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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
Tusky : some stats 📜
- App overall translation : 63%
- Being translated to : 64 languages
- Some quick numbers on the attached media, provided by Weblate.
You are welcome 🤗 if you want to contribute to translate Tusky : weblate.tusky.app/engage/tusky…
Yeah, we need contributors from Finland 😉
#Tusky #Translation #l10n #i18n #localization #FLOSS
Get involved in Tusky!
Tusky is being translated into 64 languages using Weblate. Join the translation or start translating your own project.Weblate
The #EuropeanCommission is finally considering whether "#OpenSource software (#OSS)…can be used as a foundation for developing the new #publishing platform" for EC-funded #OpenAccess research.
op.europa.eu/en/publication-de…
Unfortunately, the new software would merely "underpin" #OpenResearchEurope (#ORE), not replace it. ORE is proprietary software owned by #TaylorAndFrancis. When the EC called for bids on ORE, it did not require open code despite many calls to do so.
Analysis of the requirements for the Open Source infrastructure of the Open Research Europe Publishing Platform.
Open Research Europe (ORE) is the peer-reviewed open-access publishing platform of the European Commission. It follows the post-publication peer review model to promote scientific transparency and reuse.Publications Office of the EU
How do open source projects get things done? How do they retain contributors, attract users, and make technical decisions? All this (and more!) falls under the auspice of "governance". Shauna Gordon-McKeon explores the power and potential in being thoughtful your project's governance, and how expanding your view of what governance entails can create a virtuous cycle.
#OpenSource #FLOSS #Governance
opensourcestories.org/stories/…
Rethinking the meaning of governance with Shauna Gordon-McKeon
In a conversation looking at multiple meanings of open source governance and project health, Shauna Gordon-McKeon shares with Open Source Stories views of how investing in project culture can build virtuous cycles of inclusion and contribution.Open Source Stories
New blog post: harihareswara.net/posts/2023/s… Set Contributor Expectations To Reduce Ghosting
It's frustrating when a new #opensource contributor vanishes. You can reduce how frequently that happens:
* Understand why they ghost
* Articulate your vision
* Set expectations in the contributors' guide, & in auto-replies/boilerplate replies
* Prioritize quick first-level reviews
* Follow up with "resources if you're stuck" checkins
* Build safeguards against cookie-licking
#maintainers #FLOSS #maintenance
Set Contributor Expectations To Reduce Ghosting
Let's say you're a maintainer who's just received a new contribution. A new contributor has submitted a patch/pull request.Cogito, Ergo Sumana
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!
#Fedora #Linux #OpenSource #FOSS #FLOSS
The focus on Freedom and taking control of your data is also imperative to #LabPlot, an open source Data Analysis and Visualization software.
It supports multiple file formats and the ODS import support will be added in the next release 
➡️ invent.kde.org/education/labpl…
#LibreOffice #DataViz #Plotting #FLOSS #FOSS #OpenSource
#DataScience #Spreadsheet #Calc #ODS
Ods import support (!369) · Merge requests · Education / LabPlot · GitLab
Description Support importing ODS (Open Document Standard) files produced by Calc, etc. ConformityGitLab
The combination of rapidly-improving technologies like GNOME, Flatpak, Wayland, and Portals also means our active privacy protections are also better than ever before.
I went on to write:
>If and when we are able to develop an open, peer reviewed, industry-respected method of responsible and privacy-first telemetry, we may consider doing so.
While that post was in the context of elementary OS, I believe every word I wrote.
#Privacy #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #FOSS #FLOSS #GNOME #Flatpak
I’ve spent a long, long time thinking about ethical software, the challenges we *necessarily* give ourselves compared to closed competitors, and crucially, how to overcome those challenges.
Four and a half years ago, I wrote:
>respecting your privacy is the ethical thing to do; users have a fundamental right to the utmost privacy, even from companies and products they trust.
That’s as true as ever.
cassidyjames.com/blog/privacy-…
#Privacy #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #FOSS #FLOSS
Privacy and elementary OS ⋅ Cassidy James Blaede
How we protect your data from ourselves and otherscassidyjames.com
Read my colleague @wjt’s post covering the privacy-first system we have built into @EndlessOS, how it fits together, and why it exists.
blogs.gnome.org/wjjt/2023/07/0…
I hope this can serve as the beginning of the ecosystem coming together to solve this unique challenge in a way that is objectively superior than any proprietary system—all with privacy as the fundamental principle.
What a beautiful story of #OpenSource #FOSS #FLOSS #software from #ABC news from Kristine Taylor and Susan Chenery - @kristineataylor@twitter.com and @chenery3@twitter.com - Jamie Teh - @jcsteh and Mick Curran - @md_curran@twitter.com, who both live with #blindness, created #NVDA software which is a desktop #ScreenReader - and continue to give it away for free.
abc.net.au/news/2023-06-05/mic…
Get the software here on @github github.com/nvaccess/nvda
#a11y
How friendship between NVDA founders Mick Curran and Jamie Teh is changing lives for thousands of blind people
Mick and Jamie have been mates for almost three decades and have worked on a project with one goal in mind — to ensure everyone can use a computer.Kristine Taylor (ABC News)
This is your irregular reminder #Adobe are fucking dicks:
vice.com/en/article/a3xk3p/ado…
> Adobe Tells Users They Can Get Sued for Using Old Versions of Photoshop
We need #FLOSS tools to get to the point where they can replace Adobe tools. Open alternatives are great, but they are sadly not there yet to replace Adobe tools for professionals.
