It is with great sorrow that we share the passing of our loving brother and friend, Kit Martin. You can find information about the celebration of his life below. We will post his full obituary in the coming days. Sending all love and support. eventcreate.com/e/kitmartin

My brother, Kit Martin, was recently diagnosed with Stage IV Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer and is under intensive treatment. With Kit’s awareness, we are reaching out to friends and family for support: gofund.me/02d96c91

The polls just closed, the results are in. Congratulations to the elected directors: [email protected], Carlo Piana (Kappa), @fuzzychef and Amanda Brock opensource.org/node/1219

Request to FOSS colleagues:

I'd love to hear of instances where information that mattered to your organization came in through open source project activity -- bug reports, dev-to-dev conversations, whatever. E.g., a market trend you first detected via FOSS project interactions.

So this took a while, but we're happy to release these draft guidelines. Thanks to the folks who've taken a look and commented. We're really looking forward to seeing what people think. It's versioned as 0.1.0 for a reason :-)

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@Ubuntu #Juju throwback

Linux Kernel mentor program for Spring 2021 to help fix kernel bugs is now open for applications:
mentorship.lfx.linuxfoundation.org/project/7671f9…

Help spread the word, the last two rounds of this resulted in loads of kernel patches submitted in lots of different areas and a few job offers.

.Allison Randal is a software developer / #opensource strategist with deep understanding of the FLOSS landscape. She joins Doc Searls & Jonathan Bennett for a knowledge-packed hour exploring 'the three legs of the FLOSS stool.' Listen & subscribe to FLOSS Weekly
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Live on air right now with FLOSS Weekly. Miss Allison Randal is dropping some interesting perls on our audience. Subscribe at twit.tv/floss Doc Searls Jonathan Bennett TWiT Tech Podcasts

Believing a technology is great does not make it so. Accepting that it is flawed, and putting in the hard work to improve it, is the only path to greatness.

We're excited to announce, registration now open for our #OpenSource Technology Management course offered through Brandeis GPS.

Gain the knowledge top #OSS companies are looking for; work with industry leaders, advance your career, project and community.

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The Artist Formerly Known as Perl 6: deeptext.media/raku-oneliners

Pro: I've pushed a dozen inboxes to zero messages, and kept them that way. Con: people are getting used to it, and have started panicking when I disappear on a flight for 8+ hours. Maybe I should go back to being less efficient.

Here's the 2019-20 OSI Board (minus Christine Hall @[email protected] ) - congratulations to Molly dB on becoming OSI's new President!
/Cc Open Source Initiative @[email protected]

Love this album, fitting tribute to a who's who of modern composers: infine-rec.bandcamp.com/album/inland

Here's a preprint version of my upcoming article on the history of secure isolation in VMs and containers (feedback welcome): arxiv.org/abs/1904.12226

While excited to welcome our new Board Directors, we're sad to see others go. We'd like to recognize & THANK those leaving us for their service & support: Vicky Brasseur (VM (Vicky) Brasseur has decamped to Mastodon) Richard Fontana (@richardfontana) Allison Randal (@allisonrandal) Italo Vignoli (@italovignoli)

Note to a 20-something self: you will accomplish all the great things you hope, but by the time you do, those great things won't seem like such a big deal anymore. Experience changes perspective.