🌀 "State of the Shell"
with core Shell & Mutter devs at #GUADEC2025
📅 25 July 🕒 10:35 CEST 📍 Brescia

🚀 Yearly update time! Join Carlos, Florian, Georges, Jonas, Philip & Sebastian for a look at what’s new—and what’s next—in GNOME Shell.

🔗 events.gnome.org/event/259/con…

#GNOME #Shell #Mutter #Wayland #FOSS

Does this resonate with folks here?

Open source contribution is part of our delivery pipeline. It’s not something we do instead of client work—it’s how we do client work better.

#OpenSource #FOSS #FreeSoftware

Thank you Arm for being a Bronze sponsor of #GUADEC2025! 🧡

Arm has taken the lead in collaborating with standards-based and open-source communities throughout their history. From Linux to GNU, and from SOAFEE to Open SSL, their commitment to #OpenSource continues to expand.

Visit their website to know more: arm.com/

#sponsor #foss #linux

Powering the Future of AI Compute

From cloud to edge, Arm provides the compute platforms behind today’s most advanced AI, trusted by innovators worldwide.

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Thank you Igalia for being a Bronze sponsor of #GUADEC2025! 🧡

Igalia is a dynamic and highly specialised open source consultancy. Their engineers have expertise in a wide range of technologies from every layer of the software stack and years of experience contributing to open source projects and communities.

Visit their website to know more: igalia.com/

#sponsor #foss #linux

Igalia - Open Source Consultancy and Development

Igalia is an open source consultancy specialised in the development of innovative projects and solutions.

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🧪 "Let's build an openQA testsuite, from scratch"
with Sam Thursfield at #GUADEC2025
📅 25 July 🕒 09:40 CEST 📍 Brescia

🖥️ Sam shows how to set up openQA + GitLab CI to test GNOME apps visually—step by step.

🔗 events.gnome.org/event/259/con…

#GNOME #openQA #Testing #CI #FOSS

🗂️ "Getting Things Done In GNOME"
with @ebassi at #GUADEC2025
📅 25 July 🕒 09:40 CEST 📍 Brescia

📋 GNOME has governance—you just have to be in the room. Emmanuele looks at how it works today, and how it could evolve.

🔗 events.gnome.org/event/259/con…

#GNOME #Governance #OpenSource #FOSS

🎂 Happy Birthday, Slackware!

On this day in 1993, Patrick Volkerding released Slackware 1.0, the oldest Linux distro still maintained!
Still simple, still solid, still Slackware.

Read the original announcement: slackware.com/announce/1.0.php

#Slackware #Linux #FOSS #HappyBirthdaySlackware

This is awsome! @bagder gives a keynote at #froscon 💚😎

#curl #foss #froscon

froscon.org/news/2025-keynote-…

📦 "cpak: an OCI-compliant packaging for IoT & Desktop"
with @mirkobrombin #GUADEC2025
📅 24 July 🕒 15:10 CEST 📍 Brescia

🧱 Daemon-free, portal-free packaging—cpak is a modern way to ship apps for IoT, servers & the Linux desktop.

🔗 events.gnome.org/event/259/ses…
#cpak #Linux #Packaging #OCI #FOSS

🐍 "The State of Python in GNOME"
with Dan Yeaw at #GUADEC2025
📅 24 July 🕒 14:15 CEST 📍 Brescia

⚙️ AsyncIO, girepository 2.0, real progress for Python in GNOME. Dan shows what’s new—and how to get involved.

🔗 events.gnome.org/event/259/con…

#Python #GNOME #PyGObject #FOSS

🧱 "The state of GTK"
with Matthias Clasen at #GUADEC2025
📅 24 July 🕒 14:15 CEST 📍 Brescia

🎯 What's new in GTK? Color mgmt, Android, text rendering & more—plus what’s next for devs & contributors.

🔗 events.gnome.org/event/259/con…

#GTK #GNOME #Linux #FOSS

We’re proud to support @HowTheyVoteEU with our open source donation for their important work: making EU politics more transparent for everyone.

🔎💌 Open source + transparency = a perfect match!

👉 Learn more about this inspiring project & our support for open source: tuta.com/blog/open-source-spot…

#opensource #EU #Democracy #Privacy #Email #FOSS #Tuta

NVDA 2025.2 Beta 3 is now available for testing: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2025-2b…

Changes introduced in Beta 3:
- Added a WASAPI toggle to SAPI5.
- Added a confirmation dialog to update root certificates when downloading add-ons.
- When using NVDA Remote Access, speech from User Account Control screens on the remote computer now works reliably.
- Updates to translations.

#NVDA #NVDAsr #Beta #PreRelease #News #Update #Software #FLOSS #FOSS

Ever since I switched to #GNU #Linux in my private life, using #Windows at work gives me near-daily headaches. I have full admin rights, yet I constantly fight the system: forced updates, inconsistent behavior, sluggish UI, weird errors buried in the registry.

I used to think this was just how #computers worked. But after experiencing the #freedom and clarity of #FOSS, Windows feels more like an obstacle than a tool.

Going back feels wrong.

#os #opensource #free #arch

It's another End Of 10 Challenge 🖖

Supporters are invited to do a simple task to further the campaign goals.

