The name is a 0 and a 1.
Sero comes from semillero, the Spanish word for a seedbed: the place where things are started and grown. It is written with an s, not the z of "zero," so it is not that word, it is its own. The domain, .uno, is one, and a belief I hold and keep coming back to: we are one. Read together, the name is binary: a zero and a one, the two digits every piece of software is built from.
Communities first
The way we are taught leaves gaps, so much of what I know I worked out on my own, outside the academic structure schools are built around. A lot of what I did growing up came from necessity: volunteering at food distributions at a neighboring church, because everyone there was in need, and because the resources that might have helped me flourish sooner were not there for us either.
I do not think any of that is unique. The hardship and the struggle are exactly what taught me to see what a community actually needs, and there will always be a next generation that lives through the same, or worse. That is why I build for the community first. It would make no sense to own the fastest car when every road is full of traffic.
For years I have been building quietly and volunteering with grassroots and community organizations, and I will keep doing it, now in my own capacity as much as alongside others. As the projects I have been working on mature, I will share more of them here.