John Sullivan @johns@librem.one

Never had as much envy for a conference as watching the posts about #fossy

Responding to the "Start every phone call by saying 'My phone's about to run out of battery' so you can end the call whenever you want" meme by proposing a cryptographically verifiable remote attestation protocol for battery state

No one knows how to cook umber

The first video from #FOSSY is out! 🎉 If you have been following our writing, you know our Policy Fellow Bradley M. Kuhn wrote about the recent RHEL policy change. As a continuation of that discussion, he led a keynote panel at the conference to discuss the issue with representatives from AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux and Oracle.

You can view the video and more information here: https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2023/jul/19/rhel-panel-fossy-2023/

Project Management 101.

@johns Yep.

https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2023/07/2023-07-06-internet-archive.md

Boost if you're old enough to remember ZMODEM.

Rough sketches of a few speakers at the just concluded #fossy conference here in Portland.. I leave it as an exercise to match the speaker to the talks!

Gave a talk at #FOSSY yesterday about #ReproducibleBuilds and #BootstrappableBuilds and how close we are to actually counter the infamous #TrustingTrust attack.

The slides are packaged as a Debian package, including a signed .buildinfo file, so you should be able to recreate my slides bit-for-bit identically!

https://www.aikidev.net/~vagrant/talks/2023/fossy/

However, my actual talk included a fair amount of non-determinism, thanks for all the great questions!

https://2023.fossy.us/schedule/presentation/118/

Videos should be available soon!

Looking forward to getting into Non-profit boards at 4:30pm (PDT) today at #FOSSY -- Let's Talk About It! https://2023.fossy.us/schedule/presentation/32/

Great panel on the right to repair this morning at #FOSSY hitting lots of great energetic work in progress, including proposed legislation, normalizing device repair, educating and listening to less technical users, and a lawsuit. And of course, there are plenty of opportunities to get involved!

Stuart Geiger highlighting importance of recognizing varied types of contribution to open source projects in his talk at #FOSSY.

One example he cites is the "All Contributors" bot, which is a nice way to continuously update your README with contribution credits in areas like design, accessibility, translation, user testing, bug reports, ...:

https://github.com/all-contributors/app

Underlying spec:

https://allcontributors.org/

Very sad to hear that Ian Denhardt, GNU social developer, former intern and friend has passed away.

Now in the Community: Open Source in Practice track at #FOSSY: @spot on Open Source Anti-Patterns!