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Stefano Marinelli
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ciao a tutti, quanti verranno questo fine mese al FOSDEM a Bruxelles?
Siamo già un bel gruppo da M1, circa 7 e ci stiamo organizzando su telegram. Se avete in programma di venire a Bruxelles possiamo incontrarci, bere un caffè (o una blanche) e condividere #cosebelle che incontriamo, vi aspettiamo nel gruppo FOSDEM1: https://t.me/+0yztIytU0V8yYmZk
Messaggio rilanciato nel gruppo Open Source: @opensource
Pen
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Free software is for everyone: https://framatube.org/w/vdScW3ApcAcFNsPLKe4U8m #FSF #FreeSoftware
The Doctor
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OpenWrt project looking into moving to mirror tiering system and looking for Tier 1 hosts (mirror origin for other mirrors) https://lists.openwrt.org/pipermail/openwrt-devel/2026-January/044513.html
Roughly - high uptime, 1 Gig unlimited with IPv6 and 6 TB store (basis future growth) required.
Free software is for everyone: https://framatube.org/w/vdScW3ApcAcFNsPLKe4U8m #FSF #FreeSoftware
OpenWrt project looking into moving to mirror tiering system and looking for Tier 1 hosts (mirror origin for other mirrors) https://lists.openwrt.org/pipermail/openwrt-devel/2026-January/044513.html
Roughly - high uptime, 1 Gig unlimited with IPv6 and 6 TB store (basis future growth) required.
Ikkle Gemz Universe+
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Good day all! Upcoming episode of Fireside Fedi!
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Rishav
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I’m surprised to see that - even after all these years - people seem to believe that “open source” can’t be monetized.
It’s very much doable. And there’s a much better way to do it than donations.
We really need more people working on the software/data commons for a living, or we risk furthering a culture where most people work on it as a hobby, where quality suffers, and where the commons get a bad reputation of being “by hobbyists, for hobbyists.”
https://contrapunctus.codeberg.page/blog/free-software-funding-2.html
I’m surprised to see that - even after all these years - people seem to believe that “open source” can’t be monetized.
It’s very much doable. And there’s a much better way to do it than donations.
We really need more people working on the software/data commons for a living, or we risk furthering a culture where most people work on it as a hobby, where quality suffers, and where the commons get a bad reputation of being “by hobbyists, for hobbyists.”
https://contrapunctus.codeberg.page/blog/free-software-funding-2.html
HypeBot 🔥
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We're already well into 2026, but here's a recap of what the #LibreOffice community did in December last year: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/01/07/libreoffice-project-and-community-recap-december-2025/ #foss #openSource #freesoftware
fedicat
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Good day all! Upcoming episode of Fireside Fedi!
The #livestream will be on: stream.firesidefedi.live
Special Guest: @scottjenson@social.coop
Product Strategy Advisor to Mastodon Core team. Previously UX Strategy: Apple System 7, Newton, and Apple Human Interface guidelines. UX Director at Symbian, manager Mobile UX at Google, creative director frog design San Francisco. Head of Product for two startups. Returned to Google to lead the Physical Web in Chrome and explore multiple UX research projects in Android. Left 2024, now advising part time. mastodon.social: 2017-2022
So don't miss it!
It will happen on 29 January 2026 at US Eastern Time ( UTC-5 )
If by any ungodly chance you miss the show:
#PeerTube ( #VOD ): tubefree/@firesidefedi
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Good day all! Upcoming episode of Fireside Fedi!
The #livestream will be on: stream.firesidefedi.live
Special Guest: @scottjenson@social.coop
Product Strategy Advisor to Mastodon Core team. Previously UX Strategy: Apple System 7, Newton, and Apple Human Interface guidelines. UX Director at Symbian, manager Mobile UX at Google, creative director frog design San Francisco. Head of Product for two startups. Returned to Google to lead the Physical Web in Chrome and explore multiple UX research projects in Android. Left 2024, now advising part time. mastodon.social: 2017-2022
So don't miss it!
It will happen on 29 January 2026 at US Eastern Time ( UTC-5 )
If by any ungodly chance you miss the show:
#PeerTube ( #VOD ): tubefree/@firesidefedi
#firesidefedi #fediverse #fedi #interview #freesoftware #opensource #userfreedom #freedom #resistance
We're already well into 2026, but here's a recap of what the #LibreOffice community did in December last year: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/01/07/libreoffice-project-and-community-recap-december-2025/ #foss #openSource #freesoftware
A #ThankGNU! to Antoine Thonnard, Cody Rygg, and Christopher Rorvick for helping the FSF to promote #FreeSoftware. To see a longer list of those who have helped us financially in our advocacy for #SoftwareFreedom and awareness, visit: https://u.fsf.org/45m
@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman:
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Less than a month left until the Free and Open Source Software Developers’ European Meeting (FOSDEM)!
With over 900 events already announced, here's my little companion web app that works on desktop and can be installed on mobile to help you with the planning: https://fosdem.sojourner.rocks/2026
New features this year (more improvement suggestions welcome):
- Speaker biographies (click on the person's name or visit the speakers page).
- Bookmark export.
Matúš Chochlík
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thinking about foss stuff, and I know I've groused about licensing stuff before, and how I feel like my only way out is to just Parity7 everything and fall into obscurity but...
...I think we need a different movement around open source, with new terminology, that clarifies the intent and opens doors to more pro-social behavior and capabilities (up to and including the potential for "ethical licensing").
I've been spitballing the terms Common Software and Community Software. The core idea is that things that count as Community/Common Software can't enter the realm of the proprietary (so, strong copyleft a-la AGPL and Parity, virality not necessary). What's the difference from "Free Software"? We get rid of "freedom zero", aka "the freedom to run software for any purpose". Common Software licenses may have Non-Commercial clauses, Anti-Particular-Industry clauses (such as anti-MIC stuff), etc.
I think "freedom zero" was a grave mistake. I get where it came from--a desire to remove discrimination--but what it resulted in was a hijacking of Free Software by the corporate "Open Source" wing to exploit an otherwise healthy community of people openly sharing their creations... for an enormous profit that we can't even quantify right now.
We need a strong return to copyleft, and we need to gather together and grow its existing ecosystem, away from the MIT/BSD poison that our world has turned towards.
Your thoughts are welcome on this. I want to have a conversation about this stuff and maybe eventually record all this in a longer-form blog post. If you know folks who have had similar thoughts please link them so we can chat, too.
Good day all! Upcoming episode of Fireside Fedi!
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