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@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

#TIL about #MOBIFREE;

"The Freedom in Human-centred and Ethical Mobile Software (MOBIFREE) project works to give European citizens and organizations more choice in, and access to, human-centred and ethical mobile software."

https://mobifree.org/#how-it-works

#HatTip to the @fdroidorg folks who are a partner in this project, and referenced it in their retrospective on 2025;

https://f-droid.org/en/2026/01/23/fdroid-in-2025-strengthening-our-foundations-in-a-changing-mobile-landscape.html

#EU #EthicalTech #MobileComputing

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Strypey
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@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

Anyone know of a curated list of Open Source Foundations?

#TIL about India's FOSS United;

https://fossunited.org/

...via a reference on the website of the FLOSS Fund;

https://floss.fund/blog/open-source-pledge-2024/

Which I discovered, in turn, via F-Droid's 2025 retrospective;

https://f-droid.org/en/2026/01/23/fdroid-in-2025-strengthening-our-foundations-in-a-changing-mobile-landscape.html

Side note: it's easy to forget what a world-changing technology hyperlinks are. The net was a very different place before the Gopher protocol brought links to the net in 1991. They're incredibly useful.

Joining the Open Source Pledge

F-Droid in 2025 - Strengthening Our Foundations in a Changing Mobile Landscape | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

2025 was a big year for F-Droid. Not only did we celebrate 15 years of securely distributing FOSS apps to users around the world, we onboarded new maintainer...
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@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

#TIL about fundingjson.org

"funding.json is a manifest that enables Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) projects to declare their financial needs in a machine-readable format. The self-contained JSON file can be easily published in repositories or websites ...

By making funding requirements publicly crawlable and indexable, funding.json makes aims to bring discoverablity to FOSS projects, helping connect those seeking financial support with potential backers."

#funding #FundingJSO

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