#ThankGNU! to Adarsh Melethil, David Bruce, Deborah Jackson, James Wilson, Mikael Taipale, Peter Sluka, and Valerio Poggi for helping the FSF continue its goal of educating the public about #freesoftware See a longer list of those who have helped us financially in our advocacy for #SoftwareFreedom and awareness: https://u.fsf.org/3vy
If you followed the latest #FOSDEM news,
you may have already learned that the
FOSS on mobile devices devroom
is back for another round in 2025 🚀
You can view the Call for Proposals here:
https://gitlab.com/fosdem_mobile/devroom/-/blob/main/README.md
EDIT: Or on the mailing list:
https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2024q4/003599.html
We are looking forward to all submissions 🎉
Submit today! 👌
or at least no later than the first of December ⛄
#MobileLinux #Mobile #FOSS #Mobian #postmarketOS #phosh #GNOME #KDE #sxmo #embedded #FOSDEM25
Assigning your copyright to the FSF helps defend the GPL and keep software free. Thanks to Alexander Kozhevnikov (GNU #emacs), Ankit Raj Pandey (GNU #emacs), Artem Iurchenko (GNU #auctex, GNU #emacs), Felix Lechner (GNU #emacs), Giacomo Lorenzetti (GNU #astro), Loïc Lemaître (GNU #emacs), Toshihiro Umehara (GNU #emacs), Zebbediah Beck (GNU #bash) for assigning their copyright to the FSF!
The FSF's Licensing and Compliance Lab is curious to learn more about current practices of those who advise projects to accept LLM-generated source code contributions. Please participate in and share our survey: https://my.fsf.org/llm-contributions
Today is the day! — Nitrux 3.7.1 "sp" is available to download — https://nxos.org
We are pleased to announce the launch of Nitrux 3.7.1. This new version combines the latest software updates, bug fixes, performance improvements, and ready-to-use hardware support.
Nitrux 3.7.1 is available immediately.
Changelog: https://nxos.org/changelog/release-announcement-nitrux-3-7-1/
An FSF associate membership grants you access to the FSF's Jitsi Meet server and the Member Forum. Learn more: https://www.fsf.org/associate/benefits #BecomeAnFSFAssociateMember
2D platforming walking sim "Witch in the Rain" was released recently. It has a native Linux version and is available DRM free at Itch.
The #deadline for the #photo competition for the wallpaper collection ends tomorrow. https://github.com/openSUSE/wallpapers/issues/18
As part of my quest to make #GNOME i18n rock, I did some #TechWriting and improved the Damned Lies OpenAPI documentation.
Can you find the 7 differences?
Did you know that @tdforg has a Certification Program for #LibreOffice developers? Rafael Lima just joined us – and tells us about his experiences: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2024/10/31/interview-with-newly-certified-libreoffice-developer-rafael-lima/ #foss #opensource #freesoftware
We are always getting new and additional colleagues at TUXEDO: Peter, for example, is responsible for ensuring that the TUXEDO webshop runs smoothly, and he rushed to support us at the beginning of the year.
https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en/Welcome-on-Board-TUXEDO-Part-38.tuxedo
Learn about smooth SharePoint to Nextcloud migration with Frank Dengler at the Nextcloud Enterprise Day 🤩
Dr. Dengler will share his expertise and give some essential tips for a well-prepared and structured approach to such a transition.
#ThankGNU! to Matomo.org for helping the FSF to promote #freesoftware See a longer list of those who have helped us financially in our advocacy for #SoftwareFreedom and awareness: https://u.fsf.org/3vy
We recently expanded step five of the Freedom Ladder draft on the LibrePlanet wiki with a list of mobile phone apps that respect the user's freedom and are easily adopted. Please adopt, spread and improve this important resource: https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Freedom_Ladder
In a world where technology can mean the difference between life and death, can we afford the restrictions proprietary software places on progress? Watch and share "Rewind" (Spoiler alert: the answer is "no".) https://u.fsf.org/rewind
Celebrate #Halloween with #ONLYOFFICE: check out our new collection of templates 🎃
Happy #Halloween!
I have been gaming since 1992 and building PCs since 2003. I enjoy Linux, supporting FOSS projects and am a tinfoil hat connoisseur.
Many FOSS projects rely on donations. If you have money to spare but don't know which to donate to take a look at the above links on Ko-fi, Github, and Open Collective. Anything on there that I have sponsered or contributed to is something I have found to be worthy.