Habeas data, my data my right, is the ethos of the right to be a free and fulfilling individual. It offers the individual to be him/herself without being monitored. In The United States, there are several salvos to protect and further the concept. The First Amendment The First Amendment…
My morning starts with the quick look at twitter. Yesterday some tweets drew my attention - The Internet Archive over at http://web.archive.org has been blocked in India. There was a long thread going on, and people were asking, updating thoughts and opinions on the matter. Ok, this…
I recently conducted a session on “Software Licensing: The Basic Concepts.” Just after I mentioned the term, “license”, questions flooded in. One of those was quite interesting, “How do we create a copyright license?” I couldn’t get to it in time that day, so I thought, why not answer…
My life can be divided into major two parts. Life before knowing “Libre Office” and after. No, I won’t go on about how good the software is (which it is; fairly good). I was fascinated by the name, the meaning. Libre, means “free, at liberty.” The name suggested a…
While I was working on my project on software licensing, I noticed that there are several packages in PyPI [https://pypi.python.org/pypi] which do not have a requirements.txt file (the file mentioning the dependencies). License files, though not a rare species but surely an endangered one in…
In the developers’ sprint at PyCon US, I was sitting in the MicroPython room. After the second half, many of the developers left the room. The room turned into a Tundra region (I came from a place where the temperature was 40C). The only option left was to get into…
The one thing I missed the most, in PyCon US, 2017, was my PyLadies Pune group. We were hoping to contribute to projects individually and as a group for a long time now. For our June meetup, we planned to give a shape to this idea. Kushal [https://twitter.com/…
> Ohh you guys came alone, no Py this time? > No Py this time; missing all the noise and fun around. (How can you miss the noise? It is supposed to be a disturbance.) These were some introductory reactions from friends meeting us at FOSSASIA 2017. Kushal and I…