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The tech industry spent twenty years turning users into consumers, instruments into appliances, and technical literacy into a niche hobby for weirdos. They succeeded.
New post: The Slow Death of the Power User
https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/the-slow-death-of-the-power-user/
#technology #opensource #linux #poweruser #techliteracy #foss
This week's #inkscape update video is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axf28yT7-98 just in time for a Saturday night release... which I then messed up in export. Oh hum.
Man open source project management is a tough gig. The end of the update covers some of the difficulty of organising when you lack people who could do the organising work. For example we're not doing GSoC this year, or events, and it's difficult to accept we just can't do everything with the time we have.
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"Wie wäre es, wenn die #EU mal so richtig groß in #OpenSource-Projekte investiert? Nicht ein bisschen hier, ein bisschen da. Nicht das eine Land sucht sich Projekt X aus Eigeninteresse heraus und macht dann das Nötigste, sondern wirklich breit – von Basistechnologien bis zum Desktop und einzelnen Programmen. Denn all das wird es in jeder Zukunft benötigen, die ernsthaft "unabhängig" sein soll."
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"Wie wäre es, wenn die #EU mal so richtig groß in #OpenSource-Projekte investiert? Nicht ein bisschen hier, ein bisschen da. Nicht das eine Land sucht sich Projekt X aus Eigeninteresse heraus und macht dann das Nötigste, sondern wirklich breit – von Basistechnologien bis zum Desktop und einzelnen Programmen. Denn all das wird es in jeder Zukunft benötigen, die ernsthaft "unabhängig" sein soll."
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Do any moots know someone who we might be able to consult about restructuring a mid-size FOSS project? Essentially to migrate from a BDFL model to a more flat-structured democratic organisation.
We are discussing how to restructure #postmarketOS so that it can continue to scale up and be a truly community-run project.
We have some idea of how co-ops like Igalia do this, but we have a lot of differences (like being largely volunteer run and having very different goals) which leave us with a lot of unknowns.
To give an example of the kind of structure we're thinking of (by no means final, there hasn't been any broad agreement on a new structure yet):
We have the relevant pieces in place to form an assembly (everyone listed on https://postmarketos.org/team/ ) which could then democratically form teams and delegate responsibilities to them (e.g. finance/budget, technical policy-making, maintainers for various OS components).
The assembly would then also be responsible for deciding on focus areas and long term goals for the project (e.g. improving reliability, building a production-ready immutable version of the distro)
We could then form working groups to enable cross-team collaboration to move towards our specific goals.
Currently we lack a lot of understanding of the potential implications of something like this, how we can ensure the project doesn't get hijacked, that we don't drift too far from our mission statement, etc etc...
If you have a background in sociology and/or relevant experience from other projects then I would love to reach out and be able to discuss this in more detail!
Which Linux distributions do you recommend?
#linux #os #software #computer #newbie #noob #hacker #business #gamer #game #laptop #notebook #cybersecurity #foss #floss #recommending #distro #distribution #kali #chachyos #mint #fedora #tux #penguin #opensource #nerd #humor #just4fun #beginner #recommendation #choose #choice
soo where's the foss federated discord alternative at?
spacebar and stoat seem to still be a ways out, having something API compatible (spacebar) that makes it easy to port over bots and use existing clients sounds extremely promising (mobile apps maybe a lil harder but still very achievable)
but oh boy both these alternatives are so not ready for the main stage...
Is anyone looking at getting these projects funded?
soo where's the foss federated discord alternative at?
spacebar and stoat seem to still be a ways out, having something API compatible (spacebar) that makes it easy to port over bots and use existing clients sounds extremely promising (mobile apps maybe a lil harder but still very achievable)
but oh boy both these alternatives are so not ready for the main stage...
Is anyone looking at getting these projects funded?
Linux News: LibreOffice 25.8.5 Is Now Available for Download with More Than 60 Bug Fixes https://9to5linux.com/libreoffice-25-8-5-is-now-available-for-download-with-more-than-60-bug-fixes #news #FOSS #linux
Linux News: LibreOffice 25.8.5 Is Now Available for Download with More Than 60 Bug Fixes https://9to5linux.com/libreoffice-25-8-5-is-now-available-for-download-with-more-than-60-bug-fixes #news #FOSS #linux
