Alex Hollender's retrospective on a recent Wikipedia redesign
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reminded me of a post I wrote in 2019: Design, and Friction Preventing Design Improvement, in Open Tech
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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
Welcome to the debut episode of the Thunderbird podcast, which we're affectionately calling the ThunderCast!
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#Thunderbird #Podcast #OpenSource #Email #Mozilla
Welcome to the debut episode of the Thunderbird podcast, which we're affectionately calling the ThunderCast! It's an inside look at the making of Thunderbird, alongside community-driven conversations with our friends in the open-source world.share.transistor.fm
We are happy to announce that the #tickets for #fossnorth 2023 are now available.
Get yours here: foss-north.se/2023/tickets.htm…
After several months of hard work, it's a good feeling to be able to say our @fdroidorg board of directors is officially chartered and running, and finally with an official legal entity through Dutch stichting (foundation) Commons Conservancy.
💚 Very humbled to be able to serve in this inaugural group of talented volunteers, and even more excited about helping #FDroid into the future.
f-droid.org/en/2023/03/20/f-dr…
#boostsWelcome #Android #OpenSource #FreeSoftware
THE INTERNET, 20 March 2023 — The global F-Droid community is pleased toannounce that it has officially accepted the merge request to adopt anofficial govern...f-droid.org
🎉 We're growing! Our global #FDroid community is pleased to announce that we now have an official governance plan and a brand-new volunteer Board of Directors. We're excited to work with them to keep improving the leading all #FOSS mobile app catalogue!
f-droid.org/en/2023/03/20/f-dr…
#FreeSoftware #OpenSource #Android
THE INTERNET, 20 March 2023 — The global F-Droid community is pleased toannounce that it has officially accepted the merge request to adopt anofficial govern...f-droid.org
Update. Turns out that John #Deere has been using open code under the #GPL w/o living up to the license. The Software Freedom Conservancy (@conservancy) is calling on it to comply — which would greatly enhance #farmers' #RightToRepair.
sfconservancy.org/blog/2023/ma…
"We…publicly call on John Deere to immediately resolve all of its outstanding GPL violations…by providing complete source code…that the GPL & other copyleft licenses require, to the farmers & others who are entitled to it."
I grew up on a farm. My parents worked hard to grow crops and manage the farm business. My parents also found additional jobs to make ends meet. As farmers have done for millennia, my family used tools to farm.Software Freedom Conservancy
If you're an #iOS #developer, love #opensource, and have a certain passion for email, you should definitely keep an eye on the #Thunderbird careers page!
Within the next few months, we'll be hiring someone to help us lay the groundwork for Thunderbird on iOS. When that career opportunity goes live, we will announce it here.
(So yes, we can 100% confirm we plan to develop an iOS version)
Come work with the Thunderbird team on the most popular open source desktop email client in the world. We are a distributed team comprised of people spread across the globe working on decentralized communication technology based on open standards.Thunderbird
MoonrRay Production Renderer: An open-source, performant, scalable and modern raytracing production renderer used in high-quality feature-film animation and simulation rendering.openmoonray.org
Law enforcement use closed-source "secure" communication tools to catch criminals, but this compromises the privacy of law-abiding users. Exclu, An0m, EncroChat - these all prove why only open source software can be trusted. Read more! 👇
tutanota.com/blog/posts/risks-…
#communication #privacy #lawenforcement #opensourcesoftware #foss #opensource
Only open source software can truly be secure.Tutanota
Salamandra is a radio automation software designed for radio stations that need a simple, easy and stable software for automated broadcasting. - GitHub - ocarolino/SalamandraRadio: Salamandra is ...GitHub
Go Thunderbird! It's great to see an #OpenSource Project with such a long history thrive.
I can't wait to finally have Sync on all my devices.
What about #PgP in the future of k9/Thunderbird for android?
