France launches "LaSuite," an open-source office suite for digital sovereignty, reducing reliance on foreign proprietary software. 🖥️
Built on Matrix/TChap, LiveKit/Visio, Grist, and Drive—all MIT-licensed for any organization to deploy. 🇪🇺

🔗 sinologic.net/en/2026-01/franc…

#TechNews #OpenSource #France #French #DigitalSovereignty #FOSS #Matrix #Privacy #EU #Security #Software #Linux #SelfHost #Government #Europe #Data #IT #PublicSector #Microsoft #Office #Tech #Cloud #LibreOffice

France chooses Open Source to secure European Sovereignty.

According to many European media outlets, the French government has just announced its commitment to a busines

^{Elio Rojano (Sinologic)}

How are you managing your business/company without Big Tech? I would love to hear specifically selfhosted tools.

I have been managing my one person firm with Nextcloud, Trillium Notes and Forgejo. But now I am getting an employee and need to have files/information shared with other person. I have used Cryptpad for managing tasks and files previously, but loved to hear other options.

#selfhosting #askfedi #nextcloud #opensource #bigtech

#ardour, one of the leading #linuxaudio #daw (s), has been released as a major new version! 😎

Check out what's new with Ardour 9 at the link below:
ardour.org/whatsnew.html

#crossplatform #opensource

View Mozilla Thunderbird Mailbox Quota Size Usage and Limit

A complete guide to acquire the necessary knowledge and required steps to view a mailbox’s quota size usage and limit in Mozilla Thunderbird.

adamsdesk.com/posts/mozilla-th…

#blog #email #thunderbird #OpenSource
@thunderbird

We have 3 more supporters who donate 5€ a month. Thank you so much to Colin, John, and Kershaw! tromsite.com/donate/

We need 12 more people to start a new video series, bring back TROMnews, and increase the storage for our TROM Files (nextcloud) to 20GB for everyone.

Maybe we can make it happen. Would be fantastic!

#tromsite #nextcloud #fedi #fediverse #volunteer #campaign #trom #tromtf #foss #opensource

Unfortunately, I won’t be able to attend LAC (Linux Audio Conference) this year, but wanted to share the link with you nonetheless:
lac26.mucs.club/

#linuxaudio #conference #musicproduction #opensource #linux #ireland

LinuxDAW.org er en oversigt over Linux-kompatible plugins til lydproduktion.

Link: linuxdaw.org

#opensource #dkopensource #linux #linuxaudio

Linux DAW

Quality audio software for Linux Audio Production such as LV2, VST2, VST3, and CLAP effects, synthesizers and sampler plugins.

^{Linux DAW}

Big new update to #LibreOffice, the free and private office suite. Version 26.2 is here, with:

📝 Markdown support
📊 Connectors in Calc
🚀 Spreadsheet speedups

...plus many other new features, improvements and fixes. Learn more and download it: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #opensource #freesoftware

CommaFeed is a self-hosted RSS reader inspired by Google Reader.

Fully open-source, privacy-friendly, and built to handle thousands of feeds and users. Perfect if you want to escape cloud-based RSS readers while keeping full control of your subscriptions.

👉 github.com/Athou/commafeed
👉 More tools like this: digital-escape-tools-phi.verce…
#Privacy #OpenSource #SelfHosting #RSS #FOSS #DeGoogle

Released WordPress starter theme Air-light v10. This is a major release and includes support for core blocks, block variations and native Gutenberg blocks!

Demo: airwptheme.com/demo
Full changelog: github.com/digitoimistodude/ai…

#OpenSource #BuildInPublic #WordPress #StarterTheme

LibreSpeed is a lightweight, open-source internet speed test you can fully self-host.

No trackers, no Flash/Java, no forced telemetry just download, upload, ping, and jitter. A privacy-friendly alternative to Speedtest.net and Fast.com.

👉 github.com/librespeed/speedtes…

👉 More tools like this: digital-escape-tools-phi.verce…

#Privacy #OpenSource #SelfHosting #Networking #FOSS #DeGoogle

Allekirjoitimme tänään tärkeän vetoomuksen!

"Ehdotetun lain 20 §:ään sisältyy mahdollisuus asettaa uhkasakko avoimen lähdekoodin ohjelmistovastaavalle. EU-asetus ei tällaista edellytä, kyse on Suomen omasta tiukennuksesta."

