Notices by Matthias Kirschner (kirschner@mastodon.social)

Great presentations during demo night at #dwebcamp. Here @cwebber during an entertaining performance.

Last walk around #dwebcamp in the morning. Now trying to say good-bye to the people I met and had discussions with. Afterwarsa back home to Berlin before departing to Krakow for @fsfe's 25th anniversary on Thursday.

Had many good discussions about #decentralization at #dwebcamp with so many interesting people.

When arriving in sunny Berlin @evan (one of the fathers of the #fediverse 😉) and I realised we did not take a picture at camp 😱 Fixed that!!

Wish all the fellow #dwebcamp folks a good travel!

Andi and Isahdai from the #dwebcamp team do such a great work encouraging the next generation to be curious and do good things. And even on day 4 still always patient and spreading lots of positive energy. Big thank you, to the two of them for this crucial part of #dwebcamp !! 👏❤️

The @fsfe 's ice cream at #dwebcamp approved by THE internet librarian @brewsterkahle 👍

Long queue for @fsfe 's ice cream at #dwebcamp after the movie screening of "Ada & #Zangemann - A Tale of #Software , Skateboards, and Raspberry Ice Cream" . all available under CC-By-Sa. See https://ada.fsfe.org

Lovely night atmosphere at #dwebcamp

As many raise questions about #EuroOffice and the #AGPL license ( @nextcloud #Ionos...) my current recommendation is to read:

* @fsf 's "You cannot use the #GNU (A)GPL to take #softwarefreedom away https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/agpl-is-not-a-tool-for-taking-freedom-away

* and @bkuhn 's "#AGPL v3§7¶4 Empowers Users to Thwart #Badgeware" https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2026/apr/16/badgeware-onlyoffice-nextcloud-affero-gpl/

When Petter discovered “Ada & #Zangemann”, he immediately felt the urge to make sure the story was available to the #Norwegian speakers. Now “Ada og Zangemann - En fortelling om programvare, rullebrett og bringebæris” has been published and was presented during the Norwegian local celebrations of #ilovefs.

Read Petter’s story and if you like what he did, join me in a round of applause for Petter 👏👏 👏 👏 https://fsfe.org/news/2026/news-20260302-01.en.html

RE: https://gruene.social/@Gerbsen/116052492129846084

Money transfer from the German Federal Administration to Microsoft:

2023: 274.091.361,75 Euro
2024: 347.665.579,71 Euro
2025: 481.369.660,77 Euro

(Source: German Parliament 21/4006 page 96 https://dserver.bundestag.de/btd/21/040/2104006.pdf )

Daniel asks what #FreeSoftware #OpenSource could have been procured and developed with such sums and how you feel about when you see those numbers. He also fears this trend will continue.

One of the parts of #FOSDEM I also always love is meeting other participants you never met before on the train and hear about their experiences at #fosdem. After 1h we started talking about the #Fediverse and #Mastodon and decided to take a picture of this /dev/random table.

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

We are proud to share with you the schedule for the #FOSDEM #Legal & #Policy DevRoom where
hackers, developers, contributors,
lawyers, and decision-makers alike will share their knowledge with the #FreeSoftware #OpenSource community:

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/track/legal/

(We = @richardfontana @tmarble
@conservancy 's
@bkuhn @karen and @fsfe 's @lexelas & myself + our speakers and of course the @fosdem crew without whom this would not exist 👏 )

You want to share knowledge about #policy or #legal topics around #SoftwareFreedom? Please submit your proposal for the #FOSDEM #Legal and #Policy Devroom asap: https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2025q4/003703.html

Anyone here from the #Esperando community? "Ada & Zangemann - Rakonto pri programaro, rultabuloj kaj framba glaciaĵo" is translated into #Esperando but the volunteer would highly appreciate some proofreading. https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/fsfe/ada-zangemann/eo/

International Criminal Court moves from Microsoft to #FreeSoftware #Opendesk https://www.heise.de/en/news/International-Criminal-Court-Kicks-Out-Microsoft-10964189.html

Was happy to see that the @EUCommission is now providing #Matrix accounts https://chat.contact.ec.europa.eu/

It's never too early to start thinking about #FOSDEM! @bkuhn @karen @lexelas @richardfontana @tmarble and would like to submit a proposal for the "#Legal and #Policy Devroom" to @fosdem as soon as they open the CfP. Like last year we would like get feedback by you, our community:

* What did you especially like in 2025 https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/track/legal-and-policy/ ?

* What would you like to see improved?

* What topics would you like to see in our devroom (permitted that we would be accepted again)?

As soon more and more summer vacations for pupils start: why not gift a copy of "Ada & #Zangemann - A Tale of Software, Skateboards, and Rasberry Ice Cream" (6-106y) to children around you?

It is currently available from publishers in English, German, French, Italian, and Danish from book stores. (@fsfe volunteers are working on more languages.)

@fsfe if you are in the US, the @fsf restocked the Ada & #Zangemann books https://shop.fsf.org/books-docs/ada-zangemann-tale-software-skateboards-and-raspberry-ice-cream