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There are five common stages of the OSPOs that identify the status of your organization’s involvement in Open Source: use it as suggestions to advance your Open Source journey.

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Internet Explorer was finally killed off for almost every consumer version of Windows on June 15, 2022. It’s death was even mourned celebrated with faux gravestones commemorating it as a “good tool to download other browsers”. However, it seems like Microsoft’s browser still lives on in the depths of its latest operating system. Although Windows 11 does not officially come bundled with Internet Explorer, the ancient browser can still be launched on the OS. This thing will never die. I will go to my grave when Windows 32 hits and it will still come with iexplore.exe because the online passport request form in some tiny municipality in Slovenia only works in IE.

The DrupalCon Europe Advisory Board and FFW have launched the first Women in Drupal Award which will be held on 22nd September 2022.

Hello, the idea behind the new require ‘cocos’ – that is, the ruby code commons (cocos) quick-starter prolog & prelude gem / library – might not be new and is inspired by the haskell prelude(s) or dare I say the all-inclusive require ‘activesupport’ from railsland. What would you auto-require & include in your ruby prolog & prelude? Why & why not?
Anyways, I put together a first version and have started out with what I use day-in-day-out in the ruby scripts (off-rails). Cheers. Prost.

New committer: Felix Palmen (ports)

One of the coolest power-user Mac features of the Apple Silicon era is Apple’s Virtualization framework. Normally the purview of paid software like Parallels Desktop or VMWare Fusion, virtualization lets you run multiple operating systems on one Mac at the same time, which is useful for anyone who wants to run Linux on top of macOS, test an app they’re developing in different versions of macOS, or take a look at the latest macOS Ventura beta without risking their main install. Apple’s documentation and sample projects provide everything you need to get a simple VM up and running with no additional software required. Still, some independent developers have built simple, free apps on top of the Virtualization framework that provides a GUI for customizing settings and juggling multiple guest OSes. A very useful feature, especially for developers.