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

Eighth Annual RacketCon

by Deb Nicholson on September 4, 2018

RacketCon is coming right up! Join Racket developers, contributors, programmers, educators, and bystanders in St. Louis, Missouri on September 29th and 30th. Early bird (aka cheaper) tickets are available through September 8th.

This year's event will again be live-streamed so you can tune in, even if you can't make the trip. This year's keynote speaker is Kent Dybvig. Dybvig is the creator and primary developer of Chez Scheme and author of The Scheme Programming Language. Other highlights include talks on using Racket for data analysis, to write quick scripts and in the humanities department.

More details, including "Early bird" tickets and the Friendly Environment Policy can be found on the conference website.

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Tags: conservancy, Racket