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.
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.
Calling all #LibreOffice users: Power up ⚡ and become a LibreOffice contributor, like Adam Seskunas! Learn new skills, build a portfolio of experience, and have fun on the way: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource
Tell us a bit about yourself! My name is Adam Seskunas and I currently live in San Diego, California. In my free time I enjoy outdoor activities, hiking, backpacking in the Sierra, rock climbing and surfing with my daughter Sofia.
‼️ This week's Dev update highlights the ongoing work to enhance Jami's reliability and user experience. 👀 Read more about the progress on mobile testing, bug fixes, and UI improvements for both Jami and JAMS.
We hear you: it IS frustrating that Thunderbird doesn't have a proper conversation view! It's finally time to answer WHY, and explain what we're doing to solve it.
It's a great question. And a frustrating situation. Why doesn't Thunderbird have a proper threaded view that includes your SENT messages? Alex explains the blocker, and what we're doing to solve it.
Today, at Open Forum Europe Capital Series, our @EC_DIGIT_director_general Veronica Gaffey, talked about our goal - increasing the maturity of open source in Commission.
"Many #OpenSource project have sizeable European communities. If we collaborate, Europe can remain at the forefront of open source."
I am getting tired of reading about the #xz #security issue as if it is all about issues within #opensource. It is much bigger than that, and those takes conflate the problem with the solution.
You’ve probably heard of the recent backdoor in xz. There have been a lot of takes on this, most of them boiling down to some version of: The problem here is with Open Source Software. I want…
Das Kabinett hat den Startschuss für den Umstieg auf freie Software gegeben - ein Gewinn für #IT-Sicherheit, #Datenschutz und die heimische Digitalwirtschaft.
Langfristiges Ziel ist die vollständige digitale Souveränität des Landes.
Question! Why should local governments use taxpayers’ money to buy proprietary, closed software from a single vendor? And what happens to citizens' data? A solution is to move to free and open source software like #Linux and #LibreOffice – which is exactly what Schleswig-Holstein is doing: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource #privacy
Following a successful pilot project, the northern German federal state of Schleswig-Holstein has decided to move from Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office to Linux and LibreOffice (and other free and open source software) on the 30,000 PCs used in…
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I think the #xz incident is teaching us that our infrastructure is dangerously fragile in the face of well-organized/funded attackers. The response isn’t “try harder” or “donate to your OSS project”, it needs to be institutional, professional, and at scale.
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 March by announcing the new Board of Directors at The Document Foundation, the non-profit entity behind…
Stuff I already wrote that other people might be open to reading this week, because of the #xz incident:
harihareswara.net/posts/2021/s… Four Non-Dev Ways To Support Your Upstreams (Pass this along to executives who are asking "how can we prevent this in our dependencies?")
This is the textual version of my June 7 2021 online talk at Upstream Live: "Sidestepping the PR Bottleneck: Four Non-Dev Ways To Support Your Upstreams", 23 minutes. Video is now up.
I know this is not directly related to the recent Chinese (?) backdoor, but the XZ format has all kind of problems and I personally avoid using it. Having a better compression ratio is not a reason to prefer XZ, IMHO. See nongnu.org/lzip/xz_inadequate.… #gnulinux #opensource #Debian
🚨 ⚠️ 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)
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.
In true open source, the software is open to everyone on the same, neutral terms. If you are in need of an #opensource in-memory, key-value data store, check out Valkey, a community-driven fork of the Redis codebase by the former community contributors.
Community maintainers, contributors, and users will continue collaborative development of an open source, in-memory data store under the new Valkey name.
Today we're releasing #LibreOffice 24.2.2, the second update to our new 24.2 branch (with "year.month" version scheme). We've also updated the previous and older LibreOffice 7.6 branch too: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #opensource #news
Community Office Hours start in ONE hour at 17:00 UTC! Today's format is Open Forum and FAQs, so bring your questions and comments and we'll bring the team! Find out how to join in the blog post: blog.thunderbird.net/2024/03/m…
If you're an #opensource maintainer seeking a good task to give a less-skilled new contributor, ask them to do a discovery report on the project, such as:
Starting from scratch, try to get a local installation up and running, and note how long it took.
Take an hour to explore our documentation and fora, and tell us your impressions.
Given a demo install, try these common user tasks.
Arguably the largest photo contest on the African continent aimed at highlighting the richness, diversity and beauty of Africa which deserves to be visually celebrated […]\n
It's time for our Community Office Hours this Wednesday March 27 at 17:00 UTC and the topics are up to you! We'll answer live questions, questions sent to officehours@thunderbird.net, and some of the questions we heard most at SCaLE! 🤔 🐧
Find out how to join us in the blog, and note the shift in day and in UTC! Silly spring time changes. 🗓️ ⏰
Download as MP3 On this week’s episode, we have a special guest joining us to discuss his work with making our lives better in Linux audio. Of course, this...
#LibreOffice isn't just a piece of software – it's a worldwide community, working on #UX, #QA, marketing, documentation and translations. And thanks to that community, we now have a Czech version of the LibreOffice Writer Guide 24.2 🥰 blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #opensource
Zdeněk Crhonek (aka “raal”) from the Czech LibreOffice community writes: The Czech team has finished translating the LibrePffice Writer Guide 24.2. As usual it was a team effort, with translations by Petr Kuběj, Radomír Strnad and Zdeněk Crhonek.
Noch eine Woche: Bewerbt euch noch bis nächsten Sonntag, 31.03. um 23:59 Uhr auf 47.500€ Förderung für euer #OpenSource Softwareprojekt. Keine Sorge: Für unseren Bewerbungsprozess braucht ihr kein Jurastudium, sondern müsst nur elf einfache Fragen beantworten. Los gehts!
NetHSM – A hardware security module with open hardware and open source code: «Unlike proprietary HSM products, NetHSM is the first HSM available as open source, which enables independent security audits, easy customization and avoids vendor lock-in. Only open source allows to verify the absence of back doors.» nitrokey.com/products/nethsm #HSM #OpenSource #OpenHardware #Security
4 years ago we began helping the non-profit @gnome promote their #opensource desktop software with short animated videos. The production window is often tight, but we try to have fun. This one went live today. Enjoy! 🍿
That's great news! Pekko was created as a Fork of Akka 2.6, right after Lightbend chose to pull a bait-and-switch by relicensing Akka to a non-FOSS license.
I have already switched to Pekko a few months ago, it went very smooth, and I am grateful to everybody involved in making this happen.
Cheers to 20 years of innovation, collaboration, and community at the Eclipse Foundation! Join us in celebrating our community's journey. #EclipseFdn #opensourcehubs.la/Q02h2lXw0
Cheers to two decades of innovation, collaboration, and community. Join us in celebrating our community's journey by looking back at a few of the big moments...
