GO NOW! WATCH FUNNY FOSS VIDEO!

youtube.com/watch?v=mCXhM8gxPL…

(please boost)

#inkscape #foss #bug #alpha #testing #freesoftware #opensource #project #crash #advert #informercial #parody

Inkscape Bug Reporting! ACT NOW!

Remember friends:https://inkscape.org/testerthatshttps://inkscape.org/tester

^YouTube

When a Free Software project (Profanity) is run by a jackass.

Just did a simple PR that changed a Ellipsis Char that does not display well on Arch Linux TTY (because it is a newer char), to 3 dots. A simple change.

It was not approved (after much time), although, in all the rest of the source code, 3 dots are used (3 dots is used 26 times in the source code). There is only one instance of the Ellipsis char, and it was this that the PR was changing to 3 dots.

github.com/profanity-im/profan…

#profanity #pr #freesoftware #archlinux #arch #jackass #xmpp #gnu

Use ASCII chars for MAM loading string by alexandre1985 · Pull Request #1820 · profanity-im/profanity

Fix non-ASCII chars, for correct display in TTY UTF-8 personal names are excluded from this fix

^GitHub

Purism President @kyle caught up with Matthias Kirschner, President of @fsfe to talk about the inspiration behind the children's book "Ada & Zangemann: A Tale of Software, Skateboards, and Raspberry Ice Cream", and the need to raise awareness about free software

puri.sm/posts/kyle-and-matthia…

#freesoftware #software #books

We are happy to announce that the #tickets for #fossnorth 2023 are now available.

Get yours here: foss-north.se/2023/tickets.htm…

#opensource #conference #freesoftware #gbgftw #gbgtech

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

A new F-Droid board for a new era of growth | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

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

A new F-Droid board for a new era of growth | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

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

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

@devhonk
Unfortunately going with "permissive" license is not really being generous: it is giving legal justification to others to use your code to exploit users.

As I personally look at Free Software from the "consumer protection" angle, I don't think the so-called "permissive" licenses are ever a good idea.

#FreeSoftware #SoftwareFreedom #FOSS

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?

#SOOCon23

🎙 A new home for the Irish Left Archive Podcast! podcast.leftarchive.ie/

Hopefully the transition will be relatively seamless, but please let us know if you have any issues.

You can now get updates by following the podcast on the Fediverse @ILAPodcast@podcast.leftarchive.ie.

Thanks to @Castopod@podlibre.social for their work on free software podcast hosting.

#IrishLeftArchive #IrishLeftArchivePodcast #Podcast #Castopod #FreeSoftware

Learn about software-driven #environmental harm and how to combat it with #FreeSoftware!

Come to 📍 Room AW1.126 (#energy devroom) at #FOSDEM from 🕟 16:30-17 (CET).

Or 🖥️ watch online.

More information here: fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event…

#KDE #KDEEco #BE4FOSS #FEEP #FOSS #OpenSource #sustainability #environment #ecology

Ardour developers ask for help from users - it's really easy to do and we can all make Ardour a bit better :)

Read more here:

discourse.ardour.org/t/help-ma…

#Ardour #AudioProduction #MusicProduction #Audio #FOSS #OpenSource #Libre #LinuxAudio #FreeSoftware

Help make Ardour 7.3 better: a simple thing for everyone

The source code of Ardour now contains support for searching both global and per-session preferences/properties.

^Ardour

Apparently some dickhead (or dickheads, as the case may be) uploaded malware into an issue on Codeberg and shared links to it and managed to get Codeberg onto a number of block lists so some folks can’t access the site now because their ISPs are blocking it.

If you know the folks who run these lists and can help remove Codeberg from them, I’d appreciate it.

More details: codeberg.org/Codeberg/Communit…

CC @Codeberg

#codeberg #infosec #foss #freeSoftware

Codeberg on more block lists

Further to #841 (which is now closed), Codeberg is on some other block lists: - https://osint.digitalside.it/Threat-Intel/lists/latestdomains.txt - https://v.firebog.net/hosts/Prigent-Malware.txt See https://mastodon.ar.

