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

Bitwarden is a free open source password manager for computers and mobile devices. You can follow their official accounts at:

➡️ @bitwarden@fosstodon.org (main account)

➡️ @bitwarden@tilvids.com (videos)

➡️ @Bitwarden@pixey.org (photos & clips)

Their website is at bitwarden.com

(New post due to additional official accounts)

#BitWarden #FOSS #FLOSS #Libre #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #Password #Passwords #PasswordManager #Business #Productivity #Office #Apps

Shouldn't DebConf make a clear statement that although it accepts money (sponsorship) from corporations with abominable reputations in relation to the #FreeSoftware community, there will be no tolerance of suppressing criticism of any of those corporations during DebConf?

It looks rather shocking to see Microsoft and Google logos in association with Debian, but as long as participants are "fully allowed to bite the hand feeding them", the compromise could at least be defended.

“Distributors entering Flatpakland”
lwn.net/SubscriberLink/900210/…

In which we learn (surprise!) that Fedora and openSUSE, supporters of #flatpak, will suddently provide all of Flathub to their users, including proprietary software.

#FreeSoftware

As I wrote in a comment, I think we #FreeSoftware folks and #Guix in particular must address the shortcomings of traditional distros that make flatpak appear necessary. Instead we must design for practical user freedom.

The alternative is: more control for software vendors, or more power to users?

@fsfe did you know there is a logo for Free Software? Would be kind of great if "Open Source" wasn't ahead of Free Software in that regard. Use it! 😀

free-software-logo.codeberg.pa…

#freesoftware #logo

#Gitlab Inc sponsored our work of maintaining a native #debian package of gitlab server software for last 6+ years.

This work made setting up / self hosting gitlab server just running `apt install gitlab` on a debian server.

Now they stopped this funding. We thank them for their support till now and looking for support from the #FreeSoftware community to continue this work.

Donate at opencollective.com/debian-gitl…
... and spread the word!

#debian-gitlab

Debian Gitlab - Open Collective

Make native Debian packages (.deb) of gitlab and its dependencies (mainly ruby, nodejs and golang libraries).

^{opencollective.com}

💡 It leaves out the important reminder that many of the #digitalPublicGoods used to create this so-called "public #infrastructure" have their roots in #FreeSoftware, which allows citizens to control of their own "digital lives" without government or quasi-government corporate #surveillance as intermediary.

e.g., I may have a Chinese-made phone sold with Google's #Android spyware, but because it's #OpenSource I am free to install a privacy-protecting OS instead.

3/4

jacobin.com/2022/06/us-tech-co…

Biden’s Campaign for “Digital Democracy” Is Really a Giveaway to Big Tech

The United States claims it benevolently promotes democracy over authoritarianism through its international technology policies. In reality, America forces poor countries to let US-based Big Tech companies steal their data.

^jacobin.com

Darktable is a free open source raw photo processing app for Linux, Mac and Windows, sort of a libre alternative to Adobe's Lightroom.

You can follow at:

➡️ @darktable

You can download it from the project's website at darktable.org

#DarkTable #Photography #Photos #Raw #Camera #Developer #Development #FOSS #FLOSS #Libre #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #LightRoom #Adobe #Alternatives

darktable

darktable is an open source photography workflow application and raw developer

^darktable

Microsoft's Github Copilot is disregarding Free Software licenses and will be happily selling parts of your GPL code against your will! Woo!

drewdevault.com/2022/06/23/Cop…

As the author of this article says - free software should be dependant on free software architecture - I recommend codeberg.org as an open-source alternative to Github.
Sadly Github is no longer a platform that can be trusted.

CC: @codeberg

#FOSS #Github #Copilot #Microsoft #GPL #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #Codeberg

The person who was setting up a conference session to discuss #Linux maintainer overwork and ways to address it couldn’t attend due to… burnout:
lwn.net/ml/linux-xfs/202204260…

I can very much relate to the account of what their daily life looks like.

#FreeSoftware #maintainership

Did you know that #Canada is taking comments on the importance of #FreeSoftware?

I certainly didn't. open.canada.ca/en/open_source_…

#FOSS #FLOSS #OpenSource #OpenGovernance #OpenGov

Lots of understandable concern today as #Microsoft #GitHub announced their new #Copilot availability today. Probably worth a reminder that @conservancy has convened a working group on #ethics, #licensing, and other related issues, especially for #FreeSoftware and #OpenSource contributors.

Perhaps you or others may want to join or read more?

Boosts welcome!

sfconservancy.org/news/2022/fe…

New Committee Will Investigate Copyleft Implications of AI-Assisted Programming

Software Freedom Conservancy announces a Committee On AI-Assisted Programming and Copyleft to develop recommendations and plans for a Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) community response to the use of machine learning tools for code generation and…

^{Software Freedom Conservancy}

Good support is key to expand access to free software. It builds a community, a fertile ground for exploration, experimentation, and education. This is why we invest in empowering you with professional support so you can explore and tinker, and if you get lost, guide you back to safety.

#tech #freesoftware #free #software

puri.sm/posts/free-software-su…

UnifiedPush is a set of specifications and free open source tools to help users get more control over how their phone's (or computers's) notifications are handled. You can follow the project at:

➡️ @unifiedpush

The project website is at unifiedpush.org

There are options for self-hosting notification systems if needed.

#UnifiedPush #Notifications #PushNotifications #FOSS #FLOSS #Libre #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #Smartphones #Phones #Smartphone #Phone #Dev #SelfHosting #Computing

Castopod is a modern and fully-featured open-source project for publishing podcasts.

Makes we want to start a podcast ;)

castopod.org/

#FOSS #Podcast #Podcasting #Audio #Libre #OpenSource #GNU #FreeSoftware

Castopod | Your Free & Open-source Podcast Host

Castopod is a free and open-source hosting platform made for podcasters. Engage and interact with your audience whilst keeping control over your content.

^castopod.org

#introduction

I'm Sumana Harihareswara, a woman in #NYC New York City. I have a consultancy changeset.nyc, Changeset Consulting and provide short-term project management services for #freesoftware #FLOSS #opensource projects. I'm writing a book on maintainership skills and have accidentally developed expertise in #Python packaging tools.

I'm married, a stand-up comedian & fanvidder, a frequent poster on #MetaFilter & #Dreamwidth, Indian-American. Just moved from mastodon.social!

Check out the latest news about the
project and the current status of the new alpha
play0ad.com/0-a-d-empires-asce…
-feature-freeze-update/

#freesoftware #opensource #indiedev #gamedev