#dev #mobile #k9mail #android #thunderbird #opensource
While K-9 Mail is developed in the open, following its development on GitHub can be somewhat tedious for a casual observer. So we’re trying something new and summarizing the most notable things that happened in the past month as we head down the exciting road to Thunderbird for Android!
blog.thunderbird.net/2023/03/t…
#OpenSource #Thunderbird #Android #K9Mail #Mobile #Dev
As we ramp up our development efforts for Thunderbird on Android, it's time to offer regular progress reports. Here's what's new!Christian Ketterer (The Thunderbird Blog)
NLnet approves new funding for Keyoxide Mobile.Berker (Berker’s Scribbles)
Xfce’s Apps Update for February 2023: Ristretto Gets Printing Support, Orage Gets #Wayland Support, Major Notifications Changes, and Much More 9to5linux.com/xfces-apps-updat…
#Xfce #Linux #OpenSource #FreeSoftware
Xfce’s apps update for February 2023 is here with news about new releases of Thunar, Ristretto, Mousepad, Power Manager, Settings, and more.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
@IzzyOnDroid #opensource at its best:
I recently installed vector pinball from @fdroidorg - great to kill some time, and especially fun because of the sound effects and background music. Out of curiosity I followed the link to the README in it's github repo. In it, the author thanks the guy who added the sound effects and music, who wanted to try out a sound library for android and therefore sought out a silent open source game and created sounds and music for it. He wrote an article about it here: twittering.com/webarchive_arti…
So thanks to this exemplary #FOSS collaboration I'm having a good time, whenever I have a five minute break.
FMOD for Android is like peanut butter and strawberry jam, together for the first time!www.twittering.com
Here's an early look at some fun content we're launching next week!
We're calling it "Meet The Team." It's a series of conversations with each member of the #Thunderbird team, about stuff like:
☑️ When they fell in love with tech or software programming.
☑️ What attracted them to #OpenSource.
☑️ What their day-to-day looks like hacking on Thunderbird
☑️ And whatever else we decide to ask them and they're willing to answer!
We'll start with @alecaddd's origin story... Stay tuned for more!
🕵️♂️ Today, the Open Source Programme Office (@EC_OSPO) held a Secrets Management Hackaton for the developers from the 🇪🇺 Commission.
The goal was to remove secrets from the internal projects' codes so that more 🇪🇺 projects can become #opensource and be shared on code.europa.eu.
This is the project for the readme file and guidelines of code.europa.euGitLab
Set content descriptions and other tweaks where it makes sense so the app is usefull for screen reader users. Visually disabled and blind people are likelly to enjoy using modern audio recording ap...GitHub
Uno de los movimientos más inteligentes que he hecho es poner mi computadora de escritorio en #xalapa en una red local virtual con mi laptop.
Ahorita donde estoy no tengo suficiente internet para subir una imagen de contenedor al registro, pero puedo conectarme a la de escritorio y construir y subir el contenedor desde ahí.
El software que uso para eso se llama #nebula nebula.defined.net/docs/
Nebula is an overlay networking tool designed to be fast, secure, and scalable. Connect any number of hosts withnebula.defined.net
The Call for Participation for #GUADEC2023 is now open!
More information about this year's #GUADEC, including topic ideas and where to submit your proposal, can be found at: foundation.gnome.org/2023/02/2…
All proposals must be submitted by March 27.
#CfP #callforpapers #opensource
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy, freedom, and securityPurism SPC
Standard Library. Contribute to zloirock/core-js development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
If anyone can help, the maintenance burden of this project is starting to weigh on me. I don't want to give it up, but without more help I may have no other option.
github.com/AndrewFeeney/all-po…
A list of all positive integers in ascending order (incomplete) - GitHub - AndrewFeeney/all-positive-integers-in-ascending-order: A list of all positive integers in ascending order (incomplete)GitHub
#Opensource funding challenge:
Go into your main project and, assuming it uses #npm, run “npm fund”
Pick 5 projects that don’t seem well-funded, and donate to them
Just did so (admittedly using “npm fund” for the first time), donating a little to @ljharb, @sindresorhus, @fb55@twitter.com, @paulmillr, and @wooorm
(Consider boosting to encourage more contributions)
a quando una alpha disponibile per i test su linux?
