Today we're celebrating the 26th anniversary of GNOME 🎉🎉
Thank you to all our outstanding contributors and community members for helping make the #GNOME project what it is today!
My old e-reader had some problems and needed to be replaced. I ended up exploring the hell that is DRM (copy protection) on e-books and tried to break the restraints so I can read my own legally acquired books with FOSS software. I wrote a blog post on it that describes my frustrations (another ideological rant) but hopefully also helps others in a similar position with some practical guidance: https://proycon.anaproy.nl/posts/do-not-restrict-me/
Do you work on GNOME or adjacent stuff? Do you want to help improve the GNOME desktop around usability, reliability, safety, digital well-being?
GET PAID TO DO IT!
The @gnome Foundation is offering a one-year contract (with potential to extend) to work on the above on behalf of the Foundation. You’d probably interact with me, the GNOME design team, and core maintainers of GNOME components.
Burnout in the FOSS community is real, and I'm glad that it's something that is being talked about more in blogs and conferences. There is a different flavor of burnout and emotional toll when you are sacrificing for a cause you believe in (especially in FOSS where people are often working for free or at below market rate). Working for a cause you believe in brings the highest highs when things are going well, but the lowest lows when they go badly.
Are you working on a project that makes the internet better for everyone? We support projects like yours both financially & practically. The next deadline for our rolling open calls is October 1.
Applying is simple, just fill out the one-page form. You can request between €5 000 & €50 000 euros. Open source, open data, open hardware & open standards projects are welcome. All outcomes must be published under an #opensource license & papers as #openaccess. https://nlnet.nl/news/2023/20230801-call.html #FOSS#funding
It took 4 months and 50 code commits, but my federated version of reddit (written in #python) can now follow and be followed by instances of #kbin and #lemmy!
Getting #ActivityPub working has been ... a journey.
Hello, world! 👋 It’s your friendly neighborhood app store here on the Fediverse! Check our profile, we’re verified. 😎
Speaking of which… if you’re an app developer and want to get your app verified on Flathub, check the docs! If you need any help, give us a shout here.
Je recherche des musiciens qui travaillent avec des logiciels libres. J'aimerai leur poser des questions pour mieux comprendre leurs usages, les opportunités et contraintes des logiciels libres pour les musiciens.
Nous sommes en train de rédiger un guide pour les musiciens, et je suis à la recherche de plus d'exemples.
Tell you what, being vocal about Health & Safety has been a very useful filter.
It's the same way being vocal about Codes of Conduct was 10 years ago.
Turns out, if somebody nopes out when you introduce proactive measures to keep a community healthy and safe, then they're probably not safe to have around in the first place.
Reminder: The Sovereign Tech Fund is asking #FOSS maintainers for input as we design the pilot program for a paid fellowship to support critical digital infrastructure. Help us by sharing this with maintainers you know!
The last day to submit a response is Sunday, 7 April 2024.
Reddit to Wayback Machine is a Firefox add-on that converts Reddit links to archive.org links. Useful to access past user-generated content without going to reddit directly.
I'll keep saying it, because it keeps coming up. If you're working in the FreeDesktop, Linux, or Flatpak spaces, you need to understand this, even if you don't personally care about gaming or Steam Deck.
I've been working on a subtitle editor plugin for #peertube !
It adds a extra button on the update video page, and can do most of what you find in other tools, like visualize audio, basic formatting, and makes it easy to switch language.
The goal is that it should be "good enough" for most who just want to add subtitles/captions, but don't want to spend time finding and downloading dedicated software for this.
Instance administrators can install it via the plugin page. #accessibility#a11y#foss
Time flies, doesn't it?
20 years ago today, a new cross-platform, open-source application called Thunderbird debuted from the foundations of Mozilla Mail.
Some of you have been with us this entire time, and we are so honored to have you on this journey with us.
Just been blown away by how good Narrator and Live Captions are on Windows and it makes me even angrier that they aren’t just building an OS but an ad-and-AI infested surveillance nightmare. Mainly because it shows, yet again, what we could achieve in technology if everything wasn’t tied to a toxic business model and a suicidal system of perpetual growth with finite resources.
This should also shame the Linux folks (not volunteers, multi-billion/trillion-dollar corporations who profit from it).
If you want Live Captions on Linux, check out https://github.com/abb128/LiveCaptions – you can also find it on Flathub and it works splendidly and, unlike the Windows version, it automatically saves a transcript. This is perfect for making your live streams and videos more accessible. And it’s free and open source.