Conservancy News Round-up

by Deb Nicholson on April 17, 2019

Check out these videos, blog posts from member projects, code releases and upcoming events.

Recent Videos

• Bradley and Karen during their keynote at FOSDEM, "Can Anyone Live in Full Software Freedom Today? Confessions of Activists Who Try But Fail to Avoid Proprietary Software"
• Microblocks in use (it's in Catalan, but the smiling faces are understandable in any language!)
• Deb keynoted Gitmerge, "The Future of Free Software"
• Godot engine in use! These are from published games and games in development. Check out the Desktop / Console showreel and the Mobile Showreel.
• Bradley gave a talk at SCaLE, "If Open Source Isn't Sustainable, Maybe Software Freedom Is?" that got written up on LWN.
• The State of Godot address by Juan Linietsy

Our Member Projects Have Been Busy

• Outreachy getting ready for another round of interns! You can see the projects that are participating in this summer's program here.
• Lots of Reproducible Builds work in March
• Godot is receiving a MOSS Grant
• Inkscape's SCALE17x Hackfest 2019 launched plans for 1.0 release and more
• Recent Clojurists Together work funded through Conservancy

Some recent code releases:

• Homebrew 2.1.0 release
• Wine 4.6 release
• Twisted 19.2.0 release

What's coming up?

Catch up with staff:

• Deb speaks about governance at Open Source 101 on Thursday
• Swing by Bellingham to say hi to Bradley at our Linuxfest Northwest booth later this month
• Deb speaks about diversity at Red Hat Summit in May

Many of our projects have events coming up:

• Selenium Conf in Tokyo
• Ninth Annual RacketCon, plus Bradley will be there.
• Samba XP -- Karen is keynoting!
• One week blocks workshop for public school teachers, "Physical Computing with the BBC micro:bit"
• Teaching Open Source planning a summer POSSE meeting

Bonus news! GPLv3 code made the famous black hole picture possible. Congrats to Doctor Katie Bouman and her team!

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Tags: conservancy, conferences, Godot, Reproducible Builds, Selenium, Outreachy, events, Clojars, inkscape, Hackfests, Racket