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Call for Participation! We're happy to announce the first "Funding the FOSS Ecosystem" #devroom at #FOSDEM 2025. The goal of this devroom is for developers to gain insights into funding strategies and to engage more #FOSS users like companies & governments in FOSS funding. Submission...

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Reposted OpenUK (@openuk@hachyderm.io)
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Attached: 1 image The Indie Web Ana Rodrigues https://ohhelloana.blog, Calum Ryan https://calumryan.com will join us with our hosts Lorna Mitchell https://lornajane.net and Jamie Tanna https://jvt.me for the fourth OpenUK Digital Meetup on November 6. Register now https://openuk.uk/event-calendar/digitalmeetup4 #opensource #opensourcesoftware #digitalmeetup

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Reposted Pelle Wessman (@voxpelli@mastodon.social)
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Does sustainable open source means more professional maintainers or does it mean more paid time for maintenance? I think the true revolution comes when every developer is encouraged and empowered to collaborate with the wider world. We need the contribution of the masses, not the professionalisation of the few.

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Reposted Terence Eden (@Edent@mastodon.social)
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🆕 blog! “A Cheap and Lazy way to create Mastodon Bots using… BlueSky?!” With the sad news that BotsIn.Space is closing down, I needed to find a new way to host some of my automated accounts. I didn't want to spin up an entirely new instance, or self-host anything. So here's what I ended up doing. RSS → BlueSky → Bridgy → Mastodon RSS to BlueSky I set […] 👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/11/a-cheap-and-lazy-way-to-create-mastodon-bots-using-bluesky/

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Reposted OpenUK (@openuk@hachyderm.io)
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Attached: 1 image The Indie Web @ana Rodrigues https://ohhelloana.blog, @Calum Ryan https://calumryan.com will join us with our hosts @Lorna Mitchell https://lornajane.net and @jamie Tanna https://jvt.me for fourth OpenUK Digital Meetup on November 6. Register now https://openuk.uk/event-calendar/digitalmeetup4

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Reposted Paul Cantrell (@inthehands@hachyderm.io)
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I’m a software developer with a bunch of industry experience. I’m also a comp sci professor, and whenever a CS alum working in industry comes to talk to the students, I always like to ask, “What do you wish you’d taken more of in college?” Almost without exception, they answer, “Writing.” One of them said, “I do more writing at Google now than I did when I was in college.” I am therefore begging, begging you to listen to @stephstephking@mstdn.social: https://mstdn.social/@stephstephking/113336270193370876

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Reposted mnl mnl mnl mnl mnl (@mnl@hachyderm.io)
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wp shows that the world would be so much duller if successful people could just to go therapy and chill counting their stacks or something. smh what a clusterfuck. I don't like wordpress as a tech stack all that much, but... i really admire wordpress for how it democratizes access to self-hosting and allowed so many people and businesses to own their online presence. Sad to see it take such a hit, and hopefully it'll recover.

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Reposted OpenUK (@openuk@hachyderm.io)
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Attached: 1 image Mark your calendars for October 15 for OpenUK London community meetup "Can open source even be a business?" OpenUK CEO Amanda Brock will share the findings of the OpenUK Economics of Open Source Report; followed by the panel including Liam Crilly of NGINX, Lee Wright, GTM Leader Data Infrastructure, Amanda Brock of OpenUK, Matt Barker of Venafi, and Paula Kennedy of Syntasso, moderated by Jennifer Riggins. Sign up here: https://www.meetup.com/openuk/events/301997818/?utm_medium=referral&utm #openuk #openukmeetup #opensource

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Reposted Chris Dell (@cjdell@fosstodon.org)
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Really enjoyed #oggcamp2024. It's great that a conference based entirely around Open Source software and Freedom exists. Open source may have a reputation of being just for nerds, but it's about *so much more* than just tinkering with code. You don't need to be a coder to benefit. When things are open source any bad behaviour (i.e. tracking, telemetry, privacy violations) hiding in our software has nowhere to hide. This becomes more important as we become increasingly reliant on our devices.

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Reposted Terence Eden (@Edent@mastodon.social)
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Suspect a large part of the future will be "AIsbestos Removal". Asbestos was a wonder material which was going to revolutionise the world. Only then we discovered just how carcinogenic it was. And now, every day, we have to gently unpick it from the urban environment. How many companies will belatedly discover that a load-bearing process is actually riddled with AI? Then they'll have to pay to carefully remove it without any further environmental damage. Hence AIsbestos.

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Reposted Sovereign Tech Fund (@sovtechfund@mastodon.social)
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Attached: 1 image Would you work for free? 🤯 For 33% of the respondents to our open source maintainer survey, this is reality: they are not paid or not paid enough to make a living. With the new Fellowship program, we are investing directly in the people behind the code by paying maintainers of important open source components for their work. Applications are accepted until October 20th. Find more insights about the maintainer survey on our website.

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Reposted Charlie O’Hara (@awfulwoman@indieweb.social)
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Im in the UK later this week, talking at @oggcamp@mastodon.social! It’ll be a tasty intro to home automation and how to successfully irritate your loved ones with it. Oggcamp is the bestest free software conference there is, mainly because it’s in The North and filled with Northeners. More conferences that aren’t in London pls. #oggCamp #OggCamp2024 #HomeAutomation

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Reposted Biped Earthling (@obeto@mas.to)
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"Substack CEO Chris Best said he didn't want to "engage in speculation" about statements like “all brown people are animals."" Given another opportunity to answer correctly by the interviewer, “You know this is a very bad response to this question, right? You’re aware that you’ve blundered into this. You should just say no. And I’m wondering what’s keeping you from just saying no," He declined. So, fuck him. And fuck his site. I'll NEVER use Substack. #BlackMastodon https://gizmodo.com/substack-ceo-doesnt-know-if-should-ban-overt-racism-1850337647