Today is #ilovefs Day and it is time to show your gratitude to all #FreeSoftware contributors around the world. Today, I wanna say #ThankYou to @mastodeck, you make the Mastodon experience so much easier and accessible ❣
🇺🇳 Some folks have asked how our efforts are going helping governments be good open source citizens as they leverage free software to provide public services.
🎉 The answer is: Things are going very well, and they're getting better every week.
📋 With 4 months until UN Open Source week, here's a current update from our UNDP team:
One week ago, we announced LibreOffice 25.2, our brand new major release. It’s packed with new features, and has many improvements to compatibility and performance too.
New in #LibreOffice 25.2, our latest major update: Hovering the mouse over a heading in the Navigator displays a tooltip showing the word and character count of the content associated with it. #foss #opensource #freesoftware
#Prav project started 3 years ago with the goal of mass adoption of private messaging powered by #XMPP and democratic decision-making. The project was inspired by #Quicksy and #Snikket.
#LibreOffice #foss #opensource #freesoftware I have a serious question. Will LibreOffice ever be a product with batteries included regarding grammar and spell check on a high level? I know that we have a very good spell checking, but I was wondering if there's ever something planned to have a really working grammar and style checking tool like languagetool out of the box.
The new major release provides many user interface and accessibility improvements, plus the usual interoperability features Berlin, 6 February 2025 – LibreOffice 25.
Really? You had no problems with having debconf hosted in the Zionist state. You even refer to that illegal entity by the name "Israel". Does the Debian project have the same values as the Zionist state? I understand a free software project not wanting to be on a proprietary platform, but this is ridiculous.
The histogram says it all. First, rapid growth between 2011 and 2014 to 30 million downloads, despite the fierce hostility of the project created to kill LibreOffice.
LibreOffice 25.2 – our next major release – is due to arrive next week! But while you’re waiting, here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last four weeks: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #opensource #freesoftware
LibreOffice 25.2 – our next major release – is due to arrive next week! But while you’re waiting, 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 2025 …
Dear @thunderbird : I want exactly zero notifications for me and for the desktop users I support using the upcoming #Thunderbird 134 when it's released.
Will there be an easy option to disable all such notifications ?
Don't get locked out of your own data in future! Use open, standardised formats – like the Open Document Format used in LibreOffice. Learn more on Document Freedom Day, March 26: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #opensource #freesoftware
Every year, on the last Wednesday of March, advocates of free and open technologies come together to celebrate Document Freedom Day (DFD). In 2025, the Document Freedom Day will happen on March 26, and will be driven by the LibreOffice community.
Free office suite – the evolution of OpenOffice. Compatible with Microsoft .doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsx, .ppt, .pptx. Updated regularly, community powered.
LibreOffice 25.2 will be released as final at the beginning of February, 2025 ( Check the Release Plan ) being LibreOffice 25.2 Release Candidate 2 (RC2) the forth and last pre-release since the development of version 25.2 started in mid Juny, 2024.
Pixelfed exists today because of @nlnet's vital support since 2019.
Their grants helped build our ethical photo-sharing platform from the ground up.
The EU must continue funding #FreeSoftware projects, as we have proven, they can be hugely popular and shift the control back to the people, where it belongs.
LibreOffice guidebooks are available in many different languages, thanks to our worldwide community of translators 😊 The Czech-speaking team just released the Getting Started Guide 24.8: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource #freesoftware
Zdeněk Crhonek (aka “raal”) from the Czech LibreOffice community writes: The Czech team has finished its translation of the LibreOffice Getting Started guide 24.8.
Dione Maddern and The Documentation Team are proud to announce the immediate availability of the LibreOffice Calc Guide 24.8, an update of the existing Calc Guide 24.2 with enhancements taken from the current LibreOffice 24.8 Calc module.
We're into a fresh new year, but here's a quick look at what the #LibreOffice development and QA community did in December! Including simplified dialog boxes, a better dark mode, and text effect improvements: qa.blog.documentfoundation.org… #foss #opensource #freesoftware
General Activities LibreOffice 24.8.4 was announced on December 19 Olivier Hallot (TDF) improved the warning in Help when JavaScript is not active and did many cleanups in help pages Dione Maddern created a help page for Alignment Sidebar deck Alain …
I wanted to give back to the #FreeSoftware community, and the Conservancy staff and contractors who supported me. So I made an embroidery of Conservancy's logo for our fundraiser.
The top donor to Conservancy's fundraiser (from Monday, Jan 6 until AOE Wednesday, Jan 8) will receive my embroidery.
If you can only afford to give a little, we appreciate any support you can give!
