Issue #53: Python Problems, Open Source Cameras, and Red Hat Summit

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The candidates for SourceForge Project of the Month for June 2019 are: digiCamControl transferring images directly from your camera to your computer Super Audio CD Decoder A Custom ROM based on GZR's GZOSP ROM Superior OS AOSP based ROM works on android OS 9 (Pie) RevolutionOS-MIUI MIUI Custom ROM for Xiaomi Devices Win flex-bison a port Flex & Bison tools to the Windows platform Arrow OS AOSP based project with an aim of keeping things clean dotOS-downloads ROM ArchGeoTux Repository Geospatial for Arch Linux DisplayCAL Display Calibration and Characterization powered by Argyll CMS Featured Article Developers are increasingly besieged by the big data deluge. Business units want to find the actionable information buried in all that data, and dev teams are more frequently turning to Python to deliver the answers business users are seeking. 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Conferences and Events Red Hat Summit 2019 May 7-9, 2019 Red Hat Summit is an open source technology event to showcase the latest and greatest in cloud computing, platform, virtualization, middleware, storage, and systems management technologies. Libre Graphics Meeting 2019 May 29 - June 2, 2019 The Libre Graphics Meeting (LGM) is an annual meeting on free and open source software for graphics. OSCON July 15 - 18, 2019 OSCON focuses on leading-edge software development incorporating AI, cloud technology, and distributed computing. Today in Tech On this day in 1964 BASIC programming language developers John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz launched a time-sharing system at Dartmouth College. The Dartmouth Time-Sharing System or DTSS was the first successful large-scale time-sharing system to be implemented. It was the reason the BASIC language was developed, and was originally aimed at providing easy access of computing facilities to all members of the college. Find out more here. Help Wanted AngularJS experienced developer wanted If you are looking for an Open Source project to contribute your time to, or if you are someone who wants to advertise your skills, check out the Help Wanted page or Project Wanted page. Final Thoughts If you know someone who is not getting this mailing, encourage them to sign up. If you want to change your newsletter frequency to monthly, go here. Thanks for being part of the SourceForge community! And, if you need to get in touch directly, feel free to send us an email at CommunityTeam@sourceforge.net.

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