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PyCon India, this year was held at New Delhi at the JNU Convention Center. Dev Sprints During the Dev Sprint, Farhaan and Vivek were sprinting on Fedora Infrastructure projects primarily helping people contribute to Pagure. Other projects/orgs like SciPy, Red Hat team, FOSSAsia, Junction etc were also sprinting. The Dev Sprint turned out to have a good participation and couple of PRs were sent out by the participations. More than that, it’s more about participants getting to know about on how to contribute. ...

Autocloud was released during the Fedora 23 cycle as a part of the Two Week Atomic Process. Previously, it used to listen to fedmsg for successful Koji builds. Whenever, there is a new message the AutocloudConsumer queues these message for processing. The Autocloud job service then listens to the queue, downloads the images and runs the tests using Tunir. A more detailed post about it’s release can be read here. During the Fedora 24 cycle things changed. There was a change on how the Fedora composes are built. Thanks to adamw for writing a detailed blogpost on what, why and how things changed. ...

Fedora Pune Meetup for the month of August 2016 happened today at our usual location. We had in total 12 people turning out for the meetup. The event started with introductions and we had two new comers joining us this time, Trishna and Prathamesh. This time the event was mostly foccused around re-writing the GNU C Library Manual using reStructuredText and Sphinx. This task was decided during the release event that we had last month. We did create a Etherpad link to maintain the status of the task1. ...

Flock 2016 was held in the beautiful city of Krakow, Poland from August 2nd - August 5th, 2016. Day -1 Reached Krakow tired. Spent most of the time sleeping. Day 0 A lot of attendees started coming in. Met with a lot of people IRL whom I generally talked over on IRC. In the afternoon, we went out for the city tour. Visiting the Oskar Schindler’s Enamel Factory was a place I always wanted to visit ever since I watched the movie Schindler’s List. ...

I recently switched to use Weechat as my primary IRC client from X-Chat. I did a setup of Weechat on my Digital Ocean box. Weechat setup turned out to be super simple and out of the box. I am running Weechat within a tmux session. But the problem I was facing was due to poor internet connection (thanks to Airtel for this and this was my primary reason for switching to weechat from Xchat) I got disconnected from the DO box quite often. ...