At a previous job, we had an engineering book club. Once a week we would meet and discuss a chapter of a book. It was a good opportunity to hear multiple perspectives on an author’s work, to see who agreed with the author and where people thought the author was off-base. I would like to […]| Aaron Jorbin
Today marks both a milestone and a turning point in my journey with open source software. I’m proud to announce the release of KDE Gear 25.08.0 as my final snap package release. You can find all the details about this exciting update at the official KDE announcement. After much reflection and with a heavy heart, I’ve made the difficult decision to retire from most of my open source software work, including snap packaging. This wasn’t a choice I made lightly – it comes after months of...| Scarlett Gately Moore
Introduction Open Source Program Offices (OSPOs) are dedicated units that coordinate and nurture open source software adoption across the organization. In the past two decades, as companies recognized that open source software “was not just a viable option but a critical path for technology innovation,” OSPOs became relatively common in large corporations, especially in the […] The post University Open Source Program Offices appeared first on Ithaka S+R.| Publications - Ithaka S+R
I write this in the wake of a personal attack against my work and a project that is near and dear to me. Instead of spreading vile rumors and hearsay, talk to me. I am not known to be ‘hard to talk to’ and am wide open for productive communication. I am disheartened and would like to share some thoughts of the importance of communication. Thanks for listening. Open source development thrives on collaboration, shared knowledge, and mutual respect. Yet sometimes, the very passion that drive...| Scarlett Gately Moore
The featured image is generated from midjourney 7 based on the prompt Create a circular logo for a brand called “Four Short Things” and place it on a white background. The logo should feature the numeral 4 prominently. White Sox Start 5-1 after All-Star Break When your last ten shows you are 6-4, you have […] The post Four Short Things – 24 July 2025 appeared first on Aaron Jorbin.| Aaron Jorbin
Dear friends, family, and community, I’m reaching out during a challenging time in my life to ask for your support. This year has been particularly difficult as I’ve been out of work fo…| Scarlett Gately Moore
My May and June in WordPress focused on helping get 6.8.2 set up for success and gardening old trac tickets. This was my first time putting together the squad for a minor release that I wasn’t going to be a member of. I coordinated with a few active committers, team reps, and the 6.8.0 release […]| Aaron Jorbin
I have released 25.04.3 I have upgraded the QT6 content snap to 6.9! Fixed a bug in kde-neon* extensions with cmake prefix path. New snaps! Audex: A CD ripping application. GCompris – An exce…| Scarlett Gately Moore
KDE Mascot Release notes: Now available in the snap store! Along with that, I have fixed some outstanding bugs: Ark: now can open/save files in removable media Kasts: Once again has sound WIP: Upda…| Scarlett Gately Moore
Election of new EDPS might end up deciding future of Commission's Microsoft use.| Euractiv
Open source software powers enterprise infrastructure, facilitates global research initiatives, and runs billions of smartphones worldwide.| eLeaP®
Push has come to shove, and I have started building something new. I’m not building it alone, thank God, but it’s a very petite open source project at the moment. I’m convinced that it is actually something new. Some of my colleagues are excited to hear that what I’m building will exist for them shortly. […]| Digifesto
Last week I spoke at PyData NYC 2023 about “Computational Open Source Economics: The State of the Art”. It was a very nice conference, packed with practical guidance on using Python in machine learning workflows, interesting people, and some talks that were further afield. Mine was the most ‘academic’ talk that I saw there: it […]| Digifesto
Snaps! I actually released last week :) I haven’t had time to blog, but today is my birthday and taking some time to myself!This release came with a major bugfix. As it turns out our applicat…| Scarlett Gately Moore
My March and April in WordPress started focused on helping with 6.8. This release turned out to be fairly smooth, in large part due to the community of folks who helped test beforehand. As often is the case, some folks waited until the general release to start testing which meant that a few bugs needed […] The post My March And April in WordPress appeared first on Aaron Jorbin.| Aaron Jorbin
I was just released from the hospital after a 3 day stay for my ( hopefully ) last surgery. There was concern with massive blood loss and low heart rate. I have stabilized and have come home. Unfortunately, they had to prescribe many medications this round and they are extremely expensive and used up all my funds. I need gas money to get to my post-op doctors appointments, and food would be cool. I would appreciate any help, even just a dollar!| Scarlett Gately Moore
Very busy releasetastic week! The versions being the same is a complete coincidence 😆 https://kde.org/announcements/gear/25.04.0 Which can be downloaded here: https://snapcraft.io/publisher/kde ! In addition to all the regular testing I am testing our snaps in a non KDE environment, so far it is not looking good in Xubuntu. We have kernel/glibc crashes on startup for […]| Scarlett Gately Moore
I talk about the similarities between internships and contributor mentorship programs. Specifically through my own internship and my perspective of Djangonaut Space.| Better Simple
We have been used to hearing that free and open source software and enterprise environments in Big Business are fundamentally opposed and do not mix well. Is that actually the case, or should we rather explore how business and free software can both benefit going forward?| That grumpy BSD guy
On finding and enabling the new Charging optimization toggle in GrapheneOS on my Google Pixel 6a for limiting charging to 80%.| The New Leaf Journal
Contributors: Esther Plomp, Lena Karvovskaya, Arjan Sieverink, Gjalt-Jorn Peters, Tanya Yankelevich During the Open Science Barcamp 2024 in Maastricht we (Esther, Lena, Gjalt-Jorn, Tanya, Arjan) di…| Open Working
Maintaining a package beyond the software. A post that covers a talk I was meant to give at the Black Python Devs Leadership Summit.| Better Simple
As you may have seen elsewhere, I’m joining AspirePress as a security advisor and project contributor. As I write this, tensions are running high in the WordPress community after Matt Mullenweg hijacked ACF. The fallout for Automattic’s behavior is felt by the rest of the community: anxiety, cancelled contracts with prospective clients, and an unclear […]| Semantically Secure
I just released v2.21 of True Myth, with two new pairs of helpers to deal with safe JavaScript object property lookup with Maybes and handling exception-throwing code with Results. Safe JavaScript object property lookup We often deal with optional properties on JavaScript objects, and by default JavaScript just gives us undefined if a property doesn’t exist on an object and we look it up: type Person = { name?: string; }; let me: Person = { name: 'Chris' }; console.log(me.name); // Chris le...| Chris Krycho
A bunch of neat new utility functions on Maybe for arrays and tuples.| v4.chriskrycho.com
True Myth has changed very little since I first released it, and I do not expect it to change much in the future: because it is basically done. I wish more libraries took this approach; churn is not a virtue.| v4.chriskrycho.com
This post is based on a joint talk with Riccardo Guida given at IPhT Saclay on May 7th.| Research Practices and Tools
I didn’t want to add my voice to the cacophony of hot takes about the xz backdoor incident because I’m sure many people are already sick of hearing about it. However, there is something…| Semantically Secure
I have been working on Open Source Software (in one way or another) since 2011 (just over 4 years since my first open source commit on a project). When I started writing open source software it was for fun. I was not a Computer Science/Engineering student. Programming was a …| cat /dev/brain
Die Ampel schließt großzügige Rahmenverträge mit Oracle und Microsoft und festigt damit die Abhängigkeit von Software-Giganten. Dabei hatte sie im Koalitionsvertrag angekündigt, sich für Digitale Souveränität und Open-Source-Software einzusetzen.| netzpolitik.org