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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