Free and Open Source Software is a (partly-) political stance

#foss #opensource #floss

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Thread of #FOSS / #FLOSS accounts on Fediverse (continued):

Security & Privacy
@torproject
@bitwarden
@cryptomator
@nitrokey
@tblock
@keyoxide

Networks
@ooni
@wireshark

Geography & Navigation
@openstreetmap
@MapComplete
@qgis
@Doudouosm

Health
@gnuhealth

3D Printing
@octoprint

Article Readers
@wallabag

Books
@inventaire
@nantucketebooks

Wearables
@gadgetbridge

Retro FOSS
@freedosproject
@dec_hl

Science
@OpenRefine
@easybuild
@base
@psychopy

7/9

Thread of #FOSS / #FLOSS accounts on Fediverse (continued):

Social Media
@gotosocial
@Mastodon
@peertube
@pixelfed
@owncast
@news
@bonfire
@mastohost
@Tusky
@IceCubesApp
@apps
@Tuba
@elk
@PixelDroid
@publicspaces
@Swanye

Messaging & Calling
@snikket_im
@delta
@Jami
@matrix
@senfcall (in German & English)
@briar
@Monal
@prosodyim
@mellium
@tigase
@prav

Wikis
@kiwix

Blogging Software
@writefreely
@pfefferle

Forum Software
@Discourse

6/9

Thread of #FOSS / #FLOSS accounts on Fediverse (continued):

Accessibility
@NVAccess

Art, Animation, Photos & Design
@Krita@mastodon.art (main) & @krita@tube.kockatoo.org (videos)
@inkscape
@Blender@mastodon.social (main) & @blender@video.blender.org (videos)
@lgm@post.lurk.org (main) & @lgm@conf.tube (videos)
@kicad
@librepcb
@raghukamath
@fediphoto_lineage

Gaming
@Minetest
@speed_dreams_official
@play0ad
@wesnoth
@freeciv
@veloren
@pretendo
@holarse (in German)
@lutris
@scummvm
@simutrans
@FreeRCT
@Wuzzy
@zughy_boi
@solarus
@bitsy
@xenko
@Le_bottin_des_jeux_linux

5/9

Thread of #FOSS / #FLOSS accounts on Fediverse (continued):

Fundraising
@crowdsupply
@Liberapay
@opencollective

FOSS Artists
@doomyflo
@davidrevoy
@sylvia_ritter
@fossandcrafts

Mobile OSes
@openandroidinstaller
@e_mydata
@murena
@GrapheneOS
@postmarketOS
@ubports
@mobian
@droidian
@calyxos
@unifiedpush
@linuxphoneapps
@tuxdevices
@PINE64
@volla
@iode
@microg
@AsteroidOS

Desktop Environments
@gnome
@kde (main) & @kde_community (videos)
@plasmamobile
@akademy

3/9

Thread of #FOSS / #FLOSS accounts on Fediverse (continued):

Programming & Software Development
@forgejo
@Codeberg
@weblate
@php
@rust
@django
@penpot
@reproducible_builds
@FirefoxDevTools
@WoodpeckerCI
@charmcli
@wikidata
@tootsdk
@akiraux

Operating Systems
@linuxmint
@ubuntustudio
@LubuntuOfficial
@edubuntu
@ubuntubudgie
@kubuntu
@fedora
@gentoo
@alpinelinux
@archlinux
@elementary
@Solus
@opensuse
@chimera_linux
@kalilinux
@rockylinux
@almalinux
@bsdcan

2/9

Big thread of #FOSS / #FLOSS accounts on Fediverse:

FOSS News
@9to5linux
@omgubuntu
@fullcirclemagazine
@lealternative (in Italian)
@gnulinux (in German)

FOSS Organisations
@conservancy
@EC_NGI
@EC_OSPO
@fossasia
@spritelyinst
@Framasoft (in French)
@PrototypeFund (in German)
@openwebdocs
@coopcloud
@be4foss

FOSS Events
@fosdem
@SeaGL
@foss_events

Videos about FOSS
@thelinuxexperiment
@linuxuserspace
@veggero
@gbryant
@art
@rtp_tips

🧵 1/9

👉 "The core issue is that open source contributors are not paid fairly. 60% of open-source maintainers are unpaid volunteers, and just 13% make a living as professional project maintainers, according to the 2023 State of the Open Source Maintainer Report."

