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This Week in GNOME and the Global South

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 19, 2023

This Week in GNOME (Felix Häcker): #109 Managing Repositories

Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from August 11 to August 18.

Arun Raghavan: To Conference Organisers Everywhere…

(well, not exactly everywhere …)

This is not an easy post for me to write, being a bit of a criticism / “you can do better” note for organisers of conferences that cater to a global community.

It’s not easy because most of the conferences I attend are community driven, and I have helped organise community conferences in the past. It is a thankless job, a labour of love, and you mostly do not get to enjoy the fruits of that labour as others do.

The problem is that these conferences end up inadvertently excluding members who live in, for lack of a better phrase, the Global South.