed's Upcoming Talks (2015):
- PNW PHP, Seattle, Sep 11/12, 2015
- Connect JS, Atlanta, Oct 16/17, 2015
- Nodevember, Nashville, Nov 14/15, 2015