The European Commission on Wednesday gave the go-ahead for a group of four countries to establish a common organisation for building #opensource alternatives to much-used software.

France, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands will work to develop open, European alternatives in “key areas” such as AI, cloud, cybersecurity, and – curiously – social networks.

https://www.euractiv.com/news/eu-country-grouping-cleared-to-build-sovereign-digital-infrastructure/

#FreeSoftware #EU

The European Commission on Wednesday gave the go-ahead for a group of four countries to establish a common organisation for building #opensource alternatives to much-used software.

France, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands will work to develop open, European alternatives in “key areas” such as AI, cloud, cybersecurity, and – curiously – social networks.

https://www.euractiv.com/news/eu-country-grouping-cleared-to-build-sovereign-digital-infrastructure/

#FreeSoftware #EU

... And thus we have reached the season of witches, d[a]emons 😈 and zombie [procceses] 🧟!

Checkout KDE's fundraiser as it enters its spookiest 👻 phase yet, and help us ward of tech hobgoblins and proprietary waifs that threaten your rights and freedoms.

https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2025/

#fundraising #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #donations

... And thus we have reached the season of witches, d[a]emons 😈 and zombie [procceses] 🧟!

Checkout KDE's fundraiser as it enters its spookiest 👻 phase yet, and help us ward of tech hobgoblins and proprietary waifs that threaten your rights and freedoms.

https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2025/

#fundraising #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #donations

Awesome fundraiser news: €53,000 raised!

Thanks to your generous support, we have reached our initial goal, and then surpassed it in a little over two weeks! We have set our next stretch goal and are now looking to raise €75,000 for the KDE Community.

https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2025/

#fundraiser #donation #FreeSoftware #OpenSource

We just hit 500 Friends of GNOME! Thank you so much to every single person donating to the GNOME Foundation to help ensure our sustainability.

Check out everyone who opted into being listed over at https://donate.gnome.org

…and if your name isn’t there, consider supporting us to be one of the first 1,000? 😉

#GNOME #FriendsOfGNOME #GNOMEfoundation #FOSS #FLOSS #Linux #OpenSource #Flathub

As we continue to grow the Foundation’s donations, we look forward to being able to focus on additional ways to directly support the community and the development of GNOME itself.

Thank you again to all 500 of you Friends of GNOME! To everyone else, we’d love for you to consider joining today: https://donate.gnome.org

#GNOME #FriendsOfGNOME #GNOMEfoundation #FOSS #FLOSS #Linux #OpenSource #Flathub

As we continue to grow the Foundation’s donations, we look forward to being able to focus on additional ways to directly support the community and the development of GNOME itself.

Thank you again to all 500 of you Friends of GNOME! To everyone else, we’d love for you to consider joining today: https://donate.gnome.org

#GNOME #FriendsOfGNOME #GNOMEfoundation #FOSS #FLOSS #Linux #OpenSource #Flathub

Awesome fundraiser news: €53,000 raised!

Thanks to your generous support, we have reached our initial goal, and then surpassed it in a little over two weeks! We have set our next stretch goal and are now looking to raise €75,000 for the KDE Community.

https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2025/

#fundraiser #donation #FreeSoftware #OpenSource

It’s been a period of transformation for the foundation, and the support of every Friend of GNOME truly makes a difference by enabling us to:

• Maintain and improve our infrastructure including GitLab hosting and build pipelines we freely provide to Core, Circle, and World projects

• Provide services for members like blog hosting, chat, and video conferencing

• Support the development of Flathub

#GNOME #FriendsOfGNOME #GNOMEfoundation #FOSS #FLOSS #Linux #OpenSource #Flathub