<div dir="ltr"><div>Cheers all,</div><div><br></div><div> <span class="gmail-break-words gmail-tvm-parent-container"><span dir="ltr">I've symbolically picked up a lot of
hats (NUT, Jenkins, illumos, Provys, et al.) to buzz around the ULB
campus like a bee, chat to people, and pollinate the friendly distro
desks and occasional window sills with NUT stickers - yay, we have had some
this year!<span><br></span><span><br></span> The updated maintainer hoodie is still a
success: catches the eye, starts conversations, gets photographed as a
business card... its marketing goal is achieved :) Putting the URLs up
front this year was a useful design fix too.<span><br></span><span></span></span></span>
<div><span class="gmail-break-words gmail-tvm-parent-container"><span dir="ltr"><span><br></span> See<span class="gmail-white-space-pre"> </span></span></span><a href="https://github.com/networkupstools/nut-swag/tree/master/">https://github.com/networkupstools/nut-swag/tree/master/</a><span class="gmail-break-words gmail-tvm-parent-container"><span dir="ltr"><span class="gmail-white-space-pre"> </span>if you missed the stickers (or conference) and want to print your own (or a shirt, or a cup...)</span></span></div><div><br></div>
<span class="gmail-break-words gmail-tvm-parent-container"><span dir="ltr"> I
was delighted to see some people realize that they are NUT users
(unwittingly so far - it just worked for them), and others noticing the
shirt and professing their active love for the project and toolkit.</span></span></div><div><span class="gmail-break-words gmail-tvm-parent-container"><span dir="ltr"> What
was doubly-pleasant, contrasting with the issue-tracker interactions,
nobody complained :)</span></span></div><div><span class="gmail-break-words gmail-tvm-parent-container"><span dir="ltr"><br></span></span></div><div><span class="gmail-break-words gmail-tvm-parent-container"><span dir="ltr"> Many asked if I was to give any talks, have a
table or devroom... hm, an intriguing perspective (especially maybe to grab some attention from actual, you know, UPS vendors who could chime in, in oh so many ways).</span></span></div><div><span class="gmail-break-words gmail-tvm-parent-container"><span dir="ltr"><span><br></span></span></span></div><div><span class="gmail-break-words gmail-tvm-parent-container"><span dir="ltr"><span> At the very least, FOSDEM sets aside some rooms for "BOF" (Birds Of Feather) sessions, where people cooperating in whatever area can come together and talk for an assigned hour (recording if they like, not organized like for conference presentations). Maybe next year, if there are enough NUT-inclined visitors, we should book an hour of that facility.</span></span></span></div><div><br> Following up from Daniel Stenberg's insightful closing talk on "<a>Open Source Security in spite of AI</a>" about how new tools in general can exacerbate whatever behaviors the humans have (and these tools in particular have some controversy about them per se, and exacerbating stuff by orders of magnitude), so there is no clear-cut "embrace it!" or "ban it!" approach, I suppose it is time to have some sort of policy in the NUT project about this too. As anyone else, we will get some of it anyway, so maybe better hop ahead of the curve rather than react to whatever happens and leave it all to chance...</div><div><br></div><div> For good or bad, want it or not, those machine tools are upon us. Humans should still be the responsible ones.</div><div><br></div><div> I've updated the GitHub PR template with a request to responsibly disclose the use of AI and similar tools, per <a href="https://github.com/networkupstools/nut/commit/e62f741b5c805e1fbf17c586d625ed87efae0abb">https://github.com/networkupstools/nut/commit/e62f741b5c805e1fbf17c586d625ed87efae0abb</a> - at least it would help us gauge how well they fare and if they bring more benefit or suffering.</div><div><br></div><div> I've also added an issue/PR label "AI" <a href="https://github.com/networkupstools/nut/issues?q=state%3Aopen%20label%3AAI">https://github.com/networkupstools/nut/issues?q=state%3Aopen%20label%3AAI</a> to mark such contributions; there are already a few known cases, including a PR for a new SNMP subdriver being effectively co-written by Gemini (as the end user is not a technical person and for some reason can't run the scripts and iterate the build, apparently - so fed our instructions, repo, an snmpwalk output and vendor MIB into the machine and it spits out a relatively usable mix of hallucinations and code), with AI output being reasonably useful as a starting point even though it apparently never tried to compile what it wrote. At least once this is an interesting exercise to see the workings of an alien mind ;) and is not much different from walking a junior/wannabe developer through the paces to becoming a contributor, and ultimately whichever way a decent-quality PR comes, it makes the project better (more devices supported).</div><div><br></div><div>Jim Klimov</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jan 12, 2026 at 3:56 PM Jim Klimov <<a href="mailto:jimklimov%2Bnut@gmail.com">jimklimov+nut@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>FWIW, I've now pushed out the designs used in my shirt at <a href="https://github.com/networkupstools/nut-swag.git" target="_blank">https://github.com/networkupstools/nut-swag.git</a></div><div>Hoping to make some stickers too...</div><div><br></div><div>Jim</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jan 10, 2026 at 11:35 PM Jim Klimov <<a href="mailto:jimklimov%2Bnut@gmail.com" target="_blank">jimklimov+nut@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto">Cheers,</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"> are any of you planning to go to FOSDEM this year?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"> I'll be in Brussels Thu 30.1. till Sun 1.2., hoping to meet some Sun/illumos/Jenkins/OpenCollective folks there. And it would be great to see NUT birds of feather too! Plan to have a NUT hoodie so you can find me (plan to post the design so you can print your own shirt soon).</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Jim</div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div>
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