der.hans
der.hans boosted

Commons Caretakers has a job opening for a coordinator for the NGI0 support services. Grantees of NGI0 funds can request a wide range of services, from technical writing to UX advice. The coordinator, well, coordinates between the support providers and the grantees.
You'll be working closely together with NLnet's Technology Assessors to support project teams.

Location is hybrid: partly remote and partly in-office in the Netherlands.

https://www.commonscaretakers.com/services/work-with-us-coordinator.html

#getfedihired #foss #NGI0

Commons Caretakers has a job opening for a coordinator for the NGI0 support services. Grantees of NGI0 funds can request a wide range of services, from technical writing to UX advice. The coordinator, well, coordinates between the support providers and the grantees.
You'll be working closely together with NLnet's Technology Assessors to support project teams.

Location is hybrid: partly remote and partly in-office in the Netherlands.

https://www.commonscaretakers.com/services/work-with-us-coordinator.html

#getfedihired #foss #NGI0

Absolutely loved @cyberlyra talk on "Building A Social Movement Toward Alternatives". Addressed so many great ways to help "free" your family from being "captured" and slowly introducing folks to the #fediverse or #foss one thing at a time. You don't have to move the whole world at once.

https://spectra.video/w/wAAtEn15GZmkDhH3X1FFpP

#fedicon2025 #peertube #reclaimtech

Absolutely loved @cyberlyra talk on "Building A Social Movement Toward Alternatives". Addressed so many great ways to help "free" your family from being "captured" and slowly introducing folks to the #fediverse or #foss one thing at a time. You don't have to move the whole world at once.

https://spectra.video/w/wAAtEn15GZmkDhH3X1FFpP

#fedicon2025 #peertube #reclaimtech

Most Fediverse actors aren’t thinking in systemic terms, many default to #FOSS tropes without the deeper politics.

Without governance tools that fit the culture, fragmentation will increase.

Most newcomers have no idea where the #openweb came from, this feeds co-option by NGOs, corporations, and naïve coders.

Rebooting requires trust, and that means small, persistent human-scale federations.

Both right and left act as gatekeepers. In horizontal spaces, this becomes soft censorship.

alcinnz
alcinnz boosted

Two NGI0 partners currently have a job opening:
CCBV is looking for a coordinator to liaise between support service providers & NGI0 grantees. You'll be working closely with @nlnet 's Technology Assessors to help NGI0 project teams with dedicated support. [1]

And @ISOCSwitzerland is looking for a policy expert on digital sovereignty & the cloud to develop the so-called “Tech dossiers” . [2]

[1] https://www.commonscaretakers.com/services/work-with-us-coordinator.html

[2] https://www.isoc.ch/isoc-ch-is-hiring-application-process-is-open/

#NGI#NGI0 #getfedihired#FOSS

Two NGI0 partners currently have a job opening:
CCBV is looking for a coordinator to liaise between support service providers & NGI0 grantees. You'll be working closely with @nlnet 's Technology Assessors to help NGI0 project teams with dedicated support. [1]

And @ISOCSwitzerland is looking for a policy expert on digital sovereignty & the cloud to develop the so-called “Tech dossiers” . [2]

[1] https://www.commonscaretakers.com/services/work-with-us-coordinator.html

[2] https://www.isoc.ch/isoc-ch-is-hiring-application-process-is-open/

#NGI#NGI0 #getfedihired#FOSS

Stefano Marinelli
Michael Foster
Dane  🇮🇪 ☮️🕉️⚛️☸️
Stefano Marinelli and 2 others boosted

✨ new on #TheFutureIsFederated 🚀

« In this age of #technofeudalism every writer who covers technology - especially resistance to #BigTech - should disclose their tech stack. Here's mine »

🔗 : https://news.elenarossini.com/technofeudalism-disclosing-my-tech-stack/

Basically, a love letter to #FOSS and the #Fediverse… with room for improvement (especially on the hardware front)

#selfhosting#GoToSocial#Mastodon#NextCloud#Pixelfed#PeerTube#Signal#YunoHost#DeGoogle#LeaveSubstack #resist #resistance #broligarchy

