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LibreOffice is made by hundreds of people around the world. In many countries, we have active communities that organise events, do local marketing, and help users in their local language.Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
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.
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, 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, 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)
We’re just over half-way through the Month of LibreOffice, November 2025. And already, 219 contributors have won cool LibreOffice sticker packs! Details on how to claim them will be provided at the end of the month, but if you don’t see your name (or…Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
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.
#Foss
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…
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!
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.
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.
Digital sovereignty, or the ability of nations, organisations and individuals to control their own digital destiny, is a fundamental issue of the 21st century.Italo Vignoli (The Document Foundation)
Berlin, 13 November 2025 – LibreOffice 25.8.3, the third minor release of the free, volunteer-supported office suite for personal productivity in office environments, for Windows, MacOS and Linux, is now available at www.libreoffice.org/download.Italo Vignoli (The Document Foundation)
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:
This runs together with Proton to seamlessly transcode Windows x86 games for Steam OS on ARM. FOSS is THAT cool!
A fast usermode x86 and x86-64 emulator for Arm64 Linux - FEX-Emu/FEXGitHub
# "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!
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
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.orgaddons.mozilla.org
Digital documents in proprietary formats often become inaccessible within a few years due to undocumented changes to the XML schema that are intentionally employed for lock-in purposes.Italo Vignoli (The Document Foundation)
General Activities LibreOffice 25.8.2 was announced on October 9 LibreOffice 25.2.7 was announced on October 30 Olivier Hallot (TDF) added help pages for R1C1 Calc formula syntax and DOI citation recognition and improved and updated help on dimension…x1sc0 (LibreOffice QA Blog)
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™️
NVDA scratchpad script to fix various .NET UI annoyances - zersiax/dotnet_fixGitHub
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
Tech people talk about tech too much.
I really really REALLY want to use all the awesome privacy friendly FOSS (and similar) stuff, but I am not a techie person! I don't know how to program, nor do I want to.
And every SINGLE time I try to find out even what thing (OS, program, app, service, etc) to use, let alone how, and I search for it... I get techie-focused answers.
It's complete gibberish to me! Absolutely useless. It makes me feel actively unwelcome even though I really care about using alternatives to Windows, Meta, X and other dystopic nonsense.
For example: I'm like "How do I start a non-enshittified group chat to talk about a thing?" and all the results are technobabble to me. I don't even know if the words they use are supposed to be normal english words or if they refer to orgs or groups or apps or some weird coding wizardry.
I am so lost, every single time.
I stick with it though. But like. I wonder if the tech people realise that this is happening???? Because they probably understand what they're talking about. And they seem to not realise that not everyone does.
I'm not trying to blame or shame anyone or even complaining as such (a little bit complaining, ngl), mostly just giving feedback. This is not an issue with a singe thing but with ALL of it as a whole! Including #GNU #Linux the #Fediverse #Matrix and most #FOSS apps.
My sincere wish: Give non-techie people an EASY TO FIND and easy to read and easy to understand and easy to implement guide about how to use the things as an alternative to using big corporation services, ie, "I just want it to work" and not have to worry about the technical side of things. (examples in thread)
Love LibreOffice? Join the project and help to make it even better – get involved in the Month of LibreOffice, November 2025! Over the next four weeks, hundreds of people around the world will collaborate to improve the software – and you can help th…Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
Hey @delta! Reading this delta.chat/en/2025-05-22-brows… got me thinking. I live in Firefox but miss Chrome’s one-click “Install PWA as app”. What about a Tauri-based helper + a Firefox extension that wraps a PWA into a desktop app in one step? Hosting stays light: the PWA is cached; relays/self-hosted instances can serve the client. Keeps control with admins. Interested? 👍🏻
#Firefox #PWA #Tauri #DeltaChat #FOSS #OpenSource #SelfHosting #WebExtensions
As part of the project to port Delta Chat Desktop from Electron to Tauri1, we’ll showcase a setup where our Desktop app runs in Firefox and does not depend on Electron or Chromium anymore. This vid...delta.chat
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 the month by posting the LibreOffice Podcast, Episode #5 –Accessibility in Free and Open Source Softwar…Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
Berlin, 30 October 2025 – The Document Foundation announces the release of LibreOffice 25.2.7, the final maintenance release of the LibreOffice 25.2 family, available for download at www.libreoffice.org/download [1]. Users of LibreOffice 25.2.Italo Vignoli (The Document Foundation)
Refine, an app to tweak advanced and experimental features in GNOME, has reached 100,000 downloads on Flathub!!
flathub.org/en/apps/page.tesk.…
Refine is an alternative (not replacement!) to GNOME Tweaks, designed to be data-driven and take advantage of the composition paradigm.