And won't be unless projects like @inkscape get enough funding to develop to a point of being viable alternatives.
Yes, it is in no small part about the money.
Adobe Tells Users They Can Get Sued for Using Old Versions of Photoshop
"You are no longer licensed to use the software," Adobe told them.Karl Bode (VICE)
Alex Hollender's retrospective on a recent Wikipedia redesign
alexhollender.com/wikipedia-20…
reminded me of a post I wrote in 2019: Design, and Friction Preventing Design Improvement, in Open Tech
harihareswara.net/posts/2019/d…
On:
those exceptional #FLOSS projects that aren't developer tools, and are robust, & have high-quality user experience
problems & approaches in product management + #UX #design in #opensource, and people already working on it
Wikimedia & design pushback specifically
Hello Fediverse 😀
We are starting this account for Qt Project related communication, events, and many more things.
Did you know that there is a simple page that gives you the instructions to contribute to Qt? and also you can get some nice plots to see the activity on all the repositories!
We used this for teaching statistics (#rstats). Students should find out if there are gender differences by counting male vs. female contributors. There were significantly more men in our sample. Bad for unbiased #AI! If more use such projects, we can also grow the open datasets faster and fairer. #genderinequality
Alright, my open sourcerors and glitch witches: I need your help 
@tidelift – my employer whose rallying cry is Pay The Maintainers! – has launched its second ever Open Source Maintainer Survey.
If you're a maintainer, can you boost and take a few minutes to complete the ~15min survey?
If you're maintainer-adjacent, boosts appreciated!
blog.tidelift.com/take-the-202… #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #FLOSS #PayTheMaintainers #Maintainers
Take the 2023 open source maintainer survey!
The Tidelift 2023 maintainer survey aims to provide insights about the experiences of open source maintainers and the issues and challenges in the open source ecosystem.Lyn Muldrow (Tidelift)
40k users, 50k projects. We're providing service to so many, this was unbelievable four years ago when #Codeberg was founded.
Thank you for supporting our mission. Together we fight the monopoly of proprietary platforms, and work towards a future where websites are hosted by non-profit associations and federate with each other.
Learn how to help: docs.codeberg.org/improving-co…
Big thanks to: #Gitea + #Forgejo, #Debian #GNU/#Linux and all these nice people in the #FLOSS community. You rock! 💙
Tired of your weather app violating your privacy, e.g. by instantly collecting your location data?
Worried because it has tracking software included?
You may try out the privacy-friendly #TinyWeatherForecastGermany , available at #fdroid 
:
f-droid.org/packages/de.kaffee…
This is a #floss #android #weather #app using precise and detailed #opendata from the #dwd (Deutscher Wetterdienst).
Supports #forecasts for over 5000 places worldwide, a rain radar and weather warnings for Germany.
Tiny Weather Forecast Germany | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository
Weather forecast based on open data from the Deutscher Wetterdienst.f-droid.org
And its happening in Germany too after France banned it last week! #Microsoft355 has finally been banned from schools!
bestofprivacy.com/eu/germany-f…
Germany Forces a Microsoft 365 Ban Due to Privacy Concerns
The central German state of Hesse’s local Data Protection Authority (DPA) has banned the use of Microsoft 365 in its schools, citing concerns over privacy violations.Vuk Mujovic (Best of Privacy)
Need help migrating off Phabricator?
Open Tech Strategies can help you migrate off of Phabricator now that it has reached end-of-life. We developed Forgerie, an open source tool that aids in migration between code forges. Forgerie ext…Open Tech Strategies | Blog
Karrot is a free open source online platform for organising community volunteering and initiatives such as food sharing etc. You can follow at:
➡️ @karrot
To use Karrot, you can join an existing Karrot-powered site or start your own.
There's a flagship Karrot site at karrot.world with many existing community groups on it.
If you want to start your own site, you can get the code at github.com/karrot-dev
#Karrot #Community #Activism #NGOs #CoOp #FOSS #FLOSS #Libre #FreeSoftware
Karrot Dev
Start a group, become a community. Karrot Dev has 26 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.GitHub
The free open source email & comms app Thunderbird now has official accounts on both Mastodon and PeerTube. You can follow these at:
➡️ @thunderbird (main account)
➡️ @thunderbird@tilvids.com (videos)
If the videos aren't visible from your server yet, you can see them all at tilvids.com/a/thunderbird/vide…
Thunderbird is available for Linux, Mac and Windows from thunderbird.net
#Thunderbird #EMail #FOSS #FLOSS #Libre #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #Apps #Productivity #Office #Videos #Computing #RSS #XMPP
Thunderbird
The Thunderbird Project is a family of free & open-source email software and productivity solutions for managing your personal and professional communications. Available on Linux, macOS and Windows. Coming soon to Android.TILvids
AntennaPod is a free open source podcast manager app for Android devices. You can follow at:
➡️ @AntennaPod
There's more info on the website at antennapod.org
It's available through @fdroidorg and Google Play.
