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Meet the new Chair of the AAIF Governing Board: David Nalley, Director of Developer Experience at AWS.

As the AAIF grows to 146 members, David is leading the charge to ensure that agentic AI infrastructure remains open, transparent, and vendor-neutral.

aaif.io/blog/aaifs-f...

Design and #UX are a crucial step toward making open source software accessible to everyone. FOSS Backstage Design (18th March 2026) is where designers, UX-experts and #OpenSource enthusiasts meet to connect, share, and collaborate!

Get your ticket now: 26.foss-backstage.de...

#OpenSourceDesign

Thanks to those that played our badge challenge this year! If you want to unlock all that sweet bling, try the konami code, then enter our S3CR3T B4TT3RY UNL0CK code.

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“Ungentrified” Craigslist may be the last real place on the Internet People still use Craigslist to find jobs, love, and even to cast creative projects.

arstechnica.com/culture/2026...

Still one of my favorite places on the Internet 💯

HAPPY FRIDAY!!! Our Agenda is now live! Check it out!
Check it out: www.districtcon.org/speakers

We're also excited to share our Policy roundtable Moderators are now live! www.districtcon.org/speakers

As part of our commitment to do cool sh*t, we accept a handful of compelling ideas for lively roundtable discussions on topics at the intersection of cybersecurity & policy.

We're officially announcing our speakers DistrictCon Year 1! Check out our incredible lineup: www.districtcon.org/speakers

This also includes our Day 1 & Day 2 Keynotes from Ian Levy and Dan Ridge.

And don't forget, GA tickets go on sale November 16! See you in January! 🪩

hear ye hear ye
www.eventbrite.com/e/districtco...

districtcon.org/junkyard Call for Bugs is still open! Initial submissions close on Oct 24 - submit your best bug in an old deprecated system today 🐛

Buttercup is now open-source! Now that DARPA’s AI Cyber Challenge (AIxCC) has officially ended, we can finally make Buttercup, our CRS (Cyber Reasoning System), open source!

Security firm Trail of Bits has open-sourced Buttercup, a Cyber Reasoning System (CRS) developed for the AIxCC (AI Cyber Challenge).

It is designed to find and patch software vulnerabilities in open-source code repositories.

blog.trailofbits.com/2025/08/08/b...

github.com/trailofbits/...

We're thrilled to announce we're coming back for DistrictCon Year 1!

🗓️ Jan 24-25, 2026
📍Capitol Hilton

Early bird tickets will be sold in September, and GA tickets in November! Call for Talks, Policy roundtables, and Bugs coming soon 😎

www.districtcon.org

Software Heritage: The next chapter - Software Heritage With a new Advisory Board, Software Heritage is evolving for greater autonomy, faster decisions, and a broader impact on our mission.

Learn more about the new @softwareheritage.org Advisory Board & what's next for the org https://www.softwareheritage.org/2025/06/25/software-heritage-advisory-board/

See you in NYC at the UN Headquarters on June 18! cc @wikimediafoundation.org

Three Myths About Open Source Software (OSS) in Government Software in government sometimes has a reputation of being a slow-moving and legacy-driven field within the software realm. However, after…

codingitforward.medium.com/three-myths-...

"If you plan for a year, plant rice.
If you plan for ten years, plant trees.
If you plan for a lifetime, educate people."
~Ancient Chinese Proverb, Guan Zhong, 7th Century BCE

#ThankYou @codingitforward.bsky.social
#HackThePlanet #OpenSource #OSPO

Bluesky on Jeopardy, cab ride edition

I've decided to try being more intentional about sharing my course notes for the #python course I'm teaching this quarter. A few people had told me they'd found the older version that they found on GitHub useful, so I figured I'd mention it.

Flock to Fedora 2025: Prague, June 5th - 8th! - Fedora Magazine Flock to Fedora is coming to Prague, CZ, June 5-8, 2025! Join us for the premier Fedora conference. Submit a proposal or register to attend.

The Fedora Project's annual contributor conference will be in Prague in June (not August!). Call for papers is open!

fedoramagazine.org/flock-to-fed...

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Disney's THE SKELETON DANCE is now in the #PublicDomain! 💀🎶 Why's this a big deal? This 1929 Silly Symphony redefined animation by syncing music & visuals. Now, it’s free to use, remix & reimagine. What'll YOU create? 🎥

➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/welcome-to-the-public-domain-in-2025

The Maritime Approximation xkcd.com/3023

Limited English Designing for people with limited English

Some great tips for creating content for people who speak English as a foreign language which can probably even help people who speak it as their first language. Plain language ftw!

design.homeoffice.gov.uk/content-styl...

worked on this (incomplete) diagram of how the ASCII control codes work in unix today

it's interesting how these are all mixed together:

- Special codes (like `3` for SIGINT) handled by the OS
- regular keypresses (like `13` for "enter”)
- codes handled by the program (like `18` for Ctrl-R)

A gaggle of Flashybats - flashlights with bat wings and bat teeth - flying over a spooky moon. The text reads: Avoid trips and falls. Use a flashlight and have costumes that fit this Halloween!

You asked for it and we're the government so we're here to deliver.

Your 2024 Flashybat Halloween phone wallpaper.

How ham radio endures - and remains a disaster lifeline - in the iPhone era When disaster strikes, and conventional communication systems fail, amateur ham radio operators step in to bridge the gap, providing a crucial link between those in affected areas and the outside worl...

How ham radio endures - and remains a disaster lifeline - in the iPhone era zdnet.com/home-and-off... by @sjvn.bsky.social

When things go really bad, ham radio can still come to the rescue.

A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #3,042,617, decause.bsky.social ‪@decause.bsky.social‬, joined on Jan 21, 2024"

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How I scraped and visualized over 1,500 NPR Tiny Desk concerts - Storybench The kinds of music played behind NPR's Tiny Desk have changed significantly since the concert series started in 2008. I decided to use data to show exactly how it’s evolved. To accomplish this, I used...

The @glitch.com community never fails to inspire! Elijah Nicholson-Messmer brilliantly dug into the data around @npr.org Music's wonderful Tiny Desk series, and produced a beautiful set of visualizations about the concerts, then told everyone exactly how he did it: www.storybench.org/how-i-scrape...

Coding it Forward Fellowship | Civic Tech Internship | Public Interest Tech Internship — Coding it Forward The Coding it Forward Fellowship, America's leading civic tech internship for early-career technologists committed to public service. Formerly known as the the Civic Digital Fellowship and Civic Inn...

🗓 The countdown is officially on - in one month the 2025 Coding it Forward Fellowship application goes LIVE.

Visit codingitforward.com/fellowship to register for an upcoming info session and learn more.

Screenshot of Open Source Summit North America OSPOCon schedule for Thursday 4/18 pointing out the talks being given by the CMS.gov OSPO at 11am and 4:10pm.

At #ossummit? Interested in #OSPO work? Come check out our #OpenSource Repo Maturity Models, Templates, and Linters that #USDigitalCorps #USDResponse and the #CHAOSSproj OSPO Metrics WG have built with #CMSGov! Thurs 4/18 11am & 4:10pm, room 447-448 lvl4! #OSSNA #OSPOCon

The Motion Picture Association Doesn’t Get to Decide Who the First Twelve years ago, internet users spoke up with one voice to reject a law that would build censorship into the internet at a fundamental level. This week, the Motion Picture Association (MPA), a group

Why the MPA is announcing this now is anyone’s guess. They might think no one cares anymore. They’re wrong. Internet users rejected site blocking in 2012 and they reject it today. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...