Delighted to be at the @europeanOSacademy this evening In the historic Solvay Library in my home town of #Brussels! Tonight is about recognising the amazing work of Open Source Devs here in Europe ❤️
Thank you to @Dedomainia for renewing their Bronze sponsorship! 🐍🤝
We’re delighted to announce that Dedo has renewed their Bronze sponsorship of the Django Software Foundation.
Their continued support helps us strengthen the Django ecosystem and sustain the work of the community that builds, maintains, and evolves the framework every day.
A big thank you to the Dedo team for their trust and long-term commitment to open-source 💚
#Django #Python #OpenSource #Sponsorship #Dedomainia
Do any moots know someone who we might be able to consult about restructuring a mid-size FOSS project? Essentially to migrate from a BDFL model to a more flat-structured democratic organisation.
We are discussing how to restructure #postmarketOS so that it can continue to scale up and be a truly community-run project.
We have some idea of how co-ops like Igalia do this, but we have a lot of differences (like being largely volunteer run and having very different goals) which leave us with a lot of unknowns.
To give an example of the kind of structure we're thinking of (by no means final, there hasn't been any broad agreement on a new structure yet):
We have the relevant pieces in place to form an assembly (everyone listed on https://postmarketos.org/team/ ) which could then democratically form teams and delegate responsibilities to them (e.g. finance/budget, technical policy-making, maintainers for various OS components).
The assembly would then also be responsible for deciding on focus areas and long term goals for the project (e.g. improving reliability, building a production-ready immutable version of the distro)
We could then form working groups to enable cross-team collaboration to move towards our specific goals.
Currently we lack a lot of understanding of the potential implications of something like this, how we can ensure the project doesn't get hijacked, that we don't drift too far from our mission statement, etc etc...
If you have a background in sociology and/or relevant experience from other projects then I would love to reach out and be able to discuss this in more detail!
Big new update to #LibreOffice, the free and private office suite. Version 26.2 is here, with:
📝 Markdown support
📊 Connectors in Calc
🚀 Spreadsheet speedups
...plus many other new features, improvements and fixes. Learn more and download it: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/02/04/libreoffice-26-2-is-here/ #foss #opensource #freesoftware
Very much liked this statement from Mario Campolargo at the EU #OpenSource Policy Summit:
👉 If the money is public, the code should be public. 👈
GIMP 3.0 has been released.
https://www.gimp.org/news/2025/03/16/gimp-3-0-released/
This Week in KDE Apps covers new releases for Kaidan, Tellico and Amarok; usability improvements for Itinerary, Kasts and Kate; fixes for KOrganizer and Konsole; and new stuff in Merkuro and SystemDGenie.
https://blogs.kde.org/2025/02/17/this-week-in-kde-apps/
#apps #freesoftware #opensource
@kde@lemmy.kde.social
Today we are very proud to announce that the United Nations has switched from Google Forms to CryptPad Form for collecting endorsements on the UN Open Source Principles: https://unite.un.org/news/sixteen-organizations-endorse-un-open-source-principles
CryptPad Form is a full-fledged application allowing you to build privacy-preserving questionnaires for your respondents.
Try it for free, without even registering an account, on our CryptPad.fr flagship instance!
#UnitedNations #UN #Privacy #OpenSource #Forms #Studies #FOSS
HELLO! My #opensource #lisp game Kandria is now out on GOG with a 70% discount (highest ever!) to go along with it:
View Mozilla Thunderbird Mailbox Quota Size Usage and Limit
A complete guide to acquire the necessary knowledge and required steps to view a mailbox’s quota size usage and limit in Mozilla Thunderbird.
https://www.adamsdesk.com/posts/mozilla-thunderbird-mailbox-quota-size/
Any high-follower (10-20k+) techy person interested in helping me debug a tool I made for viewing the distribution of your followers/accounts you follow?
#Meta’s LLaMa license is still not #OpenSource - https://opensource.org/blog/metas-llama-license-is-still-not-open-source "call on Zuckerberg and Yann LeCunn to change the Llama license and comply with the Open Source Definition." #ai
Here's a selection of new features in #LibreOffice 26.2, which we released on Wednesday: https://peertube.opencloud.lu/w/pyAi3grZqqrBaN1XWzWrvw #foss #openSource #freesoftware
I'm currently working on a new personal project, but I also happen to have some free cycles for smaller advisory, coaching, or consulting engagements.
Would you like my decades of experience applied to your pursuits, while also helping me pay my rent? Sure you would!
Find more info here: https://anonymoushash.vmbrasseur.com/2026/02/availability
Group-Office's latest release is worth a look.