Boosts appreciated 🚀

➡️ infoworld.com/article/3557846/…

#FreeSoftware #OpenSource #FOSS #FLOSS #SoftwareLibre #Business #KDE #Research #Science #NLnet #softwareDevelopment

How do we fund open source?

Experts with deep experience across open-source software communities share their opinions on how to sustain this critical ecosystem.

^{Bill Doerrfeld (InfoWorld)}

PSA: I ferociously guard my senior developers' code review attention span. If you use "AI" / LLMs / ChatGPT / Copilot to submit Outreachy/GSoC project proposals or merge requests to one of my #FLOSS #opensource projects, I will quickly detect your bullshit, challenge you, and ban you.

This PSA, unfortunately, is brought to you by experience.

The internet is very silent about this year's #LibreOffice and #OpenSource Conference 2024. Are there any slides, video recordings, interviews, press releases?

@libreoffice @tdforg @CollaboraOffice

#FLOSS

To the #FOSS / #FLOSS folks out there:

#FLOSS maintainers often maintain an archive of old, sometimes *really* old source releases (source tarballs, typically).

In this day and age, especially with existing git and readily available repositories with appropriate tags, one might wonder if maintaining an old archive is still useful, and why.

Anyone want to share their perspective on this?

(I have no particular opinion in the matter, so am all ears)

Wishing everyone a great time at The #Matrix #Conference by The Matrix.org Foundation starting today in Mitosis LAB in #Berlin, #Germany

foss.events/2024/09-19-the-mat…

@matrix

#TheMatrixConference #TheMatrix.orgFoundation #foss #floss #freesoftware #opensource #events #europe

GNOME 47 (codename “Denver”) is out today! I’ll be celebrating by upgrading my desktop to Fedora Silverblue 41 beta.

My favorite feature is definitely Accent Colors, but there is a lot of refinement and polish in this one. Check it out:

release.gnome.org/47/

#GNOME #GNOME47 #Linux #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #FOSS #FLOSS

As has been foretold: chaos.social/@RichiH/112579960…

#FOSDEM will happen on 2025-02-01 and 2025-02-02, we just signed the contract with ULB today!

You're hearing it here first, because Mastodon is the #FLOSS social network. We'll publish official news in a bit :)

More updates on the image editing UI and backend for GNOME's Image Viewer Loupe this week! You can read my weekly updates with a monthly subscription to my Ko-fi (new!) or Patreon page. You can also sponsor my work on GitHub.

Thanks to everyone who supports my work or has done so in the past!

ko-fi.com/sophieherold

patreon.com/sophieh

github.com/sponsors/sophie-h

#GNOME #LoupeApp #FLOSS

wtf is #1p_for_floss ?

One percent 💰 for Free and Libre Open Source.

1% is a suggestion. Substitute whatever fraction makes sense for your life and position. Is that 0.025%? Great! Contribute that and use the tag with blessings.

The idea is to normalize regularly giving to support the tens of thousands of "dude in Nebraska holding up the internet" #XKCD2347 that make our computing life as rich as it is.

Use Ko-Fi, Patreon, GitHub Sponsors, PayPal, Bitcoin, ... heck even old fashioned snail mail 🐌 💌. Just make sure it's money 💰, and make it a habit.

Because software needs to be more expensive blog.glyph.im/2024/03/software…

#floss

I just read on the fediverse about a trackball input system that is open hardware. When I looked at the website I found out that they design a headphone and several trackballs and mice.

I am happy with my computer mouse. But out of curiosity I might try a product of them later this year

- ploopy.co/

#openSource #OpenHardware #floss #ploopy

If FLOSS is built on the four freedoms, and FLOSS has created an environment that is brittle, then perhaps it’s time for FLOSS to similarly augment the four freedoms.

We have to address this in a fundamental way. The alternative may well be the (eventual) end of FLOSS as we know it.

interpeer.io/blog/2024/04/in-s…

#xz #FLOSS #FourFreedoms #sustainability #robots

In Search of Foundational FLOSS Freedom(s)

A few days ago, a vulnerability in xz-utils named CVE-2024-3094 was discovered, and since then the open source community as well as security pundits...

^{Jens Finkhaeuser (Interpeer gUG)}

Your attention please:

Maybe you've never heard about it but since 2020, the Next Generation Internet programs, a sub-branch of the European Commission’s Horizon Europe program, have been cascading funding (via @nlnet calls) open source software in Europe. The massive fundings have enabled a great deal of free software development in recent years, and all without too many constraints (with too few transparency and monitoring, though… which urgently needs to be improved). Unfortunately, these NGI programs seem to have been withdrawn from the next round of Horizon Europe fundings to give priority to AI bullshit.

