Happy Open-Source Day!*
Open-Source brings so many benefits. NV Access is proud to be part of the community, from welcoming code contributions, to decreasing cost for users around the world. It's easy to see why "Open-Source First" is a popular policy for governments & companies everywhere.
(*At least in Florence, Italy - a quick search found several dates this year - Open Source not only brings innovation, but also choice!)
#NVDA #NVDAsr #OpenSource #FOSS #OpenSourceDay2025 #Community
"Retain users with convenience, honesty, and kindness."
This is at the core of what we do at @thunderbird and it drives our features implementation.
Sometimes we fail at that, we're aware of it, but we're human and we always try to do better.
Check the whole open session about our roadmap process here:
youtube.com/watch?v=2xfUO9C_6t…
#Thunderbird #OpenSource #Community
In our inaugural State of the Thunder, Alessandro Castellani, Director of Desktop and Mobile apps, leads a discussion on the 2025 desktop roadmap with membe...YouTube
Our inaugural State of the Thunder is live on TILvids! Director of desktop and mobile apps @alecaddd leads a discussion on our upcoming desktop roadmap, our values, and how we can work more in the open.
(We'd like to further open these discussions, so stay tuned for how you can join future SotTs!)
This International Women's Day, we're celebrating a historic milestone in Django’s journey!🚀
For the first time ever, Django has women in every leadership position within the project.
🧵 1/4
#Django #IWD2025 #Community #Opensource
Boost for reach please!
Come join me for a Code of Conduct Enforcement workshop:
otter.technology/code-of-condu…
Discrimination and harassment is rising globally. Join me to learn the skills needed to keep our own communities safe and welcoming.
March 11 - European, African, and North American friendly time (14:00 UTC)
April 2 - European, African, and North American friendly time (13:00 UTC)
No workshop in May
June 26 - Asia / Pacific friendly time (01:00 UTC)
🚀 OpenCloud 1.0 ist da – Digital souveränes File-Management done right!
Nach nur wenigen Wochen verkündet das #OpenCloudTeam den Release von OpenCloud 1.0! 🎉
Was macht OpenCloud besonders?
🔹 Robustes Dateimanagement – Sicher & flexibel mit stabilen APIs.
🔹 Benutzerfreundlich – Schnell, intuitiv, minimalistisch.
🔹 Einfache Verwaltung – Von Raspberry Pi bis Kubernetes.
Jetzt testen! Wir freuen uns auf euer Feedback! 👉 opencloud.eu/de/news/opencloud…
#WeLoveOpenSource #FOSS #Community #BestesTeam
Our Retro Retreat group is now open on #Matrix!
It's a community all about revisiting the magic of retro gaming, or discovering it for the first time. Come hang out and help us test things before we start our monthly game playthroughs in March.
(You're more than welcome to join even if you don't plan on doing monthly playthroughs)
matrix.to/#/#community:retrore…
You're invited to talk on Matrix. If you don't already have a client this link will help you pick one, and join the conversation. If you already have one, this link will help you join the conversationmatrix.to
🤔 Do you know which categories will be presented at #EOSAwards25?
1️⃣We kick-off with the Open Source Achievement Award!
🏆This award is recognises a European #opensource contributor working constantly to transform the technological landscape and boost the open source #community in Europe!
This award will be presented by Omar Mohsine, Open Source Coordinator for United Nations-ODET!
Learn more about the vision of EOSA : europeanopensource.academy/
🎉 Wow! Over 100 of you have shown incredible commitment by becoming life members of BITS—what an extraordinary milestone! Just last year, we added over 68 life memberships (68 times $200), which is truly phenomenal. Your passion and dedication are driving real change.
Be proud, everyone—together, we’re not just making a difference; we’re changing lives!
With gratitude,
Jeff Bishop
BITS President
How do you a visualize a contributor community like Thunderbird's? With help from @bitergia, of course! Read our blog on how we partnered up to understand and better support our community - and open up our data.
#Thunderbird #OpenSource #Community
blog.thunderbird.net/2024/12/v…
Thunderbird and Bitergia joined forces to help us visualize, understand and better support our open source community contributors.Heather Ellsworth (The Thunderbird Blog)
Members – more formally known as the "Board of Trustees" – are a crucial part of The Document Foundation, the non-profit entity behind LibreOffice. If you're involved in the project, join us! Here's how to apply:
documentfoundation.org/governa…
Media credits:
Music: Reach for Success, CC by Scott Holmes: freemusicarchive.org/music/Sco…
Spinning Earth: Pigment Ajans, Stock Footage,
Dinner photo: Florian Effenberger
Hackfest photo: Collabora Productivity
Other photos: Enio Gemmo, Lenny Horstink, Teodor Mircea Ionita, Gabriele Ponzo
Thanks to Eike Rathke, Christian Lohmeier and Franklin Weng
There are many ways you can contribute to NVDA. These include (but are not limited to!):
- Translation (UI and user guide)
- Core NVDA software development
- Add-on software development
- Testing NVDA
- Submitting GitHub issues
- Triaging GitHub issues
We would be happy to hear from anyone who does or might be interested in contributing in any way - docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…
#NVDA #NVDAsr #Survey #Contribute #Community #Feedback
Thank you for participating in this survey. Your feedback is valuable and will help us improve NVDA's contributor documentation.Google Docs
Our latest productivity blog is out - and it was inspired by one of @RL_Dane's many Thunderbird tips, tricks, and hacks! If you're fighting against an overflowing inbox, and don't know where to start, the 'Grouped by Sort' view can help.
