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
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!
Member Projects: Fall is for learning
Thanks to Chris Lamby for promoting Conservancy with complimentary beer mats at the recent Debian BBQ!
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