FLOX AdvocateContainer Registries & The Open-Source Observability Problem in 20 minutes at #FOSSASIA Summit
"Free Software is not necessarily better, safer and more ethical but it gives us a chance to be better, safer and more ethical" -- Karen Sandler
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Karen points out that we have lots of amazing software available and mentions that they're using #BigBlueButton for the panel and conference
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Harish worked with Singapore government to make sure contact tracing app for the pandemic is Open Source
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"I would like to see the Free Software community serving the average person" -- Bruce Perens
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Harish Pillay posted, from the Red hat code of conduct and ethics (pdf above): "Participation in an open source community project, whether maintained by the Company or by another commercial or non-commercial entity or organization, does not constitute a conflict of interest even where you may make a determination in the interest ofthe project that is adverse to the Company’s interests."
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~trying to bring up an iceberg, a positive one, not a negative one like the one that struck the Titanic~ -- Andre Rebentisch
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having ethical societies and ethical organizations for FLOSS would help people keep the public good as a goal for their work ( distilled from several of Karen's comments )
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@conservancy 's weekly chat in #conservancy on Freenode starts in about 30 minutes
good podcast interview about #Rocky Linux, #CentOS and RedHat
https://changelog.com/podcast/427
A couple notes:
Rocky Linux is named after one of the initial CentOS developers who died back when CentOS was still small
Rocky will be large, open community involvement
no animosity about CentOS changes, rather just a community that needs a different direction
The rise of Rocky Linux with Greg Kurtzer (The Changelog #427)
This week on The Changelog we’re talking with Gregory Kurtzer about Rocky Linux. Greg is the founder of the CentOS project, which recently shifted its strategy and has the Linux community scrambling. Rocky Linux aims to continue where the CentOS project left off — to provide a free and open source community-driven ente...