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davelester

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Posting about open source software and developer communities. Previously worked @ Google, Apple, Twitter. Fan of old maps, live music, and float tanks. He/him.

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Inspired by the FOSS Governance Collection, created by @vmbrasseur -- “an indexed collection of governance documents from Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) projects.” https://fossgovernance.org It's an incredible resource, and uses @zotero!

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FoundationDB community: there's an in-person and online meetup scheduled for May 15 in San Jose, CA. Hosted by Adobe. More info: https://forums.foundationdb.org/t/foundationdb-meetup-in-san-jose/4448

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Fernando Pérez authored this Director’s Vision for the Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) https://bids.berkeley.edu/about/directors-vision-2024

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“Berkeley has played a key role in many developments in the history of Open Source and Open Science. From leadership in (or outright creation of) major Open Source efforts from Unix to Spark, Scientific Python or Jupyter, to founding initiatives to change publishing such as the Public Library of Science, to our libraries leading the fight for open access to the scientific literature, and more.” https://bids.berkeley.edu/about/directors-vision-2024

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GrimoireLab 1.0.0 released! “GrimoireLab has become the de facto standard for open source project health dashboards.” Congrats to the community on achieving this milestone! https://github.com/chaoss/grimoirelab/releases/tag/1.0.0

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Good morning from ! Opening keynote: “SBOMs Everywhere: Work in Progress & Challenges Ahead” with some great updates on incl the final release tag of 3.0! https://github.com/spdx/spdx-3-model/releases/tag/3.0

Slide: “Extending SPDX beyond 3.0”

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We've split into two tracks during ! Next up: "Driving Security at Scale: Principles for Package Repository Security" -- the framework is available online https://repos.openssf.org/principles-for-package-repository-security

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TIL: in 1994 robots.txt was initially proposed as RobotsNotWanted.txt

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Excited for next week's in Seattle! Monday's plan: and . Hallway track on Tuesday.

Open to coffee/lunch meet ups - let’s talk OSPOs, developer ecosystems, package managers, or music! 👋 New and existing connections welcome!

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Also: I'm on the job market! Eager to work with companies, bringing years of experience working in Open Source Program Offices (OSPO) with a passion for building developer communities and for open source strategy. Also open to Advisor roles. Let's connect! https://www.linkedin.com/in/dc-lester

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TIL: Swift Package Manager uses a .mailfilter file to allow contributors to opt out of being included in CONTRIBUTORS.txt. The mail filter file is a list of hashed names and email addresses. https://github.com/apple/swift-package-manager/blob/main/.mailfilter

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Reminds of the CNCF DevStats project which provides a way to hide data by contributing a hash of the data https://github.com/cncf/devstats/blob/master/HIDE_DATA.md

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@jawnsy Yes, author info remains in the commit history but I think it’s notable that this project and DevStats both allow contributors to control how info about their contributions is reported in derivative forms (in this case via a CONTRIBUTORS file, in DevStats via a WebUI.)

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Excited to be heading to Seattle for Open Source Summit, I'll be in town April 14-18! Anyone up for coffee, dinner, or just saying hi? My schedule is wide open - let's connect! 👋

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When building this site several months back I wanted to easily update it via a single configuration file and deploy it as a static site. I didn't find a static site generator that fit my needs to pre-process data, so what I ended up with was this: a Flask site that generates a site via the configuration. That Flask site is then "frozen”using Frozen-Flask into a set of static files which are then served via GitHub Pages. Works great so far.
https://fosstodon.org/@davelester/112158526923909344

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Repository is here: https://github.com/davelester/package-manager-landscape/, with a landscape.toml file in the top-level directory and the Flask site in /web.

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Just updated the Package Manager Landscape https://davelester.github.io/package-manager-landscape/ with another package manager: Chromebrew is a package manager for Chrome OS https://chromebrew.github.io

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gharchive.org is a wonderful resource — a dataset of the public GitHub timeline that can be used for analysis. I'm working on a lightning talk about why OSPOs may want to consider using it as an alternative to collecting GitHub data themselves to analyze and report on community metrics.

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🎮👾 So cool to see: Apple has published a technical demonstration of using Swift to build games for Playdate, a handheld game system by Panic https://www.swift.org/blog/byte-sized-swift-tiny-games-playdate/

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Target announces an Open Source Fund https://tech.target.com/blog/open-source-fund

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🎧 Two podcast episodes I listened to this past week that spurred new ideas:

  1. Jacob Collier is interviewed on The Colin and Samir Show in a wide-ranging conversation about his creative process https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-colin-and-samir-show/id1379942034?i=1000647942400
  2. Cal Newport interviews Noah Kagan on the Deep Questions podcast to discuss entrepreneurship and his new book, "The Million Dollar Weekend" https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/deep-questions-with-cal-newport/id1515786216?i=1000647931818
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From Axios: “Feds to offer new support to open-source developers” https://www.axios.com/2024/03/07/biden-admin-open-source-security-promises

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NixCon North America takes place next week, March 14-15, in Pasadena! Who else plans to attend? https://2024-na.nixcon.org/talks/

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Congrats @sigstore for becoming a Graduated project within the @openssf! https://github.com/ossf/tac/pull/273#issuecomment-1976631876

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.@julienledem on OpenLineage and building a successful open source project: "the process does not start with a pet project and then playing some mind tricks to convince everyone to use it. Where it actually start is by finding the missing piece, that need that everybody has, then ask yourself: How do we create a very focused, single minded project to fill that need?" https://sympathetic.ink/2024/02/20/Chapter-3-Onwards-OpenLineage.html

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