Stefano Martinelli's @stefano article about his EuroBSDCon 2024 experience has been published by the FreeBSD Journal and on the Foundation web site: https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-work/journal/browser-based-edition/virtualization-2/conference-report-my-eurobsdcon-experience-in-dublin/ (TL;DR: he enjoyed it *a lot*) #eurobsdcon #dublin #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #libresoftware #sustainability #development #freesoftware
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💕 I Love Free Software Day 2026 💕
For this year’s I Love Free Software Day I am co-organising two special events, and I am super excited about them!
🧶 Knitting Our Internet at Snackbar Frieda, Rotterdam, on Friday Feb 13th at 18:00. All information here.
🛹 A reading of @kirschner’s Ada & Zangemann in English and in Dutch. After that, a conversation about Free Software maintenance as care work, together with @mayel from @Bonfire ❤️🔥 at the @internetarchiveeurope, Oudeschans 16, Amsterdam on Saturday Feb 14th at 14:00. All information here. Info about the super cool poster in the post below.
#FreeSoftware #SoftwareFreedom #ILoveFS #ILoveFreeSoftware #ILoveFS #IloveFS26 #ournet #KnittingOurInternet #SnackbarFrieda #Rotterdam #Amsterdam #InternetArchive #InternetArchiveEurope #AZbook #Ada #AdaZangemann #reading #event #decentralizaion #InternetHistory #Internet
Do any moots know someone who we might be able to consult about restructuring a mid-size FOSS project? Essentially to migrate from a BDFL model to a more flat-structured democratic organisation.
We are discussing how to restructure #postmarketOS so that it can continue to scale up and be a truly community-run project.
We have some idea of how co-ops like Igalia do this, but we have a lot of differences (like being largely volunteer run and having very different goals) which leave us with a lot of unknowns.
To give an example of the kind of structure we're thinking of (by no means final, there hasn't been any broad agreement on a new structure yet):
We have the relevant pieces in place to form an assembly (everyone listed on https://postmarketos.org/team/ ) which could then democratically form teams and delegate responsibilities to them (e.g. finance/budget, technical policy-making, maintainers for various OS components).
The assembly would then also be responsible for deciding on focus areas and long term goals for the project (e.g. improving reliability, building a production-ready immutable version of the distro)
We could then form working groups to enable cross-team collaboration to move towards our specific goals.
Currently we lack a lot of understanding of the potential implications of something like this, how we can ensure the project doesn't get hijacked, that we don't drift too far from our mission statement, etc etc...
If you have a background in sociology and/or relevant experience from other projects then I would love to reach out and be able to discuss this in more detail!
FOSS == ✅️ software artifact
FOSS != ❌️ software project
SOSS == 🌱 sustainable software project
We have a date on December 20th at GNUHealthCon 2025 , the International Free Software Health Informatics and Social Medicine Conference 🏥 ❤️
Will be broadcasting it live from Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain. Join us! 👇
https://www.gnuhealth.org/ghcon/2025/
#GHCon2025 #GNUHealth #SocialMedicine #GNU #OpenScience #FreeSoftware #PublicHealth
Nouvel épisode 📣📣
@_elena est une réalisatrice indépendante qui a décidé de quitter les réseaux sociaux des GAFAM pour se plonger dans le #Fediverse et l'auto-hébergement.
Elle nous raconte ses découvertes, apprentissages et son amour pour le Fediverse !
👉 https://www.projets-libres.org/podcast/s04e4-fediverse-futur-federe-auto-heberge-elena-rossini/
Bonne écoute 🎧🎧
#yunohost #podcast #freesoftware #logicielslibres #LogicielLibre #gafam
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New episode 📣📣
@_elena is an independent filmmaker who decided to leave the social networks of GAFAM to immerse herself in the #Fediverse and self-hosting.
She tells us about her discoveries, learnings and her love for the Fediverse!
👉 https://www.projets-libres.org/en/podcast/s4e4-fediverse-the-future-will-be-federated/
Great exhibition "Before and after Computer Freedom" by volunteers with old computers and their connection with #FreeSoftware at #SFScon I love it!! 🤗 (also owned one of those in the collection as a kid).
My original #introduction wasn't really an introduction of me, so here's a true one.
I am a software developer with passion for digital technologies as means for enrichment of people's lives, and strong proponent of privacy rights.
The #OpenSource, and especially the #FreeSoftware, seems to me as the fair and right way, and in alignment with my ideals, because it gives true ownership into the hands of owners and users, for everyone.
Hence, the FOSS is very interesting to me.