As a result, we’ve been invited to contact the National Contact Points, Horizon Europe’s national representatives, to express our concern and the importance of maintaining public funding for free software. With this in mind, we wrote an open letter at Petites Singularités and thought it would make sense to fork it out with Hackstub and ARN in Strasbourg for the French NCP to get other French-speaking free software orgas to sign. I’m thinking in particular of the software that has benefited from this funding, such as Yunohost, but also of the Kittens that use this same software.

We can also announce that this topic will be part of the central theme of the next #OFFDEM in Brussels, on the first weekend of February 2025. There's not yet an exact title, but we’ll be discussing financing and community structuring for free software over the next few years.

If you want to sign the french-speaking version of this letter, there's a pad for it: pad.public.cat/lettre-NCP-NGI

#ngi #publicMoneyPublicCode #floss

L'Union Européenne doit poursuivre le financement des logiciels libres - HedgeDoc

^{pad.public.cat}

New on // foss.events: The #Matrix #Conference by The Matrix.org Foundation on 19-22 September 2024 in Mitosis LAB in #Berlin, #Germany

foss.events/2024/09-19-the-mat…

Call for participation is running until 26.06.2024

@matrix

#TheMatrixConference #foss #floss #freesoftware #opensource #events #europe

Really glad we finally get DRM lease (thus VR) on gnome wayland

gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/…

#floss #gnome #wayland

Add Wayland DRM lease protocol support (!3746) · Merge requests · GNOME / mutter · GitLab

Add Wayland DRM lease protocol support. Based on the work by

^GitLab

"You have to understand, we’re responsible for taxpayer money here. We can’t just make a donation to your open source project."

— a national government who relies on #Matrix when being asked to support it financially

Read more about the problem and some initiatives that are responding to it:

matrix.org/blog/2024/04/open-s…

#FreeSoftware #OpenSource #FOSS #FLOSS #funding #xz #sustainability

Open Source Infrastructure must be a publicly funded service.

Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications

^{Matthew Hodgson (matrix.org)}

Tomorrow's the official start of #30DayFOSSChallenge! We've got a few people chatting in the #matrix already: matrix.to/#/#30DayFOSSChalleng…

Feel free to join us. Don't know what I'm talking about? Look here: nullarch.com/30DayFOSSChalleng…

#foss #floss #opensource #freeculture #degoogle #indieweb

Matrix - Decentralised and secure communication

You're invited to talk on Matrix. If you don't already have a client this link will help you pick one, and join the conversation. If you already have one, this link will help you join the conversation

^matrix.to

Wishing everyone a great time at Gnome 46 Release Party by Volunteers starting today in Offline in #Berlin, #Germany

foss.events/2024/03-30-gnome-4…

@gnome
#gnome46 #foss #floss #freesoftware #opensource #events #europe #gnome

Keep the momentum going for free open source projects in this week's Follow Friday by giving your support with contributions, boosts and follows.

adamsdesk.com/posts/discover-f…

- LÖVR @lovr
A framework for rapidly building immersive 3D experiences.
- NV Access @NVAccess
A screen reader.
- BiznisBox @biznisbox
A web app for managing invoices, clients, & payments.
- BookStack @bookstack
Documentation system.

#FollowFriday #fediverse #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #ff #oss #foss #floss

The #GUADEC2024 call for abstracts for those looking to be *sponsored* has passed (due to visa reqs & travel lead time), BUT the call for both in-person (if you don’t need sponsorship) and remote talks IS STILL OPEN!

events.gnome.org/event/209/abs…

If you’ve been working on something interesting in GNOME or GNOME-adjacent spaces and can present remotely or get yourself to Denver in July, you still have just over two weeks to propose a talk!

#GNOME #GUADEC #OpenSource #Linux #FOSS #FLOSS

New Changeset newsletter is out:

buttondown.email/Changeset/arc…

Guides on #opensource project management, caregiving and persuasion, arguing responsibly, and asking more effective questions. And: celebrating Beautiful Soup's 20th anniversary.

#Python #maintainership #FLOSS #burnout #sustainability #management

Retaining contributors, extending trust, & more maintainer tips

Guides on open source project management, caregiving and persuasion, arguing responsibly, and asking more effective questions. And: celebrating Beautiful Soup's 20th anniversary.

