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The Python Software Foundation (PSF) had to cancel its popular PyCon US event in response to COVID-19. I interviewed Ewa Jodlowska, Executive Director of the PSF, to talk about the experience and see what we all can learn, and how we can be supportive of the non-profit that supports one of my favorite programming languages.

The impact on PSF employees

I asked Jodlowska "how have you had to adjust your work in light of COVID-19?"

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When I first got involved in community management, I was working at the Linux Foundation, involved in the relatively new Open Platform for NFV (OPNFV) project. Over the next few years, I started to notice a lot of companies building their business around open source software and talking about building communities around their products.

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Research on Linux Computer Market (impact of COVID-19) with Top Players: Dell, System76, Purism, Slimbook, TUXEDO Computers, Vikings, Ubuntushop.be, Minifree, Entroware, Juno Computers – Cole Reports  Cole of Duty

The Godot Game Engine's Vulkan Support Is Getting In Increasingly Great Shape  Phoronix

The open-source Godot Game Engine lead developer Juan Linietsky has published a new Vulkan progress report, the first in three months, and as such there are a lot of changes...

Play video game ROMs on Raspberry Pi 4 with Debian Linux-based RetroPie 4.6  BetaNews

Linux Command Line Productivity With Tmux  Hackaday

Elementary OS or other Linux as option  Mac Rumors

Elementary OS or other Linux as option  Mac Rumors

Red Hat Enterprise Linux still central to Red Hat's strategy  TechTarget

Assessing the Fallout From the Coronavirus Pandemic – Linux Software Market Size, Share Analysis by Services, Technique, Design and Application Forecast by 2046  3rd Watch News

A day after announcing the 10th Gen Core "Comet Lake" S-Series CPUs, the Intel open-source engineers have volleyed their first patches for bringing up the graphics on next-gen Rocket Lake...

Intel Sends Out Rocket Lake Linux Graphics Driver Patches - Confirms Gen12 Platform  Phoronix

Following the Proton 5.0-7 release candidate from a few days ago, this critical part of Valve's Steam Play is now available for weekend gamers...

Parrot 4.9 Ethical Hacking Linux Distro Released  Techworm

Pop!_OS 20.04 Released — Get The Best Ubuntu-Based Linux Distro  India Gone Viral

Webcam doesn't work, even though drivers are installed and it works in linux - Windows 7  BleepingComputer

Apple OSX support cut for SteamVR; Windows and Linux remain  SlashGear

Screen resolution - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

While many don't look upon Oracle's open-source software contributions too eagerly, some new patches out by their team can dramatically benefit Linux kernel boot times and they are working on getting it upstream. The numbers are already very promising and further work is also underway to make the improvement even more tantalizing...