#AntennaPod #Podcast #Podcasts #Podcasting #FOSS #FLOSS #Libre #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #Apps #Android
AntennaPod – The Open Podcast Player
AntennaPod is a podcast player that is completely open. The app is open-source and you can subscribe to any RSS feed. AntennaPod is built by volunteers without commercial intere...AntennaPod
Bitwarden is a free open source password manager for computers and mobile devices. You can follow their official accounts at:
➡️ @bitwarden@fosstodon.org (main account)
➡️ @bitwarden@tilvids.com (videos)
➡️ @Bitwarden@pixey.org (photos & clips)
Their website is at bitwarden.com
(New post due to additional official accounts)
#BitWarden #FOSS #FLOSS #Libre #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #Password #Passwords #PasswordManager #Business #Productivity #Office #Apps
Bitwarden Open Source Password Manager | Bitwarden
Bitwarden is an integrated open source password management solution for individuals, teams, and business organizationsbitwarden.com
v0.21.0 · World / Phosh / phoc · GitLab
This version requires wlroots 0.15.1, breaks phosh older than 0.20.0~beta2 and recommends following wlroots patches: seat: Allow to...GitLab
Darktable is a free open source raw photo processing app for Linux, Mac and Windows, sort of a libre alternative to Adobe's Lightroom.
You can follow at:
➡️ @darktable
You can download it from the project's website at darktable.org
#DarkTable #Photography #Photos #Raw #Camera #Developer #Development #FOSS #FLOSS #Libre #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #LightRoom #Adobe #Alternatives
Did you know that #Canada is taking comments on the importance of #FreeSoftware?
I certainly didn't. open.canada.ca/en/open_source_…
#FOSS #FLOSS #OpenSource #OpenGovernance #OpenGov
Open Source Software | Open Government, Government of Canada
The government of Canada (GOC) produces more software (aka. applications, code, computer programs, scripts…) then you might think. All the data recently published on Data.gc.open.canada.ca
Podcast release - Adrian Cochrane [Audio Interview]
DRM Media + Browsers + WWW Redesign + Other Technology...
freeschool.0id.org/drm-media-a…
#Podcast #Tech #Audio #OpenSource #FOSS #FLOSS #Decentralised #Software #FSF #Design #DefectiveByDesign
#LibrePlanet #2022 #Talk #Artificial #Scarcity
UnifiedPush is a set of specifications and free open source tools to help users get more control over how their phone's (or computers's) notifications are handled. You can follow the project at:
➡️ @unifiedpush
The project website is at unifiedpush.org
There are options for self-hosting notification systems if needed.
#UnifiedPush #Notifications #PushNotifications #FOSS #FLOSS #Libre #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #Smartphones #Phones #Smartphone #Phone #Dev #SelfHosting #Computing
UnifiedPush
UnifiedPush is a set of specifications and tools that lets the user choose how push notifications* are delivered. All in a free and open source way.unifiedpush.org
MoeNavigator development can continue after I finally found the source of the memory leaks in the browser engine. They were caused by an abstract class that didn't have a virtual destructor, causing undefined behavior. With that big problem out of the way, version 0.0.1 of the engine may soon be released, followed by version 0.1 of MoeNavigator. There are only a few tasks left before the release:
codeberg.org/moenavigator/moen…
#MoeNavigator #Browser #WebBrowser #FLOSS #Software #Development
moenavigator
MoeNavigator is an attempt to write a web browser that is highly configurable, secure, anonymous and fast.Codeberg.org
I'm Sumana Harihareswara, a woman in #NYC New York City. I have a consultancy changeset.nyc, Changeset Consulting and provide short-term project management services for #freesoftware #FLOSS #opensource projects. I'm writing a book on maintainership skills and have accidentally developed expertise in #Python packaging tools.
I'm married, a stand-up comedian & fanvidder, a frequent poster on #MetaFilter & #Dreamwidth, Indian-American. Just moved from mastodon.social!
Changeset - Changeset Consulting
Bringing new life to the open source projects you depend on.changeset.nyc
The Fediverse has a podcasting platform called @Castopod which has accounts that can be followed from Mastodon etc. People can also comment, like or share individual episodes. More info at:
It has just moved out of alpha testing into beta testing, with a new interface and lots of new features.
Podcasts can also (of course!) be followed through RSS instead, if you prefer.
#CastoPod #Podcasting #Podcasts #Podcast #Fediverse #FediTips #ActivityPub #FOSS #FLOSS #Libre #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #RSS
Castopod | Your Free & Open-source Podcast Host
Castopod is a free and open-source hosting platform made for podcasters. Engage and interact with your audience whilst keeping control over your content.castopod.org