Here are some of our main takeaways from the EU Open Source Policy Summit 2025:💡 👨‍💻

— Open and collaborative innovation solves the dilemma of #competitiveness and #sovereignty
— Now is the time to invest in open source #maintenance and #security
— Building sustainable open source ecosystems remains challenging but necessary
— Open source is being increasingly regulated in Europe, and the new challenge is #implementation and #compliance

Read more in our new blog: 👇 🔗

openforumeurope.org/the-eu-ope…

A short reminder that, starting tomorrow (2024-11-06), there will be a row of maintenance windows at our main service provider. Hopefully you won't notice any of them – and regarding our F-Droid repo, our mirrors will have you covered. Just the web server might (shortly) be unavailable.

If you want to keep an eye yourself, be welcome to visit our monitor at monitor.izzysoft.de/

#serviceToot #maintenance #IzzyOnDroid

Ui-wooo! Hetzner is one week late with their Halloween "prank": 3 maintenance windows in a row, November 6, 7 and 8. We hopefully won't be affected for the full time (they wrote "just a few minutes") but of course cannot tell *exactly* when. So some time within those windows.

Again, only the primary servers are affected. Our mirrors will still be available to you for app updates and installs.

#maintenance #IzzyOnDroid #serviceToot

🚨 Důležité upozornění pro všechny uživatele Pixelfed Cz! 🚨

📅 28.06. ve 20:00 je naplánován přesun na nový server.

🕗 Během této doby bude instance pixelfed.cz nedostupná . Prosíme o trpělivost a pochopení. Děkujeme za vaši podporu a omlouváme se za případné nepříjemnosti.

#maintenance #serverupdate

New blog post: harihareswara.net/posts/2023/s… Set Contributor Expectations To Reduce Ghosting

It's frustrating when a new #opensource contributor vanishes. You can reduce how frequently that happens:
* Understand why they ghost
* Articulate your vision
* Set expectations in the contributors' guide, & in auto-replies/boilerplate replies
* Prioritize quick first-level reviews
* Follow up with "resources if you're stuck" checkins
* Build safeguards against cookie-licking

#maintainers #FLOSS #maintenance