We mostly take over Agaric's Show & Tell Thursdays at 3pm Eastern to work on testing and development of this #FLOSS project.

https://agaric.coop/show

#VisionsUnite

I have a question for the #fedi #floss#BSD hivemind:

I have a friend who is a crusty old sysadmin frustrated with Failbook and the rest who I think would LOVE the Fediverse.

I days past I'd have recommended @fosstodon but I know they're facing capacity issues.

Can anyone recommend a good ideally UNIX (BSD, Linux?) or FLOSS oriented instance I can point him at?

He's not as much of a retrocomputing maven as I am so oldbytes isn't a good fit IMO :)

Thanks!

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🇨🇭 C’est réel. Déjà en ligne en Suisse – essayez la bêta publique dès aujourd’hui !
🔗 Version : https://taler.net/en/news/2025-01.html
🔗 Bêta : https://taler-ops.ch

#GNUTaler#LogicielLibre#FLOSS#ArgentNumérique#Confidentialité#Décentralisation#FSF40#Suisse

But, yeah, I think it's just been me that cares, around my IRL environment, anyway.

https://codeberg.org/OSI-Concerns/election-results-2025

#FOSS#FLOSS#OpenSource#FreeSoftware

@ed doesn't represent the community anymore. #OpenSource#FreeSoftware#FLOSS#FOSS

So the @osi has blocked me for asking why they aren't publishing their election results. @bkuhn @webmink @richardfontana @iank

Remember https://codeberg.org/OSI-Concerns/election-results-2025

Remeber that the whole community has signed this, and are asking for unredracted results, and the @osi and @ed are ghosting people and the community.

#FreeSoftware for the win #FOSS#FLOSS#OpenSource Misses the point

I would be curious if this is a board decision, and how got through ..

We're thrilled to announce our new project:
https://docs.coop/

Building on the great work of Suite Numerique (https://docs.numerique.gouv.fr/home/), we are offering an opportunity to be part of a new collaborative Docs platform as a service, that provides an ethical alternative to Google Docs, Office 365, Notion etc.

Docs is the result of a joint effort lead by the French 🥖 (DINUM) and German 🥨 (ZenDiS) governments which represents a paradigm shift in the way open source software is funded.

#workercoops #coops#FLOSS #privacy

For centuries, we had public infrastructure for texts (called "libraries").
Recently, this has been extended to data (called "repositories").

We need to extend that to some software, developed and maintained as a free public good.
Why? Because we need it for a functioning society.

Smart societies would sustainably fund some open source software as critical infrastructure.
For example, research grants could set aside 2 % of their budget to support the open-source software they rely on.

( @sovtechfund is a shining example 👏)
#DigitalSovereignty#OpenScience#RSEng#SaveSocial#FLOSS

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💸 #GNUTaler 1.0 is here.— privacy-respecting payments, powered by Free Software and the FLOSS community.
🇨🇭It is real. It's running. In Switzerland — try the public beta today!
🔗 Release: https://taler.net/en/news/2025-01.html
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#GNUTaler#FreeSoftware#FLOSS#DigitalCash#Privacy#Decentralization#FSF40#Switzerland

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"This is what resistance to the digital coup looks like"

https://news.elenarossini.com/this-is-what-resistance-to-the-digital-coup-looks-like/

mentioning @jaredwhite @anildash@ghost @caseynewton @molly0xfff @404mediaco @Daojoan @theindex @dangillmor @ryanbroderick @micahflee @melaniebartos @kleisli

I'd love to hear what you think about #AdoptAWriter ✨

#tech#Fediverse #activism#BigTech#SocialMedia#FOSS#FLOSS #blog #resistance#SaveSocial

Hi!
We're #newhere and exited to talk to you about #FLOSS, working in #techcooperatives, our #software project LAUTI - Open Source Community Calendar and much more.
We're based in Stuttgart, Germany and already run a community calendar there called EINTOPF.

Hi!
Wir sind neu hier und freuen uns mit euch über #FLOSS, IT #Kollektivbetriebe, unser Software Projekt LAUTI - Open Source Community Kalender und vieles mehr auszutauschen.
Wir sind aus Stuttgart und betreiben dort den Kalender EINTOPF.

TIL: The European Union Public License.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_Public_Licence

Looks pretty decent actually!

• OSI and FSF approved
• copyleft
• SaaS clause (like the AGPL)
• explicitly compatible with several copyleft licenses to allow EUPL code to be integrated into GPL, AGPL, LGPL, OSL, MPL etc. projects
• based on European law
• available in 23 languages, all with the same validity

#EUPL#EuropeanUnion #software #license#FLOSS#OpenSource #licensing