Drupal shows leadership on diversity and inclusion

Drupal is far from alone among open source communities with a diversity gap, and I think it deserves a lot of credit for tackling these issues head-on. Diversity and inclusion is a much broader topic than most of us realize. Before I read DDI's August newsletter, the history of indigenous people in my community was something that I hadn't really thought about before. Thanks to DDI's project, I'm not only aware of the people who lived in Maryland long before me, but I've come to appreciate and respect what they brought to this land. I encourage you to learn about the native people in your homeland and record their history in DDI's Land Acknowledgements blog. If you're a member of another open source project, consider replicating this project there. The more we know about people who differ from us, the more we respect and appreciate our collective roles as members of the human race.

Today in Techrights

• No, Microsoft is Not an ‘Open Source Company’ But a Lying Company
• Meme: Setting the Record Straight
• EPO Staff Resolution Against Neoliberal Policies of António Campinos
• Satya Nadella is a Distraction From Microsoft’s Real Leadership and Abuses
• Raw: EPO Comes Under Fire for Lowering Patent Quality Under the Orwellian Guise of “Collaborative Quality Improvements” (CQI)
• Making The Most of The Fourth Age of Free Software
• FSF is Not for Free Speech Anymore
• …So This GNU/Linux User Goes to a Pub With Swapnil and Jim
• Links 16/10/2019: Plasma 5.17.0, Project Trident Moves to GNU/Linux, NuTyX 11.2

Android Leftovers

• Android is making big changes to its privacy controls

• Pixel 4 and 4 XL will get Android updates and security patches until October 2022

• Does the Pixel 4 have 5G support?

• Google Assistant bug is draining the battery on Android phones

• Stadia tidbits: Android app & TV UI, packaging, and mobile device support

• Huawei Will Delight Users When Its New Phone Releases—Guess What’s Back

• MIUI 11 based on Android 10 Coming Today– Check List of phones getting the Update

• HMD confirms Android 10 rolling out to Nokia 8.1 with others to follow

• Samsung opens Android 10 OneUI beta for Galaxy S10

Databricks brings its Delta Lake project to the Linux Foundation

Databricks, the big data analytics service founded by the original developers of Apache Spark, today announced that it is bringing its Delta Lake open-source project for building data lakes to the Linux Foundation and under an open governance model. The company announced the launch of Delta Lake earlier this year and even though it’s still a relatively new project, it has already been adopted by many organizations and has found backing from companies like Intel, Alibaba and Booz Allen Hamilton. “In 2013, we had a small project where we added SQL to Spark at Databricks […] and donated it to the Apache Foundation,” Databricks CEO and co-founder Ali Ghodsi told me. “Over the years, slowly people have changed how they actually leverage Spark and only in the last year or so it really started to dawn upon us that there’s a new pattern that’s emerging and Spark is being used in a completely different way than maybe we had planned initially.” This pattern, he said, is that companies are taking all of their data and putting it into data lakes and then do a couple of things with this data, machine learning and data science being the obvious ones. But they are also doing things that are more traditionally associated with data warehouses, like business intelligence and reporting. The term Ghodsi uses for this kind of usage is ‘Lake House.’ More and more, Databricks is seeing that Spark is being used for this purpose and not just to replace Hadoop and doing ETL (extract, transform, load). “This kind of Lake House patterns we’ve seen emerge more and more and we wanted to double down on it.”