Hi, I'm Matt Ewing
Organizer & Operator.
Co-Founder @ Scoot Networks. Early @ Swing Left, Vote Forward and MoveOn.
I love to build stuff that matters.
About Me
I've spent the last 20 years trying to make the world a better place, primarily by using technology to bring people together.
Along the way, I've played a lot of roles: managing large teams, leading software and product development, heading up marketing, driving fundraising, and designing cutting edge distributed organizing models — to name a few
But, in the end, the thing I love the most is working with a group of talented people to build something that actually matters.
Recent Projects
Here's a running a list of a few of the non-work projects I've put together over the last few years. All are still ongoing, unless there's a date listed.
Ewing & Ewing Toys
One of my favorite things about being a father is that it's inspired me to start making toys. My own father is signficantly handier than I am, so this has morphed into a project for 3 generations of Ewings. Here are a few of our recent creations.
FRED talks
FRED talks are short TED style talks by your friends (or your friends-friends). I put them together in San Francisco for a few years, along with my wife and our friends. We tried to organize them every two months, and group them around a single topic. Topics ranged from the future of cities to love (a Valentine's Day special) to the meaning of money.
This Site
I designed and built this site from scratch as part of an effort to increase my basic frontend web skills. It's fully responsive and held together by hand-coded HTML and CSS, with a little bit of javascript thrown in for good measure. It's hosted on GitHub, powered by Jekyll and remains a work in progress.
Icon's are courtesy of Font Awesome by Dave Gandy--which is indeed awesome.