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A Mortgage lawyer had dream to work full time in technology and policy, The journey started long ago with a new mum reading "Intellectual Property and Open Source: A Practical Guide to Protecting Code" by Van Lindberg, to her keep entertained during breastfeeding sessions.Then from meaning of
CRA, EU Cyber Resilience Act, has stirred a lot of discussion in the Open Source Communities. Will my project be usable in EU anymore? What are my responsibilities as a developer of open source software? My software is shipped with a commercial software, does it make me a manufacturer? Open
There are 3 pillars of the open source ecosystem, tecnhnology, community and legal It is important to think beyond code -- beyond the pull requests and CI pipelines -- and into the broader questions of how we build, share, and sustain open source software together. The ninth Swedish OSPO Network
Generally Linux commands print their version on stdout , for example git --version or python --version . But not ssh . ssh -V prints output to stderr . To test it you can do the following: git version on stdout > git --version 2> error 1> output > cat output git version
After 145+ commits spread over multiple PRs , 450+ conversations and feedback, and accountable communication via several different communication mediums spanning over 2 years, the Ansible Release Management is finally completely automated, using GitHub Actions. When I joined Red Hat in November 2022, I was tasked with releasing the Ansible Community
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Each year, I try to experience a new PyCon. 2025, PyCon Lithuania was added to my PyCon calendar. Day before the conference What makes this PyCon, is that we were traveling there as a family and the conference days coincided with the Easter holidays. We utilized that to explore the
Since the very inception of my journey in Python and PyLadies , I have always thought of having a PyLadies Conference, a celebration of PyLadies. There were conversations here and there, but nothing was fruitful then. In 2023, Mariatta , Cheuk , Maria Jose , and many more PyLadies volunteers around the globe made
Over the years, when  I am low, I always go to the 2014 Euro Python talk  "Farewell and Welcome Home: Python in Two Genders" by Naomi . It has become the first step of my coping mechanism and the door to my safe house. Though 2024 marked
It is July, and it is time for Euro Python , and 2024 is my first Euro Python. Some busy days are on the way. Like every other conference, I have my diary, and the conference days are full of various activities. Day 0 of the main conference After a long
Ansible Playbooks is the known term, now there is a new term which is being floted in the project, which is Ansible Rulebooks . Today we are going to discuss about Ansible's journey from Playbook to Rulebook rather Playbook with Rulebook. What is Event Driven Ansible? What is Event
Execution Environments serves us the benefits of containerization by solving the issues such as software dependencies, portability. Ansible Execution Environment are Ansible control nodes packaged as container images. There are two kinds of Ansible execution environments Base, includes the following fedora base image ansible core ansible collections : The following set
Transparency, collaboration, inclusivity, and openness lay the foundation of the Open Source community. As the project's maintainers, few of our tasks make the entry bar of contribution low, collaboration easy, and the governance model fair. Ansible Community Engineering Team always thrives on these purposes through our different endeavors.
'Fosdem ain't like any other conference.' "Ahh, such an overrated statement, I thought to myself." I have been attending and organizing events for years now. "I attended PyCon US with 3500+ attendees and organized a conference with 1000+ people; most importantly, I come
Ansible Contributor Summit is one of Ansible's most significant and undoubtedly crucial events, now renamed Ansible Colab. It occurs on the last day of Config Management Camp at Ghent. Traditionally, the conference takes place next Monday to Wednesday after Fosdem. We started from Brussels in the afternoon on