Here's a neat exploration of the curb cut effect for accessibility in @gnome - using accessibility tools to aid in testing automation! Has pros and cons identified in the article, but interesting nonetheless.

➡️ fedoramagazine.org/automation-…

#Fedora #Gnome #accessibility #a11y #Linux #OpenSource

Automation through Accessibility - Fedora Magazine

Using Accessibility as an automation testing tool. Learn about DesktopQE's automation stack to test Desktop Applications.

^{Michal Odehnal (Fedora Project)}

We're very happy to use a free and open source, decentralized tool for chat - @matrix has been a great resource! Fedora contributors can easily connect with each other or outside communities with a single account.

All users who make a Fedora Account are able generate a related Matrix account from fedora.im.

Learn more about Matrix and how Fedora uses it! fedoramagazine.org/fedora-chat…

#Matrix #Element #Fedora #OpenSource

Fedora Chat: Your Gateway to Matrix - Fedora Magazine

What is Matrix and how to get connected to the Fedora Community via Fedora Chat, the Fedora Project homeservers.

^{David Cantrell (Fedora Project)}

they forgot the last step

credit: twitter.com/crackticker/status…#ultramarinelinux #foss #linux #trans #fedora

Change Proposal for F42: #Fedora #Plasma Workstation is now formally announced via the devel mailing list and Fedora Discussions.

lists.fedoraproject.org/archiv…

discussion.fedoraproject.org/t…

Told you folks, it is no April Fool's joke.

F42 Change Proposal: Fedora Plasma Workstation (System-Wide)

Fedora Plasma Workstation This is a proposed Change for Fedora Linux. This document represents a proposed Change. As part of the Changes process, proposals are publicly announced in order to receive community feedback.

^{Fedora Discussion}

Big thank you to @dogphilosopher for an update to flatpaks on Bluefin. Now flatpaks can be preinstalled from the ISO rather than having to download them on first boot in order to provide the intended experience. That means @thunderbird on the dock by default!

Awesome step forward for us to be able to bring you intended apps by default without straying from @flathub

If you can help with testing the new ISOs, please see below for instructions.
universal-blue.discourse.group…

#Bluefin #Flathub #Fedora

We're ready for another round of ISO testing!

Hey ya’ll, thanks to @dogphilosopher 's heroic last minute efforts fighting with R2 we’ve got new Bluefin ISOs up! We now ship the Flatpaks on the ISO itself, allowing for a full offline installation.

^{Universal Blue}

🚨 ⚠️ Emergency PSA: A critical security exploit was discovered in the xz package recently, used for compression and decompression on nearly all Linux distributions.

Rawhide users ARE impacted and should immediately STOP using Rawhide until the package update is fully rolled back. (1/3)

Security Advisory: redhat.com/en/blog/urgent-secu…

#Fedora #Linux #OpenSource #Security #Privacy

Urgent security alert for Fedora Linux 40 and Fedora Rawhide users

Red Hat Information Risk and Security and Red Hat Product Security learned that the latest versions of the “xz” tools and libraries contain malicious code that appears to be intended to allow unauthorized access.

^{, (Red Hat)}

Check out this recap of the work that Community Platform Engineering did in 2023! The CPE team is made up of the folks who manage Fedora infrastructure, Fedora release engineering, and @centos infrastructure.

Projects worked on or investigated:
* Making a @matrix native zodbot
* Moving our registry to quay.io
* Backend service for Fedora Badges
* And more!

➡️ communityblog.fedoraproject.or…

#Fedora #Linux #OpenSource #Matrix

2023 Year in Review: Community Platform Engineering (CPE) – Fedora Community Blog

This is a summary of the work done on initiatives by the Community Platform Engineering (CPE) Team. Every quarter, the CPE team works together with CentOS Project and Fedora Project community leaders and representatives to choose projects that will b…

^{zlopez (Fedora Project)}

There are 12 talks from Fedora community members happening at @fosdem this weekend!

Learn more: fedoraproject.org/wiki/FOSDEM_…

#FOSDEM #Fedora #Linux #OpenSource

The Fedora Pride team is hosting a @Minetest gaming event tomorrow, Jan 27 at 7pm UTC (2pm EST)!

Minetest is an open source game inspired by Minecraft. If you've never given it a shot and are looking for that 'first time playing Minecraft' experience again, come join us!

