John Sullivan @johns@librem.one
Former shipper and executive director at the Free Software Foundation, now https://alliterativeadvising.com, https://crazyalansemporium.com, and board of directors for https://f-droid.org.
Joined May 2019
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Well my consulting office is now in the back of a retail store. Better Call Sull?
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This year we will have 4 keynoters @SeaGL
Our second announced keynoter is: Deb Nicholson, Executive Director at the Python Software Foundation and a founding organizer of SeaGL!
#seattle #linux #fossconf #keynote #opensource #FOSS #seagl2023
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Now that Business Success with Open Source is in beta and available for purchase in early release, I have the mental space available to start considering my next steps. The first one of those steps: find my next job.
What I'm looking for:
7% of all books sold in the US annually are written by James Patterson.
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If I am not mistaken, today, Oct 20th, is the 45th anniversary of MUD, and therefore the 45th anniversary of virtual worlds as we know them.
Roomba but for washing cilantro
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Talk announcement for #SeaGL2023
Vagrant Cascadian presents: "Beyond Trusting FOSS".
Details: https://osem.seagl.org/conferences/seagl2023/program/proposals/939
#SeaGL
(if (equal (system-name) "Nokia-N900-42-11")
..I guess I don't need that line in my .emacs anymore...
I've introduced a lot of people to xournalpp (and xournal). I couldn't do my job (current or previous) without it -- best thing I've found for writing/typing on top of PDFs and inserting signature images. If you don't know it, check it out! https://xournalpp.github.io/
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We are hiring contractors to work on #GNOME and the #Linux Desktop 
Do you have experience working on Linux desktop technologies? Get in touch with your resume or portfolio stf@gnome.org ✉️
Some areas we are interested in hiring for:
• Flatpak
• Linux desktop accessibility
• Freedesktop / XDG services and components
• Desktop security
• GNOME services and components
@XOrgFoundation @kde @gnome
Boosts welcome!
#freedesktop #KDE #getFediHired #jobs #FLOSS #OpenSource #FreeSoftware
It's okay to publish code under a free software / open source license without starting a "project". Not every act of sharing code for others to use and/or build on is a "project". Which is something that studies about how many "projects" are "maintained" should keep in mind.
"The problem with being a book critic, Dorothy Parker wrote, is that the work gets in the way of your reading."
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The transcript from the summary judgement hearing in our Vizio lawsuit has just been published. You can read about it here: https://sfconservancy.org/news/2023/oct/12/transcript-msj-hearing/
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The nonprofit behind Wikipedia, @wikimediafoundation is seeking SREs, Data Scientists, Big Data Engineers, Lead Counsel, and more. Browse current openings on #OSJobHub https://opensourcejobhub.com/company/875/ #jobs #career #OpenSource #Wikipedia #SRE #Wikimedia #DataScientist #engineer #BigData
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Why are you stressing about arbitrary code execution vulnerabilities in #curl ? You were just going to pipe the output to sh anyway. 
Former shipper and executive director at the Free Software Foundation, now https://alliterativeadvising.com, https://crazyalansemporium.com, and board of directors for https://f-droid.org.
Joined May 2019
