Who will maintain our digital future? On 3 Dec 2025 in Berlin, we’re hosting an event for the #SovereignTechFellowship. In 2025, this program has paid maintainers of essential #opensource projects, piloting a new model for supporting #digitalinfrastructure in the #publicinterest.

Join us to meet the inaugural fellows, learn lessons from the pilot year, and discuss with our expert panel on the impact of public sector fellowships for technologists.

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We’ve been experimenting with micro-learning videos at Superbloom — short lessons on human-centred security, ethical design, harmful patterns, and more.

Here’s one from Molly on what security + design have in common: (spoiler: real humans + shortcuts)

🎥 Watch (4:00): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbnSw6vckWs

Got feedback or ideas for future topics? DM us!

#DesignJustice #Security #OpenSource #UX

LWDW is live on YouTube!!! 
Come have some fun and get some #Linux #News along the way!
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#OpenSource #podcast #technews
#SwitchtoLinux #FOSS
https://shorturl.at/CbBHP

🆕 blog! “The Peaceful Transfer of Power in Open Source Projects”

Most of the people who run Open Source projects are mortal. Recent history shows us that they will all eventually die, or get bored, or win the lottery, or get sick, or be conscripted, or lose their mind.

If you've ever visited a foreign country's national history museum, I…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/11/the-peaceful-transfer-of-power-in-open-source-projects/
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#BDFL #mastodon #OpenSource #oss

SecureDrop is building the next generation of anonymity tools for whistleblowers. SecureDrop software engineer Cory Myers and ETH Zurich researcher Felix Linker gave a talk in Montreal earlier this month about our new, custom messaging protocol:

https://securedrop.org/news/securedrop-protocol-ietf-124/

#securedrop #whistleblowing #opensource

Hey, folks! @xubuntu needs some help. If you've always wanted to help with an Open Source project, and you're a fan of @xfce and Xubuntu, this would be a great time to start contributing.

Check out @bluesabre's blog post and then check out the Xubuntu contribute page:

https://seand.xyz/blog/2025/10/09/xubuntu-25-10-questing-quokka/

https://xubuntu.org/contribute/

#OpenSource #Xubuntu #Linux #Xfce

“The bugs that we create live after us, the patches are oft interrèd with our code. Let it be so with all Open Source projects.” from @Edent’s blog about transfer of leadership in #OpenSource projects https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/11/the-peaceful-transfer-of-power-in-open-source-projects/ 💀🐛

Jutta Horstman CEO of @heinleinsupport speaking at #euroskylive in #Berlin about bridging #digitalsovereignty & the #openweb.

Her view on #eusummit25 ? Severe lack of strategy and #buyeuropean is not enough.

We need #opensource #alternatives.

Jutta @smphr calls #openprocols like #Activitypub & #ATproto to allign and join forces.

#ATProtoBerlin #Digitalgipfel

Analyse zum Digitale-Souveränität-Gipfel: Open Source wird abgewatscht

Open-Source-Software reduziert Abhängigkeiten von Big Tech – spielte aber auf dem Digitale-Souveränitäts-Gipfel kaum eine Rolle, analysiert Christian Wölbert.

https://www.heise.de/meinung/Analyse-zum-Digitale-Souveraenitaet-Gipfel-Open-Source-wird-abgewatscht-11083975.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#DigitaleSouveränität #OpenSource #Netzpolitik #news

Frustrating to see new #IETF drafts and mailing list discussions etc. continuing to use legacy IPv4 in the examples with no mention of #IPv6

Normalize IPv6 by using it in your documentation and examples. The same goes for #OpenSource projects.

It would be nice if, at least within the IETF standards body itself, we could start dancing like it's 1998 🕺

📢 NetBSD 11.0 release is imminent!

Release is getting a massive upgrade. Community need your help to ensure it runs smoothly on everything from modern servers to vintage workstations.

✨ What to test:
• Improved RISC-V Support
• ZFS & Kernel stability
• Your favorite pkgsrc tools

🔥 The Challenge: #RunOnAnything. Install the Beta on your most interesting hardware and show us the results!

⬇️ Grab the latest NetBSD 11 binaries here:
https://nycdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-11/latest

#NetBSD #BSD #OpenSource #Unix #BetaTesting #RetroComputing #RunBSD

Are you working on aligning your public administration with the requirements of the Interoperable Europe Act?

Join tomorrow's webinar by our Open Source Observatory and learn more about the #OpenSource resources that we offer to help you along the way.

Register here 👉 https://link.europa.eu/DkX6xm

Blender 5.0: HDR-Video, neue Nodes und überarbeiteter Videoschnitt

Das freie 3D-Programm Blender 5.0 unterstützt HDR-Monitore, bringt neue Geometry-Node-Modifier und integriert den Compositor direkt in den Videoschnitt.

https://www.heise.de/news/Blender-5-0-HDR-Video-neue-Nodes-und-ueberarbeiteter-Videoschnitt-11084169.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#Blender #Entertainment #OpenSource #news

Open source runs on people, not magic. Burnout is harming the ecosystem. 🫠🥹

https://itsfoss.com/news/open-source-developers-are-exhausted/

#opensource #burnout #mentalhealth

Open Source Developers Are Exhausted, Unpaid, and Ready to Walk Away

The foundation of modern software is cracking under the weight of burnout.

https://itsfoss.com/news/open-source-developers-are-exhausted/

#OpenSource

🇩🇪 Partner update: TEKDynamics GmbH in Germany

They’ll support XWiki deployments, Confluence to XWiki migrations, SSO integrations, and custom extensions with backing from XWiki SAS.

🔗 Learn more: https://xwiki.com/en/Blog/XWiki-and-TEKDynamics/

#XWiki #OpenSource #KnowledgeManagement #DigitalSovereignty #Germany #News #Partnership

Isn't that right? 😆

#linux #opensource

The Death of Arduino?

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/adafruit_opensource-privacy-techpolicy-activity-7396903362237054976-r14H

#HackerNews #Arduino #Death #Opensource #TechPolicy #Adafruit #Innovation