It is coming the time of the year again thousands of freedom enthusiasts meet in #Brussels for some days of exchanging knowledge, building community and planning ahead.

Thanks to our community you can find many events surrounding #FOSDEM on // foss.events including for leisure time.

If you are looking for more, don't miss out the dedicated @fosdem Fringe page, listing even more events for you to enjoy: https://fosdem.org/2026/fringe/

#foss #floss #freesoftware #opensource #events #europe

It is coming the time of the year again thousands of freedom enthusiasts meet in #Brussels for some days of exchanging knowledge, building community and planning ahead.

Thanks to our community you can find many events surrounding #FOSDEM on // foss.events including for leisure time.

If you are looking for more, don't miss out the dedicated @fosdem Fringe page, listing even more events for you to enjoy: https://fosdem.org/2026/fringe/

#foss #floss #freesoftware #opensource #events #europe

It is coming the time of the year again thousands of freedom enthusiasts meet in #Brussels for some days of exchanging knowledge, building community and planning ahead.

Thanks to our community you can find many events surrounding #FOSDEM on // foss.events including for leisure time.

If you are looking for more, don't miss out the dedicated FOSDEM Fringe page, listing even more events for you to enjoy: https://fosdem.org/2026/fringe/

#foss #floss #freesoftware #opensource #events #europe

“I really like the Small Web. Thanks for NOT supporting it.”

https://ar.al/2022/10/20/nlnet-grant-application-for-domain-rejected/

(We tried one more time after that, got rejected again, and then stopped wasting time with @nlnet and @NGIZero. The Small Web will launch this year with ZERO EU funding in its six years of development from NGI/NLNet. If you want to support us before it does, please see https://small-tech.org/fund-us. After we launch, we aim for it to be self sustaining. So NGI/NLNet have been and are irrelevant as far as the Small Web is concerned.)

https://eupolicy.social/@jmaris/115940504761958251

#SmallWeb #SmallTech #EU #funding #FOSS #OpenSource #EUpol #OpenSourceSustainability #NextGenerationInternet #NGI #NLNet #SmallTechnologyFoundation

🖤 calling unix weirdos

I wrote a manifesto about
Gopher, techno-romance, and why small systems beat scale
(“Intimacy in the Forgotten Stack”).

Before I throw it at Hacker News, I want eyes from people who actually love MUDs, telnet, suckless, smallnet, and human-scale software.

Reply or DM if you want the private draft. 🖥️✨
#unix #gopher #foss #smallnet #netart

RE: https://social.opensource.org/@policy/115940134797418877

Even if you just send feedback saying "I really like (funded project) thanks for supporting it", that is the kind of thing that really makes a difference!

The commission struggles to measure the value of Open Source funding, so we have to speak up so they know it makes sense!

#OpenSource #EUpol #FOSS #OpenSourceSustainability

RE: https://social.opensource.org/@policy/115940134797418877

Even if you just send feedback saying "I really like (funded project) thanks for supporting it", that is the kind of thing that really makes a difference!

The commission struggles to measure the value of Open Source funding, so we have to speak up so they know it makes sense!

#OpenSource #EUpol #FOSS #OpenSourceSustainability

Exhibit gets animated!

The latest release adds animation playback and armature visualization, making it easier to preview rigged 3D models directly in GNOME. All thanks to F3D's latest improvements.

On #flathub https://flathub.org/apps/io.github.nokse22.Exhibit

Checkout F3D at https://f3d.app

#gnome #gtk #libawaita #foss #opensource

Exhibit gets animated!

The latest release adds animation playback and armature visualization, making it easier to preview rigged 3D models directly in GNOME. All thanks to F3D's latest improvements.

On #flathub https://flathub.org/apps/io.github.nokse22.Exhibit

Checkout F3D at https://f3d.app

#gnome #gtk #libawaita #foss #opensource

what real usable alternatives to #facebook do exist?

i want to move our villagers away from fb as the official channel, but i need to give them a userfriendly #foss alternative. best even hosted in #finland #Suomi by real humans.

now is the best moment to explain how we can support democracy and freedom of speech.
#ActivityPub #Mastodon #pixelfed #digitalindependenceday #lapland

I think #canada 🇨🇦 should take a step back from Big Tech like #microsoft #amazon #google #facebook etc

All american corporations that are no longer working in our favor.

As a canadian, I believe we should start working toward digital sovereignty.

Having our own AI, tech, operating systems, etc.

The free and open souce #foss community is a great place to start.

I think #canada 🇨🇦 should take a step back from Big Tech like #microsoft #amazon #google #facebook etc

All american corporations that are no longer working in our favor.

As a canadian, I believe we should start working toward digital sovereignty.

Having our own AI, tech, operating systems, etc.

The free and open souce #foss community is a great place to start.

I've had a very pleasant hour's video call (thanks to Jitsi!) with a fellow lawyer, talking about how we use various FOSS tools in our businesses, and learning from each other.

They use NixOS, and that was certainly an eye-opener.

#FOSS #lawfedi

Jeff Bezos is saying the quiet part out loud. They want to kill local computing.

You will own nothing and be happy. You will rent your computing power from the cloud. You pay a subscription for the privilege of using a computer.

AI demand is artificially spiking DRAM prices and Big Tech is pushing "AI PCs," the squeeze is on to force us into a rental model.

Reject this future.

Keep your hardware local.

Run #Linux.

Own your data.

The "cloud" is just a landlord for your data.

#NoAi #FOSS #OpenSource #Privacy #SelfHost #SelfHosting #BigTech #RightToRepair #RAM #Amazon #EatTheRich

https://www.windowscentral.com/artificial-intelligence/jeff-bezos-says-the-quiet-part-out-loud-bezos-envisions-that-youll-give-up-your-pc-for-an-ai-cloud-version

🖤 calling unix weirdos

I wrote a manifesto about
Gopher, techno-romance, and why small systems beat scale
(“Intimacy in the Forgotten Stack”).

Before I throw it at Hacker News, I want eyes from people who actually love MUDs, telnet, suckless, smallnet, and human-scale software.

Reply or DM if you want the private draft. 🖥️✨
#unix #gopher #foss #smallnet #netart

#researchsoftware makes modern science possible - but sustaining it is hard. That’s why @opensciencenl.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy partnered with the @esciencecenter.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy and awarded it €5.4M to execute the Research Software Sustainability Programme: #openscience #foss www.openscience.nl/en/news/open...

Open Science NL and the Nether...

#researchsoftware makes modern science possible - but sustaining it is hard. That’s why @opensciencenl.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy partnered with the @esciencecenter.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy and awarded it €5.4M to execute the Research Software Sustainability Programme: #openscience #foss www.openscience.nl/en/news/open...

Open Science NL and the Nether...

FOSDEM is the biggest free and open source software (FOSS) event in Europe, and will take place on 31 January and 1 February in Brussels, Belgium. And the #LibreOffice project and community will be there! Meet us and grab cool merchandise: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/01/22/meet-the-libreoffice-community-at-fosdem-2026/ #foss #openSource #freesoftware

Europe needs digital sovereignty, and Open Source is the most direct path to it. But it requires more contribution-based procurement. More public money must flow upstream to Open Source maintainers, not just to integrators and resellers.

https://dri.es/funding-open-source-for-digital-sovereignty #foss