Felix Crux

Tickets to PyCon Canada 2016 are now available, and will be on a discounted “early bird” price until Monday the 19th. The main event will be on November 12th and 13th in downtown Toronto, followed by development sprints that are open to the public on the 14th and 15th.

Although PyCon is built around the Python community, the content is not usually hyper-specific to Python: there are always plenty of general interest topics that any developer can benefit from. You can also view recordings of talks from previous years.

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I'm tremendously happy (and more than a little anxious!) to say that my talk proposal for PyCon 2016 has been accepted.

I'll be presenting What You Need To Know About Open Source Licenses on Tuesday the 31st of May at 12:10 PM in the Oregon Ballroom 201–202, as part of track “A”. PyCon 2016 will take place in Portland, Oregon from May 28th to June 5th, and has a really excellent lineup of talks.

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Matthew Garrett's timely post GPL enforcement is a social good reminded me to revisit my old Geeky Guide to Giving list, and to reprise and update it; this time with a Software Freedom theme. So, below, a list of charitable organizations seeking your help to advance the cause of Free/Open Source software.

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Firefox already has an excellent cloud-based Sync system for sharing settings and browser history between computers — but perhaps you don’t want any of your data stored on remote servers; or you keep separate work and personal profiles; or you don’t want to have to set it up in several places (like short-lived virtual machines); or maybe you just like to keep all your settings in plain text files you can copy around.

I fall into several of those categories, but until recently, I didn’t know Firefox had a built-in solution.

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Last year at PyCon I organized a small Open Space event for OpenPGP key signing. Based on the success of that event I'm doing it again this year at PyCon 2015 in Montréal. We'll be in room 512cg at 18:00 on Saturday the 11th.

I wrote up a very short superficial guide that covers what this is all about, how to get started, how key signing happens, and where to go from there; you can read it here.

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