Here's one of the lesser known ancient Chinese sayings. Still worth living by:
~~ Any day can be made better by synthesizing a kick drum with Geonkick. ~~
- Sun Tzu (most likely)
youtu.be/EtWSnbmdB9w
github.com/free-sm/geonkick
#MusicProduction #FOSS #OpenSource #Geonkick #Drums #SoundDesign #DrumSynthesis
A free software percussion synthesizer for GNU/Linux - GitHub - free-sm/geonkick: A free software percussion synthesizer for GNU/LinuxGitHub
Thunderbird 115 "Supernova" will be intuitive and welcoming to new users, while remaining familiar and comfortable for our veteran users.
See how we're accomplishing that balance with this preview of the new Folder Pane: blog.thunderbird.net/2023/02/t…
#Thunderbird #FOSS #Email #OpenSource
Thunderbird 115 introduces a brand new Folder Pane to make webmail users feel right at home. But what about veteran users? Find out inside!Jason Evangelho (The Thunderbird Blog)
The Thunderbird community is constantly submitting feature ideas to improve Thunderbird.
But these ideas need upvotes and discussion to get traction. Check out the latest suggestions and add your voice to the mix at connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/i…
#Community #Thunderbird #Email #FOSS #OpenSource
All the talks, all the slides! #FOSDEM
Did you miss any of the talks by our team on @libreoffice Technology at @fosdem? Please visit our blog and find the links to the videos and the available slides for download!
⏬ collaboraoffice.com/company-ne…
#fosdem23 #LOtech #foss #opensource #digitalsovereignty #collabora #collaboraonline
And this week's #Linux and #opensource news video is finally here!
In this one, we have confirmation that #Windows 11 sends data to third parties after a fresh install, without user consent, we have @fedora moving to Flathub in their next release, an AI tool that violates #FOSS licenses, @thunderbird sharing a roadmap and some interesting history, and @gnome Software getting some nice performance improvements:
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Get 100$ credit for your own Linux and gaming server: https://www.linode.com/linuxexperiment Grab a brand new laptop or desktop running Linux:https://www.tux...YouTube
I am so glad patents were a later invention of Humanity.
Had the person who 'invented' fire patented it with our current intellectual property laws and convoluted ways of preserving the rights forever, we would have never left the stone age.
#OpenSource has always been the way of advancing our quality of life.
Our ability to collaborate is our superpower.
(Picture by K. Mitch Hodge on Unsplash)
#Monocle is #OpenSource eyewear:
"a pocket sized #AR device for the imaginative hacker."
"...tiny heads-up display which clips onto your existing eyewear. It’s packed full of powerful hardware which is perfect for when you’re on the go. It connects to your mobile phone over Bluetooth, and includes a few handy sensors such as touch buttons, camera and microphone. The included FPGA is perfect for #computerVision, #AI or graphics acceleration directly on the device."
I just had whatever the opposite of 'future shock' is - I stumbled upon a telescope proposal from 2001 and I wondered if the #latex would compile - of course it did, and the proposal looked exactly as it should have.
In related news, I wrote my thesis in Word 98 and the next version refused to open one of my chapters for no obvious reason.
Plain text and openly documented image formats are definitely the way to future proof your work.... #astrodon #opensource #openscience #TeXLaTeX
What a conference! Thanks so much to @openuk for inviting me to speak yesterday. Lots of fun on the Sonatype stand today!
Also managed to speak to EM360Tech yesterday on #OpenSource (please ignore the spot on my forehead) 😂
Dan Conn, Developer Advocate at Sonatype, talks about the importance of open source data, and give his predictions about 2023.For podcasts and articles on al...YouTube
Curious what #OpenSource & #FreeSoftware advocates propose for building a culture of accessibility in their teams.
Hundreds of companies showed up for #FOSDEM & are at #StateOfOpenCon right now.
As a movement, how do we:
- orient new people to our teams?
- ensure compliance are set up and maintained?
- keep up with best practices for sharing our code/ideas?
