XSF Announcement
If you are interested in becoming an #XSF member your next opportunity is by 23rd November 2025.
We also have elections coming for the next phase for XSF #Board or XSF #Council. Applications are accepted by 2nd November 2025.
Read more here: xmpp.org/2025/10/the-xmpp-news…
#jabber #chat #interoperability #rtc
#opensource #decentralization #federation #messaging
The XMPP Newsletter for September 2025 is out!
Read about the latest updates in the #XMPP universe and our #standards!
xmpp.org/2025/10/the-xmpp-news…
Enjoy reading! 📰 ☕ 
#jabber #chat #interoperability #rtc
#opensource #decentralization #federation #messaging #newsletter
Ich bin #konservativ
Seit Version 9 bin ich beim klassischen #ubuntu geblieben.
Gerade installiere ich auf meiner #Workstation Version 24.4 neu.
#Windows habe ich seit mehr als einem Jahrzehnt nicht mehr im Hause...
I've been thinking about creators and distributors. picture a woodworker who crafts a perfectly balanced, minimalist chair. a furniture store loves it and starts selling it. but, to "match their brand", the store paints every chair bright green
customers see a green chair. they don't know the store painted it. they just assume the original artisan loves making bright green chairs. the creator's original intent and aesthetic are completely lost in translation, and their reputation is now tied to a choice made by someone else
this happens so often in FOSS. upstream developers create the "wooden chair", and downstream distros often paint it "green". there's nothing inherently wrong with that, but it creates a gap where users blame the artisan for the paint job. it makes you think about where creative ownership truly lies
#FOSS #OpenSource #Philosophy #UserExperience #UX #Upstream #Downstream #DigitalOwnership
Berlin, 9 October 2025 – LibreOffice 25.8.2, the second minor release of the free, volunteer-supported office suite for personal productivity in office environments, is now available on our download page for Windows, macOS and Linux.Italo Vignoli (The Document Foundation)
LibreOffice has been available for Linux since we started the project in 2010. The official builds from The Document Foundation (the non-profit entity behind LibreOffice) are designed to be self-contained and distribution agnostic – that is, they sho…Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
Which self hosted website uptime monitoring tool are the cool kids using nowadays?
We’re hiring on the Red Hat Bootloader team! Work on GRUB2, shim, the Linux kernel, and core bootloader toolchains — the foundation of every Red Hat system.
Location: Brno, Czech Republic 🇨🇿
Apply here : redhat.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/J…
#RedHat #Bootloader #GRUB2 #Shim #LinuxKernel #OpenSource #Hiring #Fedora
Red Hat Core Platforms Engineering is looking for an experienced Senior Software Engineer specifically working on bootloader stack enablement.redhat.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com
This is your yearly reminder to #contribute to the apps you depend daily and still respect your #privacy are #free and #opensource. Demonstrate your love for them, help them do what they do best.
Today I contributed to @kunzisoft and @davx5app.
@keepassxc, @signalapp and @thunderbird will next.
⚠️ Qualcomm just bought Arduino, holy f*ck.
Huge loss for everyone, including Qualcomm, there's no way they'll recover their money once we ran away.
phoronix.com/news/Qualcomm-Acq…
#arduino #qualcomm #opensource
Qualcomm announced today that they are acquiring Arduino, the popular open-source hardware/electronics prototyping platform for single-board micro-controllers.www.phoronix.com
Lately I’ve been working on some small but nice improvements for @planifyapp
Nothing huge, but those little details that make the app feel smoother and more polished.
Let’s go 👇
I wonder if we should have #GPL 4 that would cover machine learning. Something like "if this code is used to train an LLM, then the code produced by the LLM must be released under the same license". I know there are many challenges, such as effective enforcement, but if this issue remains unaddressed, I believe LLMs may become a way to evade license virality.
Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last four weeks – click the links to learn more… At the start of the month, the LibreOffice Conference 2025 took place in Budapest, Hungary.Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
What's the topic of Office Hours conversation? Conversation view! From backend changes to in-person collaboration, find out how the Thunderbird team is making it possible:
blog.thunderbird.net/2025/10/v…
We're starting work on the long-awaited Conversation View! Learn how our developers and designers are working together to make it happen!Monica Ayhens-Madon (The Thunderbird Blog)
#FAQ: “What do you do with #FreeBSD ?" "Operating in the financial markets" 😀 #ThePowerToInvest 😆
#Investing 📊 #Trading 📈 #Stocks 📉 #ETFs #Bonds #Commodities #Derivatives #Forex 💹 #Crypto 🪙 #NASDAQ #SP500 #DOWJONES #WallStreet 🗽 #Bull 🐂 #Bear 🐻 #TechFinance
Welcome #FreeBSD 16.0 on my laptop! Smooth, fast, and running perfectly with Xfce.
FreeBSD #Unix #OpenSource #BSD #FreeBSD16 #Xfce #DesktopUnix #Tech #FreeBSDCommunity #FreeBSDLaptop
Konference o Linuxu, open-source a vším, co s tím souvisí. Koná se každoročně v pražských Dejvicíc na půdě FIT ČVUT v Praze.www.linuxdays.cz
Mixxx 2.5.3 coming up on Haiku 64bit, we're in the process of finetuning the recipe, but so far things are pretty good.
