Lauren Gardner
Executive Director at Open Source Collective
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLauren Gardner is an executive director and cultural-technology operator with 11+ years of leadership in nonprofit arts and 15+ years as a technical product manager building enterprise publishing and ad platforms for organizations like Turner/Time Warner and Thomson Reuters. She now leads the Open Source Collective, overseeing financial and legal infrastructure that facilitates millions in donations and expenses for thousands of open-source projects, while continuing to run Babycastles—where she turned the arcade into a profitable, program-driven cultural venue. Lauren blends nonprofit strategy, fiscal ops, and product engineering fluency to bridge distributed technical communities and institutional administration. Her background at the School for Poetic Computation and a BFA in production inform a practice that foregrounds creative technology, unusual cross-sector partnerships, and sustainable operational models.
11 years of coding experience
BFA, Radio/TV/Film Specialization in Production, BFA, Radio/TV/Film Specialization in Production at Sam Houston State UniversitySeth Godin's altMBASchool for Poetic Computation
Github Skills (33)
computation10
steambot10
capybara10
transparency10
sustainability9
mercury9
gift9
documentation9
steam9
openframeworks9
reflections8
osc6
open-source6
animation6
react5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
SFPC/sfpc.github.io
Nov 2015 - Jul 2020
School for Poetic Computation website.
Contributions:230 commits, 9 PRs, 216 pushes in 4 years 8 months
computationpoeticsfpc
Open-Source-Collective/docs
May 2022 - Jan 2023
OSC Docs!
Contributions:30 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 8 months
osc
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