👉 "The core issue is that open source contributors are not paid fairly. 60% of open-source maintainers are unpaid volunteers, and just 13% make a living as professional project maintainers, according to the 2023 State of the Open Source Maintainer Report."

Boosts appreciated 🚀

➡️ https://www.infoworld.com/article/3557846/how-do-we-fund-open-source.html

#FreeSoftware #OpenSource #FOSS #FLOSS #SoftwareLibre #Business #KDE #Research #Science #NLnet #softwareDevelopment

How do we fund open source?

Experts with deep experience across open-source software communities share their opinions on how to sustain this critical ecosystem.

^{Bill Doerrfeld (InfoWorld)}

Il #7novembre esce in sala #Flow . Presentato alla Festa del #cinema di #Roma, è un gioiello a basso costo, realizzato con software #opensource .

#blender #animazione

https://www.wired.it/article/flow-un-mondo-da-salvare-film-animazione-trama-uscita-recensione/

Flow, il nuovo film d'animazione realizzato con tecniche da videogioco è straordinario

Ece in sala il 7 Novembre ed è stato presentato alla Festa del cinema di Roma, è un gioiello a basso costo, realizzato con software open source e un motore grafico simile all'Unreal Engine

^{Gabriele Niola (Wired Italia)}

Wow!

It's impressive how "open" is @OpenSource!

I've been silenced on #OSI forum for ten days after posting https://discuss.opensource.org/t/privacy-or-real-data-transparency-a-false-dichotomy/661.

Now I'm back... and guess what?

I'm too dangerous to #OpenWashing.

🤷‍♂️

#OpenSource #OpenSourceAI #OSAID #AIAct #privacy

Share, freely and privately:

Jami is a free/libre, end-to-end encrypted, and private communication software.
Multiple devices can be linked to a Jami account, and no personal information is required to create an account.

👥 https://jami.net
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#freetoolfriday #followfriday #opensource #communication #freetool #libresoftware #share #privacy #jami #windows #ios #macos #android #linux #e2e #end2end #endtoend #OfficeTools #office #ittools

Jami

Jami - the distributed and open source communication platform

^Jami

It's finally time. After years of deliberation, #Minetest is finally ready to adopt a new identity and prove it has moved beyond its original purpose. We can finally move past the "mining" and the "testing" and focus on making this platform the best it can be.

#opensource #freesoftware #gamedev

https://blog.minetest.net/2024/10/13/Introducing-Our-New-Name/

Introducing Our New Name

After more than a year of public and internal discussions, we're ready to announce our new name!

^Minetest

We are participating in the #LibreOffice and #OpenSource Conference 2024in Luxemburg! 👏
If you see our colleagues @kirschner or @lexelas around say hi to them!

#SoftwareFreedom #FreeSoftware

🚀 Huge news! A U.S. court ordered Google to open its Play Store to third-party app stores and alternative payments.

This could be a game-changer for privacy-focused platforms like /e/OS and Murena, boosting app options and digital freedom! 🌐🔓

What do you think? 🤔👇

#Android #PrivacyFirst #EpicVsGoogle #OpenSource #Murena

@RaccoonForFriendica nuova versione 0.1.0-beta04 pubblicata:

- fix crash al caricamento del profilo del proprio utente;
- miglioramento layout campi custom nel profilo utente;
- richiesta di conferma uscita in creazione post se presenti modifiche non salvate;
- fix richiesta conferma uscita in modifica dati profilo.

Purtroppo la release di ieri sera aveva qualche problema (soprattutto il primo) sfuggito al mio potentissimo controllo qualità procionide, per cui ho preferito rilasciare il prima possibile una correzione.

🦝🦝🦝

#friendica #friendicadev #androidapp #androiddev #fediverseapp #kotlin #kmp #compose #opensource #foss #mobiledev

Release 0.1.0-beta04 · LiveFastEatTrashRaccoon/RaccoonForFriendica

What's Changed enhancement: user fields layout in profile and user detail by @AkesiSeli in #280, #283, #284 enhancement: confirm exit in post edit by @AkesiSeli in #281 fix: profile refresh by @A...

^GitHub

https://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=345980

Fair Source Software as an alternative to open and closed source licenses... Interesting...
#opensource #foss

More Companies Are Opting for ‘Fair Source’ Instead of ‘Open Source’: Here’s Why

Fair Source is a new license approach trying to find a middle ground between proprietary and open-source benefits.

^{Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS News)}