Petition in Germany to recognize unpaid contribution to free and open source software projects as 'society-beneficial volunteering' (ehrenamt)!

This will give volunteering for e.g. @postmarketOS , @freifunk , @kde , @nextcloud , @Mastodon and other libre projects the same legal status as taking care of an elderly family member, which provides tax benefits and relaxes requirements for receiving unemployment benefits.

openpetition.de/petition/onlin…

English language version (only sign one version): openpetition.de/petition/onlin…

If you're not a resident of Germany, go ahead and use this thread to organize similar initiatives in your country of residence.

#deutchland #foss #floss #volunteer #ehrenamt #freiwilligkeit #openSource #freeSoftware

Are you ready for my talk at #Prague's monthly #DevOps meetup? My #dog is :)

#foss

We’re also thankful for all of our Friends of GNOME who help keep the GNOME Foundation sustainable! The next time you see one of these 720+ outstanding individuals, join us in thanking them for directly supporting our vision of a world where everyone is empowered by technology they can trust:

donate.gnome.org/#friends-of-g…

#FriendsOfGNOME #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #FOSS #FLOSS #GNOME #Linux

Today we are thankful for each and every contributor to the Free and Open Source software that makes GNOME possible. ❤️ And of course, we’re extra grateful for the contributors to GNOME projects, tirelessly working to build and improve our diverse and sustainable personal computing ecosystem.

#FreeSoftware #OpenSource #FOSS #FLOSS #GNOME #Linux

What if the main thing your #FOSS project needed was that you work less on it?

I wrote up a few reasons to do so:
antonin.delpeuch.eu/posts/too-…

Curious to hear what you think of it :)

Hey all,

just a reminder that the CfP for #FOSDEM presentations officially ends on the 1st of December, and that applies to our Music Production devroom too. If you have cool stuff to talk about (and I know you do!) please do consider submitting!

music.lminiero.it/fosdem/

Please boost for reach! No idea if I'm using enough hashtags to reach everyone, but feel free to add more if you can think of others 😁

#fosdem2026 #foss #music #production #musicproduction #opensource

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Telegram, the cloud-based freemium chat, has now implemented strict rate limiting for users of alternative clients, VPNs and virtual phone numbers.
Clients like Nekogram, Nagram, Cherrygram and Unigram may show transmission delays or errors.
If your client had recently become slower, disable the VPN and use a real number.

#telegram #android #windows #linux #software #opensource #foss #cloud #im #chat #vpn

@kolev I love #XMPP but not having a single cross-platform fully-featured client makes onboarding normies much more difficult, hindering adoption greatly.

Nothing wrong with being the #Ubuntu or #LinuxMint of decentralised #FOSS messengers... people who need the Archlinuxes and BSDs will find them in time.

I have managed to onboard lots of people to cross-platform messengers like #DeltaChat, #ElementMessenger and #SignalApp, but not a single person to XMPP. Cross platform apps also make switching OSes eaiser, e.g. migrating from Windows to Linux, or Android to LinuxMobile.

NV Access is pleased to announce that version 2025.3.2 of NVDA, the free screen reader for Microsoft Windows, is now available for download. We encourage all users to upgrade to this version.

This is a patch release to fix a security issue.

Full info and download at: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2025-3-…

#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Accessibility #NewVersion #Release #Update #Download #FOSS #Free

it's my birthday! 🎂

donate a small amount to a #FOSS project you use every day. :)

Finally, after some months of refining, the "Incremental System Rethought" RFC is out!

This RFC has been through 6 full drafts, 1 conference, 5 months of design and a closed project goal. Go roast it.

github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull…

#rust #foss #programming #opensource

Target Stages, an improvement of the incremental system by blyxyas · Pull Request #3881 · rust-lang/rfcs

The current model for incremental recompilations doesn't share progress between compiler activities, leading to unnecessary rebuilds. This PR introduces two concepts (target stages and stage de...

^GitHub

After two long and painful years, several design iterations, and more than 50 rebases later, we finally merged the infamous, trauma-inducing merge request !362 on GNOME Calendar.

The calendars list in the quick-add popover has undergone accessibility improvements, providing a better experience for assistive technologies and keyboard users (to a limited extent). Specifically: tabbing from outside the list will focus the selected calendar in the list; tabbing from inside the list will skip the entire list; arrow keys automatically select the focused calendar; and finally, assistive technologies now inform the user of the checked/selected state.

