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The Speakers' hotel breakfast is amazing.
But I'm the barista, even in Zagreb
Hope the coffee is as good as in Italy! Have fun and enjoy the time! Greets to all our friends at the EuroBSDCon :)
See you all again at least at the #FOSDEM 2026
If you work on a Mobile GNU OS, like @postmarketOS or @mobian, I strongly encourage you to make it as easy as humanly possible for app developers to make one app version for Mobile GNU OS. Which works on any variant, rather than having to play whack-a-mole with distro-specific bugs.
Bonus points for coming together to create a dev environment that can spit out versions for many different mobile OS. As many as possible.
(3/?)
@span strypey Regarding #postmarketOS and #Mobian, the "one app version […] works on any variant" thing has an answer you may or may not like: Flatpak, and ship that on https://flathub.org, using the GNOME or KDE runtimes. If MetaInfo/AppData is set correctly, it will show up in flathub's Mobile Collection even: https://docs.flathub.org/docs/for-app-authors/metainfo-guidelines/#mobile-collection
Unfortunately, that would leave out #SailfishOS or #UbuntuTouch, although that's possible, too - look, e.g., at Pure Maps and Amazfish, which are available "everywhere". Unfortunately, with the drive to migrate things to Qt6 (distributions would like to stop shipping Qt5 eventually), Sailfish OS and Ubuntu Touch may be left behind until they catch up. Going web based or using Flutter are other ways to get some cross platform support, unfortunately always leaving out one of the #MobileLinux contenders.
I (Peter) did a talk about that very problem at #FOSDEM 2024 (https://archive.fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-3303-the-linux-phone-app-ecosystem/ and later updated it for FrOSCon (no recording, slides https://programm.froscon.org/2024/system/event_attachments/attachments/000/000/849/original/the-linux-phone-app-ecosystem-reloaded.pdf)
@span postmarketOS @span mobian @span linmob @span linmob
Unfortunately, that would leave out #SailfishOS or #UbuntuTouch, although that's possible, too - look, e.g., at Pure Maps and Amazfish, which are available "everywhere". Unfortunately, with the drive to migrate things to Qt6 (distributions would like to stop shipping Qt5 eventually), Sailfish OS and Ubuntu Touch may be left behind until they catch up. Going web based or using Flutter are other ways to get some cross platform support, unfortunately always leaving out one of the #MobileLinux contenders.
I (Peter) did a talk about that very problem at #FOSDEM 2024 (https://archive.fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-3303-the-linux-phone-app-ecosystem/ and later updated it for FrOSCon (no recording, slides https://programm.froscon.org/2024/system/event_attachments/attachments/000/000/849/original/the-linux-phone-app-ecosystem-reloaded.pdf)
@span postmarketOS @span mobian @span linmob @span linmob
maco
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Dear People attending #FOSDEM
The maintainer of #XZ is still in need of true support after they were abused by someone who tried to viciously introduce a backdoor to potentially millions of servers and computers.
They opened a Liberapay account here: https://liberapay.com/Larhzu.
They only receive 13,55€/week for now… (EDIT: 39,46€/month by thr end of April 2025)
You know XZ is crucial for lots of critical systems. Please tip them generously.and boost this message!
(Discovery borrowed from @Sylvhem)
NOTE : due to the local laws, as a Finnish, Larhzu cannot accept money from Finnish people.
Straight after #FOSDEM next year is State of Open Con in London.
More details at https://www.linkedin.com/posts/openuktechnology_opensource-stateofopencon-soocon26-activity-7356710143964717056-aFUQ
@kirschner Sounds like you're just assigning busy work to potentially good future leaders, and maybe some don't want to stick around for it? What changes have there been to the core team in the last many years? Maybe the process isn't working or someone is scaring newcomers off? I don't have have the information, you'd know more than me!
But for the conference I help run, we just add new people and that's that, there's no fealty or prerequisite tribute.
@purpleidea Alex and I joined the team some time ago, which worked out well from my perspective. We can talk about that next time I meet. Briefly: At #FOSDEM everyone can participate in the call for devrooms, and there are constantly new ones that compete with others.
I would not have committed to run a devroom, if I would not have known that we can run that effectively together. I would not have time to first have endless discussions about the direction, so I would have had to decline.
It's never too early to start thinking about #FOSDEM! @bkuhn @karen @lexelas @richardfontana @tmarble and I would like to submit a proposal for the "#Legal and #Policy Devroom" to @fosdem as soon as they open the CfP. Like last year we would like get feedback by you, our community:
* What did you especially like in 2025 https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/track/legal-and-policy/ ?
* What would you like to see improved?
* What topics would you like to see in our devroom (permitted that we would be accepted again)?
As a result of our first hack weekend a few days ago we are now also on Mastodon 👋
To get an overview on what Transitous is, check the #FOSDEM talk by @Jbb, Felix and @mlundblad: https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-4105-gnome-maps-meets-transitous-meets-motis/
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
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@bagder Thanks for your post & your counter 😆
I'm curious: you characterize the EU #CRA as requiring #SBOM's *specifically*. I know the License Compliance Industrial Complex wants it to be true, but I researched this issue for my #FOSDEM 2025 talk…
https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-6155-is-there-really-an-sbom-mandate-/
… & IIUC CRA *doesn't* specify SBOMs specifically.
IMO, if the vendor gives the customer complete, Corresponding Source & a 100% @reproducible_builds they've complied with CRA. No one has shown me anything that disproves that.
Cybersecurity Risk Assessment Request
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/07/11/cybersecurity-risk-assessment-request/
@bagder Thanks for your post & your counter 😆
I'm curious: you characterize the EU #CRA as requiring #SBOM's *specifically*. I know the License Compliance Industrial Complex wants it to be true, but I researched this issue for my #FOSDEM 2025 talk…
https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-6155-is-there-really-an-sbom-mandate-/
… & IIUC CRA *doesn't* specify SBOMs specifically.
IMO, if the vendor gives the customer complete, Corresponding Source & a 100% @reproducible_builds they've complied with CRA. No one has shown me anything that disproves that.
@priryo @gubi Video's can take a while to get online, there were some disk problems with the server. See here for the status overview of all the #fosdem recordings:
https://review.video.fosdem.org/overview
I have a leftover ticket for the night train from Brussels to Vienna (via Munich) tonight. NJ 40425, Departure 19:06.
UPDATE: Thanks for the boosts - the ticket is taken. #SharingIsCaring <3
Being on a bus back from #FOSDEM really nails the definition of "bus factor".
You can wear a mask at #FOSDEM #fosdem2025
No one is stopping you.
A well-fitting FFP2 or FFP3 mask reduces your risk of catching respiratory illnesses.
If you have flu or COVID symptoms, the most responsible choice is not to attend a conference. The second best choice is to wear a mask and keep your crud to yourself.
You can avoid killing the sole maintainer of an important piece of code.
You can avoid killing funders of open source code.
You can avoid killing or disabling fellow human beings.
Marketing: Bayes classification is now listed under "AI".
All the preentation of Stalwart was awfully marketing, with a lot of "intuitive", "modern", "enterprise-ready" and other corporate bullshit.
Marketing: Bayes classification is now listed under "AI".
Website of the structured email project: https://structured.email/
"Structured email" A lot of email is transactional (generated by machines, not by humans, for instance your hotel reservation for FOSDEM)
JSON-encoded machine-readable email as an alternative for AI extraction from unstructured text.
Work at #IETF in the SML working group: https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/sml/
Website of the structured email project: https://structured.email/