freesoftware

I received a giveaway prize from Brazil's Free Software Week in October, kindly sent by the Brazilian Union of OpenStreetMap Mappers (UMBRAOSM)!

Recebi brinde sorteado na Semana do Software Livre no Brasil, em outubro, gentilmente enviado pela União de Mapeadores Brasileiros do OpenStreetMap @umbraosm — obrigado!

#OpenStreetMap #Brasil #Brazil #FreeSoftware #SoftwareLivre #mapping #mapas

This month, as part of our Building a Free Internet of the Future series, we spotlight @NGIZero grantee
BrailleRAP-SP.

Read more about this open-source printer designed to produce documents in Braille, advancing accessibility and inclusion https://www.apc.org/en/node/40312/

#FreeSoftware

https://www.gimp.org/news/2025/11/17/gimp-3-2-RC1-released/

Our first release candidate for #GIMP 3.2 i s available, after months of hard work. Note: this is still a development snapshot, not a final release. Please report any problems or crashes you find.

Updates to link layers, vector layers, non-destructive editing, UI/UX, new import formats, better #SVG & #PDF export, bug and security fixes and more.

#GIMP3 #GImp_3 #beta #imageEditor #GPL #freeSoftware

The EU’s Open Source Software Strategy calls for reducing dependency on proprietary technologies. But for feedback on the Cyber Resilience Act, they're asking for feedback in .xlsx format! This is obviously not ideal – so please sign our open letter: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/03/05/cra-guidances/ #foss #openSource #freesoftware

Come to @oggcamp in #Manchester on October 12-13 and geek out with the rest of us at this venerable free culture #unconference resurrected after four years.

Tickets on sale now, one more week of early-bird pricing, from https://oggcamp.org/tickets/

More info at https://andypiper.co.uk/2024/08/20/return-of-the-oggcamp/

#FreeCulture #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #Geek #Hacker #Event #OggCamp

Can #FreeSoftware be used for commercial purposes?

#LegalEducation

An opinion piece I wrote on why you should move away from GitHub to something like Forgejo (try Codeberg if you want something hosted for you) for development. Applies to companies and open-source devs.

https://lambdaland.org/posts/2025-11-18_federate_your_forges/

#OpenSource #freesoftware #GitHub

Inviting the people of #Mumbai to attend the upcoming #OpenStreetMap mapping party at the #MiniDebConf !

Learn about OpenStreetMap and how to use it, then enjoy a fun session of improving the map together!

🗓️ Sunday, 14th of December
🕙 10 AM to 1 PM
📌 SIGCE, Ghansoli, #NaviMumbai
🎫 Get your tickets!
https://fossunited.org/c/mumbai/minidebconf2025

Learn more and click "Attend" here -
https://osmcal.org/event/4269/

#India #Linux #Privacy
#OSM #OsmMumbai
#FreeSoftware #FreeData
#FOSS #OpenSource #OpenData

Inviting the people of #Pune to attend the upcoming indoor #OpenStreetMap mapping party by #TomTom!

Learn about #OSM and how to use it, then enjoy a fun session of improving the map together!

🗓️ Saturday, 20th of December
🕙 2 PM to 6 PM
📌 TomTom office, Shanti One, Ramwadi
💻 We recommend bringing a laptop and a mouse
Learn more and click "Attend" here -
https://osmcal.org/event/4271/

#India #OsmPune
#FreeSoftware #FreeData
#FOSS #OpenSource #OpenData

#Scribus 1.6.5 Open-Source Desktop Publishing App Released with Various Changes https://9to5linux.com/scribus-1-6-5-open-source-desktop-publishing-app-released-with-various-changes

#OpenSource #FreeSoftware #Linux

Interested in helping #freesoftware users find freedom-respecting programs by updating the Free Software Directory (FSD)? Please consider joining this Friday's upcoming FSD meeting on IRC. Read more at: https://www.fsf.org/events/fsd-2024-09-20-irc #FreeSoftwareDirectory

Hoje eu aprendi que, com OpenSSH, basta um mero ssh -D 9999 -N destino — ou com autossh se quiser retomar automaticamente a conexão que cair — para poder usar a porta local (9999 no exemplo) como SOCKS proxy saindo pela máquina destino especificada!

