Funding available for (individual) #FOSS #developers and projects.
#NLnet is seeking project proposals between 5.000 and 50.000 euro.
Currently open for proposals:
1️⃣ #NGItaler (electronic payment related)
2️⃣ #NGImobifree (Android related)
3️⃣ #NGIzero (very broad)
Closing: 1 June 2024
Easily submit proposal:
nlnet.nl/propose/
More info:
nlnet.nl/funding.html
#MobileLinux #Linux #opensource #librem5 #pinephone #mobile #phone #software #grant #EU #mobian
Our #GAAD edition In-Process #blog is out, featuring all the news on #NVDA 2024.2beta 1, the amazing mini-documentary @github made our new issue template and more!
Get on top of all the #GAAD #news here: nvaccess.org/post/in-process-1…
#NVDAsr #Accessibility #Newsletter #GitHub #FOSS #ScreenReader
Welcome to this 2024 Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) issue of In-Process! Let’s kick things off with a new Beta! NVDA 2024.2 Beta 1 We are very pleased to share NVDA 2024.2 Beta 1. …NV Access
This Global Accessibility Awareness Day, we have something special to share! @github made a movie about our founders Mick & Jamie & the story of not only NVDA, but also OSARA. Two life-changing open-source projects. Both actively providing access & employment to blind people around the world.
Read the article here: github.com/readme/featured/nvd…
Watch the video (with AD) on YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=N-y3yomLLS…
#GAAD #NVDA #NVDAsr #Accessibility #Employment #Empowering #ScreenReader #FOSS #OpenSource
NVDA and OSARA provide access to information, employment, community, and more, as well as empower a new generation to build a more accessible world.Mike Melanson (GitHub)
Love LibreOffice? Help the community that makes it, learn new things, and get a sticker pack for your contributions! (Plus the chance to win some bonus extra merchandise, including mugs, T-shirts and hoodies…) We’re two weeks into the Month of LibreO…Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
LibreOffice Conference 2024 will take place in Luxembourg, at the Digital Learning Hub and the local campus of 42 Luxembourg in Belval, Esch-sur-Alzette, from 10 to 12 October 2024.Italo Vignoli (The Document Foundation)
NVDA 2024.2 beta 1 is now available for testing from: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2024-2b…
For anyone who is interested in trying out what NVDA has to offer before release, we welcome your feedback.
Highlights
- Sound Split
- New Synth Settings ring & quick navigation commands
- New braille features & fixes, including "Display speech output".
- Updated eSpeak, adding new language Tigrinya.
There are many minor bug fixes for applications
#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Beta #News #Accessibility #A11y #FOSS
Beta1 of NVDA 2024.2 is now available for download and testing. For anyone who is interested in trying out what the next version of NVDA has to offer before it is officially released, we welcome yo…NV Access
Who controls the tech stack❓
When choosing a secure solution for your data, this one of the most important questions❗
Here's why: ➡️ tuta.com/blog/what-is-a-tech-s…
#security #technology #opensource #foss
Open Source audited technologies and self-built solutions give the Tuta team full control over their tech stack - an important factor when it comes to security.Tutanota
Berlin, May 10, 2024 – LibreOffice 7.6.7 Community, the last minor release of the 7.6 line, is available from https://www.libreoffice.org/download for Windows, macOS, and Linux.Italo Vignoli (The Document Foundation)
General Activities Olivier Hallot (TDF) added Help content for user interface selection dialog, Calc row recalculation at load time, automatic labeled ranges in Calc and font embedding.x1sc0 (LibreOffice QA Blog)
The LibreOffice Google Summer of Code projects have been selected for 2024. Adam Seskunas – More and better tests: the project aims to add automated tests for fixes related to document export as well as converting tests written in Java to C++.Ilmari Lauhakangas (The Document Foundation)
Uso #Thunderbird praticamente da sempre, e negli anni ho donato varie volte
Ma negli ultimi anni devo dire il lavoro che è stato fatto per migliorarlo è senza eguali: merita solo premi ed elogi immensi!
(specialmente l'arrivo di TB sul mobile con #K9)
Per questo ho donato di nuovo oggi una somma maggiore
Chiunque usi Thunderbird e ami il #FOSS, consideri la possibilità di donare per il progetto e renderlo sempre migliore oltre che #LIBERO
After more annoyances that Gnome/RedHat is pulling lately ( gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/adwaita… ), I just donated to #Linux #Mint, instead of my original intention, #Gnome.
The Gnome Project is a wall-garden, but not of the Apple kind. It's a club of mostly #Redhat programmers & a few select others, and either you're in it, or you're not. Your user needs, your bug reports, your patches, all end up on /dev/null. They listen to no one. Never have, never will.
So, my money went to a fork.
[Here I use the copy icon as an example, but the issue affects everything] The Adwaita icon theme has an icon-named edit-copy-symbolic for its copy...GitLab
I've been using #LibreOffice for many years. Only when I'm forced I use another office suite, and that did not happen in the last 2.5 years.
I highly recommend LibreOffice!
Want to learn new skills, for a potential future career change? Or just expand your knowledge and have fun on the way? Get involved in the Month of LibreOffice, May 2024! Over the next four weeks, hundreds of people around the world will collaborate …Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
Linux screenshot staple Neofetch is no longer in development but plenty of alternatives exist
omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/04/neofet…
#linux #foss #opensource
It seems that the popular command-line system info tool Neofetch is dead, Jim. The Github repo for the project was archived by its main developer last week and is now read-only, a sure sign that [&...Joey Sneddon (OMG! Ubuntu!)
Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last four weeks – click the links to learn more… We started April with very good news: the northern German federal state of Schleswig-Holstein has decided to move …Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
Introducing the nominees for our first ever Governing Board elections 🎉 We are grateful to everyone who has raised their hands, and are positively overwhelmed by the enthusiasm and vision expressed by our nominees: matrix.org/governing-board/ele…
Get to know the candidates, and get ready: voting begins on May 18th.
#Matrix #OpenSource #FOSS #Governance
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communicationsmatrix.org
Christian Hergert just published a massive PDF document named "Builder, A Developers Notebook", where he documents over the technical details of GNOME Builder.
Document: gitlab.gnome.org/chergert/buil…
Article: blogs.gnome.org/chergert/2024/…
#GNOME #GNOMEBuilder #GTK #IDE #Development #OpenSource #FOSS #Flatpak
This week's In-Process is out! Featuring the latest on NVDA 2024.1, add-on updates, the Microsoft FOSS Fund, Philanthropy Australia awards, an Interview with our GTO Gerald, and more! All available now at: nvaccess.org/post/in-process-2…
#NVDA #NVDAsr #News #Newsletter #Blog #Awards #Interview #FOSS #Community
Welcome to the 17th week of 2024! And welcome to In-Process. Let’s jump right in: NVDA 2024.1 A fortnight in, how is NVDA 2024.1 going for you? We’ve had lots of really positive reports! Have…NV Access
It's pretty unsavory how everybody talks about #MarketPlaces when it comes to platforms for distributing apps. I guess because of #DMA. But it's important to take a step back once in a while and appreciate that like many other #FOSS platforms #FDroid is not a maket place, it's a #commons.
A look at some of the new features in LibreOffice 24.2, created by our community of volunteers and certified developers.Learn more: https://wiki.documentfoun...YouTube
I have previously discussed fixing crashes in 2 parts (segfaults, aborts). Now I discuss how to test to avoid future regressions.Hossein Nourikhah (LibreOffice Development Blog)
Today more companies are announcing their support of the Valkey community (the group that includes committed developers previously working on the OSS version of the core Redis engine): Aiven, Alibaba Cloud, Chainguard, Heroku, Huawei, Percona, and Verizon.
#OSSummit #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #FOSS #OSS #Redis #Valkey #Community #LinuxFoundation
linuxfoundation.org/press/valk…
Valkey community welcomes new partners, including Aiven, Alibaba Cloud, Chainguard, Heroku, Huawei, Percona, and Verizon.The Linux Foundation
Now on stage for the morning #OSSummit keynotes, core team member Madelyn Olson to speak about the new Valkey community effort.
The walk-on music: "We are never ever getting back together" by Taylor Swift. 🤣
Love it!
#OSSummit #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #FOSS #OSS #Redis #Valkey #Community #LinuxFoundation
they forgot the last step
credit: twitter.com/crackticker/status…#ultramarinelinux #foss #linux #trans #fedora
Microsoft announced their latest round of FOSS fund recipients. We're thrilled to share that @NVAccess are among this quarter's recipients. From: github.com/microsoft/foss-fund
"A project of the Microsoft Open Source Programs Office, the FOSS Fund provides up to $10,000 USD in sponsorships to open source projects as selected by Microsoft employees."
Congratulations also to The GNU Compiler Collection, Urllib3, CLAP & MSW.
#OpenSource, #FOSS #Free #Software #NVDA #ScreenReader #Accessibility #A11y
The Microsoft FOSS Fund provides a direct way for Microsoft engineers to participate in the nomination and selection process to help communities and projects they are passionate about. The FOSS Fun...GitHub
After a stable release of K-9 Mail, our Android team usually spends a couple weeks fixing bugs. The bug hunt takes center stage in this month's #Android progress report, with cketti and Wolf ironing out a BUNCH of them.
blog.thunderbird.net/2024/04/t…
It was a busy month! Here's our monthly progress report detailing our work to transform K-9 Mail into Thunderbird for Android.cketti (The Thunderbird Blog)
General Activities LibreOffice 7.6.6 and LibreOffice 24.2.2 were released on March 28 Olivier Hallot (TDF) renamed Fontwork to Text along Path in the UI while updating Help, added Help content for ExportAsFixedFormat VBA method and new Calc functions…x1sc0 (LibreOffice QA Blog)
Our Czech community reports back from a recent event… For the third time, the LibreOffice project had its own booth at InstallFest 2024, and here we present our experiences from the event.Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
🕘 December 2009: Maybe you were upgrading your computer to the new Windows 7, or checking out Ubuntu 9.10. Perhaps you were pouring all your free time into Valve’s ridiculously fun survival shooter Left 4 Dead 2. And maybe, just maybe, you were eagerly anticipating installing Thunderbird 3.0…
Step back into the Thunderbird Time Machine as Jason looks at what made this such a landmark release!
blog.thunderbird.net/2024/04/t…
#FOSS #Thunderbird #Retro
After a 2-year development cycle, Thunderbird 3.0 finally released late 2009 with a bunch of new feature milestones. Was it worth the wait?Jason Evangelho (The Thunderbird Blog)
Just bought a #DELL 3190 laptop, new for $150 (11.6" screen, 64GB eMMC). It's fully supported on #Linux, and even if it has a Celeron N4120 CPU and only 4 GB of RAM, it'll work fine with #Mint, or #XFCE (and #Gnome/ #KDE if you don't mind some minor lag). Not opening too many browser tabs will ensure that the swap file won't get used too often.
If you're on a tight budget this is a good option, as it also has great battery life too at 10 hours with Linux.
#linuxmint #ubuntu #opensource #foss
