Licensing in a Post Copyright World
Some thoughts about the absolute madness that is currently going on with licensing in the Open Source community and how github’s license chooser is making it worse.
Taking a stand on open source and patents
The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and outreach programs for early career developers.
Factor 0.96 now available – over 1,100 commits
"You're smart too late and old too soon." - Mike Tyson I'm very pleased to announce the release of Factor 0.96! OS/CPU Win...
Linux Foundation Secure Boot System Released
As promised, here is the Linux Foundation UEFI secure boot system. This was actually released to us by Microsoft on Wednesday 6 February, but with travel, conferences and meetings I didn’t really get time to validate it all until today. The files are here
Mozilla Accepting Applications for its Open Source Accelerator
WebFWD helps open source innovators create businesses to change the world.
Tragedy of the WebKit Commons
With Opera announcing that their future products will be based on WebKit, the Internet is abuzz with discussion about what that means and wh...
Fernando Pérez of IPython fame wins the Free Software Foundation Award
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What Lua scripting means for Wikimedia and open source
Yesterday we flipped a switch: editors can now use Lua, an innovative programming language, to generate sections of wiki pages on all our sites. We’d like to talk about what this means for th…
Systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports
This blog post is the third of a series of posts dealing with the results of the Debian systemd survey . I intend to give a presentation at DebConf 2013, too, so you could either read my posts, or watch the talk, or both :-).
SQLAlchemy Migrated from Mercurial to Git
The Database Toolkit for Python
Gotk3: GTK3 the Go way
Today marks the first release of gotk3, Conformal’s own GTK3 bindings for Go (available on Github here ). These bindings were developed out of a frustration with other GTK bindings for Go either using ancient versions of GTK, not handling memory in a way a Go developer would expect, or simply not working at all on our…
Bootstrap 3 RC2
We've just cut a new release for Bootstrap 3, RC2. It's a big release as lots has changed, but that should all be for the better. Thanks everyone who's given…
GCC 4.8 release
GCC now uses C++ as its implementation language. This means that to build GCC from sources, you will need a C++ compiler that understands C++ 2003. For more details on the rationale and specific changes, please refer to the C++ conversion page.
SQLAlchemy 0.9.0 Released
The Database Toolkit for Python
Musings about Debian and Python
On a regular basis, I find myself the odd-man-out when it comes to talking about how to work with Python on Debian systems. I’m going to write this and post it so that I might be able to point people at my thoughts without having to write the same email in response to each thread that pops up.