FSFE March Newsletter!

In the last few weeks we published our first Legal Corner article and the recordings of our talks at #fosdem.

We were happy to see pictures from the #ilovefs Day celebrations and can't wait to meet you at CLT 2025!

We are organising an online Q&A session about the DMA and #freesoftware

The Ada & Zangemann movie is finally available in Spanish!

Find out more: https://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-202503.en.html

Our latest #softwarefreedom Podcast episode is now out!
Take a moment and listen to this #policy & #eu episode from @lexelas & @annabonnie discussing the highlights from the recent #FOSDEM conference
The perfect episode to keep the FOSDEM spriti alive for a few more moments and to learn about the newest developments of the #FOSS #Funding Devroom
#FreeSoftware
https://fsfe.org/news/podcast/episode-31.html

For those who missed my closing talk at #FOSDEM on the #SocialWebFOSDEM track (which was part of the "After Hours" event), I've recorded a standalone version. Feel free to boost for reach - and also share with civic institutions and community leaders. #FediverseForFreedom

https://makertube.net/w/bXFCEBbNqNDbFjPh3cyChh

Thank you to the digital librarian @brewsterkahle and all the employees and volunteers from @internetarchive who preserve millions of free texts, movies, software, music, websites, and more & defend this archive for humankind!

Thank you for all your contributions to many #FreeSoftware packages, and for providing an important resource for #FreeSoftware contributors to find and archive information they depend on!

Brewster, it was an honour to meet& thank you at #FOSDEM #ilovefs

As promised, here is our report from FOSDEM 2025 and the hackathon we did afterwards:

https://postmarketos.org/blog/2025/02/10/fosdem-and-hackathon/

Just like last year, it was an incredibly productive time in which we were able to tackle hard problems and greatly move postmarketOS development forward.

This hackathon has been financed through your donations from OpenCollective, thank you for making this possible!

Our #TrunkAndTidbits engineering update for January (also including #FOSDEM) is here - here's what we have been working on so far this year. Includes an update on the #Fediscovery project, and some cool projects from the broader developer ecosystem. https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/02/trunk-tidbits-january-2025/

Last weekend, the #FOSDEM took place at the Université libre de Bruxelles, bringing together around 8,000 people from the Free Software community. For the first time, there was a specific track on the ‘Social Web’ dedicated to the #Fediverse. I also gave a short - rather atypical, because non-technical ;) - talk on ‘Fediverse Fighters - The Role of Public Institutions’ (https://pretalx.fosdem.org/fosdem-2025/talk/review/KVUBHC8SDES8VC3SGTPFP8HYJUWHRHVH). With these key points, already mentioned many times in different contexts:
Picture: @Sascha

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Almost all of the talks in the FOSS on Mobile Devices devroom from this years #FOSDEM have become available to watch!

https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/track/mobile/

New blog post on the 27th #XMPP Summit and #FOSDEM25 / #FOSDEM : https://blog.mathieui.net/summit-fosdem-25.html

If @pabloyoyoista looks so happy, it's because he's demoing GNOME OS on a laptop, and GNOME on a phone thanks to @postmarketOS

The future looks bright when the future looks free

@gnome @ #fosdem #photography

New: Fediverse Report #102

This week's news:
- a large crowd for the #fediverse at #fosdem
- some controversies around data scraping on the fediverse
- @openvibe gets 800k in funding to further work on the multi-protocol client

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/fediverse-report-102/

#FOSDEM.2025 の動画もうある

FOSDEM - video recordings https://video.fosdem.org/2025/

The recording of #FOSDEM talk about the missing 20% in Mobile Linux is live! Check it out now! https://video.fosdem.org/2025/h2214/fosdem-2025-4836-kernel-support-for-mobile-linux-the-missing-20-.av1.webm

If you're looking for subtitles, I hope to write them in the next weeks and have the video public on my YouTube channel with them soon!

Weekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (05/2025): (Post-) #FOSDEM Blues Big Band
https://linmob.net/weekly-update-05-2025/
#FOSDEM25 #LinuxMobile #FuriLabsFLX1 #Librem5 #PinePhone #postmarketOS #SailfishOS #UbuntuTouch #Phosh

PSA: #mobian #stickers available at the Linux on Mobile booth at #FOSDEM are not of the best quality and the colors will wear out from friction pretty quickly. My bad :(

They should still be fine for use in non-hazardous environments

Are you using #github for #FOSS ?
Small request: could you use FOSS instead?
Don't make #Microsoft your gatekeeper, use like #forgejo #codeberg or something.

https://sfconservancy.org/GiveUpGitHub/

Thanks to @conservancy 's @karen , Denver Gingerich and Bradley Kuhn for the #FOSDEM talk.

What a #fosdem. Talked to what feels like a million people. Totally exhausted. Thank you all my friends.

Hope you all had an awesome #FOSDEM, we sure did!

All our leaflets gone, many people stopped by to show off their phones or play with ours, and a lot of "wow I really need to get this on my device"

We had some amazing talks too at the FOSS on Mobile devroom, and some outreach by @anjan presenting pmbootstrap in the embedded devroom.

Huge thanks to everyone who helped run the stand and (hopefully) not lose their voices in the process :D

Safe travels and see you next year