Collaboration in open source is usually considered in broad terms: communities, workflows, and processes. What is sometimes forgotten, though, is that often the best part of open source is getting a few people in a room together and just letting them… create.
This was the approach adopted by DevConfCZ’s visual identity team, a group of three volunteers who took it upon themselves to update and coordinate the visual elements of the tech conference held in Brno, Czech Republic. And while much of their work was done online, as so much collaboration is done these days, often their best work was performed getting together, listening to music, and just bouncing ideas off of each other.
If you have never run an event before, it may surprise you what the highest cost of running most events are. It’s not the venue, and (unless you are bringing in a lot of overseas speakers) it’s not the travel. No, for most conferences, it’s going to be one thing that most people will need and complain about the most: the food.
The origin of DevConf is a lot like how many open source applications get started: something that starts as something one or a few people might find useful, but then growing into something much larger and widely known. But its humble origins belie the impact of the DevConf event: with three national-level events in the U.S, India, and original Czech Republic that thousands of participants from around the world attend every year.
I remember the first time I rolled into the ULB Solbosch campus in Brussels. It was 2014, just after I first started with Red Hat. I was there to attend my first 
This past March, the Apache Software Foundation celebrated a significant milestone in its history: 20 years as a preeminent organization in the world of open source software.
The New Zealand Python User Group ran the tenth national Python conference in New Zealand last week. Kiwi PyCon is aimed at promoting and educating people about the Python programming language. Included as speakers and attendees are some big names from the global python and developer community who travel to New Zealand annually for the conference including Red Hat’s own Graham Dumpleton who delivered a talk on building interactive learning environments using Jupyterhub.