If you are working on Free and Open Source technologies that improve the digital landscape for everyone, know that NGI0 offers financial & practical support.
We offer grants between €5k - €50k, open to everyone.
Calls currently open:
NGI0 Commons Fund: Reclaim the public internet
NGI TALER: Privacy-preserving digital payments
NGI MobiFree: More ethical mobile software
NGI Fediversity: Creating the hosting stack of the future
Deadline February 1, 2025
https://nlnet.nl/news/2024/20241201-call.html
#FOSS #NGI #NGI0

anyone looking for a christmas project? here's an idea...

once https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/merge_requests/5920 is merged it won't be necessary have a fat32 boot partition for #postmarketOS anymore, just a root partition.

this means that for a buuuunch of Android devices it would be super easy to install postmarketOS from a rooted Android install (e.g. lineageOS) just by

• flashing the boot image + erasing dtbo
• mounting the root partition image and cp -a'ing the whole thing to userdata
• patch the UUID of the userdata partition to match the one in /etc/fstab using tune2fs, OR patching the cmdline (in the boot image) and the fstab to have the correct UUID

Then you can just run (from your rooted Android phone)

curl switch.pmos.org | sh

GNOME Software received a brand new systemd-sysupdate plugin. That was one of the last pieces needed to complete the migration of GNOME OS from OSTree to systemd-sysupdate.
https://adrienplazas.com/blog/2024/12/20/a-systemd-sysupdate-plugin-for-gnome-software.html

Sovereign Tech Fund Invests in OpenStreetMap

Sovereign Tech Agency (@sovtechfund) has decided to invest €384k over two years to ensure the stability, growth and modernization of OpenStreetMap’s core software.

read more: https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2024/12/20/sovereign-tech-fund-invests-in-openstreetmap/
#OpenStreetMap #OSM #Funding

a friend of mine is interested in attending #38c3 for the first time. if anyone has a spare ticket they'd be happy to sell on please lmk!

#congress #congress2024 #ticket38c3

The new adaptive testing feature has motivated me to finally fix Keypunch's mobile layout! The configuration dropdowns are now moved down to the text view itself on narrow screen sizes. It was pretty easy to accomplish with the new multi-layout widgetry. It's amazing how far we've come with regards to adaptivity.

#libadwaita #Keypunch #GNOME

Blogged about that thing I posted about last week since it landed: https://blogs.gnome.org/alicem/2024/12/19/mobile-testing-in-libadwaita/

See you soon at #FOSDEM!

#Tuba v0.9.0 is now available, with many new features and bug fixes!

✨ Highlights:
- Audio Visualizer
- Accent Colors and other GNOME 47 changes
- Focus Picker
- Account Suggestions for new accounts
- Scheduled & Draft Posts
- Hashtag extraction from posts
- Full emoji reaction support for supported backends
- FediWrapped
- Thread Muting
🧵

As always, there are too many changes to list here, if you're more interested, check out the full release changelog:
https://github.com/GeopJr/Tuba/releases/tag/v0.9.0

#GNOME #GTK

I did a thing (I got tired of endlessly resizing the window in very precise ways to test moble screen sizes)

reminder that the librem 5 is more complicated and more expensive to meet the FSF Respect Your Freedom certification. What do you get for this? Some firmware is stored on a flashROM rather than internal storage, making it HARDER to reverse engineer and replace

Interested in sustainability and #permaculture? Consciousness about how you engage with tech?

If you're in or around #Berlin this Sunday then come along to a #permacomputing workshop at /rosa (treptow).

We'll be taking a more technical look at smartphones and how they can be prolonged and/or repurposed with #postmarketOS

For details and sign up info please check https://berlin.permacomputing.net

bring along your old phone and we'll see what we can do! check out wiki.postmarketos.org for a list of devices

Here it is; my write up of about a week's worth of work to better understand Godot Engine, Flatpak, and—in a way—game developers. :D

https://cassidyjames.com/blog/publish-godot-engine-game-flathub-flatpak/

It looks like a long post (and I could probably use an editor for concision!), but I hope it’s an easy read, and useful reference material.

Boost widely! Let’s get more indie games to Flathub!

Oh, and reply publicly here to comment on the post. :)

#Godot #OpenSource #Flatpak #Flathub #GodotEngine #GameDev #LinuxGaming

First photos taken with the Samsung Galaxy S III on #postmarketOS, probably! Credits to Jack Kekzoz, @martijnbraam, and whoever else helped him with getting #Megapixels working on the Midas (Samsung Galaxy S III and Note II) devices — I'm just posting about this, I didn't work on it myself. Hopefully we'll have it available in Edge over the coming months.

The testing phase for the upcoming postmarketOS release v24.12 has started! 🧪

If you want to give it a spin and help with making it more stable, head over to...

✏️ Testing issue:
https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/issues/3359

💬 Testing chat:
https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Matrix_and_IRC

#postmarketOS 24.12 is coming out, and we just can't pick a wallpaper....

can you guys help us? Poll in the replies.

interested in helping with with #postmarketOS ? Have an interest in Freedesktop, #GNOME, or app development?

Check out the help wanted section at the bottom of our November status update

https://postmarketos.org/blog/2024/12/09/pmOS-update-2024-11/

For some last-minute, end-of year #permacomputing joy, please join us in Berlin for a workshop:

## POST:COM:POST
** Regenerating rotting devices.**

* A Permacomputing Berlin Workshop *

15.12.2024 from 12-17:00h

kindly hosted by:
/rosa
Heidelberger Str. 28
12059 Berlin

In this workshop, we will attempt to install the Linux-based PostmarketOS on "obsolete" Android devices and find convivial new uses for them. This event will be more of a collective hacking and experimentation session than a traditional pedagogical instruction format. We can't promise to make every old device work again but we can offer a fun, informative and supportive environment.

For sign-up and more info: https://berlin.permacomputing.net/

🚀 Join the GNOME Foundation Team! 🌱

We’re excited to announce two contractor opportunities funded by Endless:

1️⃣ Digital Wellbeing / Parental Controls
2️⃣ Flathub Payments

We’re looking for passionate individuals to help with GNOME Desktop-wide web/network filtering and Flathub program management.

🔍 For full details & to apply:
Visit the GNOME project Discourse forum links:

1. https://discourse.gnome.org/t/request-for-proposals-gnome-desktop-wide-web-network-filtering-solution/25483

2. https://discourse.flathub.org/t/request-for-proposals-flathub-program-management/8276