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We had a great chat with the #Ubuntu and @ubports teams at #FOSDEM today.

Special shout-outs to Thunderbird Council member Philipp Kewisch (far right) and @ahoneybun (second from right) of @system76!

Thanks for spreading the knowledge, guys.

#FOSS #Community




My room number for the last two nights at #FOSDEM




After this breakfast at #FOSDEM nothing can go wrong.


OK, the folks at @videolan have the best company uniform at #FOSDEM! 😄

Truly one of the best hats ever --- and you can win one by spinning that wheel and getting lucky!


Day 2 of #FOSDEM begins! Come to our stand (K level 1, group C) and learn about how @DocLiberation is giving people back control over their data 💪






Hey #Fosdem! Jason is heading to the #Github Open Social event tonight at Scott’s Bar and Kitchen— and he has a limited quantity of these #Thunderbird stickers and T-shirts to give away!

Want one? Find him between 8pm and 10pm. He’s wearing a Thunderbird hoodie.


Packed room for #fosdem talk on the ICT Sector.


Before we get to the (possible) remedy, some taking stock:

* FOSS today doesn't compete with proprietary, it facilitates it
* Labour of FOSS developers is "increasingly dictated by firms"
* FOSS contributors often have precarious employment, are among the first to be cut (apparently?)

#fosdem


But hey ... does that mean that open source has 'won'? No, says Nolan. We still have largely no control over the majority of services + platforms that facilitate much of people's daily lives #fosdem


The period 2000-present characterised as "open source is everywhere". FOSS used in 92% of all apps. People from Microsoft are among the largest contributor group to open source #fosdem


Nolan sketches the period 1970s-2000s as one in which free software advocacy gets cast as communism or anarchism. Labels that one should resist? :think_mind_blown:​ #Fosdem2023 #fosdem