Notices tagged with foss

Powered by Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, elementary OS 8 is here featuring Secure Sessions, app permissions, and inclusive design. Here's more on that!
https://linuxiac.com/elementary-os-8-marries-beauty-with-functionality/

#elementaryos #linux #foss

📣 Last days to send your Call for Participation for the Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom at #FOSDEM 2025!

https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2024q4/003586.html

💥 Submit your talk or panel proposal about topics such as
- LL-generative-model-related questions
- Regulations (e.g. CRA, AI Act, PLD, DMA)
- How trademarks have been
used as control mechanisms
- Funding schemes and market incentives for Free Sofware
- License compliance experiences
- Tax exempt status
And more...

#freesoftware #FOSS

We've had 700 responses to the Guix user and Contributor survey! Thank-you to everyone who's taken it!

If you use, or have have experimented with Guix have you take it yet?

https://guix.limesurvey.net/

I'll leave it up until Sunday (1st December) and then it's gone gone gone. So *now* is the time to get your views into the mix!

#guix #FOSS #nix #fsf #linux #guile #emacs #scheme

This Thursday we're having a #webinar about support services. That is, practical help with your free and open source project. We'll be discussing: Technical writing, Testing, Translation & localisation, UX testing, & Troubleshooting.
Speakers are the people who provide the support so it is a nice way to get to know them.
The webinar is open to everyone. But note that the services can only be requested by people who've received an #NGI grant. Nov 28, 13.00 CET
https://nlnet.nl/events/20241128/index.html
#NGI0 #FOSS

𝗖𝗼𝗱𝗲 𝗽𝗮𝗶𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗯𝗲 𝗮𝘃𝗮𝗶𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲

Why is software created using taxpayers’ money not released as #FreeSoftware under a #FOSS licence? If it is public money, it should be public code as well!

🖥️ https://publiccode.eu/

📺 https://media.fsfe.org/w/7cH6EATpmPwaMsEZN8vfyj

It was a pleasure to talk about the values behind #PeerTube, the funding of #foss, our relationship to @NGIZero programs thanks to @nlnet… with the nice people of @APC.

Learn more about how the software is made on their blog: https://www.apc.org/node/40437.
#FreeInternetoftheFuture #NextGenerationInternet

Schleswig-Holstein geht mit seiner heute vorgestellten Open-Source-Strategie den nächsten Schritt in Richtung digitale Unabhängigkeit. Geplant sind neue Kollaborationsplattformen, der Umstieg auf LibreOffice und sogar ein Betriebssystem-Wechsel. Alle Infos: https://schleswig-holstein.de/DE/landesregierung/ministerien-behoerden/I/_startseite/Artikel2024/IV/241125_open-source-strategie
#OpenSource #FOSS

Today, I’ll work on drafting feedback to ENISA’s consultation on their guidance for the #NIS2 implementing act for the digital sector. Once again, the #foss bits could use some love, though I’m happy they did write about it in the first place.
The focus is once again on “supply chain security requirements” with the goal of avoiding undue pressure from regulated entities towards upstream #opensource communities treated as “suppliers”.
Interested? Blog from past summer: https://blog.nlnetlabs.nl/supply-chain-security-obligations-for-nis2-regulated-entities-vs-developers-of-open-source-software/

#CyberResilienceAct published as Regulation EU 2024/2847 in the Official Journal of the EU: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=OJ:L_202402847
Full application at 11 December 2027, reporting obligations at 11 September 2026.

I wrote on the implications for #opensource and #foss in the past, based on last year’s FOSDEM content, including resources by others:
https://blog.nlnetlabs.nl/what-i-learned-in-brussels-the-cyber-resilience-act/

Farming du jour (suite à la conversation avec @songxisto @Julianoe et @PorCus ) :

une interface de GPS de voiture open source https://www.foxtrotgps.org/

un système de navigation open source basé sur open street maps https://www.navit-project.org/

un feature phone / smartphone qui est presque prêt (en espérant qu'une de ces enthousiasmantes initiatives finisse par vraiment voir le jour) https://hackaday.com/2024/10/02/mikrophone-open-secure-simple-smartphone/

un GPS de voiture DIY https://www.autopi.io/blog/build-a-raspberry-pi-touch-screen-car-computer/

un GPS de vélo https://github.com/hishizuka/pizero_bikecomputer

allez petite salade de hashtags #DIY #arduino #OpenSource #FOSS #GPS #SouveraineteNumerique #velo #bike

A reader suggested one more professional Adobe Acrobat Pro alternative, PDF Studio Pro. Installation went without a hitch on my Linux too.

#pdf #acrobat #adobeacrobat #adobe #linux #opensource #foss #office #libreoffice #onlyoffice

@kkarhan that's also at the heart of the difference between #opensource & #freesoftware @silentexception

#foss #floss

Outro pedido de recomendação: preciso de um sistema operacional desktop #FOSS prático, estável e simples, voltado para novos usuários #Linux. Quais vocês me recomendariam?

@linux

In Holland we have an analogy to gauge whether someone has too much #ownership + decision making power in a project.

This by simply asking the question: "What would happen if you walked under a bus tomorrow?"

Which are the top 3 most prominent and vital #FOSS projects you would nominate to be equipped with bus-free zones and in-house dormitories for the dev crew?

Utterly biased for fedi, I already say mastodon, so that option no longer counts.

My oh my..
Could we even find 3 for that list? 😛

New on // foss.events: FOSDEM by Fosdem Team on 01-02 February 2025 in Université Libre Bruxelles in #Brussels, #Belgium

https://foss.events/2025/02-01-fosdem.html

Call for participation is running until 01.12.2024

@fosdem

#fosdem #fosdem25 #FOSDEM #FosdemTeam #foss #floss #freesoftware #opensource #events #europe

This Week in Plasma: Battery Charge Cycles in Info Center.

https://blogs.kde.org/2024/11/23/this-week-in-plasma-battery-charge-cycles-in-info-center

This week we of course continued the customary bug-fixing, but got some nice new features and UI improvements too!

#KDE #Plasma #KDEPlasma #Linux #FOSS #OpenSource

@kde@lemmy.kde.social

Coding time! Learn how to create and modify LibreOffice dialog boxes, with the help of our dev blog: https://dev.blog.documentfoundation.org/2024/11/22/vcl-weld-create-libreoffice-gui-from-design-files/ #dev #foss #OpenSource

Shutter Encoder is a new free GPL app (donationware optionally) that is a front-end to ffmpeg. It's kind of like Handbrake, or Avidemux, or LosslessCut, but with a lot more ffmpeg options exposed. Available for Mac, Win, and Linux.

#linux #opensource #ffmpeg #foss #video #videos #videoeditor #handbrake

🚀 The Future is Federated - issue no.14 👩🚀

“A new way to describe the Fediverse and its opposition to Big Tech”

https://blog.elenarossini.com/a-new-way-to-describe-the-fediverse-and-its-opposition-to-big-tech/

I think I may have finally found a way to explain the Fediverse and make it appealing to people not familiar with it - a very Italian, highly accessible way to frame it, via an analogy that anyone could understand.

#TheFutureIsFederated #tech #Fediverse #activism #BigTech #BigFood #SocialMedia #FOSS #blog #NeilPostman #healthylifestyle

Move Files: a #tinytool

We released a tiny tool that moves files.

It is written in the #haskell programming language. The full source code is available as #FOSS (free and open-source software) on CodeBerg, here: https://codeberg.org/OmegaJunior/move-files

You will need to download the #GHC and cabal to compile it.