Vivendo e aprendendo, temos que tirar o chapéu também para o pessoal do #OpenBSD que presenteia o mundo ao desenvolver essa maravilha.

#OpenSSH #SSH #blambers #TIL #softwareLivre #freeSoftware

#Dillo, the fast and small web browser, is another project fortunately migrating from #GitHub!

https://dillo-browser.org/news/migration-from-github/

#noAI #noBigTech #noJS #FreeSoftware

Why isn’t software funded by taxpayers released as Free Software? 🤔💻

We need legislation 📜 requiring publicly financed software to be #FreeSoftware. If it’s public money 💰, it should be public code! 👨‍💻👩‍💻

Code paid by the people should be available to the people! 🙌 #PublicCode

👉 https://publiccode.eu/

Eu não preciso esperar algum serviço como substituto de software (SaaSS) de Big Tech me oferecer estatísticas sobre o que ouvi durante o ano. @ListenBrainz, que posso usar a partir do servidor da própria Fundação @metabrainz ou auto-hospedar, disponibiliza-me (ou a quem quiser) essas informações quando eu quiser. Não apenas o software é livre (GPLv2+) como reúne dados abertos. :thinkSmart:

#ListenBrainz #music #música #YearInMusic #FreeSoftware #SpotifyWrapped

Help us defend and promote user freedom: https://www.fsf.org/appeal/ #FSFTable #FreeSoftware #FSF

⚠️ The Free Software Foundation Europe deleted its account on X ⚠️

The platform never aligned with our values and no longer serves as a space for communication. What initially intended to be a place for dialogue and information exchange has turned into a centralised arena of hostility, misinformation, and profit-driven control, far removed from the ideals of freedom we stand for.

Find out more: https://fsfe.org/news/2025/news-20251204-01.en.html

#FreeSoftware #SoftwareFreedom

Looking for CMS advice

Hey Web devs!

Do you have any suggestions, tips, opinions, dos, don’ts about headless CMSes?

I have a growing list of small/mid non-profits and collectives asking for my help to (re)make their website. I totally want to help, but I don’t have much time, especially considering that they generally have little or no funding—I would most definitely point them to @VillageOneCoop, otherwise.

Therefore, I want a super simple and replicable solution where I can copy-paste most of the code, while providing them with a stable, fast, and modern solution. I had a look at the Headless CMS section in the Jamstack website, but I need opinions from people who actually used some of that software already.

Needs

I want to code and configure everything using @eleventy
Admin interface (#WebApp) for the client to add pages and write posts
Static website in the front-end
Simple and reliable CI/CD
No/minimal maintenance after the first setup
Self-hostable (I was taking this for granted so much that I forgot to write it)
If it requires forge integration, it should support #ForgeJo
#OpenSource

Nice to have

Possibly using #Deno, not #NodeJS
Allowing the client to customize a bit their website through the admin interface, with a GUI
CMS app packaged on @yunohost
No CMS vendor lock-in
I’d love to write as little JavaScript as possible
#FreeSoftware

Absolutely not

Front-end #JavaScript frameworks

Please, boost this and ask around! Links to videos, tutorials, and resources are welcome.

People whose perspective I would really value: @zachleat @harryfk @deno_land @jaredwhite @vanillaweb @stefan @mxbck @WeirdWriter @deadsuperhero (Sorry if I am spamming you!)

#Eleventy #11ty #CMS #HeadlessCMS #Ghost #DecapCMS #CraftCMS #Strapi #Web #WebDev #WebDesign #StaticGen #StaticWebsite #Website #HTML #CSS #YunoHost #SelfHosting #Wordpress

thinking about foss stuff, and I know I've groused about licensing stuff before, and how I feel like my only way out is to just Parity7 everything and fall into obscurity but...

...I think we need a different movement around open source, with new terminology, that clarifies the intent and opens doors to more pro-social behavior and capabilities (up to and including the potential for "ethical licensing").