✨ new on #TheFutureIsFederated 🚀

« In this age of #technofeudalism every writer who covers technology - especially resistance to #BigTech - should disclose their tech stack. Here's mine »

🔗 : https://news.elenarossini.com/technofeudalism-disclosing-my-tech-stack/

Basically, a love letter to #FOSS and the #Fediverse… with room for improvement (especially on the hardware front)

#selfhosting#GoToSocial#Mastodon#NextCloud#Pixelfed#PeerTube#Signal#YunoHost#DeGoogle#LeaveSubstack #resist #resistance #broligarchy

Another reason to use the GPL software license, over MIT or BSD

In short, GPL uses copyright law to protect you, as an author of software, from exploitation better than MIT or BSD software licenses do. Here we have a case of the Anthropic corporation using MIT-licensed code in one of their software products, which is of course a for-profit product. The original author of that code received no compensation, as it is not required by the license. So the author applied for a job at Anthropic, and ironically, Anthropic responded with an AI-generated rejection letter. Corporations like Anthropic seem to have an allergy to GPL-licensed code however, due to the nature of how the GPL license grants much more specific rights and restrictions, both to the authors of the code, and the companies who use it.

Of course, nowadays LLMs can ingest GPL and MIT/BSD licensed code and spit it back out in altered form, essentially letting the makers of the LLM profit from your work without compensating you, so the GPL is probably due for an “upgrade” to prevent use for AI training. Unfortunately thanks to regulatory capture, and not-so-impartial courts of law mostly ignoring copyright law nowadays, it might not even be possible to use GPL or copyright to protect authors of software anymore. Probably a whole new legal framework is required first, and I don’t think this will be happening any time soon.

#tech#software#AI#GPL#MITLicense#BSDLicense#GPLLicense#FreeSoftware#FOSS#FLOSS

Hey #foss advocates and lovers of #opensource #software and projects. What #repos are you using to share your work? It seems #github is getting controversial with #copilot Are people somewhat content with the fact that open source projects are being used for training data and just keep using github because it's useful and that's where people are or are folks looking at self-hosting or other options? @jorge curious about UBlue's position. Thanks!

sef
Bruja 🍉
just small circles 🕊
sef and 2 others boosted

A new wave of projects has been selected for grants of the NGI0 Commons Fund. We'd like to thank the 39 project teams for their contributions to a shared digital infrastructure that aims to benefit all.

We're seeing contributions across all layers of the NGI technology stack. With many open hardware projects, work on fundamental internet protocols, end-user programmes and services and much more.

Come over and meet the projects!

https://nlnet.nl/news/2025/20250804-announcement-grants-CommonsFund.html

#NGI#NGIZero#FOSS

CryptPad
CryptPad boosted

🗞️We’re proud to share that @ldubost founder of @xwiki and @CryptPad has been elected to the board of the CNLL (Conseil National du Logiciel Libre), and named Vice President Europe to represent the CNLL in international exchanges.

In this role, he’ll help build stronger European ties through @apell , uniting open-source actors across sectors and borders.

📌 Curious how XWiki contributes to this mission?
🔗 https://xwiki.com/en/company/references
#FOSS#OpenSource#SouverainetéNumérique#APELL#MadeInEurope

🗞️We’re proud to share that @ldubost founder of @xwiki and @CryptPad has been elected to the board of the CNLL (Conseil National du Logiciel Libre), and named Vice President Europe to represent the CNLL in international exchanges.

In this role, he’ll help build stronger European ties through @apell , uniting open-source actors across sectors and borders.

📌 Curious how XWiki contributes to this mission?
🔗 https://xwiki.com/en/company/references
#FOSS#OpenSource#SouverainetéNumérique#APELL#MadeInEurope

A new wave of projects has been selected for grants of the NGI0 Commons Fund. We'd like to thank the 39 project teams for their contributions to a shared digital infrastructure that aims to benefit all.

We're seeing contributions across all layers of the NGI technology stack. With many open hardware projects, work on fundamental internet protocols, end-user programmes and services and much more.

Come over and meet the projects!

https://nlnet.nl/news/2025/20250804-announcement-grants-CommonsFund.html

#NGI#NGIZero#FOSS