Free and open source DJ software for Windows, macOS, and Linux (and now Haiku too!) :)
#HaikuOS #haikuports #Mixxx #DJ #opensource #software
PR and patch are online atm at: github.com/haikuports/haikupor…
Download the most advanced FREE DJ software available, featuring iTunes integration, MIDI controller support, internet broadcasting, and integrated music library.Mixxx DJ Software
Hurrah! #SOURCE issue 3 is out now! There's a focus on #openhardware for this issue with tutorials on the wonderful @FreeCAD , the mighty @kicad , the fabulous @inkscape and also getting your project certified by the brilliant @oshwassociation. As ever it's pay as you feel, links are on this post concretedog.blogspot.com/2025/… #CAD #CAM #PCB #KiCad #FreeCAD #Inkscape #FreeCadFriday #opensource
Please Boost! and have a great weekend. X
Indeed! It's that time again, I'm incredibly pleased to say that SOURCE issue 3 is out now. This issue's theme is Opensource Hardware and ...concretedog.blogspot.com
The European Commission has issued a survey ✍️ on the Governance and #Sustainability of Critical Open Source #Software. Your input is highly beneficial for identifying best practices, shared needs, and possible pathways for collective efforts 🎯, as well as for translating them into actionable #recommendations for public administrations both at national and EU level. 🤓
It's a relatively short survey, takes maximum 15 min to complete. Deadline: 5 Oct 2025.
👉 ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/F…
EUSurvey is an online survey-management system built for the creation and publishing of globally accessible forms, such as user satisfaction surveys and public consultations.ec.europa.eu
Love LibreOffice development? Want to turn your passion into a paid job? We are The Document Foundation (TDF), the non-profit entity behind LibreOffice.Ilmari Lauhakangas (The Document Foundation)
Konference o Linuxu, open-source a vším, co s tím souvisí. Koná se každoročně v pražských Dejvicíc na půdě FIT ČVUT v Praze.www.linuxdays.cz
Like we’re seeing in Schleswig-Holstein, Denmark and many other government bodies and organisations, the Austrian military (Bundesheer) has migrated 16,000 PCs from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice.Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
Fifteen years ago, we announced our ambitious plan to provide the world with a fully free and open office suite created by and for the community.Italo Vignoli (The Document Foundation)
Beeindruckend finde ich den lebendigen und vielfältigen Austausch in den #Matrix Räumen von @librechurch@kirche.social auf synod.im
Von Fragen und Ideen zu digital souveränen Tools, die auf dem Marktplatz diskutiert werden bis zu Erfahrungen und Herausforderungen immer kleiner werdender christlicher Gemeinden im Raum Glauben teilen.
📣 The Jami team is proud to present Atlas: our biggest step toward reliable communication. 🌐⚡
Groundbreaking improvements to connectivity & delivery, even in complex networks.
🔗 Full article : jami.net/atlas-jamis-biggest-s…
#Jami #OpenSource #P2P #PrivacyMatters
Today, we are releasing Atlas: the latest Jami update that rolls months of engineering into visible gains you can feel in daily use.jami (Jami)
In this month's Dev Digest, we're:
* describing the final QA steps as Exchange mail support lands in 144
* discussing future Exchange work
* adding Exchange to Account Hub
* recapping the Conversation View workweek
* diving back into the Calendar UI Rebuild
* and more!
blog.thunderbird.net/2025/09/t…
Exchange is coming to Thunderbird 144 next month! Learn what's in and what's planned. Also, updates on Account Hub, Calendar UI, and more!Toby Pilling (The Thunderbird Blog)
ive created a draft within pmOS to try and get an open letter going: gitlab.postmarketos.org/postma…
will be useful if other open source/foss projects signed on
#OpenSource #linux #linuxmobile #PostmarketOS
Background The EU is allocating a €2 trillion investment "to boost autonomy, competitiveness, and resilience" by "address[ing] cybersecurity, innovation, and other...GitLab
In-person and virtual community initiatives, adjusting the Android roadmap, and the journey to true Conversation View and why it's hard, and how an in-person work week helped us get started. Read/watch/listen at the blog:
blog.thunderbird.net/2025/09/s…
We’re back with our twelfth episode of the State of the Thunder! In this episode, we’re talking about community initiatives, filling you in on Android development, and finishing our updates on popular Mozilla Connect requests.Monica Ayhens-Madon (The Thunderbird Blog)
Updates from the Nepalese LibreOffice community: Recent protests and stress in Nepal have disrupted regular activities. Almost everything was affected, including in-person events being canceled rapidly.Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
Windows 10 support ends on October 14.
Help the people around you continue to be protected by helping them switch to Linux. They don't need to go buy a new computer just because Microsoft made a decision for them.
Follow @Endof10 for success stories and resources for how to help people switch!
Learn more: endof10.org
#EndOf10 #Linux #OpenSource #Fedora
Axonometric grids, contextual layer actions, polygon selection tool and more are available to test in Pinta 3.1 Beta.
omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/09/pinta-…
#opensource #Design #tech
A beta version of Pinta 3.1 is available for testing. The fee open source image editor adds axonometric grid, polygon selection, performance improvements and more.Joey Sneddon (OMG! Ubuntu!)
Today we’re talking to Devansh Varshney, who added histogram chart support to LibreOffice and is working on improvements to the Basic IDE… Tell us a bit about yourself! I am from Mathura in India, one of the historical cities where the first image of…Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
The Open Source Conference 2025 will take place the 1st of October 2025 in Belval, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg, following a very successful first edition in 2024 in combination with the LibreOffice Conference.Italo Vignoli (The Document Foundation)
