Notices by Michael Downey 🧢 (downey@floss.social)

Throwback sticker.

#SoftwareFreedom #stickers #FreeSoftware

@bkuhn's Paradox

#FreeSoftware #SoftwareFreedom #FOSS #FLOSS #OpenSource

🚨 :OSI: The work of @osuosl is at risk as US academic funding faces historic challenges. The Lab hosts infra for over 1000 #FOSS projects, and uses the opportunity to train students in critical #DevOps skills. Nothing comes close to the value that OSL provides the global #OpenSource community.

If you or your employer can help support this critical work, check their website for donation and contact info.

:boost_love: #boostsAppreciated

https://osuosl.org/donate

#FreeSoftware #FLOSS #OSUOSL

:OSI: It's been a month now, and the global #OpenSource community still hasn't seen the unaltered results of the recent Open Source Initiative board of directors election. Now more than ever, the world needs technology stewards we can trust. Secrets and silence weaken our shared mission.

✒️ I've joined in signing this open letter calling for the release of the full results. Will you sign on, too?

:boost_love: #boostsAppreciated

https://codeberg.org/OSI-Concerns/election-results-2025/

#FreeSoftware #FOSS #FLOSS #OSI

@richlitt As a fellow USA-ian, I wonder if you agree with me how wild it is that the SCOTUS justices can offer formal dissents to the Court's decisions, but yet the OSI directors can't....

#OSI #OpenSource #FLOSS #FOSS #FreeSoftware

@richlitt Co-sign.

When our community's past leaders-by-consensus fail to act with integrity, it damages the FOSS movement's reputation to those "on the outside".

Fortunately, as you say, our ideals and vision are bigger than any leader or organization; they can and will endure.

But at what reputational cost?

#OSI #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #FOSS #FLOSS

AM I THE ONLY ONE WHO THINKS A.I. WILL NOT MAKE THIS WORLD A BETTER PLACE?

:boost_love: #ALL_CAPS_TYPING #BOOSTSWELCOME #AI #SLOP

🇺🇲 Bernie Sanders (and AOC), who are running for nothing, just had the largest event Sanders ever had, including both his presidential campaigns.

✊ Change is coming.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkdCRMQXW14

#USpol #Bernie #Sanders #BernieSanders #AOC

@dingemansemark Done as recently as a couple days ago:

https://discuss.opensource.org/t/poll-was-your-vote-in-the-2025-board-election-thrown-away/943/7

@bkuhn The whole DM/Private-Mention/Mentioned-Only stuff has been an ongoing struggle for the devs, years in the making.

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/24837

#MastoAdmin

@onepict @froge FWIW, there is already a community fork of the OSD from when OSI surrendered their leadership during the OSIAID fiasco.

:OSI: ➡️ :freesoftware:

https://opensourcedeclaration.org/index-en-us.html

#OpenSource #OSI #FOSS #FLOSS #FreeSoftware

A new poll, "Was your vote for the 2025 board election included in the published results?" has been published:

https://discuss.opensource.org/t/was-your-vote-for-the-2025-board-election-included-in-the-published-results/948

#OSI #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #FLOSS #FOSS

UPDATE: This poll has been "unlisted" by OSI staff. Do they not want to hear feedback from their members about the election?

Disenfranchisement poll from @iank for #OSI members: "Was your vote in the 2025 board election thrown away?"

https://discuss.opensource.org/t/poll-was-your-vote-in-the-2025-board-election-thrown-away/943

#OpenSource #FOSS #FLOSS #FreeSoftware

:flag_un: :opensource: Today, the United Nations announced the "UN Open Source Principles" – 8 practical ways for groups around the world to promote global digital cooperation through free and open source software.

✍️ Like software freedom itself, these principles are for everyone, everywhere - and the orgs you support can join a list of endorsers today.

:boost_love: #boostsAppreciated - spread the word!

https://unite.un.org/news/osi-first-endorse-united-nations-open-source-principles

#OpenSource #FreeSoftware #FLOSS #FOSS #UN #UnitedNations

🏆 :blender: Congratulations to the @Blender project for its role in the film "Flow", which just won the Best Animated Feature award at #Oscars2025.

Open Source has won, indeed!

https://www.blender.org/user-stories/making-flow-an-interview-with-director-gints-zilbalodis/

#Oscars #Flow #Blender #FOSS #FLOSS #OpenSource #FreeSoftware

Dear #LazyFed --

:terminal: What's your favourite #Linux terminal software with good #ANSI support that I could use for connecting to BBS's?

#OpenSource #FreeSoftware #GNOME #BBS #terminal

@evan Lynx, the oldest continually-maintained browser.

💰 Elon #Musk reportedly spent $40 million dollars on #SuperBowl ads calling #USAID wasteful.

🤯 Money that could have saved the lives of 25 million kids with malaria.

💡 At less than 1% of the US budget, USAID makes America safer, stronger and more secure.

🗣️ US folks, tell Congress that for pennies on the dollar, foreign aid is a deal it can't afford to lose.

📺 And watch THIS ad instead.

#StandWithUSAID #SaveForeignAid #USpol #SuperbOwlSunday

Personnel from the Musk-created office physically tried to access the USAID headquarters in Washington, DC, and were stopped.

The DOGE personnel demanded to be let in and threatened to call US Marshals to be allowed access, two of the sources said.

Three of the sources said the DOGE personnel wanted to gain access to security systems and personnel files. Two of those sources said also they wanted access to classified information.

(2/3)

https://lite.cnn.com/2025/02/02/politics/usaid-officials-leave-musk-doge/index.html

#USpol #USAID #Resist #DOGE

🚨 Senior USAID security officials put on leave after refusing Musk’s DOGE access to agency systems

Two top security officials at the US Agency for International Development were put on administrative leave Saturday night after refusing to allow officials from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency to access systems at the agency, even after DOGE personnel threatened to call law enforcement, multiple sources familiar told CNN.

https://lite.cnn.com/2025/02/02/politics/usaid-officials-leave-musk-doge/index.html

#resist #USAID #USpol #Musk #Trump