Hi all,
I received the message below from Rick as well, and I have a comment :)
Rick, there is definitely a mix of people at BSDCan, which has been
great, because even people like myself that couldn't competently code a
line in C if our life depended on it can fit in. Many programmers,
developers, and maintainers do attend and present though, as well as
community leaders that can do it all like Dan Langille.
Sincerely,
Katie
On 2026-02-14 17:26, Rick Leir via linux wrote:
Also note the BSDCan yearly conference which seems to be more about
admin than development (please correct me).
And some great meetups with focus on JavaScript and front-end
development.
Thanks for mentioning the x.org conference coming up in Toronto. A few
years ago it was in Montreal, and I found it really well organized with
great speakers.
Richard Leir
Happy Skiing and Skating and Biking!
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On Saturday, 02/14/26 at 14:41 Lucas Fryzek via linux
<linux [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org> wrote:
Hey Katie,
On Sat, 2026-02-14 at 13:21 -0500, Katie via linux wrote:
Hi Lucas,
Great post! I just completed ITIL (version 4) training, and am
interested in using that. After being mocked for a poor Python
testing
performance (tested on Hacker Rank) by a Canadian civil servant (they
completed a competency test in 10 minutes that it took me an hour to
complete, according to them), as well as not being able to find any
support for R/R Studio in healthcare contexts Canada (people seem
pretty
locked-in to SAS and ArcGIS), I've decided that maybe programming is
not
for me.
That's really unfortunate, I hope you don't let that experience taint
programming for you too much if you actually enjoy doing it.
As for support, poor support has been a long standing issue for me in
learning stuff in programming. I don't think this applies exactly to
the situation you described since this seems more connected it to
healthcare in Canada, but It's one of the reasons I really like FOSS,
since if you can't find support at least you can try looking at code to
understand how it works and do things like use a debugger to step
through the code and see what happens at runtime.
I am also very inspired, and jealous, of the Chaos Computer
Club. I have been a member up until recently (and also learning
German).
Yeah what they've manged to pull looks like such a great community. I'd
love if OCLUG (or another group) expanded to have more content /
community programming like CCC. I suppose that will only happen if
people come forward and volunteer to contribute.
People that know about IRC seem to be few and far between, but I
imagine
that some of the Discord changes will bring people back.
Yeah I don't think IRC is the best communication method in the modern
era. Lots of people want to chat on their phones and unless you have a
good mobile friendly bouncer (like Soju for example) the mobile
experience is going to suck (especially on IOS). I think people are not
going to shift well to the idea that you have to be connected to
receive messages at all. All though some newer IRCv3 servers like Ergo
(https://ergo.chat/about) do have server side message history.
Maybe OCLUG could host their own IRC server on Ergo, and run a web
client like Gamja (https://codeberg.org/emersion/gamja) to allow people
to easily connect to it who aren't familiar with IRC.
Also #oclug could be bridged with other chat platforms that people like
to use more, like Matrix , XMPP, or even Discord.
I want to
bring OWASP, and specifically OWASP Ottawa, to your attention (if you
don't know about it already). They're a really awesome group, and
focussed more on the cybersecurity side of things (at the application
layer), they have some more information here:
https://github.com/OWASP-Ottawa/chapter-notes/blob/main/Building-an-OWASP-Chapter-into-a-Vibrant-Community.md
Thanks for sharing OWASP! I was not aware of them. I'm not as much into
the cybersecurity side of things but it does appear that they are doing
some cool stuff for developers in the city.
I wish you much success with this,
Thanks! I'm hoping I can find ~5 or more developers (or wannabe
developers) that would be interested in trying to do FOSS work together
more regularly.
If OCLUG could grow to do more community events that would be great as
well :)
BR,
Lucas
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