I've been spitballing the terms Common Software and Community Software. The core idea is that things that count as Community/Common Software can't enter the realm of the proprietary (so, strong copyleft a-la AGPL and Parity, virality not necessary). What's the difference from "Free Software"? We get rid of "freedom zero", aka "the freedom to run software for any purpose". Common Software licenses may have Non-Commercial clauses, Anti-Particular-Industry clauses (such as anti-MIC stuff), etc.

I think "freedom zero" was a grave mistake. I get where it came from--a desire to remove discrimination--but what it resulted in was a hijacking of Free Software by the corporate "Open Source" wing to exploit an otherwise healthy community of people openly sharing their creations... for an enormous profit that we can't even quantify right now.

We need a strong return to copyleft, and we need to gather together and grow its existing ecosystem, away from the MIT/BSD poison that our world has turned towards.

Your thoughts are welcome on this. I want to have a conversation about this stuff and maybe eventually record all this in a longer-form blog post. If you know folks who have had similar thoughts please link them so we can chat, too.

UPDATE: I've sketched out an initial conclusion based on today's discussion over at https://toot.cat/@zkat/115852520380684438

#FOSS #FLOSS #OpenSource #FreeSoftware

Privacy is impossible without free software.

Privacidade é impossível sem software livre.

https://u.fsf.org/prism

#privacy #nsa #prism #FreeSoftware #SoftwareLivre #FSF

Updated: Must Have Essential Applications For Desktop Linux

- Add Apache OpenOffice
- Add LibreOffice Draw
- Add GNOME Document Viewer
- Add KeePass
- Add GNOME Audio Player
- Add GNOME Image Viewer
- Add GNOME Video Player

Explore the curated essential list of free & open source software applications by category for the graphical user interface of a GNU/Linux desktop.

https://www.adamsdesk.com/posts/essential-desktop-linux-applications/

#blog #linux #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #FOSS #100DaysToOffload

"Today, with almost 2,000 active installations and over 50,000 downloads, it no longer makes sense to define #Tainacan as “Beta" …a new phase is beginning.

But the initial goal has been achieved: to transform the #digitalculture landscape for #Brazilian #institutions by offering a viable #freesoftware alternative for managing information on collections and cultural objects—and to expand horizons in different areas of use as well."

https://tainacan.org/en/tainacan-1-0-0-an-open-source-flexible-and-powerful-software-for-creating-digital-archives-in-wordpress/

Sad to see this happening: #Google will now publish #AOSP only in Q2 and Q4, instead of every quarter before. See the note on https://source.android.com (thanks to @grote for the ping) #FreeSoftware #OpenSource

#Bitwarden is no longer #freesoftware.

... and #Vaultwarden is doomed to become obsolete

So there isn't really anything more to do, except pack your things once more and find and alternative. That's what I did this afternoon, going back once more to #keepassxc which has greatly improved from the last time I used it, and it can leverage #Nextcloud to keep all my devices synced.

All in all it is a tedious process, but it prevents the mind from rusting too much and abandoning itself to being used to... Breaking things, changing habits, that's the way to do it, until you've got the energy for it.

I also expect that #Vaultwarden software will quickly gain technical debt and become obsolete, since it cannot use the new SDK.

Read the details here:
https://github.com/bitwarden/sdk/issues/898

...and here:
https://github.com/bitwarden/clients/issues/11611

1.2 "Bitwarden" means the Bitwarden software made available by the Company, available for download at the following URL, as updated from time to time.
1.3 A "Compatible Application" means any software program or service that (i) connects to and interoperates with a current version of the Bitwarden server
products distributed by the Company; and (ii) complies with the Company’s acceptable use policy available at the following URL: https://bitwarden.com/terms/#acceptable_use .
...
3.3 You may not use this SDK to develop applications for use with software other than Bitwarden (including non-compatible implementations of Bitwarden) or to develop another SDK.

Little Bits: Issue #31 For November 2025

Road blocks may have delayed this release, but it is still full of endless little bits to explore along with a message of gratitude and positivity.

https://www.adamsdesk.com/posts/little-bits-issue-31/

#blog #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #tech #news #LinkDump