If the top donor doesn't want the embroidery, a random donor to Conservancy's fundraiser will receive the embroidery. The random donor will be picked from anyone who donated from the start of Conservancy's fundraiser in November until AOE Wednesday, January 8.
If my journey inspires you, please donate to Conservancy's fundraiser:
I spent most of 2024 recovering from a spine injury after a car accident. I’d love to share my new insight into free software accessibility, and how both free software and embroidery helped me build resiliency.
Sie wurden zu SFC End of Year Q&A über BigBlueButton zur Teilnahme eingeladen. Um beizutreten, klicken Sie auf den obigen Link und geben Sie Ihren Namen ein.
LibreOffice 25.2 will be released as final at the beginning of February, 2025 ( Check the Release Plan ) being LibreOffice 25.2 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) the third pre-release since the development of version 25.2 started in mid Juny, 2024.
We are heading towards completion of another milestone 😃
Thanks to @VishnuSanal, #Prav is on Google Play Store now. It requires a 2-week testing period before being open to public downloads. Right now, only authorized testers can test it.
If you are interested in testing, please share your Gmail address with us.
On the other hand, the app is free to download from #Fdroid. Please remember that the service is still in public beta.
This initiative promotes innovation based on freedom of software, hardware, and data.
With its recent conclusion, the FSFE hopes to inspire broader use and effective application of #freesoftware by business, academia, and the public sector.
The ZOOOM (3Os) Initiative promotes innovation based on freedom of software, hardware, and data. With its recent conclusion, the FSFE hopes to inspire broa...
Berlin, 19 December 2024 – LibreOffice 24.8.4, the fourth minor release of the LibreOffice 24.8 family of the free open source, volunteer-supported office suite for Windows (Intel, AMD and ARM), MacOS (Apple and Intel) and Linux, is available at www.
$ pip3 search something ... RuntimeError: PyPI no longer supports 'pip search' [...]. Please use pypi.org/search (via a browser) instead. [...]
Sure, no problem. Let's see …
»JavaScript is disabled in your browser. Please enable JavaScript to proceed.«
Urgh, but okay, #pip is a #Python package manager, they're good guys. Let me just open #NoScript and temporarily allow pypi.org ... oh no, it wants to run #JavaScript from …
@IzzyOnDroid @SylvieLorxu I would be happy to see your repo become #FreeSoftware! As you well know, F-Droid only endorses verifiable free software projects.
It is also great to see all your work on #ReproducibleBuilds. We are continuing to build upon our years of effort there. Our approach is focused on identifying issues and getting things fixed upstream as much as possible. Then devs do not need to use any special tools to achieve reproducible builds.
We're starting a sprint to look at all the issues preventing #ReproducibleBuilds in all the apps we ship. Most of the issues are simple fixes in the upstream code, like unsorted outputs or timestamps included in the build. You can help make the #FreeSoftware #Android ecosystem be more reproducible! See the failures here and help us report them upstream: verification.f-droid.org/faile…
The 2022 tech layoffs were 70% women. BIPOC, queer, and disabled workers were also terminated at higher rates.
While we can't prevent corporate layoffs, we can ensure the future of the free and open source community is more diverse and inclusive. Outreachy and Conservancy are vital to that future.
@outreachy connects people who face discrimination and systemic bias to internships in free and open source software. @conservancy staff and contractors run Outreachy.
Outreachy corporate sponsorships and grants have been drastically reduced since 2022. This means Outreachy can't offer as many internships to people who face discrimination and systemic bias in tech. Outreachy's normal 60 to 70 intern cohorts have been reduced to 25 to 35 interns.
Please consider donating to the Conservancy fundraiser, in support of Outreachy and the diverse and inclusive future FOSS needs:
Last time we raised funds to add offline messaging support to #bifrost bridge, which connects #matrix and #xmpp. Now we need to raise some funds again to adapt the bridge to support recent changes in how media is shared in matrix. Please contribute opencollective.com/bifrost-med… #FreeSoftware Once we have some funds, we hope this will motivate someone to fix the bridge. You can also join xmpp:bifrost-mam@groups.podder… if you like to help.
Our Czech community provides insights from the LinuxDays 2024 conference, which took place over the weekend of 12 – 13 October in Prague: At the LibreOffice booth, there was a very large group of people (with a few exceptions) of satisfied LibreOffic…
Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last four weeks – click the links to learn more… The main theme of November was the Month of LibreOffice, saying thanks for community contributions all across the …
Some folks have asked how our efforts are going helping governments be good open source citizens as they leverage free software to provide public services.
RIP #GNOME logo ... we barely knew ya. 1997-2025
hopes to inspire broader use and effective application of #freesoftware by business, academia, and the public sector.