^Codeberg.org

The 2023 #X.Org Developer's Conference (#XDC) will be organized and hosted by @igalia.

#FreeSoftware #OpenSource #FOSS #X11 #Mesa3D #Wayland

igalia.com/2022/xdc-2023

Igalia will organize XDC 2023! | Igalia

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

^Igalia

⚠️ Yet another reason why proprietary software, especially in healthcare, is immoral and dangerous.

🗨️ "When the makers of electronic implants abandon their projects, people who rely on the devices have everything to lose."

#OpenSource #FreeSoftware

nature.com/immersive/d41586-02…

Abandoned: the human cost of neurotechnology failure

^{www.nature.com}

Heute vor zwei Jahren haben einige #FreeSoftware-Entwickler geschafft, was offizielle Stellen seit Monaten versäumt haben: Sie haben die deutsche #CoronaWarnApp in einer Version zur Verfügung gestellt, die frei von Abhängigkeiten von Google und in #FDroid verfügbar ist.

Ein ähnliches Problem haben wir bei der #NINA WarnApp – trotz unserer Kritik ist diese noch immer proprietär. Erneut muss die Community helfen: f-droid.org/de/packages/de.nuc… #Warntag (1/2)

FOSS Warn | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

Erhalte Notfallbenachrichtigungen von warnung.bund.de oder alert.swiss

^f-droid.org

4 years using and championing the #fediverse full time and I've never written a #introductions toot. Well, or I have and can't find it.

I'm a #blind guy from 🇬🇧 with a passion for #technology and #programming, particularly #lowLevel #systemsProgramming in #C, #C++, #Rust, etc.

I've been a huge #freeSoftware / #openSource advocate for the majority of my life. I run #Linux and I love open, #decentralised technologies like #ActivityPub, #Matrix, #bitTorrent etc.

In my view, technology is built to make our lives easier, and in many ways, it isn't these days. It is truly my opinion that the only way #tech can be sustainable is if it's built using #FOSS, and does not give ultimate control to any 1 entity, individual or corporate. If technology is to help the people, it must be built *for* the people.

Currently working on odilia.app, various projects with the rest of the Lower Elements gang at lowerelements.club, and a Computing Science BSC at the #University of #stirling

Alright, my open sourcerors and glitch witches: I need your help

@tidelift – my employer whose rallying cry is Pay The Maintainers! – has launched its second ever Open Source Maintainer Survey.

If you're a maintainer, can you boost and take a few minutes to complete the ~15min survey?

If you're maintainer-adjacent, boosts appreciated!
blog.tidelift.com/take-the-202… #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #FLOSS #PayTheMaintainers #Maintainers

Take the 2023 open source maintainer survey!

The Tidelift 2023 maintainer survey aims to provide insights about the experiences of open source maintainers and the issues and challenges in the open source ecosystem.

^{Lyn Muldrow (Tidelift)}

Had a really fun conversation about Mastodon and the Fediverse today with folks at the #Oregon State University #OpenSource Lab, @osuosl.

If you don't know about them (or if you do!) please give them a follow. It's a great program for getting university students hands-on experience with key #FreeSoftware project infrastructure.

osuosl.org

Imagine you could install any software on any device. The devices you own that don't receive updates anymore, or where you found out that the software is full of ads/tracking. You could replace it, maybe with a Linux distro like postmarketOS running mainline. These devices wouldn't need to be electronic waste. We signed @fsfe's #openletter to the EU to make this happen.

You can sign it, too!

fsfe.org/activities/upcyclinga…

#Ecodesign #RightToRepair #EWWR #FreeSoftware #LinuxMobile #UpcyclingAndroid

Open letter for the right to install any software on any device - FSFE

Free Software Foundation Europe is a charity that empowers users to control technology. We enable people to use, understand, adapt, and share software.

^{FSFE - Free Software Foundation Europe}

#KDE #software is many things: free, beautiful, performant, customizable. How about all of that plus #sustainable?

KDE adopts #SustainableSoftware as one of 3 overarching goals to focus on!

