I'd say this is an opportunity for #FOSS maintainers to collaborate taking advantage of. These companies that have been fortunate to earn tons of money by using open software without contributing back, can no longed do that if they want to keep doing business in the EU.
What could be a good EU based FOSS interest group to manage this smartly, collect _fees_ to distribute to maintainer of the used software.
Does @opencollective have an EU presence?
LibreOffice 25.8 will be released as final at the end of August, 2025 ( Check the Release Plan ) being LibreOffice 25.8 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) the third pre-release since the development of version 25.8 started at the beginning of December, 2024.x1sc0 (LibreOffice QA Blog)
Following the example of the German state of Schleswig-Holstein, which is moving 30,000 PCs from Microsoft Office/365 to LibreOffice, the Danish Ministry of Digitalisation is doing the same.Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
General Activities LibreOffice 25.2.4 was announced on June 6 Olivier Hallot (TDF) added help for compact layout Pivot Tables, Writer table formula MOD and improved the help for Writer’s Send menu commands, font colour, text attributes for drawing ob…x1sc0 (LibreOffice QA Blog)
Hey folks. I've noticed #DeltaChat hasn't got a page in #Wikipedia. Do you know sources which would prove its notability so we could create a page for it?
Boosts appreciated. If you don't know sources, someone else might.
#AskFedi #Email #IM #Messenger #chatmail #chatmailrelay #FOSS #opensource #tech #technology #software
In my last article, I mentioned XML several times, perhaps assuming that all users had a basic understanding of it.Italo Vignoli (The Document Foundation)
This Saturday 5 July 🐧 Linux install parties in #Germany and #France (all times local)! 🚀
* Repair-Café Kahlgrund, Niedersteinbach (#Bayern), 10h30-16h
* ComputerCafe Stuttgart Kaltental, #Stuttgart, 13h-17h30
* Premier Samedi du Libre, #Paris, 14h-18h
For details and more events worldwide: endof10.org/events/
#EndOf10 #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #FOSS #Linux #GNULinux #Windows #Windows10 #Windows11
Here is a list of events where you can get help with Linux. You can also look for places that provide help more regularly. Please note that the information here is submitted by the organizers themselves and is not evaluated by the campaign.Upcoming Events | End of 10
How do you measure the value of an #OpenSource project?
After all, there's no sales $$ figures you can use.
Here's one way, which was used a decade ago to evaluate good old #httpd project by @TheASF
Good insights on applying MBA school methodologies to #FOSS, shared at last week's Open Source Summit NA #OSSummit
linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:l…
How do you measure the value of an #OpenSource project? After all, there's no sales $$ figures you can use. Here's one way, which was used a decade ago to evaluate good old httpd project by the The Apache Software Foundation.Dotan Horovits 🏠🇮🇱 (www.linkedin.com)
Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last four weeks – click the links to learn more… We started the month with Episode 3 of the LibreOffice Podcast – this time looking at Quality Assurance (QA) in Fr…Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
Continuing our volunteer effort to make GNOME Calendar fully accessible with a keyboard (see thread for context), we fixed a major bug that was causing the focus to disappear into the abyss when the user tried to tab into the month view in merge request !576. This means, as of this commit, events should now be completely functional and accessible within the month view. Additionally, the merge request changes the keyboard and focus behavior within the month view: Events can only be cycled using arrow buttons, the focus can't escape the month view with arrow buttons, and entering/exiting the month view can only be done with tab. These improvements will be available on GNOME 49.
#GNOME #Accessibility #a11y #GNOMECalendar #Calendar #FOSS #FreeSoftware #Linux
Happy Disability Pride Month everybody :)
During the past few weeks, there's been an overwhelming amount of progress with accessibility on GNOME Calendar:
• Events in the agenda view will convey to screen readers of their respective titles and descriptions.
Accessibility on Calendar has progressed to the point where I believe it's safe to say that, as of GNOME 49, Calendar will be usable exclusively with a keyboard, without significant usability friction!
There's still a lot of work to be done in regards to screen readers, for example conveying time appropriately and event descriptions. But really, just 6 months ago, we went from having absolutely no idea where to even begin with accessibility in Calendar — which has been an ongoing issue for literally a decade — to having something workable exclusively with a keyboard and screen reader! :3
Huge thanks to @nekohayo for coordinating the accessibility initiative, especially with keeping the accessibility meta issue updated; Georges Stavracas for single-handedly maintaining GNOME Calendar and reviewing all my merge requests; and @tyrylu for sharing feedback in regards to usability.
