Had to explain to another user why asking a volunteer project to fix an issue is inappropriate.
And I get that's it's a really subtle point here between saying "I also have this problem" (fine) and "Please fix this issue" (not ok)
i.e. You can only ask people you have a relationship with to do work for you. You can NOT ask strangers to labour for you for free, even if you think it's important, or appropriate.
#FreeSoftware #OpenSource #PayForFreeSoftware
Italo Vignoli and Mike Saunders from The Document Foundation, the small non-profit behind LibreOffice, discuss marketing free and open source software. Join our marketing community: https://www.lib...PeerTube Luxembourg
Berlin, 14 November 2024 – LibreOffice 24.8.3, the third 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 https…Italo Vignoli (The Document Foundation)
I started regularly donating about a year ago. I am now supporting 8 different projects with 20,77€ per month, and it didn't hurt at all.
Why pay for something free? Because free software only exists because other people already paid for it. Someone has to do it. It's time to do your part!
If you can afford a subscription service, then you probably can afford a little donation, too. Start with 0.1% of your income.
Check out @Liberapay or @opencollective
#FOSS #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #Linux
#XMPP is an egregious omission here. Mature IETF standard, federated, #FreeSoftware clients _and_ servers, end-to-end encryption...
You don't need a phone number or even an email ID to use XMPP, but you can also choose Quicksy for easier phone-number-based onboarding.
quicksy.im/
I've written a "Quick and Easy Guide to XMPP" here. contrapunctus.codeberg.page/th…
Here’s your chance to learn new skills for a potential future career change, or expand your knowledge and have fun on the way: get involved in the Month of LibreOffice, November 2024! Over the next four weeks, hundreds of people around the world will…Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
👉 "The core issue is that open source contributors are not paid fairly. 60% of open-source maintainers are unpaid volunteers, and just 13% make a living as professional project maintainers, according to the 2023 State of the Open Source Maintainer Report."
Boosts appreciated 🚀
➡️ infoworld.com/article/3557846/…
#FreeSoftware #OpenSource #FOSS #FLOSS #SoftwareLibre #Business #KDE #Research #Science #NLnet #softwareDevelopment
Experts with deep experience across open-source software communities share their opinions on how to sustain this critical ecosystem.Bill Doerrfeld (InfoWorld)
#LibreOffice 24.2.7 Released as the Last Update in the Series, Upgrade to LibreOffice 24.8 9to5linux.com/libreoffice-24-2…
@libreoffice @tdforg #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #Linux
LibreOffice 24.2.7 is now available for download as the last update in the LibreOffice 24.2 office suite series with 57 bug fixes.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
Berlin, 31 October 2024 – LibreOffice 24.2.7, the seventh and final planned minor release of the LibreOffice 24.2 branch, is available at on our download page for Windows, macOS and Linux.Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
The LibreOffice Engineering Steering Committee (ESC) has appointed Prof. Rafael Henrique Palma Lima, from Federal Technological University of Paraná (UTFPr) as the newest certified LibreOffice developer. Prof.Olivier Hallot (The Document Foundation)
The thing that frustrates me about this is that the #FreeSoftware community wastes so much fucking time on #Stallman. So much time and effort is wasted on the eccentricities of one man, even though anyone with a gram of sense can see that this man is unfit to lead the social movement for our digital liberation.
And we are so utterly beholden to him. So much of our language and framing is Stallmanesque, sometimes undeservedly. My biggest pet hate is the narrative that 'you, the user, will be free if you use Free Software'. No you won't, especially not if you are not technically inclined. We are freed together as a community, not as individuals. The system of collaboration and the sharing of our digital infrastructure makes this thing liberating for all of us, not my ability to patch better Esperanto support into glibc.
And it's not like this movement needs a single leader, or that there aren't already extremely talented and dedicated leader figures in our community.
And it's not like there aren't problems with our community that aren't related to Stallman. There are so many people (men…) who make this community less lovely than it is.
But instead of lifting up other voices, or addressing other toxicity, we're stuck endlessly dealing with this one eccentric man.
October 14th, 2024 Richard Stallman (aka “RMS”) is the founder of GNU and the Free Software Foundation and present-day voting member of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) board of directors and “Chief GNUisance” of the GNU project.The Stallman report
FINALLY! Open-source LIVE CAPTIONS for your Linux desktop that run locally! No internet connection, no spyware!
github.com/abb128/LiveCaptions
FUTO is a company that grants young developers means to build awesome tools like this one. Tools that help digital sovereignty.
