Le programme du #FOSDEM de 2001 n'est pas très explicite.

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KDE: features, architecture and development framework. David Faure will talk about KDE Mozilla Axel Hecht will talk about mozilla The Hurd - Markus Brinkman Markus will talk about The Hurd. Smoothwall Richard will talk about Smoothwall and its growth. Writing Free Software in Java Johan will talk about Blackdown.

Dear Fedi friends,

I had the honor of being interviewed for @hyde's series #OverUnder.

🔗​: https://lazybea.rs/ovr-069/

Mentioned in the interview: #FOSDEM
@yunohost
@gotosocial
@veronica
#Jellyfin
@timbl
#LEGO
& pizza!

Thank you so much for this wonderful opportunity ​ ❤️​

#OverUnder 069 with @elena

She shares her thoughts about #FOSDEM, #Jellyfin, #Yunohost, #LEGO, and, being Italian, I have to ask her about #Pizzas.

She also replied to @daj 's question.

She recommended two #books I will definitely read.

#bloggers #bookstodon #book #blog #fediverse #toys #streaming #movies #music #bloggers #mastodon

https://lazybea.rs/ovr-069

Il y a bien des années au #Fosdem il y avait des body pour bébé qui disaient "fork", la moindre idée d'où se procurer cette pépite ?

🆕 blog! “The cost of running OpenBenches.org”

After my recent presentation at FOSDEM, someone asked a pretty reasonable question. What does it cost to run OpenBenches?

It is, thankfully, surprisingly cheap! In part, that's because it is a relatively simple tech stack - PHP, MySQL, a couple of API calls to external services. It was designed to be as low cost while …

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/02/the-cost-of-running-openbenches-org/
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#fosdem #foss #money #OpenBenches

ho tiens, le premier reportage (à ma connaissance) depuis bien longtemps sur le #FOSDEM par la rtbf ... un short d'1m30
mais il termine par donner un rdv l'année prochaine !
https://www.rtbf.be/article/les-logiciels-open-source-se-developpent-de-plus-en-plus-de-quoi-s-agit-il-et-comment-ca-marche-11710585

(4/5)…It's easy to forget that the enemy to software freedom is *not* proprietary systems' *users*, rather those who *sell* such systems *for profit*. #LLM-backed gen-#AI proprietary systems are simply the latest tech fad (like, say, Web 2.0 & AJAX).
@karen & I keynoted 2x at #FOSDEM & 1x at LCA about the importance of — as social workers say — “meeting people where they are”:
https://archive.fosdem.org/2019/interviews/bradley-m-kuhn-karen-sandler/
https://archive.fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/full_software_freedom/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n55WClalwHo
https://archive.fosdem.org/2020/schedule/event/open_source_won/

Cc: @silverwizard @josh

@bagder @Prometheus @grafana fwiw, the dogshit non- software spam for #fosdem @fosdem is also higher quality now. Yay.

@EC_OSPO @EC_DIGIT @bert_hubert @rriemann

I'm sharing this story, because I want OpenSource in EU & at the EC to succeed.

Not to shame people, but to give them the info they need to nudge their peers/superiors into changing the current failing system.

Thanks in advance!

#Tech #OpenSource #TechPolicy #Fosdem

Last year, we brought together #CCC, #COSCUP, #eventinfra, #FOSDEM, #FOSS4All Korea, #FOSSASIA, #FOSSNorth, #IndiaFOSS and I am certainly forgetting several.

If in doubt, poke me if you'd fit.

And please help us: like a conference? Make their organizers aware of this.

And, as always, #retoot appreciated!

Tout autre git européen que #github fait l'affaire, mais si vous cherchez une nombreuse communauté, vous la trouverez sur HTTPS://codeberg.Org comme au #fosdem ou à #educalibre début juillet aussi à @ULBruxelles pour parler #libre et #education @ploum @nitot @nicolasvivant

With my #FOSDEM, #ConfConf, and many other hats on:

We will be organizing another https://ConfConf.org ! An (un)conference about organizing conferences.

6th and 7th of June in #Sofia, #Bulgaria

Same as last year, we will be focusing on #OpenSource and #Community conferences. We will either remain invite -only or closely review all registrations to make sure it's community people.

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If you're in need of a thread-safe, native #C++, implementation of #DBus I recommend DBus-ASIO. (As seen at #FOSDEM!)
https://github.com/dbus-asio/dbus-asio #disclaimer #imadethis

Even more than Gleam community the AS/AP based fediverse faces existential threats where it comes to the promise to lead us towards "the future of social networking", a peopleverse. And #AI poses high danger risks that must be known, so we can anticipate and mitigate them timely.

But above all we have to find ways to constructively collaborate with each in this chaotic grassroots environment we are part of.

#Collaboration and #cocreation at scale, organic growth and sustainable evolution are applied research areas of Social coding commons, where participants add value while working on their own solutions, following their self-interests in alignment with those of other people

To folks who are interested in the general subject matter I addressed above, I recommend watching the talk given by Michiel Leenaars of @nlnet at #FOSDEM last month:

"FOSS in times of war, scarcity and (adversarial) AI" by @michiel

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/FE7ULY-foss-in-times-of-war-scarcity-and-ai/

#SX #SocialCoding #fediverse #ActivityPub #SocialWeb

#FDroid has a board, old news, time goes by, we get busy with the apps, the client, the repo, the server, the imminent danger, the #FOSDEM, and terms come to an end.

We seek an enthusiastic, collaborative and diverse board that can support our community as effectively as possible.

Nominations are now open to select up to four volunteer directors to serve for two years each.

How? When? Where? Who? Read: https://f-droid.org/2026/02/26/board-of-directors-nominations.html

In #FLOSS you can make a difference!

At #FOSDEM I promised people that if you attend the talk by @nicorikken and myself you will feel better afterwards. From the feedback we received I think we accomplished this.

The recording of the talk "Automating translation of a bestseller to spark children's interest in coding" is now also online here, so if you ever need some "feel good" moments around #softwarefreedom feel free to watch: https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/R9Q9ZP-ada-zangemann-bestseller-automation/ #zangemann

Some folks at #FOSDEM tried to buy the makeshift hats one of our team members brought, so I arranged for this prototype of an official hat to be made. It's a fisherman beanie with our logo embroidered. I'm trying to gauge interest here. Is this something you'd buy? (Poll in follow-up post)

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A beautiful woman with dark hair and two braids, wearing a grey wool sweater and a blue fisherman beanie with the Mastodon logo embroidered on the front.

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A beautiful woman with dark hair and two braids, wearing a grey wool sweater and a blue fisherman beanie with the Mastodon logo embroidered on the front.

During #FOSDEM we launched a survey on #CRA Article 25 - Attestation

📄 This survey gathers input on how voluntary security attestation programmes for #FreeSoftware could work under Article 25 of the #CyberResilienceAct.

There are 27 questions (no need to answer all of them) plus additional thoughts in the free field are more than welcome

Please respond until 28 February! Don't forget to share
➡️ https://dialog-cybersicherheit.limesurvey.net/113884

Didn't make it to #FOSDEM? @devrtz 's talk about #Phosh's recent developments is available online: https://video.fosdem.org/2026/ub4132/XHPZND-phosh-2026.av1.webm

The talks was presented using a phone running #phosh (beamer connected via usb-c) and #pdfrc .