Conservancy News Round-up August
by on September 11, 2019
Updates from many of our projects' departing summer interns, updates on what our contractors have been up to and pictures from recent events.
Picture is available under a CC.BY license and was taken by Sarah Withee
Picture is available under a CC.BY licenses and was taken by Zach Harris
Picture is available under a CC.BY.SA license and was taken by Deb Nicholson
Picture is available under a CC.BY.SA license and was taken by Deb Nicholson
Recent Videos and Pictures
Our Executive Director, Karen Sandler, is going to be part of an upcoming French documentary about the global fight for software freedom. The English version will be titled "Hackers For The Commons" and you can already check out the trailer (along with a fundraiser for the English version), right here. There are a few upcoming screenings scheduled of the French version.
Check out these two pictures from Karen's Abstractions talk last month! (top)
Deb held a "Supporters & Friends" event during GUADEC. Check out these nice pictures of folks talking about software freedom in Thessaloniki! (below)Upcoming talks from staff
Bradley is keynoting the 8th edition of Kernel Recipes in Paris on September 26 & 27. Conservancy is also this year's featured non-profit beneficiary. Registration opened this week.
Karen will be keynoting State of the Map in Heidelberg in September, on Saturday, September 21st.
Deb is speaking about "Selenium and Conservancy" at Selenium Conf this October.
Deb is also co-presenting with Nithya Ruff (the Head of Comcast’s Open Source Program Office) at All Things Open on "Companies and Communities: Why Can't We All Just Get Along?"
Interns are wrapping up for the summer
- Read this lovely wrap up from Niharika. titled: Last post!
- Plus this parting blog post from Priscillah, about her work on mUzima mobile.
- From Buildbot, Rajdeep Bharati reports on his Google Summer of Code work on MacPorts.
- Asami finishes his work adding QEMU/AArch64 Support to Coreboot
- A big omnibus report on Godot's eight GSoC students.
Also, applications are currently being accepted for the next round! Outreachy internships are remote, paid ($5,500 stipend), and last three months. Initial applications for the Dec 2019 to Mar 2020 internships are due on Sep 24 at 4pm UTC. Please help us reach folks who could benefit from an internship by sharing with your networks!
Conservancy contractors have been working hard
Lots happening at Reproducible Builds, including more work on diffoscope, new variations in their testing framework.
Over at phpMyAdmin, in addition to the intern that was sponsored directly through Conservancy, work focused on the request router and time with the Google Summer of Code interns who both wrapped up and reported on their work this summer, here and here.
Clojurists Together started work on four new projects. You can read about them all here.
Loads of fresh code!
- Wine 4.15 Released
- Git 2.23 Release Notes
- Boost Version 1.71.0
- Racket version 7.4 is now available
- You can try the new alpha Selenium IDE
- Lots of Linux XIA patches accepted
- QEMU version 4.1.0 released
- Twisted 19.7.0 Released
- Three new releases available from Evergreen!
- WebSocket updates, UDP multicast for Godot
- Samba 4.11.0rc3 Available for Download
- SWIG-4.0.1 released
Member Projects: Fall is for learning
- North Bay Python has tickets on sale now!
- Selenium Conf London also has tickets on sale now!
Thanks to Chris Lamby for promoting Conservancy with complimentary beer mats at the recent Debian BBQ!
Please email any comments on this entry to info@sfconservancy.org.