All I need now is a model that will translate all the Russians in #CounterStrike for me :D
#Accessibility #HearingAid #Deaf #FUTO #FreeSoftware #FairSoftware #MachineLearning
Linux Desktop application that provides live captioning - abb128/LiveCaptionsGitHub
Happy Birthday to us 🎂🎉! KDE is 28 years old today!
Join us and hold a KDE birthday party in your city. Fill in the wiki, meet up with your friends and celebrate 28 years of collaboration, free software and altruism!
community.kde.org/28th_birthda…
#birthday #anniversary #FreeSoftware #OpenSource
We, the anonymous editors of the Stallman report, have published our investigation of Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation today to a general audience:
Our report exhaustively catalogues, analyzes, and offers a rebuttal of Richard Stallman's political program of sexual violence, catalogues credible allegations of misconduct, and documents the misconduct of the #FSF circa 2019 and 2021. Please read and share our work.
Boosts encouraged.
October 14th, 2024 Richard Stallman (aka “RMS”) is the founder of GNU and the Free Software Foundation and present-day voting member of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) board of directors and “Chief GNUisance” of the GNU project.The Stallman report
Why isn’t software funded by taxpayers released as Free Software? 🤔💻
We need legislation 📜 requiring publicly financed software to be #FreeSoftware. If it’s public money 💰, it should be public code! 👨💻👩💻
Code paid by the people should be available to the people! 🙌 #PublicCode
It's finally time. After years of deliberation, #Minetest is finally ready to adopt a new identity and prove it has moved beyond its original purpose. We can finally move past the "mining" and the "testing" and focus on making this platform the best it can be.
#opensource #freesoftware #gamedev
blog.minetest.net/2024/10/13/I…
After more than a year of public and internal discussions, we're ready to announce our new name!Minetest
𝐀𝐝𝐚 & 𝐙𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐧 𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐞𝐫𝐞!
We are celebrating with our supporters #AdaLovelace Day on 8 October with the world premiere of the animated movie 'Ada & Zangemann: A Tale of Software, Skateboards, and Raspberry Ice Cream! 💥
If you are planning to support the 
, do it today and do not miss this event!
#Ada #SoftwareFreedom #FreeSoftware
Rust is nice, but I really dislike this "rewrite it in Rust" stuff. It's tiring for any #FreeSoftware maintainer to be bombarded by this and honestly, as an opinion, some of the projects I™ have seen doing this have lost contributors, some have even been stopped for months.
#Rust Community, please create your alternatives written in Rust since it is so urgent, instead of putting this unnecessary pressure on communities already overloaded with demands.
Next version of Upscaler will have the option to scale images between 2x and 4x :)
gitlab.gnome.org/World/Upscale…
#GNOME #GTK4 #libadwaita #FOSS #Upscaler #Upscale #OpenSource #OSS #FreeSoftware
Wishing everyone a great time at The #Matrix #Conference by The Matrix.org Foundation starting today in Mitosis LAB in #Berlin, #Germany
foss.events/2024/09-19-the-mat…
#TheMatrixConference #TheMatrix.orgFoundation #foss #floss #freesoftware #opensource #events #europe
‼️ The Free Software Foundation Europe needs your help ‼️
The EU Commission aims to remove funding from free software projects which are crucial to our digital lives.
We spoke with the #FSFE to learn more.
👉 youtu.be/mNZgSCvg6Ew
Please share this post with your friends to spread the message and rally support for free software! 📣
#freesoftware #opensource #eu #europe #freedom
Proud to share that my team at UNDP is offering a course for folks wanting to learn how to deliver government public services using #OpenSource software.
If this sounds familiar:
"𝘠𝘦𝘴, 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘨𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘯-𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘤𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘧𝘵𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘦, 𝘣𝘶𝘵...
... 𝘸𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘢𝘯 𝘖𝘚𝘚 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦,
... 𝘸𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘪𝘧 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘺,
... 𝘸𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘰 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴"
➡ Learn more & register at itu.int/go/P13P by October 20.