> Software has an impact on our future. It has an affect on #energy and #resource usage. KDE can deliver software which does this in a way which preserves #environment and society for us and future generations.

community.kde.org/Goals/Sustai…

#KDEEco #BE4FOSS #FEEP #FOSS #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #ClimateCrisis

#KDE Frameworks 5.100 Released with Many Improvements for Plasma Desktop and KDE Apps 9to5linux.com/kde-frameworks-5…

@kde #Linux #OpenSource #FreeSoftware

#Fedora 38 is looking at providing #phosh image For mobile devices.

The Phosh (Phone Shell) has been started by Purism.

We're happy to see broader adoption of the #freesoftware on #mobilelinux 🚀

phoronix.com/news/Fedora-38-Ph…

#GNOME replaces its mailing lists with Discourse:
mail.gnome.org/archives/deskto…

As someone who grew at a time where email was an unquestioned, decentralized foundation of #FreeSoftware workflows, moves like leave a bad taste in my mouth. I understand how Discourse facilitates onboarding, but the idea of delegating to a central server and using the browser as the sole user interface remains unappealing to me.

Getting old?

🤦🏽‍♂️ Watching the opening keynote of the #OpenSource conference #AllThingsOpen, the organizers urged attendees to download the event's mobile app "from any app store".

Seems like they didn't bother to submit it to the only app store on my phone, @fdroidorg -- most likely because they produced a proprietary event app instead of using one of the many available #FreeSoftware options.

Karrot is a free open source online platform for organising community volunteering and initiatives such as food sharing etc. You can follow at:

➡️ @karrot

To use Karrot, you can join an existing Karrot-powered site or start your own.

There's a flagship Karrot site at karrot.world with many existing community groups on it.

If you want to start your own site, you can get the code at github.com/karrot-dev

#Karrot #Community #Activism #NGOs #CoOp #FOSS #FLOSS #Libre #FreeSoftware

Karrot Dev

Start a group, become a community. Karrot Dev has 26 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.

^GitHub

Let's Share Free Software

What's free software you use the most everyday? I work as a course teacher and mine's as the following.

GNU/Linux

KDE, Dolphin, Gwenview & Okular

Firefox

Jitsi

LibreOffice Writer & Calc

Thunderbird

VLC

Inkscape

Synaptic & apt

If you use #FreeSoftware, please boost. Thanks.

#GNU #Linux #OpenSource #Education

Ardour 7.0 stable has been officially released!

ardour.org/whatsnew.html

#Ardour #MusicProduction #AudioProduction #Audio #FOSS #OpenSource #GNU #Libre #FreeSoftware

How many of you recently getting started to Emacs?

If you love , please boost.

If you use for under 1 year, please share your experience.

If you use for programming or anything else, please share.

#Emacs #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #OrgMode

• Yes, I recently started to use Emacs (22%, 5 votes)
• Yes, with some issues (please share) (9%, 2 votes)
• Yes, I already use Org-mode (50%, 11 votes)
• Yes, but I need more resources to learn (18%, 4 votes)

The free open source email & comms app Thunderbird now has official accounts on both Mastodon and PeerTube. You can follow these at:

➡️ @thunderbird (main account)

➡️ @thunderbird@tilvids.com (videos)

If the videos aren't visible from your server yet, you can see them all at tilvids.com/a/thunderbird/vide…

Thunderbird is available for Linux, Mac and Windows from thunderbird.net

#Thunderbird #EMail #FOSS #FLOSS #Libre #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #Apps #Productivity #Office #Videos #Computing #RSS #XMPP

Thunderbird

The Thunderbird Project is a family of free & open-source email software and productivity solutions for managing your personal and professional communications. Available on Linux, macOS and Windows. Coming soon to Android.

^TILvids

AntennaPod is a free open source podcast manager app for Android devices. You can follow at:

➡️ @AntennaPod

There's more info on the website at antennapod.org

It's available through @fdroidorg and Google Play.

#AntennaPod #Podcast #Podcasts #Podcasting #FOSS #FLOSS #Libre #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #Apps #Android

AntennaPod – The Open Podcast Player

AntennaPod is a podcast player that is completely open. The app is open-source and you can subscribe to any RSS feed. AntennaPod is built by volunteers without commercial intere...

^AntennaPod