#Thunderbird #Productivity #Community
blog.thunderbird.net/2024/10/m…
If your inbox is overflowing with unread and unprocessed messages, Thunderbird's 'Grouped by Sort' feature can help you tame it.Monica Ayhens-Madon (The Thunderbird Blog)
Let's keep the contributor appreciation from earlier going! Our most recent Contributor Highlight is out, and we're shining the light on Toad Hall, one of our Mozilla Support (SUMO) forum superheroes! The SUMO forums are the pillar of our support, and contributors like Toad keep it strong.
EDIT: Now updated with ISO 639-1 codes!
Do you speak Croatian (hr), Breton (br), or Scottish Gaelic( gd)?
All three of those languages have slipped under 70% translation for Thunderbird for Android! Normally this would mean removing them from the app. But we're hoping we can rally some translators to help complete these languages - or at least get them over 70% translated!
#OpenSource #Localization #Community
To learn more or get started, go to our Hosted Weblate! hosted.weblate.org/projects/tb…
In the September Community Office Hours, we chatted with the voice of our community - the Thunderbird Council! @dannycolin and @clokep, two current council members, talk about the council's origins, its responsibilities, and how to get involved.
Today, our job is simple - to inspire to to try a Thunderbird Add-on to boost your productivity! If you don't know where to get started, our community (including here on Mastodon!) gave us some great ideas. 💡
NV Access are very pleased that RACQ Magazine interviewed us for an article on NVDA, "Revolutionising accessibility through a global community". RACQ noted: "A Brisbane-based not-for-profit organisation is behind a global movement breaking down barriers for blind people."
Read the full article on RACQ:
racq.com.au/road%20ahead/2024/…
#NVDA #NVDAsr #News #Impact #Community #RACQ
Uuuuiii, finally: It's online! Machiav3lli & I were speakers at DroidCon Berlin earlier this year (in July), talking about "Open Source Community Building and Maintenance". Now the video is online:
droidcon.com/2024/08/30/open-s…
How do you maintain your communities?
There are some amazing people who provide all kinds of support about Thunderbird, whether it's here or in our official Mozilla Support (SUMO) site! If you've ever wondered how to get involved there, or are just curious how it works, our most recent Office Hours shows you the ins and outs of tackling community questions. You don't need a cape to be a Thunderbird superhero (also, no capes!), just skill, knowledge, and time!
blog.thunderbird.net/2024/08/v…
#Thunderbird #OpenSource #Community
In this first of a two-part series, the Thunderbird Team discusses how to get involved with providing Thunderbird support.Monica Ayhens-Madon (The Thunderbird Blog)
Last month @linuxflower and @ryanleesipes went to GUADEC, the yearly @gnome conference! Heather has a fantastic write-up of their experience at the event, which includes Ryan's inspiring, insightful keynote (seriously, watch it if you haven't already) and some conversations about calendars, flatpaks, and (controversy alert!) telemetry.
Read more at blog.thunderbird.net/2024/08/t…
#OpenSource #Community #Thunderbird
Last month in Denver, Thunderbird literally took center stage at GUADEC 2024 with a dynamic keynote from our own Ryan Sipes.Heather Ellsworth (The Thunderbird Blog)
So, what do you think of Mike (see linked toot)? Should he become our mascot? * (We're asking for your input because we love him, but aren't sure if he would well represent the quality app that we aim to provide.)
* We might or might not follow the outcome of this poll.
We think our project's journey from nearly dead to thriving is an awesome story with lessons for any OSS project. Watch @ryanleesipes tell that story in today's #GUADEC keynote at 21:45 UTC/ 15:45 Mountain. @gnome is streaming their talks (thank you!), and you can catch his talk here: youtube.com/live/jS7NzYqxH3o?f…
#Thunderbird #OpenSource #Community
GUADEC is the GNOME community’s largest conference, bringing together hundreds of users, contributors, community members, and enthusiastic supporters for a w...YouTube
So my local library's makerspace offered a free event where they brought in a bunch of old tower computers, printers, game consoles, etc., - laid out a bunch of iFixit toolkits - and let everyone (kids and adults alike) take everything apart!!!
One kid was hesitant because they didn't want to break anything and the library staff were like, none of it works. We're recycling and throwing everything out afterwards! Go hog wild, you won't get in trouble! You're meant to break it and take it apart!
The kid was absolutely enthusiastic and went to town!
I got to be a kid again and go into detail about all the computer parts and what each of the hardware did. It was awesome watching my children and other kids and adults interact, share tools, show off what they found.