#DigitalPublicGoods #DPGs #FreeSoftware
In light of the recent €27 million cut in EU funding, which effects #FreeSoftware #OpenSource projects and organisations like
@fdroid @thunderbird
@matrix @davx5app @peertube
@postmarketOS @nixos_org @torproject @pixelfed @wireguard @libreoffice @xmpp @cryptpad
the need for long-term, sustainable support has become more evident than ever!
Raise your voice and take part in an ongoing consultation to safeguard EU funding for #softwarefreedom :
𝘽𝙚𝙧𝙡𝙞𝙣 𝙁𝙚𝙙𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙚 𝘿𝙖𝙮! Save the date! 🚩
The Berlin Fediverse Day will take place on 14 Sept at c-base:
Are you also concerned about the @EUCommission decision to cut the funding for #FreeSoftware projects?
Write a letter to the editor of your local newspaper 🗞️ to make their readers aware of the importance of funding #FreeSoftware solutions with a long-term sustainable funding:
🔔 You heard the news: the @EU_Commission is planning to stop funding @EC_NGI in #HorizonEU 2025 ‼️
Our community reached the EU institutions its answer expresses vague support for #FreeSoftware.
Unfortunately it is failing to provide concrete examples on how to do so. The EC needs to come up with dedicated budget for Free Software solutions!
Keep the pressure on the EC on this topic by contacting them!
By helping to translate and market LibreOffice around the world, native language projects bring enthusiasm and passion to the global community.Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
Thanks to gitlab.com/ab-amal and gitlab.com/Glitchyi we have a redesigned home page for diasp.in
#XMPP #FreeSoftware #FOSS #OpenSource
We are hosting a public XMPP / #Jabber service for 8+ years and you can request an account now. You can learn more about XMPP / Jabber at joinjabber.org
With a diasp.in account and app like Monocles Chat or Monal, you can talk to users of many others messaging apps like Quicksy or Prav.
— Them: “Please test #GNOMECalendar's sidebar again”
— Me, coming back from another round of testing: “Code’s haunted”
— Them: “What?”
— Me, loading a pistol and getting back to the bug tracker: “Code’s haunted”
gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-c…
#MaintainerLife #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #QA #testing #programming #GNOME
Affected version Nightly / main Also version 45.1 from FedoraGitLab
The #NGI Zero consortium, of which the FSFE is a partner, is granting small and medium R&D projects developing #FreeSoftware technologies that can improve the Internet.
Find more about the NGI Zero Common Fund: nlnet.nl/commonsfund/
Do you want to help secure GNOME and get a reward? 🏅
We are testing a new program in which people get a payment for reporting and/or solving vulnerabilities.
yeswehack.com/programs/gnome-b…
From €500 to €10,000 depending on criticality 💶
For now only GLib is in scope but we will expand the list of modules and advertise as the program grows.
In partnership with @yeswehack and @sovtechfund
#GNOME #infosec #FreeSoftware #security #bugBounty #OpenSource #cybersecurity
GNOME Bug Bounty Program bug bounty program detailsYesWeHack #1 Bug Bounty Platform in Europe
New on // foss.events: The #Matrix #Conference by The Matrix.org Foundation on 19-22 September 2024 in Mitosis LAB in #Berlin, #Germany
foss.events/2024/09-19-the-mat…
Call for participation is running until 26.06.2024
#TheMatrixConference #foss #floss #freesoftware #opensource #events #europe
The conversation with @josh and @matthew about @matrix on @FLOSS_Weekly was fascinating and for once I would have enjoyed more than an hour. Matthew's frustration with trying to explain to legislators why #ChatControl and #OnlineSafetyBill are so misguided was especially striking - I do hope @EUCommission listen.
hackaday.com/2024/06/19/floss-…
#OpenSource #FreeSoftware #Matrix
This week Jonathan Bennett and Simon Phipps chat with Matthew Hodgson and Josh Simmons about Matrix, the open source decentralized communications platform. How is Matrix a Git for Communications? A…Hackaday
As Purism SPC grows, so does our customer support team requires more personnel. If you enjoy communicating and helping people, and troubleshooting various software and hardware issues, please apply.Purism SPC
A game jam from 2024-06-10 to 2024-07-17 hosted by Purism. All those participating, use the code purismgamedev to save 10% on the purism shop! Welcome to the first Purism Free Software Game Jam! Here, we want...itch.io
