Enrico Zini: Gender, inclusive communities, and dragonflies
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonfly#Sex_ratios:
Sex ratios The sex ratio of male to female dragonflies varies both temporally and spatially. Adult dragonflies have a high male-biased ratio at breeding habitats. The male-bias ratio has contributed partially to the females using different habitats to avoid male harassment. As seen in Hine's emerald dragonfly (Somatochlora hineana), male populations use wetland habitats, while females use dry meadows and marginal breeding habitats, only migrating to the wetlands to lay their eggs or to find mating partners. Unwanted mating is energetically costly for females because it affects the amount of time that they are able to spend foraging.
DebConf3
This tshirt is 17 years old and from DebConf3. I should probably wash it at 60 celcius for once...
In May, I got selected as a 
I was assigned 20 hours of work by Freexian's Debian LTS initiative,
but only worked 5 hours this month and returned the remainder to the
pool.
Now that Debian 9 'stretch' has entered LTS, the stretch-backports
suite will be closed and no longer updated. However, some stretch
users rely on the newer kernel version provided there. I prepared
to add Linux 4.19 to the stretch-security suite, alongside the standard
package of Linux 4.9. I also prepared to update the
firmware-nonfree package so that firmware needed by drivers in Linux
4.19 will also be available in stretch's non-free section. Both
these updates will be based on the packages in stretch-backports,
but needed some changes to avoid conflicts or regressions for users
that continue using Linux 4.9 or older non-Debian kernel versions.
I will upload these after the Debian 10 'buster' point release.
Here is my monthly update covering what I have been doing in the free and open source software world during July 2020 (
Here are my uploads for the month of July, which is just a part of my free software activities, I ll try to catch up on the rest in upcoming posts. I haven t indulged in online conferences much over the last few months, but this month I attended the virtual editions of Guadec 2020 and HOPE 2020. HOPE isn t something I knew about before and I enjoyed it a lot, you can find their 
Only a short update on the current status of my KDE/Plasma package for Debian sid and testing:
So a few months ago kiddo one dropped an apparently fairly large cup of coffee onto her one and only trusted computer. With a few months (then) to graduation (which by now 
Fast forward a few months and I finally got hold of it, and had some time to play with it. First, a bootable usbstick was prepared, and the machine s content was really (really, and check again: really) no longer needed, I got hold of it for good.
tl;dr It works just fine. It is a little heavier than I thought (and isn t air supposed to be weightless?) The ergonomics seem quite nice. The keyboard is decent. Screen-resolution on this pre-retina simple Air is so-so at 1440 pixels. But battery live seems ok and e.g. the camera is way better than what I have in my trusted Lenovo X1 or at my desktop. So just as a zoom client it may make a lot of sense; otherwise just walking around with it as a quick portable machine seems perfect (especially as my Lenovo X1 still (ahem) suffers from one broken key I really need to fix ).
Below are some lightly edited notes from the installation. Initial steps were quick: maybe an hour or less? Customizing a machine takes longer than I remembered, this took a few minutes here and there quite a few times, but always incremental.
This release corrects a minor editing error spotted by the ever-vigilant