A week before Software Freedom Conservancy [https://sfconservancy.org/] had announced the CopyleftConf 2020 [https://2020.copyleftconf.org/]. The conference is going to take place on 3 February 2020, Monday, in Brussels, Belgium. The first edition of CopyleftConf took place in February 2019 [https://2019.copyleftconf.org/]. One can have…
Today, 5th February is the safer internet day [https://www.saferinternetday.org/]. The primary aim of this day is to advance the safe and positive use of digital technology for children and young people. Moreover, it promotes the conversation over this issue. So let us discuss a few ideas.The…
Is PyCon 2018 [https://twitter.com/pycon] your first PyCon? Then you must have had a sleepless night. You must be thinking “I will be lost in the gathering of 3500 people.” There should be a lot of mixed emotions and anticipation. Are you the only one who is thinking…
In 2013, I was going through PyCon photos. The album was full of pictures of very serious looking geeks engrossed in their favorite back and green screen. Suddenly I saw the photos of people laughing, enjoying and joking . Many of them were women. Dazzled by the beautiful ladies, I asked…
“Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather. ... Governments…
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/…
The title for my talk was "The trends in choosing licenses in Python ecosystem". As a lawyer what interests me is the legal foundation of the open source world. It is the licenses, which defines the reach of the software. Most of the developers would frown their eyebrows…
The title for the blog post is not something I wrote but copy pasted a tweet [https://twitter.com/kushaldas/status/779870562092855296] by @kushaldas. Kushal [https://kushaldas.in] is being attending PyCon India since 2010, a year after it started. This one tweet of his says if not the whole…