^{buttondown.email}

The popular DJ software @mixxx is now official on Flathub

Announcement: mixxx.org/news/2024-02-21-offi…

Get Mixxx on Flathub: flathub.org/apps/org.mixxx.Mix…

#Mixxx #Flathub #Flatpak #Linux #OpenSource #FOSS #FLOSS #dj #audio #DigitalAudio

“Improved build validation, increased moderation, and the long-awaited switch to libappstream” by @barthalion

Heads up to app developers: Flathub’s automatic build validation is more thorough now, and includes checks for issues we previously would have only flagged manually. There’s a chance that if your app has been passing continuous integration checks previously, it will fail now; here’s why, and what to do about it:

docs.flathub.org/blog/improved…

#Flathub #Flatpak #Linux #OpenSource #FOSS #FLOSS

Improved build validation, increased moderation, and the long-awaited switch to libappstream | Flathub Documentation

Flathub's automatic build validation is more thorough now, and includes checks for issues we previously would have only flagged manually.

^{docs.flathub.org}

Danke für #FreeSoftware - mein Arbeits Alltag wäre nicht der gleiche ohne #OpenSource

Ganz besonders Dankbar bin ich für #LibreOffice, #Firefox, #Thunderbird, #Nextcloud, #Wordpress & #KDEnlive und so viele weitere Projekte wie #Signal

#SoftwareFreedom #ILoveFS #FLOSS

@fsfe mastodon.social/@fsfe/11192840…

#TinyWeatherForecastGermany version 0.62.0 just was built successfully at #fdroid ! 🎈 🎉 ✨

This version comes with overhauled home screen #widgets and new options to better customize data syncs.

You can choose the data categories that should be kept updated automatically, and specify intervals for weather forecasts and weather warnings.

This version also launches significantly faster on #legacy #devices .

This is a #floss #weather #app using #opendata from the #dwd .

Get it at #fdroid !

Hello, world! 👋 It’s your friendly neighborhood Linux app store here on the Fediverse! Check our profile, we’re verified. 😎

Speaking of which… if you’re an app developer and want to get your app verified on Flathub, check the docs! If you need any help, give us a shout here.

docs.flathub.org/docs/for-app-…

#Flathub #Flatpak #OpenSource #Linux #FOSS #FLOSS #introduction

Verification | Flathub Documentation

What is verification?

^{docs.flathub.org}

New post: harihareswara.net/posts/2024/t… Whether And How To Trust A New Maintainer

What kind of trust does a project #maintainer need to have in a new co-maintainer? To get better at #opensource #sustainability, we need to improve at recruiting, training, & promoting new leaders.

I cover attributes to check for.

I mine 4 comparable situations for assessment ideas, & explain how to reduce how much trust you NEED to give by promoting someone.

&: 3 options if you're low on time

#maintainership #FLOSS

« Opening up communication silos with Matrix 2.0 & the EU Digital Markets Act »
› fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event… [ @fosdem talk by @matthew ]

#Matrix Foundation (@matrix) need our support ! 💰
› matrix.org/membership/ [ Support ]

#Funding #FLOSS

Why become a member?

Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications

^matrix.org

#TinyWeatherForecastGermany

Version 0.62.0 is out!

This is an #android #floss #app showing you #weather #forecasts based on #open #data from the Deutscher Wetterdienst ( @DeutscherWetterdienst ).

See the changelog for what's new:
codeberg.org/Starfish/TinyWeat…

Get it on #fdroid:
f-droid.org/packages/de.kaffee…

Visit the project at #codeberg:
codeberg.org/Starfish/TinyWeat…

TinyWeatherForecastGermany/CHANGELOG.md at master

^Codeberg.org

Hey Denver peeps/companies: want to sponsor an international conference that's coming to Denver, CO with potentially hundreds of open source developers, maintainers, designers, and community folks?

Check it out → events.gnome.org/event/209/pag…

#Denver #DenverCO #Colorado #OpenSource #FOSS #FLOSS #GNOME #GUADEC #GUADEC2024 #Linux

Do you work on GNOME or adjacent stuff? Do you want to help improve the GNOME desktop around usability, reliability, safety, digital well-being?

GET PAID TO DO IT!

The @gnome Foundation is offering a one-year contract (with potential to extend) to work on the above on behalf of the Foundation. You’d probably interact with me, the GNOME design team, and core maintainers of GNOME components.

foundation.gnome.org/2024/01/1…

#GNOME #Linux #OpenSource #FOSS #FLOSS #GetFediHired #OpenPosition #hiring