Admittedly, the quick-add popover is currently unreachable via keyboard because we lack the resources to implement keyboard focus for month and week cells. We are currently trying to address this issue in merge request !564, and hope to get it merged for GNOME 50, but it's a significant undertaking for a single unpaid developer. If it is not too much trouble, I would really appreciate some donations, to keep me motivated to improve accessibility throughout GNOME and sustain myself: tesk.page/#donate

For non-accessibility-related details about this merge request, feel free to check out mastodon.social/@nekohayo/1155…

#GNOMECalendar #GNOME #GTK4 #libadwaita #accessibility #a11y #calendar #FOSS #OpenSource

Draft: Make month cells accessible (!564) · Merge requests · GNOME / gnome-calendar · GitLab

Related:

^GitLab

Jeff Fortin T. (風の庭園のNekohayo)

2025-11-18 15:20:43

First MR merged in the currently happening GNOME Calendar livestream: gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-c…

It's already available in the current nightly flatpak version. It is so nice to be able to use the new event quick-add popover, with no extra swirly pages etc. to pick the target calendar. Very efficient! 😌

Thanks to @TheEvilSkeleton for their patience and sisyphean rebasing of that much awaited merge request over the past 2 years 🫡

4 tickets have been closed as a result!

#GNOMECalendar #GNOME #UX

quick-add-popover: Port to libadwaita widgets and merge stack pages (!362) · Merge requests · GNOME / gnome-calendar · GitLab

Both stack pages are merged into one, to avoid additional clicks. Mnemonics were added to accommodate keyboard users as well. Closes

^GitLab

I wrote down a few notes on my approach to #OSS projects maintenance batsov.com/articles/2025/11/16… I hope someone will find those useful.

#FOSS #Ruby #Clojure #Emacs

Burst-driven Development: My Approach to OSS Projects Maintenance

I’ve been working on OSS projects for almost 15 years now. Things are simple in the beginning - you’ve got a single project, no users to worry about and all the time and the focus in world.

^(think)

Happy to see this European Declaration of Digital Independence:

apell.info/2025/11/17/declarat…

Thanks #APELL #OpenSource #FOSS

Berlin Summit on European Digital Sovereignty: European Open Source industry declares digital independence - APELL

Berlin, Brussels, Paris, 17 November 2025. On the occasion of the French-German Summit on European Digital Sovereignty, taking place in Berlin tomorrow (18 November 2025), more than 100 businesses, organisations, and individuals are publishing their …

^{Sebastian Raible (APELL)}

Happy to see this European Declaration of Digital Independence:

apell.info/2025/11/17/declarat…

Thanks #APELL #OpenSource #FOSS

Berlin Summit on European Digital Sovereignty: European Open Source industry declares digital independence - APELL

Berlin, Brussels, Paris, 17 November 2025. On the occasion of the French-German Summit on European Digital Sovereignty, taking place in Berlin tomorrow (18 November 2025), more than 100 businesses, organisations, and individuals are publishing their …

^{Sebastian Raible (APELL)}

Hello #FOSDEM crowd. If you know someone attending 2026 who creates some form of an #openart - under a free license, let them know that there could be a small community gathering for them. Theater producers, visual artists, actors, musicians, painters, photographers and more and more are welcomed.

codeberg.org/bogomil/FOSSArt

#Foss

FOSSArt

artists who create under a free license @FOSDEM

^Codeberg.org

I'm really looking forward to the new versions of #audacity.

If you haven't seen it yet, this is what the audacity team is working on:

youtube.com/watch?v=QYM3TWf_G3…

#audacity4 #audacity5 #foss

How We're Redesigning Audacity For The Future

This video digs into the research and design that went into gradually transforming Audacity 3 - a free and open source audio editor and production app - and ...

^YouTube

I just donate to the @gnome project / foundation. This time I could only manage 10USD! But please if you can spare some money! Support one or more #opensource projects! It does actually make a difference!

#gnome #foss #moneyinopensource

Anti-fascistic software is made possible by pro-labor licensing.

blog.muni.town/open-source-pow…

I've been trying to write this piece for years. Every time I get started I'm just overwhelmed with paralyzing visions of the FOSS commentariat accusing me of WrongThink, more so here on the fediverse than anywhere else.

