Community & Collaboration Social Coworking – SORTEE & Vale Linting: Two upcoming coworking sessions focus on getting to know the SORTEE community and using Vale for text linting. Open to all levels. EduWiki Workshop: Combine PETScan and generative AI for smarter Wikipedia editing. Practical session for improving article quality. Tech & Tools Tuxedo OS Switches … Read more
Social Coworking and Office Hours Getting to Know SORTEE: A session introducing the Society for Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolution. Vale and Text Linting: Office hours focused on using Vale for prose linting. Debugging in R: Collaborative debugging session for R code. Databases and Disaster Recovery Cross-site Disaster Recovery with Percona Operator for … Read more
Security Alerts CVE-2026-14570: Crypt::DSA versions before 1.22 for Perl have a biased random generator that leaks the private key. CVE-2026-12740: Plack::Middleware::OAuth through 0.10 for Perl lacks support for OAuth 2.0 state parameter, making CSRF attacks possible. New Tools & Projects gh-suggest: A GitHub CLI extension that converts staged local fixes into pull request suggestions. BrazilCrime: … Read more
Community & Coworking Social Coworking & Office Hours: Upcoming sessions focus on getting to know SORTEE, Vale and text linting, and debugging in R. Join the community to collaborate and sharpen your skills. Tech & Tools OSMNetFusion: A new tool for topological simplification of multimodal networks while preserving attributes. Ideal for urban planning and complex … Read more
Community & Coworking The SORTEE organization hosts social coworking and office hours focusing on transparent and reproducible research. (Source: original digest item) Another session covers Vale and text linting for improved writing consistency. Debugging in R is the topic of a dedicated social coworking event, helping R users troubleshoot code. Open Source Skills & Careers … Read more
Community Collaboration & Productivity Social Coworking sessions this week feature SORTEE, Vale and text linting, and debugging in R – great opportunities for open source contributors to connect and improve workflows. Swánga̱lyiatwuki-WikiWoordenboek Wiktionary project continues with Part 3, focusing on Indigenous language preservation through collaborative editing. A Reddit user shares how they gained over 1.7 … Read more
Welcome to This Week’s Open Source Digest From new coworking sessions to critical security patches, here’s a curated roundup of the most relevant news for the open source community. We cover community events, software releases, security advisories, and more. Community & Coworking Social Coworking SORTEE: Join upcoming virtual coworking sessions focused on improving reproducibility in … Read more
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 … Read more
Community & Events Social Coworking: SORTEE, Vale/Linting, Debugging in R – Join upcoming free coworking sessions to explore the SORTEE community, learn text linting with Vale, or sharpen your R debugging skills. Rencontres R 2026 – Nantes – The French R conference heads to Nantes in 2026; mark your calendar for this key open-source statistics … Read more
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 – … Read more
