Open Source Digest: Coworking, Security, Events & Tools

Community & Coworking

    • Social Coworking sessions focus on Vale and text linting, and debugging in R. Join collaborative office hours to improve your text or R code.
    • RubyConf and RailsConf are now exclusively under RailsWorld, raising concerns about discrimination in conference access.

    Events & Releases

    • Rencontres R 2026 will be held in Nantes, France – a key event for the R community.
    • OSVVM 2026.05 is out, offering updated open-source verification libraries.
    • GNUtrition 0.33 released at Savannah – a nutrition analysis tool.

    Security & Vulnerabilities

    • CVE-2026-11362: Perl module DataDog::DogStatsd (≤0.07) allows metric injection via event tags – update immediately.
    • Discussion on autonomous driving safety: La sicurezza nella guida autonoma.

    Tools & Projects

    • Aperio: a screamingly fast, ultra-lightweight search engine now available.
    • Geolocation open-source projects list curated.
    • Seeking public time series data for DAX/DE40 – community help requested.
    • New email link to the Finder API from a user.

    Opinion & Culture

    • Why Microsoft now embraces open source – a commentary on strategic shifts.
    • Celebrating 25 years of Wikipedia in Slovakia.
    • “How I spent half a year on ‘show the drawing properly’” – a reflection on frustration with technical communication.
    • Five audience research methods outperforming personas in 2026, shared by Soltaros OÜ.
    • Welcome to the Corey Pearson CIA Spymaster series.

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