Hello good people who attended my talk on "making your first open-source contribution" for the January edition of the Girl Geek Dinners in Dublin. I hope you enjoyed it!

The slides are available on Slideshare - this version is actually missing a couple of recent updates, the main one being the …

Are you an experienced open-source contributor interested in recruiting new people for your project?

Are you a fan of open-source who would be interested in contributing at any level but isn't sure how to?

Come to Tog's first Open-Source Night on February 20th!

The general view of open-source communities when standing at the edges is probably a vision of endless flames, strong personalities clashing, patches being ripped to shreds on mailing-lists, RTFMs, and the general need to have a thick skin when going in there or being crushed to pieces. The high-profile projects …

Shame on me for not blogging about PyCon Ireland this year, another success where I happily spent a big chunk of time greeting attendees at the registration desk and attended some interesting talks.

The stylish volunteers:

In the meantime, I took better notes at the November Python Ireland meet-up, where …

At EuroPython, I happily took advantage of the prepaid SIM card that you could order together with your ticket. However tethering with Wind (Italy) was not to work that simply. On Debian Wheezy I ended up with the following error:

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--> Modem initialized.
wvdial: utils/wvtask.cc:409: static void WvTaskMan …