This Week in Open Source for July 11, 2025
A look around the world of open sourceby
We took a break as there was a holiday in the US that shortened our work week, but we are back to share what our open source world has to offer.
Upcoming Events
- July 14-19: The 26th annual Debian Conference (DebConf) for Debian contributors and users interested in improving Debian is in Brest, France.
- July 24-29: GUADEC 2025, the Gnome community's largest conference is in Brescia, Italy.
- July 31-August 3: FOSSY (Free and Open Source Software Yearly) will be held in Portland, Oregon and is focused on the creation and impact of free and open source software, uplifting contributors of all experience.
Open Source Reads and Links
- [Article] libxml2 Maintainer Ends Embargoed Vulnerability Reports, Citing Unsustainable Burden - Solo maintainer of small project won't embargo security vulnerabilities any more; will just treat them like regular bugs. This might bring up security concerns for those that use it but it highlights the need for more contributions required for important work.
- [Podcast] Managing community contributors with Alya Abbott - In this episode of The Business of Open Source podcast the COO of Zulip discusses the management of community contributions, including their downsides.
- [Blog] Towards Digital Sovereignty: Decisions About Control We Make Every Day - Digital sovereignty. What is it? Where did it come from? And how might we best think about it based on our personal or company needs?
- [Report] The Python Software Foundation 2024 Annual Impact Report - PSF has released their annual organization report for community accountability, transparency, and discussion.
- [Mailing List message] What's Next? - This mailing list message shows new life in the development of the copyleft-next license.
- [Blog] Command line magic: Extracting links with awk, grep, and tr - Sometimes it's nice to be reminded of the tools we have at our disposal and how we can use them to make everyday tasks easier. This article from an ATO contributor shows some tips and tricks for a little command line magic that we may have forgotten about (or never thought of).
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