Fosdem 101

'Fosdem ain't like any other conference.' "Ahh, such an overrated statement, I thought to myself." I have been attending and organizing events for years now. "I attended PyCon US with 3500+ attendees and organized a conference with 1000+ people; most importantly, I come…

Fosdem, 2024

"What, a technology conference has a legal and policy track! This is the conference for me to be in. " That was me in 2017. I dreamed of attending Fosdem but could not attend one (even though my talk was selected). 2024 marked my debutante year in Fosdm. Fosdem…

Ansible 7.5.0 is out now

Since I moved to Stockholm, I hated the weather more than the practice behavior of the Sun. But today, it did some good; it woke me up at 4:40 and felt like 7:00, so I started working. And what a productive day it was :). I have been doing…

"Python for Everyone": learning Python

I conceptualized "Python for Everyone" to help women who want to start their careers in technology. After the introduction sessions, it was time for us to learn real "Technology". What better to start with than Python? Python 101 Part I in Sunet Sunet [https://www.sunet.…

Dgplug summer training, 2022

dgplug summer training 2022 [https://foss.training/] will start at 13:00 UTC, 25th July. This is our 15th edition. Following our tradition, we have updated and modified our training based on the feedback from the old participants and community at large. There shall be more experiments for the betterment…

Update on foss.training infrastructure

This summer we are having 15th edition of Dgplug [https://dgplug.org/] summer training. July, 2022 is when the training begins. It was a long due task on me to revamp the infrastructure. Website update Our foss.training [https://foss.training/] website is now all ready with it’s new…

PyLadies Stockholm April, 2022 meetup

It is has been a few months since I have moved to Stockholm. Since we were planning to move in here, the first thing I searched for was the PyLadies Stockholm [https://twitter.com/PyladiesSthlm]. Within days of arriving, I attended my first PyLadies meetup in November 2021. What a…

Software Licenses : Legalese to English

When I was doing a licensing survey in the Fedora ecosystem. I asked a few developers, "What is license according to them?" I got some interesting answers: "I do not care about the license; it bores me." - a super senior developer says this. (not a…