Dot Org is still a safe haven for the folks depending on dot org

By Anwesha Das in EFF on

Today I woke up to great news. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, ICAAN, has rejected the .org sale proposal [https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/30/21241946/icann-dot-org-isoc-ethos-capital-sale-rejected] . What is ICAAN? ICAAN [https://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/ICANN-Internet-Corporation-for-Assigned-Names-and-Numbers] is a non-profit and American multi-stakeholder organisation. It is…

February PyLadies Pune workshop

By Anwesha Das in Circuit Python on

It was the time for “learning Python with harware” in February, 2020 with PyLadies in Pune. Coding in Python becomes fun when one can see the changes it makes in the hardware. Selecting a place for work is always a difficult task as any organizer. College Of Engineering Pune (COEP)…

CopyleftConf 2020

By Anwesha Das in Python on

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…

Setting up my own server

By Anwesha Das in Python on

A long, long time ago a mortgage lawyer started to write her blog, just to get familiar with several crazy newfangled things called computers and the internet by using them to do something she liked, writing. So she started writing a blog using something called Wordpress [https://wordpress.com]. The…

Developers, it's License but it's easy

By Anwesha Das in Python on

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…