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Tabs, Not Spaces 2020-10-03
The LibreOffice project faces a split, and Hacktoberfest stirs deep emotions. Conservancy is gunning for IoT infringers, while Richard Fontana thinks it's time to revisit the Open Source Definition. Plus a new Ubuntu beta, Gitter is sold, and more.
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• Conservancy Announces New Strategy for GPL Enforcement and Related Work, Receives Grant from ARDC
• Amateur Radio Digital Communications: Grants
• Is it time to revise the Open Source Definition?
• Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla) Final Beta released
• The internet needs our love
• This is how we unfck the internet
• Join the anti-establishment
• Request for Proposals: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Consultant
• Gitter lands new home in Matrix with Element
• Welcoming Gitter to Matrix!
• OpenCL 3.0 Specification Finalized and Initial Khronos Open Source OpenCL SDK Released
• Intel Releases OpenCL Intercept Layer 3.0
• Open-source devs drown in DigitalOcean's latest tsunami of pull-request spam that is Hacktoberfest
• Require PRs be in a repo with hacktoberfest topic and be accepted #596
• An update on efforts to reduce spam with Hacktoberfest: introducing maintainer opt-in and more
• Collabora Online moves out of The Document Foundation