💡 This week would be a perfect week to #GiveUpGitHub.

☣️ #GitHub is the #Twitter of software development, creators of the most enticing proprietary walled garden ever made for #FOSS developers.

https://GiveUpGitHub.org

#FreeSoftware #OpenSource #EUOpenSource #FOSDEM

"Simply put, an open source Europe!" 💯

At The EU Open Source Policy Summit, Alexandra van Huffelen, Dutch Minister for Digitalisation, announces setting up an OSPO within the ministry.

"Transparency and openness foster trust and are the basis for reuse and enable citizens to check on us. Therefore our policy is for the government to be transparent and work as open as possible, including open policies, open data, and also open source."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1pAl1tiXtg

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Full disclosure, I almost certainly won't use money for coffee, but to, you know, pay folks for the time they spend helping out. Fund FOSS.

I just wanted to clear that up.

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Speaking of FOSS funding, you can always buy me a coffee. Literally, or virtually.

https://interpeer.io/donations/

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Of course I didn't boost it as intended, duh.

Try https://chaos.social/@interpeer/109806288396559486

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I promised a summary of the thread from yesterday, and here it is.

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#OpenSource #Europe #EUOpenSource #FOSDEM #FOSDEM23 #FOSDEM2023 Where the community finds their soul and recharges its energy!

#OpenSource communication tools connecting! #EUOpenSource @RocketChat @matrix

OFE Open Source policy summit

@jens

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No individual or NGO has the funds to pay for a spot on this stage.

In the US, we call it "navel gazing".

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@jens The ideas are in the audience, not on the stage. #EUOpenSource

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Fewer declarations.
More donations.

#PayTheMaintainers #OFE #OpenSource

Strangely, not that much that can be reported. Panelists are focusing on what they have done, how they approach things, but at a relatively abstract level. That makes it a little difficult to break down for FOSS projects.

Useful stuff, but little to comment on.

Brian Behlendorf mentions how relatively little money it would take to prevent the next log4shell vs. paying for fixing the damage afterwards. That's a very important point to policy makers.

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Great panel at #EUOpenSource about funding FOSS with Jean-Luc Dorel (@EC_NGI ), Emmy Tsang @emmyft, Brian Behlendorf
@brianbehlendorf, Govind Shivkumar and Cailean Osborne #SustainOSS

Next panel is about FOSS funding, this should be interesting!

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The automotive panel is not to my greatest interest. But it is fascinating that the panel acknowledges they were late to the FOSS party, and they're re-learning lessons the rest of the industry has already learned. There isn't much new here, as a result.

That being said, it's a fascinating example of how the future is unevenly distributed.

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Gaël Blondelle from the Eclipse Foundation is calling out #OpenWashing and the lack of contribution of large industry players to FOSS.

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Had a chance to talk to a EC representative about how much of a differences the likes of NLNet Foundation, Prototype Fund, and Sovereign Tech Fund are making here compared to the more cumbersome industry funding. I also pushed a bit on how difficult it still is to get maintenance funded. The comments were well received.

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A point by point discussion is difficult, but in the last panel, it was good to see that people in the vicinity of OSPOs or funding organizations working with European money and distributing it to smaller projects *get* FOSS. That means, we now have the right kind of people in the right places. But as has been pointed out, that process started in earnest in the last 2-3 years; we're very much at the beginning. I suppose that explains some of the disconnect I mentioned before.

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Remember when conferences used to choose keynote speakers based on some type of merit of the content they had to present, and not just purely by how much money they gave to the event?

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Interoperability has a positive impact on sustainability: using one app for messaging instead of many is way more efficient. Very good point by Vittorio Bertola #EUOpenSource