Dear FOSS maintainers,
here’s a list of funding programs currently accepting proposals for maintenance work:
Codeberg: https://codeberg.org/mechko/awesome-maintainer-funding
GitHub: https://github.com/mechko/awesome-maintainer-funding
Thanks to everyone who helped crowdsource it! I’ll keep it updated, issues and PRs are very welcome :)
RE: https://socialontario.ca/@smattymatty/116042189042136595
The problem isn't "too much software."
It's who owns the software, and what they optimized it for.
Healthcare isn't worse because of software. It's worse because healthcare software was built to maximize billing extraction, not patient outcomes.
Social media isn't worse because of software. But it was built to maximize engagement, not connection.
More proprietary closed #software built for profit extraction? Yeah, that'll keep making things worse.
Desde hace un par de días, @phanpy hace que las barras superior e inferior se muestren con esos colores en Android 14, utilizándolo como aplicación progresiva (pwa) en Firefox, cuando hasta ahora,vdichas barras, respetaban el tema negro elegido. ¿Algún fallo en la interface, que hace que Android las muestre así, @cheeaun?.
He probado con otros teléfonos con Android 12 y Android 11 y ocurre lo mismo. 🤔
#bug #Phanpy #PanphySocial #Firefox #Android #Mastodon #SoftwareLibre #opensource #ayuda
TIL: The European Union Public License.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_Public_Licence
Looks pretty decent actually!
• OSI and FSF approved
• copyleft
• SaaS clause (like the AGPL)
• explicitly compatible with several copyleft licenses to allow EUPL code to be integrated into GPL, AGPL, LGPL, OSL, MPL etc. projects
• based on European law
• available in 23 languages, all with the same validity
#EUPL #EuropeanUnion #software #license #FLOSS #OpenSource #licensing
Hello again, World! An #Introduction
I'm JBQ, 50-ish, he/him, French-born, currently moving from Spokane, WA, USA to Preveza, Greece.
I have worked on operating systems, browsers, SDKs, and similar tech, mostly for mobile. Most visibly, I managed the Open-Source aspects of Android from 2009 (1.6) to 2013 (4.3).
I am currently active in the Atari ST #OpenSource #DemoScene, as Djaybee from the MegaBuSTers.
My strongest languages are C and assembly (especially 68k). I've touched many more.
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#Dev senior, lead developer, formateur (H/F) : rejoignez le créateur de #Symfony
Développez vos compétences avec des projets innovants, le partage avec l'équipe & grâce à un accès privilégié à l'open source 📖
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WRT #Discord, there's an effectively unsolvable conundrum we can't really face, folks. We'd all like the high moral standards that are found in the #OpenSource community, when done right: nobody screwing each other over for their PII, and other forms of leverage (walled-garden lock-in). Geeks get this, normies don't. (This gulf is very hard to cross, IMHO, without resorting to actual educational curriculum explaining it in schools.)
But then we have conflicting desires: we *also* want the buttery smoothness to a secure messaging ecosystem - total convenience, total functionality, *complete with a level-playing-field, "Net Neutral" infrastructure to run it on*, with no lobbied government or tech-bro interference skewing the traffic rules (QOS Rules). Good luck with that one, without strong gov't control, and solid grassroots lobbying behind it.
Lets be honest: #Signal is so great *because tens of millions of dollars were charitably spent on it*. Moxie didn't do his genius work *for free*. Where are tens of millions of *more* dollars going to come from, to make a Discord alternative? Would that be nowhere? Look, there's no quick and easy answers to Discord enshittifying. I've looked at #XMPP, #Matrix, #Deltachat, #Discourse, #Flarum, #PHPBB, #Zulip, #Mattermost, etc. and *each has its warts*. You'll dislike each of them, for different reasons. Each paints itself into a different corner. *There were no tens of millions of dollars upfront, at an early design phase, overlooked by qualified Computer Scientists, to prevent this, in each and every case.* #IRC doesn't bear mention in this comparison. None is the perfect replacement or answer. *None had those tens of millions of dollars which Signal had.*
Alas, they don't stand a chance to be the all-singing, all-dancing solutions that the techbros can finance, *along with their predictable, rotten lack of a moral compass to accompany the slickness.* Every non-geek teenager will side with the techbros, owing to 1) convenience, and 2) that's where their friends are, *which mean the world to a teenager*.
So in summary, we are doomed by our own psychological limitations, as a demographic. The psychological predators - the techbros - can't help but prey on the normies, and the normies can't help but turn to the predators, who at least offer convenience, if no other thing. And the geeks who have a moral compass stand in the middle, ignored by-and-large, feeling anxious and powerless, not having any tens of millions of dollars behind their altruism.