If you appreciate Refine and have the means to help a developer out, please consider donating to support my work: tesk.page/#donate
#GNOME #GTK #GTK4 #Libadwaita #FOSS #OpenSource #Flathub #Flatpak #Refine
As we continue to grow the Foundation’s donations, we look forward to being able to focus on additional ways to directly support the community and the development of GNOME itself.
Thank you again to all 500 of you Friends of GNOME! To everyone else, we’d love for you to consider joining today: donate.gnome.org
#GNOME #FriendsOfGNOME #GNOMEfoundation #FOSS #FLOSS #Linux #OpenSource #Flathub
It’s been a period of transformation for the Foundation, and the support of every Friend of GNOME truly makes a difference by enabling us to:
• Maintain and improve our infrastructure including GitLab hosting and build pipelines we freely provide to Core, Circle, and World projects
• Provide services for members like blog hosting, chat, and video conferencing
• Support the development of Flathub
#GNOME #FriendsOfGNOME #GNOMEfoundation #FOSS #FLOSS #Linux #OpenSource #Flathub
We just hit 500 Friends of GNOME! Thank you so much to every single person donating to the GNOME Foundation to help ensure our sustainability.
Check out everyone who opted into being listed over at donate.gnome.org
…and if your name isn’t there, consider supporting us to be one of the first 1,000? 😉
#GNOME #FriendsOfGNOME #GNOMEfoundation #FOSS #FLOSS #Linux #OpenSource #Flathub
On October 4 and 5, the LinuxDays 2025 event took place at the Faculty of Information Technology (Czech Technical University).Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
Libreitalia Conference 2025 was organized by Marco Marega – a LibreItalia and TDF Member – in Gradisca d’Isonzo, near the border with Slovenia, in Gorizia’s province. Gradisca is a very nice fortified city surrounded be beautiful parks.Italo Vignoli (The Document Foundation)
Independent fromme fromme this or intially, a good start for institutions still hanging in MS365 or so can start with LibreOffice free file formats, so that there is an overall interoperability in data exchange.
Thats mainly replacements for Word, PowerPoint and Excel.
News for developers! As a result of some awesome cross-project collaboration, Flathub now has improved tooling to make license compliance easier for you.
tl;dr app developers, ensure you’re using up-to-date runtimes and verify that licenses and copyright notices are properly included; distros, ensure your OS images have been built with updated runtimes from Flathub.
docs.flathub.org/blog/enhanced…
#Flathub #Linux #OpenSource #FOSS #FLOSS
tl;dr: Flathub has improved tooling to make license compliance easier for developers. Distros should rebuild OS images with updated runtimes from Flathub; app developers should ensure they're using up-to-date runtimes and verify that licenses and cop…Cassidy James Blaede (docs.flathub.org)
Gustavo Pacheco send us this report on the activities of the sixth edition of the Latin American LibreOffice Congress, held in Habana, Cuba, from October 6 to 9, 2025: Official photo Cibersociedad 2025 + Latin American LibreOffice Congress With a com…Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
Great Intelligence2 episode with @pluralistic
open.spotify.com/episode/2DoEu…
I loved his call for #DigitalSovereignty. It is great how #FOSS provides countries to provide a viable alternative. Interoperability & being able to reverse engineer the products is key.
open.spotify.com/episode/2DoEu…
This would do so much for innovation, too. The whole focus on printer ink is such a great example, as is the nursing one. Monopolies are anti-capitalist & anti-innovation. Lots I hadn't considered for #privacy