Perusteluiksi voimme pistää suoran sitaatin tuolta sivulta: "Se voi heikentää avoimen lähdekoodin kehittämistä, digitaalista suvereniteettia ja Suomen kilpailukykyä."

EHDOTON EI AVOIMEN LÄHDEKOODIN UHKASAKOLLE!

#piraatit #avoinlahdekoodi #Opensource #suomi

coss.fi/uutiset/suomi-kiristai…

Suomi kiristäisi avoimen koodin sääntelyä haitallisesti - vastusta ylimääräistä uhkasakkoa avoimelle koodille ja allekirjoita vetoomus - COSS.fi

COSS on laatinut toimitettavaksi lausunnon hallituksen esityksestä, joka koskee EU:n kyberkestävyysasetuksen (CRA) toimeenpanoa Suomessa.

^{Linda Lehto (COSS ry)}

It was an honor to speak at the #FOSDEM. Thank you for the possibility to share my message on how to lead change from closed source to #opensource and why contributing to this transition actually matters more than ever.

In case you missed the talk and would like to join the #FOSS revolution, I'm happy to share the recording: video.fosdem.org/2026/aw1120/7…

#fosdem #opensource #foss #leadership #changemanagement #unplugtrump #vendorlockin #bigtech

New small open-source project of mine: a web-based, offline-first speed reading tool.

Source code: github.com/ronilaukkarinen/spe…
Demo: speed-reader.rolle.wtf

#OpenSource #BuildInPublic #Reading #SpeedReading #RSVPReading #Books #Apps

If you take just one thing away from #FOSDEM this is it.
👇🏽
“If we lose our democracies, Open Source is irrelevant and goes away”

or putting it another way:

If we don’t apply, enforce, adopt and embrace Open Source in our public and government institutions we risk to lose our democracies.
#OpenSource #SaveDemocracy
Boost if you agree!
👍🏾

Good morning! We are streaming a selected list of rooms from FOSDEM to the Fediverse again! Here are the playlists:

➡️ makertube.net/w/p/tH91FM3JdSe7…
➡️ vhsky.cz/w/p/ixCUdbv6dmPVgeWLc…

The streams start at 9 am CET.

#fosdem #fediverse #foss #opensource #peertube #makertube

Gaming on Linux is in the lift

After SteamOS there are many distributions coming up to make gaming on Linux better.

You have:
- SteamOS
- Bazzite
- Nobara
- Ubuntu Gamepack

and also nice gaming libraries:
- Heroic Game Launcher
- Lutris
- Playnite
- Rare

#gaming #linux #opensource #floss

@schmaker and MakerTube are streaming selected rooms from FOSDEM to the Fediverse this weekend! Here are the playlists to the available streams:

➡️ makertube.net/w/p/tH91FM3JdSe7…
➡️ vhsky.cz/w/p/ixCUdbv6dmPVgeWLc…

Are you missing any room in particular? Please reach out, I'm thinking of adding one or two rooms to the list.

If you are a Peertube admin you can follow these channel handles to promote them on your instance:

➡️ @fosdem@makertube.net
➡️ @fosdem@vhsky.cz

#fosdem #peertube #makertube #fediverse #opensource #foss #live

This just in......

Shortcircuit-XT, the awesome open source sampler that many of us have been waiting years for, has just been released as a BETA!!

It is no longer an Alpha!! It's time to start testing and reporting bugs!!!!!

See here for details:

kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.p…

#LinuxAudio #Linux #MusicProduction #DAW #Music #Audio #Sampler #Plugin #VST #Windows #MacOS #OpenSource #FOSS

Logseq is a free, open-source, local-first note-taking & knowledge base built on plain Markdown and Org files.

No accounts, no cloud by default — your data stays on your device. Supports bi-directional links, graphs, daily journals, and powerful queries, with optional sync & end-to-end encryption.

👉 github.com/logseq/logseq

👉 More tools like this: digital-escape-tools-phi.verce…

#Privacy #OpenSource #LocalFirst #PKM #FOSS #DeGoogle

Self-Host Weekly (30 January 2026)

#AI tags (and the #lobster everyone is going crazy over), software updates and launches, a spotlight on #VanillaCookbook - a simple #recipe platform, and more in this week's #selfhosted recap!

selfh.st/weekly/2026-01-30/

#selfhost #selfhosting #newsletter #foss #opensource #fosdem #homelab #privacy #security #sysadmin #devops #smarthome #fediverse #clawdbot #moltbot #openclaw #immich