This time's challenge … 🚀

Locate the bug tracker 🐞 of an app you use, and learn how to submit a bug report 🐝 for the developers.

BONUS ❤️ POINTS: Actually submit a bug report.

BONUS BONUS ❤️❤️ POINTS: Show a friend how to do it too!

Tell us about it in a post. Don't forget hashtag #EO10Challenges

#EndOf10 #FOSS #FLOSS #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #Linux #GNULinux #Windows

Even as a non-developer, I found this well written article of great interest. It explained a few things about #UnifiedPush I wasn't aware of, and has given me better insight into how it functions.

It's clear now that there simply isn't any excuse for developers to use #FCM for notifications. I sincerely hope UnifiedPush will gain traction, not only amongst #FOSS developers, but the Android developer community at large.

It's perhaps worth noting that users of #Conversations (and its forks) already have a distributor included in their client, thus further lowering the bar of entry.

@notnotrachit @daniel @snikket_im

I'd say this is an opportunity for #FOSS maintainers to collaborate taking advantage of. These companies that have been fortunate to earn tons of money by using open software without contributing back, can no longed do that if they want to keep doing business in the EU.

What could be a good EU based FOSS interest group to manage this smartly, collect _fees_ to distribute to maintainer of the used software.

Does @opencollective have an EU presence?

Hey folks. I've noticed #DeltaChat hasn't got a page in #Wikipedia. Do you know sources which would prove its notability so we could create a page for it?

Boosts appreciated. If you don't know sources, someone else might.

#AskFedi #Email #IM #Messenger #chatmail #chatmailrelay #FOSS #opensource #tech #technology #software

This Saturday 5 July 🐧 Linux install parties in #Germany and #France (all times local)! 🚀

* Repair-Café Kahlgrund, Niedersteinbach (#Bayern), 10h30-16h

* ComputerCafe Stuttgart Kaltental, #Stuttgart, 13h-17h30

* Premier Samedi du Libre, #Paris, 14h-18h

For details and more events worldwide: endof10.org/events/

#EndOf10 #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #FOSS #Linux #GNULinux #Windows #Windows10 #Windows11

How do you measure the value of an #OpenSource project?
After all, there's no sales $$ figures you can use.
Here's one way, which was used a decade ago to evaluate good old #httpd project by @TheASF

Good insights on applying MBA school methodologies to #FOSS, shared at last week's Open Source Summit NA #OSSummit
linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:l…

Continuing our volunteer effort to make GNOME Calendar fully accessible with a keyboard (see thread for context), we fixed a major bug that was causing the focus to disappear into the abyss when the user tried to tab into the month view in merge request !576. This means, as of this commit, events should now be completely functional and accessible within the month view. Additionally, the merge request changes the keyboard and focus behavior within the month view: Events can only be cycled using arrow buttons, the focus can't escape the month view with arrow buttons, and entering/exiting the month view can only be done with tab. These improvements will be available on GNOME 49.

#GNOME #Accessibility #a11y #GNOMECalendar #Calendar #FOSS #FreeSoftware #Linux

Improve accessibility with event widgets in the month view (!576) · Merge requests · GNOME / gnome-calendar · GitLab

Calendar application for GNOME

^GitLab

Happy Disability Pride Month everybody :)

During the past few weeks, there's been an overwhelming amount of progress with accessibility on GNOME Calendar:

• Event widgets/popovers will convey to screen readers that they are toggle buttons. They will also convey of their states (whether they're pressed or not) and that they have a popover.

• Calendar rows will convey to screen readers that they are check boxes, along with their states (whether they're checked or not). Additionally, they will no longer require a second press of a tab to get to the next row; one tab will be sufficient.

• Month and year spin buttons are now capable of being interacted with using arrow up/down buttons. They will also convey to screen readers that they are spin buttons, along with their properties (current, minimum, and maximum values). The month spin button will also wrap, where going back a month from January will jump to December, and going to the next month from December will jump to January.

• Events in the agenda view will convey to screen readers of their respective titles and descriptions.

Accessibility on Calendar has progressed to the point where I believe it's safe to say that, as of GNOME 49, Calendar will be usable exclusively with a keyboard, without significant usability friction!

There's still a lot of work to be done in regards to screen readers, for example conveying time appropriately and event descriptions. But really, just 6 months ago, we went from having absolutely no idea where to even begin with accessibility in Calendar — which has been an ongoing issue for literally a decade — to having something workable exclusively with a keyboard and screen reader! :3

Huge thanks to @nekohayo for coordinating the accessibility initiative, especially with keeping the accessibility meta issue updated; Georges Stavracas for single-handedly maintaining GNOME Calendar and reviewing all my merge requests; and @tyrylu for sharing feedback in regards to usability.

All my work so far has been unpaid and voluntary; hundreds of hours were put into developing and testing all the accessibility-related merge requests. I would really appreciate if you could spare a little bit of money to support my work, thank you 🩷

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#Accessibility #a11y #DisabilityPrideMonth #GNOME #GNOMECalendar #GTK #GTK4 #Libadwaita #FreeSoftware #FOSS #OpenSource

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