I spoke with the organizer afterwards and asked if this was a regular thing and he said that he didn't have enough old equipment to make it regular. I laughed and said all of my friends have CLOSETS FULL OF THIS STUFF and the idea of giving it to a bunch of kids and adults to play with would bring joy and meaning to their life, lol!
I gave him the time to meet up with @fxbghackers and told him to make a community announcement about needing old electronics for donation to take apart and he'd get truck loads.
Just another way community helps each other out. This is post scarcity education.
#solarPunk #mutualAid #community #library #makerSpace
Hello hello Jamers 😎
Transifex serves as our collaborative translation management platform, simplifying the process of translating Jami into multiple languages. 🔄
This tutorial aims to provide our remarkable community with step-by-step guidance on how to contribute to Jami's translation efforts on Transifex.💪
If you're multilingual, lend us a hand and help us connect with a wider audience 🌍.
👀 Want to know how ? Here is the link: jami.net/how-to-contribute-to-…
#Jami #Community #Contribution
Transifex is a collaborative platform for managing the translation of Jami into several languages.jami (Jami)
You're invited to talk on Matrix. If you don't already have a client this link will help you pick one, and join the conversation. If you already have one, this link will help you join the conversationmatrix.to
[Video and PDF presentation now available at the blog link below!]
Our last Office Hours session was an inside look at Thunderbird's build and release process. Wayne and Daniel ran through an informative presentation, answered questions, and treated us to live demos showing how a new Thunderbird build gets pushed and promoted to release.
Check it out: blog.thunderbird.net/2024/06/m…
#Thunderbird #Community #Development
Wayne and Daniel shed light on Thunderbird's build and release process, run through an informative presentation, and treat us to a live demo.Jason Evangelho (The Thunderbird Blog)
The Thunderbird story is an epic of countless individual stories, coming together to make something bigger than themselves. We're sharing those stories in a new series, and our first spotlight is on one of our amazing Bugzilla volunteers.
Arthur helps new volunteers document issues, as well as testing bug fixes. Read more at the blog, and find out how to share (or start!) your own Thunderbird story!
blog.thunderbird.net/2024/06/c…
#Thunderbird #Community #OpenSource
In our very first Thunderbird contributor highlight, we shine a spotlight on Arthur, one of our amazing community volunteers.Monica Ayhens-Madon (The Thunderbird Blog)
Community Office Hours start in an hour at 17:30 UTC! Join us to talk about the present AND future of the Thunderbird release process! Details and joining information here: blog.thunderbird.net/2024/05/m…
#Thunderbird #Development #Community
Thunderbird team members discuss the present and future of the Thunderbird Release Process in the May 2024 Community Office Hours.Monica Ayhens-Madon (The Thunderbird Blog)
In this episode of the CHAOSScast podcast, Alice Sowerby, Luis Cañas-Díaz, and Dawn Foster unpack the new Practitioner Guide for understanding and improving responsiveness on Open Source projects. podcast.chaoss.community/85
In this episode of CHAOSScast, host Alice Sowerby is joined with Dawn Foster and special guest, Luis Cañas-Díaz from Bitergia.CHAOSScast
Do you care about the future of #Thunderbird? Join this mailing list and participate in helpful discussions with your point of view: thunderbird.topicbox.com/group…
This week's In-Process is out! Featuring the latest on NVDA 2024.1, add-on updates, the Microsoft FOSS Fund, Philanthropy Australia awards, an Interview with our GTO Gerald, and more! All available now at: nvaccess.org/post/in-process-2…
#NVDA #NVDAsr #News #Newsletter #Blog #Awards #Interview #FOSS #Community
Welcome to the 17th week of 2024! And welcome to In-Process. Let’s jump right in: NVDA 2024.1 A fortnight in, how is NVDA 2024.1 going for you? We’ve had lots of really positive reports! Have…NV Access
Today more companies are announcing their support of the Valkey community (the group that includes committed developers previously working on the OSS version of the core Redis engine): Aiven, Alibaba Cloud, Chainguard, Heroku, Huawei, Percona, and Verizon.
#OSSummit #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #FOSS #OSS #Redis #Valkey #Community #LinuxFoundation
linuxfoundation.org/press/valk…
Valkey community welcomes new partners, including Aiven, Alibaba Cloud, Chainguard, Heroku, Huawei, Percona, and Verizon.The Linux Foundation
Now on stage for the morning #OSSummit keynotes, core team member Madelyn Olson to speak about the new Valkey community effort.
The walk-on music: "We are never ever getting back together" by Taylor Swift. 🤣
Love it!
#OSSummit #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #FOSS #OSS #Redis #Valkey #Community #LinuxFoundation
You've got questions, and we've got answers! We took feedback from recent social media, mailing lists, and in-person conferences, gave it to our team in last month's office hours, and then turned those answers into a blog! 📖
So if you want to know more about Thunderbird for Android features, or when full sender names are coming, read this short and sweet post full of information! 💡
blog.thunderbird.net/2024/04/t…
#Thunderbird #OpenSource #Community
Exchange support & add-ons for Thunderbird mobile? True conversation view on desktop? The team answers your most frequently asked questions.Monica Ayhens-Madon (The Thunderbird Blog)
