today's leftovers

• Harvey Available As Flatpak App

  WCAG stands for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Its role is to keep the website accessible to everyone. There are three levels; namely A, AA, and AAA. ​The further the level, the harder it becomes to design your website ie., A guideline is much easier than AA and AAA, again AA is easier than AAA but more difficulty in implementation compared to A. But that doesn't mean it's compulsory for your website to be WCAG compliant.

• Voyager Live 19.04 Run Through

  In this video, we are looking at Voyager Live 19.04.

• IT’s future: Multicloud may soon become mix and match cloud [Ed: By Mike Evans, VP of Cloud Partner Strategy at Red Hat.]

  This example is not uncommon in today’s enterprise IT world. And as of now there isn’t one clear solution, but that is not to say there isn’t one coming. While multicloud is a growing trend, we could eventually see services beyond multicloud that better meet the needs of end users. Some elements of these services are already starting to appear in limited practice today, but we can expect to see full solutions emerge as the next logical step in cloud evolution as more and more enterprises run into multicloud challenges.

• Culture Can Both Paralyze and Empower IT

  SUSE’s team of consultants build efficiency and provides your business with a faster routes to market, allowing you more time to focus on looking forward and executing on projects that will allow your company to grow. Do not focus on technology — that is our job. I know you are thinking ‘Ryan, you can’t truly think that technology has nothing to do with my data center?” Yes I am. And for the reasons, read on.

Orgs/Foundations: LF, Mozilla and FSFE

• 43 New Members Join the Linux Foundation and Increase Their Participation in Open Source Innovation

  The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, announced the addition of 38 Silver members and five Associate members. Linux Foundation members help support the development of shared open source technology, while accelerating their own innovation through open source leadership. Linux Foundation member contributions help provide the infrastructure and resources developers need to grow and sustain many of the world’s most successful open source projects, including Hyperledger, Kubernetes, Linux, Node.js, and ONAP. “Successful large-scale, global open source communities require dedicated resources, support, and infrastructure, so it’s incredibly exciting to see 43 more organizations increase their commitment to open source,” said Jim Zemlin, executive director, the Linux Foundation. “We look forward to working with our new members to better support the developers who build, secure, and maintain the open source systems we rely on every day.”

• Firefox and Emerging Markets Leadership

  As a long time Mozillian, Dave joined Mozilla in 2006 to work on Gecko, building networking and security features and was a contributor to the release of Firefox 3. After a short stint at a startup he rejoined Mozilla in 2011 as part of the Firefox Developer Tools team. Dave has since served in a variety of senior leadership roles within the Firefox product organization, most recently leading the Firefox engineering team through the launch of Firefox Quantum. Under Dave’s leadership the new Firefox organization will pull together all product management, engineering, technology and operations in support of our Firefox products, services and web platform. As part of this change, we are also announcing the promotion of Marissa (Reese) Wood to VP Firefox Product Management, and Joe Hildebrand to VP Firefox Engineering. Both Joe and Reese have been key drivers of the continued development of our core browser across platforms, and the expansion of the Firefox portfolio of products and services globally. In addition, we are increasing our investment and focus in emerging markets, building on the early success of products like Firefox Lite which we launched in India earlier this year, we are also formally establishing an emerging markets team based in Taipei: Stan Leong appointed as VP and General Manager, Emerging Markets. In this new role, Stan will be responsible for our product development and go-to-market strategy for the region. Stan joins us from DCX Technology where he was Global Head of Emerging Product Engineering. He has a great combination of start-up and large company experience having spent years at Hewlett Packard, and he has worked extensively in the Asian markets. As part of this, Mark Mayo, who has served as our Chief Product Officer (CPO), will move into a new role focused on strategic product development initiatives with an initial emphasis on accelerating our emerging markets strategy. We will be conducting an executive search for a CPO to lead the ongoing development and evolution of our global product portfolio.

• FSFE Newsletter - April 2019

  This month's newsletter highlights the presence of the FSFE's campaign"Public Money? Public Code!" in German media and its growing popularity across Europe.

howtos and programming

• How to manage multiple SSH keys

• How to perform HTTP requests with python - Part 1: The standard Library

• PyCon: An update regarding PyCon 2019 sponsor DataCamp [Ed: PyCon still takes the most money from Microsoft (where sexual assaults are common and there are major lawsuits about it). Talking money from highly misogynistic firms like Microsoft (which effectively bought PyCon) while pretending to actually care about sexism etc. The hallmark of selective enforcement of principles.]

  The PyCon staff is saddened to hear that one of our sponsors, DataCamp, had an incident where one of their employees was sexually harassed. We were also distressed to find it was unclear if Datacamp had addressed this incident with the seriousness it requires. PyCon and the Python Software Foundation take this issue seriously and we want to emphasize---for Datacamp and everyone---that such behavior is not tolerated at PyCon or any Python Software Foundation affiliated event.

• Python Bytes: #127 That Python code is on fire!