But I'm scared and tired and we urgently need to get our shit together.

#OpenSource #foss #licensing

Open Source Power

We have to talk about open source licensing.

^{Erlend Sogge Heggen (Muni Blog)}

So last night, I tried Fedora 43. Fedora-Workstation-Live-43-1.6.x86_64.iso. The installer is now web based, making it really nice to use, even with just Tab and Shift + Tab. I was able to install it with no problem.

Now, first time setup had just one big issue, the timezone selector. It's keyboard accessible, and works like this: you start typing a city name, like Chicago, and then down arrow through suggestions and press Enter on the one you want. But Orca doesn't speak that there are suggestions available, and does not read which suggestion you select until you press Enter.

Other than that, Gnome desktop looks pretty good these days! The settings are much better, and that's about all I had time to test so far. Orca starts if you hit Alt Windows S at the installer and first setup, then starts after first setup is complete. The overview panel where you type to search doesn't read when it opens, but basically you just hit the Windows key and start typing what you want, and Orca reads what you hand on, and you can arrow through results. Notifications read too, and I'm thankful Gnome supports notifications.

#accessibility #blind #fedora #linux #foss @fedora

According to Valve, they managed to run pretty much all x86 games (so far) on their new ARM-based PCs thanks to this FOSS project:

github.com/FEX-Emu/FEX

This runs together with Proton to seamlessly transcode Windows x86 games for Steam OS on ARM. FOSS is THAT cool!

#foss #valve

GitHub - FEX-Emu/FEX: A fast usermode x86 and x86-64 emulator for Arm64 Linux

A fast usermode x86 and x86-64 emulator for Arm64 Linux - FEX-Emu/FEX

^GitHub

# "Using LibreOffice and other Free software for documents as a lawyer"

I was asked recently about how I get on using LibreOffice for document-related legal work, and I promised to write down some thoughts.

The short answer is that I use a mix of LibreOffice and other FOSS tools, and I’m very positive about it, with no particular concerns.

If you have questions, please do ask!

neilzone.co.uk/2025/11/using-l…

#LibreOffice #Linux #FOSS #lawfedi #vim #git #Markdown

Using LibreOffice and other Free software for documents as a lawyer

^{neilzone.co.uk}

Just donated $5 to the GNOME Foundation.

Open source software powers so much of what we do - often built by volunteers.

If you use and love a project, consider giving back - even a few dollars or a thank-you matters.

#opensource #FOSS #Linux #GNOME

Die @joplinapp@mastodon.social nutze ich in Verbindung mit #Nextcloud schon einige Jahre. Sie ist zu meinem wichtigsten Arbeitsmittel geworden.

Aber erst vor Kurzem habe ich festgestellt, wie genial der dazugeörige #WebClipper ist, um Inhalte aus Webseiten in #Markdown zu speichern:

addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/…
#OpenSource #FOSS #digitalSouverän #Workflow

Joplin Web Clipper – Holen Sie sich diese Erweiterung für 🦊 Firefox (de)

Laden Sie Joplin Web Clipper für Firefox herunter. Capture and save web pages and screenshots from your browser to Joplin. The Joplin application is required to get this extension working - https://joplinapp.org

^{addons.mozilla.org}

Happy Birthday @inkscape !

22 years old right now!

Long may we continue.

#inkscape #foss #oss

just putting a quick feeler out...are you a product person who's interested in helping out with some open source stuff? Specifically, foss designed to help artists/creatives/etc? I'm not doing a full call for folks rn but I'm wondering if I've got moots or other folks this might reach who are like 👀

Boosts Welcome™️

#IndieWeb #FOSS #ProductManagement #product

Ubiquiti is using mongodb 3.6 in its installation instructions for self-hosting the UniFi controller.

Support for mongodb 3.6 ended in April 2021, as far as I can tell.

So while I've got an up to date UniFi installation, the database behind it is *very* old.

Updating mongodb to something more modern (e.g. 7) is painful.

Very painful.

Fortunately - with lots of backups - uninstalling mongodb 3.6 and purging unifi, then installing mongodb 7 and reinstalling unifi, then restoring unifi from backup, worked.

#Linux #FOSS #selfhosting