Tom 'spot' Callaway

I may live to regret this but... If you have a legal/licensing issue with a FOSS project and need help, you can ask me nicely and I'll try to help. I am not a lawyer, nor am I pretending to be one, but I'm pretty good at providing clarity and getting things fixed.

@richggall Thanks for reaching out, but unfortunately I can't comment on the record.

@spotfoss hey, I'm writing about the OSI's definition of open source AI for The New Stack — it'd be great to get your perspective if at all possible?

@monktoberfest That face, OMG.

The good people of @monktoberfest

@rawsharktext But I thought all you needed was data information that described it...

PRO TIP: if you're creating a tool for people, ask the people who use the tool what they need. All of the beautiful charts in the world are useless if I cannot get the data BEHIND those charts to complete my analysis.

@rawsharktext Ok, tech guy gets Vista.

@spotfoss One of them is our tech guy, so a) you’d think he’d know better and b) he’d probably be excited by that. The others, however … 😎

After working for years in tech/security, my colleagues walking away from their workstations without locking their machines may actually drive me to insanity.

@dtaivpp @shanecurcuru Also, when it's code, including license attribution in the headers is a best practice because code files get copied into other projects.

@dtaivpp @shanecurcuru It's really so that when you distribute the file to users, they have a way of knowing the license. Users being served the file via http aren't going to see a license file in the same directory.

When you are creating an Apache 2.0 licensed project that has html files should you be putting the license identifier at the top of those files even if it gets rendered client side when serving it?

@dtaivpp I still think it's important to clearly indicate license on distributed content. Maybe there's a smarter way to avoid duplication.

@spotfoss Yeah but to that point the site will end up rendering the comment as many times as I have HTML components. For what I am working on my page may have 20-30 components that are individually rendered with the comments 🥲

@juliaferraioli Are you sure about that?

@amcasari @juliaferraioli @AWSOpen I don't know what more we can do to draw you out! Okay, fine, we'll make our next booth just a roller derby.

@juliaferraioli @spotfoss @AWSOpen you didn't tell me there would be churros 💔

I'm really excited to announce that our Redis fork both has a new name (Valkey) and was accepted into the Linux foundation, linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-fo…. This has been such an amazing effort by my fellow co-creators of the project and the linux foundation.

@sudotechnical @fossback I'm not sure Hellevator is the right analogy here, but ... Yeah. 😈

@spotfoss @fossback

Many thanks to @fossback for the opportunity to talk about the similarities between Biker Gangs and Open Source Communities at FOSS Backstage this week. Great to be back in the OS space, just for a little bit :)

@juliaferraioli DO IT

@LoriLorusso @aevavoom I need to know how it is.

In honor of @spotfoss & @aevavoom (I hope it stands up to my hype) Now we need to get moving on the glamouratti sand trap, no contact but lots of audience participation version of golf! ⛳️

@LoriLorusso "this water smells like Grandma!"

No one’s gonna know…

@LoriLorusso Hooray! I'm glad this story has a happy ending.

@spotfoss Best part is because I lost all hope & am quite obsessed with having a fitness watch I went ahead & ordered a new one (upgrade of course) 🤦🏽‍♀️😎🤦🏽‍♀️ Pretty sure my heart rate is close to ☠️ now that my baby girl is home safe on my wrist - until she gets evicted by the new one 🫶🏽🤪

Internet do your thing… I lost my watch somewhere in my house… I hope… I feel like I’ve looked everywhere but can’t find it. Where should I look next?!?!?

@LoriLorusso The Garmin app might keep a record of the last location too?

@spotfoss Love you I’ve been trying!! I haven’t tried this in my laundry room or car… will kyp!!! Also

@LoriLorusso Will it connect to your phone if you get close enough? support.garmin.com/en-US/?faq=L7p…

@spotfoss Smart watch - (not smart owner) garmin forerunner 255s currently not connected to my phone 😱🤦🏽‍♀️