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

Actually, there were two presentations at #FOSDEM. In the first, I focused on the strategic aspects and context of the Cyber Resilience Act (#CRA).

Why does DB need transparency of its software supply chains? Why is it damn hard to achieve this? How did we come from idea to strategy to implementation? And why do we need less a technological and rather an organizational and cultural shift to succeed?

Answers to these questions in the recording and slides.

https://mehl.mx/blog/2026/software-supply-chain-strategy-at-deutsche-bahn/

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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

Amid a busy last week, my blogpost on @OpenInfra 's presence at #FOSDEM was finally published:

https://openinfra.org/blog/openinfra-fosdem-2026-takeaways

After playing around with @postmarketOS at #fosdem this weekend, I canceled my preorder of another phone and am going full on with PMOS. The gorgeous phosh-UI combined with fully OSS makes a strong case for this ecosystem.

#cellPhones #mobile #phosh #opensource

#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.

[$] An effort to secure the Network Time Protocol

The Network Time Protocol (NTP) debuted in 1985; it is a universally used, open specification that is deeply important for all sorts of activities we take for granted. It also, des [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1059200/ #LWN #Linux #security #systemd #FOSDEM

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 .

The recording of my #FOSDEM talk (~25 minutes) on Rockchip mainlining is now available! #linux #uboot

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/KLFW73-no-line-like-mainline-rockchip/