Learn more: discussion.fedoraproject.org/t…

#Fedora #Minetest #Minecraft #OpenSource

Let's Play: Minetest!

The Fedora Pride SIG is hosting a gathering of Fedora Community members to play Minetest! We’re starting to hold more community events in 2024 to bring different parts of Fedora together.

^{Fedora Discussion}

Fedora Magazine got an interview up of Wim Taymans about the PipeWire 1.0 release and plans going forward.
fedoramagazine.org/pipewire-1-…

#linux #pipewire #fedora #audio

PipeWire 1.0 - An interview with PipeWire creator Wim Taymans - Fedora Magazine

With PIpeWire hitting its 1.0 release we speak with project lead Wim Taymans about what has been achieved and where we go from here.

^{Christian Fredrik Schaller (Fedora Project)}

Today I'll probably be posting a bit more from the #OpenAlt conference. If you're not interested in it, use that great feature of Mastodon and mute me for the weekend.
I'll be giving two talks at OpenAlt:
Fedora Asahi Remix: Linux on Apple Silicon
Fediverse: Mastodon and Others

I'll be happy to meet you at the #Fedora booth or at my talks. If you cannot come, you can watch the talks online (they're in Czech though): openalt.cz/2023/program/

It looks like Fedora 39 torrents are live a bit early. 👀 It seems like a good choice for my father-in-law's recently-liberated EOL Chromebook!

After downloading, I've already seeded to a 1:1 ratio; if you have some spare bandwidth, you can join in, too!

torrent.fedoraproject.org/

#Fedora #Linux #OpenSource #FOSS #FLOSS

Thanks! (Can I claim a third pack by reporting a bug my patch introduced? :D)

I think Month of LibreOffice & the sticker packs are a great way to get more people involved long-term - after all the first patch/translation/bug report is often the most cumbersome one due to all the setup overhead.

I always try to lower the barriers I bump into along the way, eg. submitted this patch to #fedora to include all build debs ootb:
src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/lib…

Official #flatpak build env when?

🚂.🚃.HYPE.🚃.TRAIN.🚃

Fedora Linux 38 will release on Tuesday, April 18!

We've hit the early target dates for our beta and stable releases, so props to the Fedora community. And thanks to all who helped with testing!
#Fedora #Linux

More updates on Friday's Fedora Facts: communityblog.fedoraproject.or…

Friday's Fedora Facts: 2023-15 – Fedora Community Blog

Here’s your weekly Fedora report. Read what happened this week and what’s coming up. Your contributions are welcome (see the end of the post)! Fedora Linux 38 will be released on Tuesday — the early target date! I have weekly office hours most Wednes…

^{Ben Cotton (Fedora Project)}

Hmm, should I give it a try? 😆

#Fedora

Found this on other account. Please boost for reach: Fedora Linux is focusing on accessibility for the next five years. I'd love to see people with disabilities, very much including blind people, comment on this. If you're interested in Linux, or free and open source software, your voices are valuable. I hope Fedora finds our voices valuable too.

discussion.fedoraproject.org/t…
#accessibility #linux #fedora #foss

Fedora Strategy 2028: Focus area review (Accessibility)

Hello. Yes, sometimes, setting things up is a challenge, however, things are improving. The QT environment variables are definitely not needed for QT 6, and likely 5. Same can be said about GTK_MODULES, which are not needed at least from GTK 3.

^{Fedora Discussion}

If you're interested in talking or collaborating with contributors to the Fedora Project, this is how you can join the conversation!

We have @matrix channels bridged to IRC for real time chat. We have the Fedora Discussion forum for long form conversations.

Both can be accessed with a Fedora account you can create, but Matrix is also available from other accounts since it is federated.
#Fedora #Matrix #Discourse

Come on over! fedoramagazine.org/join-the-co…

Join the conversation - Fedora Magazine

The Fedora community invites you to join the conversation and help to advance the Fedora Project and free software in general.

^{Gregory Bartholomew (Fedora Project)}

Unfiltered Flathub is approved to be provided as a third party repo you can enable for Fedora 38! In the next release, if you enable Flathub as a third party repo, you will get everything on Flathub and not just the Fedora Flatpaks.
#Fedora #Flatpak #Linux

Proposal: fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes…
Approval: pagure.io/fesco/issue/2939