Sumana Harihareswara @brainwane@mastodon.social

And if you're worried about being prepared or strategy, I can put you in touch with good people in Brussels!

Do you help run a federated or decentralised service in Europe -- or know someone who does? Please pass this link on. It's the application to meet politicians to discuss how the EU's copyright filters (Article 13/17) will be implemented. I worry about a backroom deal struck between Facebook/Google that excludes the next generation of open Net services: https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/organisation-stakeholder-dialogue-application-article-17-directive-copyright-digital-single .. Please speak up!

Just re-upping this offer: because being comfortable with git is a barrier to entry to many FS/OSS projects, and because I care deeply about lowering those barriers, I will tutor anyone who asks for help with git, and/or connect them with any mentor(s) they might prefer.

I'll do this while I put energy and work into making the tool more approachable, and into making better tools and learning paths.

Boosts gratefully appreciated.

#gittutors

so who are the artists/activists/engineers in NYC working on decentralized networking (broadly construed—peer to peer, activitypub-esque stuff, mesh networking, gopher revivals, etc.)?

(I feel like I probably know most of them [and maybe even had them as students] but for some reason I can't come up with a quick list)

The fight for diversity, equality and inclusion is the fight for software freedom. Our movement will only be successful if it includes everyone. RMS does not speak for these values.
https://sfconservancy.org/news/2019/sep/16/rms-does-not-speak-for-us/

here is a box of soft kitn purrs and luv to open whenever you feel sad 🎁

open source software development is essentially the greatest cooperative mmorpg ever created

What’s a good venue for getting advice on coding style for Rust programs? I have a couple of nontrivial programs that I’ve managed to kitbash together but they are lacking in elegance and I’m pretty sure there’s a better way to do certain things I just don’t know what it is.

Seeking Russian speakers to review this pull request:

https://github.com/swaywm/sway/pull/4550

What do people like for an iOS imap email client these days? Must be able to handle old school mailing lists (plain text only, > quotation, replies below quoted text).

Dear FOSS maintainers who have experienced issues with sustainability for your projects: What would help you more when it comes to successfully executing your projects?

Folks who do wikidata, would appreciate support on my proposal to remove the constraint that anyone added to an item as its programmer must have a "sex or gender" statement on their own wikidata item record: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property_talk:P943#Other_%22creator%22_types_do_not_require_sex_or_gender

Gotta say, NetNewsWire 5.0 including Julia Evans' blog as a default subscription is classy AF and completely appropriate for her level of wonderfulness

For those of you under 30: are you aware of the free software (as in GNU) vs. open source (as in OSI) debate?

Please RT for visibility, I think my immediate circle is mostly older people 😆

Software project needs contributors! How do you go about finding them?

kepi is an ActivityPub library for Django, and a daemon based on it. It lets you do e.g.

$ kepi post "Hello world"

and to assign hook scripts for things like "item liked" or "new follower".

I would rather like not to be the only one working on this :)

https://gitlab.com/marnanel/kepi