The monthly Open-Source night experiment continues. On Wednesday, June 19th we had the June edition of Open-Source Night. Rory gave us a slightly-longer-than-15-minutes talk on OpenStreetMap, and the kind of contributions the project welcomes (data data data, really!). I was the only one to volunteer for a lightning talk, in …

I came back to an old project on another machine only to find that the git diff command did not behave as expected anymore:

^[[1;33mdiff --git a/myproject/myapp/models.py b/myproject/myapp/models.py^[[m
^[[1;33mindex 0216829..d9e1637 100644^[[m
^[[1;33m--- a/myproject/myapp/models …

On Wednesday the 20th, we had the 2nd edition of Open-Source Night in Tog. I think it went well. Once again there was about a dozen attendees, many of whom have never contributed to open-source before. A third of them were also in Tog for the first time. It might …

On Wednesday, Tog hosted the first monthly Open-Source Night.

It's an event I'd been wanting to organise for a while, with an eye on it being hands-on and slanted toward helping interested people get started in open-source, but I wasn't sure what format would work best. I'm still not sure …

Slides available on SlideShare (I need to fix an embedding bug on the blog, oops).

Most of you know what Open Source Software is and hopefully think it's awesome. Have you ever contributed a patch? A translation? A bug report? Would you like to do any of this?

(If this …