All my work so far has been unpaid and voluntary; hundreds of hours were put into developing and testing all the accessibility-related merge requests. I would really appreciate if you could spare a little bit of money to support my work, thank you 🩷
• ko-fi.com/theevilskeleton
• github.com/sponsors/TheEvilSke…
#Accessibility #a11y #DisabilityPrideMonth #GNOME #GNOMECalendar #GTK #GTK4 #Libadwaita #FreeSoftware #FOSS #OpenSource
The LibreOffice community has great news: the Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw, and Math User Guides are now available for version 25.Olivier Hallot (The Document Foundation)
To write this article, I went beyond the limits of my technical knowledge, which is that of an advanced user who has studied standard formats and their characteristics in depth, to understand why standard formats – one of the pillars of digital sover…Italo Vignoli (The Document Foundation)
It's a busy day! NVDA 2025.2 Beta 1 is now out: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2025-2b…
AND In-Process is also out: nvaccess.org/post/in-process-3… - covering all about NVDA 2025.1, NV Access in the Forbes Accessibility 100, five quick things to try with NVDA 2025.1, and a small end of financial year request: nvaccess.org/post/in-process-3…
#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Accessibility #Blog #News #NewVersion #PreRelease #Beta #FLOSS #FOSS
Oh, wow! The German IT Planning Council decided yesterday to consolidate a bunch of disparate communication tools into a unified system based on Matrix and MLS.
Here's the record of their decision and the other options they considered: gitlab.opencode.de/it-planungs…
#Matrix #OpenSource #FOSS #ProtocolsNotPlatforms #DPI #DPG
Informationen zur Umsetzung von Beschluss 2024/28 des IT-Planungsrates.GitLab
Do you love the idea of Free & Open Source Software, and Linux in particular? I certainly do. But until recently, I didn't think too much about what "freedom" means beyond licensing. If you're like me, this blog post by @fireborn could border on heartbreaking. But it may also be a call to action, not only for developers, but for the entire F/OSS community. I hope it is.
Excerpt: »Freedom is also not telling disabled users to go fuck themselves because they asked for a working login prompt. It’s not freedom if it requires you to be perfect, sighted, fluent in C, and emotionally bulletproof.«
fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/you…
found via @Natanox at chaos.social/@Natanox/11474988…
#Linux #Accessibility #FOSS #Gatekeeping
THIS.
I gonna save this to just post it every time one of those entitled FOSS-bros crosses my path.If the only way for people to use a computer is to either become a developer yourself or suffer through exploitation by big corporations it isn't an individual failure of those people, it's an absolute failure of the FOSS / Linux community to build good software.
fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/you…
#Linux #Accessibility
LibreOffice is a free private office suite backed by a non-profit (The Document Foundation)LibreOffice Merchandising Shop - The Document Foundation
Are you a GitHub user who would like to support the great work NV Access does?
You can become a GitHub Sponsor!
Today, we'd like to give a shoutout to Nael-Accessvision, one of our GitHub sponsors.
You can sponsor NV Access here: github.com/sponsors/nvaccess
(Or through PayPal or bank transfer via the "Donate" link on our website)
*Donations in Australia are tax deductible*
#FOSS #FLOSS #Accessibility #NonProfit #NotForProfit #GoodCause #Donate #Donation
NV Access creates NVDA, the free open source Screen Reader that enables blind people to gain freedom, education & employment.GitHub
I want to do the same but for anyone who needs help with CSS or HTML for their Open Source project? maybe a website or a documentation website?
mstdn.social/@earthtoneone/114…
Please help me to share
More info here: jailandrade.com/services/websi…
The Open Document Format (ODF) is an open standard format for office documents, which offers a vendor-independent, royalty-free way to encode text documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and more.Italo Vignoli (The Document Foundation)
Just listening to the speech of the @EUCommission's DG Connect Director Thibaut Kleiner, who celebrates #FOSS and the global ecosystem of #opensource developers as well as the #NGI programme but somehow his convictions seem to not be enough for the Commission to massively scale up investments in the #digitalcommons. What am I missing? 🤔
Exciting day for the #Fediverse! This morning at #UN #OpenSource Week, @haubles announced that @Mastodon has been named as a Digital Public Good for its work to empower communities, protect privacy, and foster authentic connections.
blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/06/…
#Mastodon #DPG #DigitalPublicGoods #UnitedNations #FreeSoftware #FOSS #FLOSS
Mastodon has been added to the Digital Public Goods Alliance's DPG Registry.Mastodon Blog
Ooo lookie, accessibility is not planned. Lol. As usual. Cause foss is just a toy that no one actually depends on.
github.com/Ylianst/MeshCentral…
#accessibility #foss #RemoteDesktop #Mesh
We're trying MeshCentral out at work, and as one of the blind staff members who have access, I'd like to ask for some fixes to accessibility issues: When accessing a PC through the Terminal, I cann...prater-devin (GitHub)
LibreOffice is the successor project to OpenOffice(.org), which in turn was based on StarOffice, a proprietary office suite developed in the 1990s.Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
#VivaldiBrowser Has a good #privacypolicy, is #European, and is 95% #FOSS. It removes the #googlecrap from the #Chromium code before using it in their #browser
Also, it lets adding blocking sources and tweaking them, which is a must-have since their ad blocking is no the greatest, THB.
It has an overall good balance between privacy and functionality, and this is why I believe it should be added in the list.
vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-diffe…
vivaldi.com/blog/technology/wh….
What should you make of the fact that Vivaldi shares its engine with Google Chrome?Team Vivaldi (Vivaldi Technologies)
Over the course of its 20-year history, the ODF standard has been adopted, or at least recommended, by numerous supranational bodies and several countries on almost every continent.Italo Vignoli (The Document Foundation)
Marco Marega writes: Hi, I’m Marco, an Italian translator and Member of The Document Foundation. Twice a year I take part in an event in Pordenone to promote LibreOffice within the stand “Linux Arena” of the PNLUG Linux User Group.Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
NV Access is pleased to announce that version 2025.1 of NVDA, the free screen reader for Microsoft Windows, is now available for download. We encourage all users to upgrade to this version. This release introduces NVDA Remote Access, provides speech, braille, OCR & Office improvements, Native selection in Chrome & edge
Full info & Download: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2025-1/
#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Accessibility #FOSS #NewVersion #Update #News #Free
🗓️ Planify mi bylo doporučeno v komunitní místnosti o #triliumnext – a musím říct, fakt super!
Konečně krásná co padne do #Gnome, jednoduchá a funkční aplikace pro správu úkolů, která se napojí na #Nextcloud #oscloud přes CalDAV.
Nextcloud (backend) + DAVx⁵ + Tasks.org (Android) + Planify (desktop)
Funguje to skvěle dohromady.
#FOSS #Planify #Nextcloud #CalDAV #Linux #OpenSource #oscloud
github.com/alainm23/planify
Task manager with Todoist & Nextcloud support designed for GNOME - alainm23/planifyGitHub
LibreOffice 25.8 will be released as final at the end of August, 2025 ( Check the Release Plan ) being LibreOffice 25.8 Beta1 the second pre-release since the development of version 25.8 started at the beginning of December, 2024.x1sc0 (LibreOffice QA Blog)
🗓️ There are 4 days left to contribute to the crowdfunding campaign for the #PeerTube mobile app and help us to reach the next goal!
Every contribution helps us build a world where everyone can use PeerTube from anywhere!
#crowdfunding #mobile #app #FLOSS #FOSS #FreeSoftware #OpenSource
Popularisons les vidéos partagées par les humain⋅es pour les humain⋅es !support.joinpeertube.org
Regina Henschel writes: Susanne Mohn asked on the German-language user’s mailing list how to create a colour wheel with LibreOffice. It was not about the colours themselves, but about the geometry.Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
In-Process is out, featuring the latest on NVDA 2025.1, the recent NV Access strategy session, and Should you use Screen Layout? (H/T to @jscholes for your recent poll)
Check it all out here: nvaccess.org/post/in-process-1…
#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Blog #News #newsletter #Software #PreRelease #FOSS #OpenSource
The Document Foundation and LibreOffice support the international campaign @endof10 https://endof10.org/ The countdown has begun. On 14 October 2025, Microsoft will end support for Windows 10.Italo Vignoli (The Document Foundation)
