The greatest asset of open source software is the ability to fork and improve. When it comes to our community’s culture, could we be better?

I know we can, and Star Trek: Voyager gives us our blueprint.

I'll explore the principles surrounding Gene Rodenberry’s creation and how I learned about context and blind spots through a year long journey of building a great team. I'll show off some of the scientific studies I found, as well as research and mathematical models to prove the idea of diverse collective intelligence over individual intelligence within a group.

We’ll explore the ground-breaking symbolism of characters like Captain Janeway, Lieutenant Tuvok and Seven of Nine.