Open Source News: Coworking, Security, AI, and Community

Community & Events

    • Social Coworking & Office Hours: Upcoming sessions cover SORTEE, Vale text linting, and R debugging – great for skill-sharing and networking.
    • Igbo Wikipedia Training: A workshop at University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus (UNEC) aims to boost Igbo language Wikipedia contributions.
    • Wiki Mentorship: A participant shares their journey from learner to contributor in the Wiki Afrodemics Programme.

    Projects & Tools

    • HEAS Framework: A new hierarchical evolutionary agent simulation for cross-scale modeling and multi-objective search.
    • SORBET Disease Model: An interactive simulation built from a worksheet, modeling SLS disease transmission via dice.
    • Self-Healing Docker: Would you run a tiny watchdog container to keep Docker hosts healthy?
    • Sencho v0.92.0: Security upgrades, mobile improvements, and fleet enhancements released.
    • AOL Mail Guide: A complete overview of features and setup for the classic email service.

    Security & Vulnerabilities

    • Valkey AI Agents: How bots handle backports while maintaining control in the Valkey project.
    • Threatbit Simple Scanner: A tool that finds what antivirus misses.
    • CVE-2026-54665: Apache NiFi missing validation for proxy host headers – a notable vulnerability.

    Questions & Discussions

    • Test Automation: Does your open source project need web/API test automation?
    • Student Loan Data: When will updated default/forbearance percentages be available?
    • Paragon Characters: Are Epic Games’ Paragon characters considered open source?

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