Self-Host Weekly (30 January 2026)

Lobster-themed AI assistants, milestone releases, and the latest NAS operating system launch

^{Ethan Sholly (selfh.st)}

🇩🇪 🇪🇺 At EU Open Source Policy Summit 2026, Dirk Schrödter @dirkschroedter Minister of Digitalization of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, calls for an end to government decisions that "export public money, and import long-term dependency".

opencode.de/en

#FreeSoftware #OpenSource #FOSS #FLOSS #Europe #EU #DigitalSovreignty #OFE #FOSDEM

The Open Source Policy Summit opened with excellent talks from @HennaVirkkunen , vice-president of the European Commission for Technical Sovereignty, and @dirkschroedter , Minister of Digitalization of Schleswig-Holstein. They're both strong advocates for European #opensource alternatives 🔥

#digitalsovereignty #fosdem

Today I learned about #Nolto:

nolto.social/mission

"Nolto is on a mission to reshape how people find jobs, build professional connections, and share opportunities—outside the walled gardens of big tech platforms. We believe your career journey deserves to be open, transparent, and fully in your control."

Will this be the better #LinkedIn?

#fediverse #opensource #professional #network #FOSS

Nolto - Professional Social Network

A professional social network that runs on the ActivityPub federation protocol, focusing on privacy, accessibility, and a healthy user culture.

^nolto.social

How we route our band stream into an 18-channel soundcard through Ardour into OBS for studio-quality live streams

Sign up for our email list, and you can get our Free setup guide for how we do this mailchi.mp/lorenzosmusic/band-…

#music #opensource #LiveStreaming #Ardour #LinuxAudio #ubuntustudio

Yeah it doesn't look like its open source, you should try the FLOSS loops.video its the most like tiktok on the fediverse and it allows people on mastodon and other fediverse platforms to follow you

Proprietary code means anti user every time, they are just another company looking to monetize your participation, loops is different because its community owned and run

#FLOSS #TikTok #LoopsVideo #Loops #Fediverse #Mastodon #OpenSource

MacOS Tahoe got rid of the full screen launchpad. LaunchBack is a free and open-source re-implementation of the "classic" macOS Launchpad.
github.com/trey-a-12/LaunchBac…

#macOS #Apple #Tahoe #macOSTahoe #OpenSource

Frankreich ersetzt MS Teams und Zoom durch eigene Videokonferenzsoftware

Mit Visio führt Frankreich seine Open-Source-Videokonferenzen für Behörden ein. Bis 2027 sollen 200.000 Beamte unabhängig von US-Anbietern arbeiten können.

heise.de/news/Frankreich-erset…

#DataAct #DigitaleSouveränität #EU #IT #MicrosoftTeams #Netzpolitik #OpenSource #Wirtschaft #news

Frankreich sagt Microsoft Teams und Zoom den Kampf an

^{Moritz Förster (heise online)}

My favourite app on macOS:

Dayflow is a native macOS app (SwiftUI) that records your screen at 1 FPS, analyzes it every 15 minutes with AI, and generates a timeline of your activities with summaries. It's lightweight (25MB app size) and uses ~100MB of RAM and <1% cpu.

If you use local ollama, it's 100% private, local. Open source.

github.com/JerryZLiu/Dayflow

#OpenSource #Apps #Mac #TimeTracking #Data

Quiet is an alternative to team chat apps like Slack, Discord, and Element that does not require trusting a central server or running one's own. In Quiet, all data syncs directly between a team's devices over Tor with no server required.
tryquiet.org

#OpenSource #P2P #Apps #Chat

Quiet - Private messaging. No servers.

^tryquiet.org

What does a UK #DigitalSovereignty strategy look like?

⚫ Open Source software to ensure continuity. We can switch suppliers whilst maintaining critical services, because we aren't locked into a closed proprietary system.

⚫ Interoperable systems to strengthen competition and the resilience of UK tech.

#opensource #interoperability #sovereingty #uk #tech #ukpolitics #ukpol

Thanks to @jens, we now have the data from the Swedish Parliament (Riksdagen). We have 230 of 349 MPs are active on X (66%).

You can already contact them!

leavex.eu/politicians-se/

P. S., We have added the full party name so that you can filter by party.

#LeaveX #Sweden #OpenSource

#CachyOS ISO Release for January 2026 Brings #KDE’s New Plasma Login Manager, Installer Improvements, and More 9to5linux.com/cachyos-iso-rele…

#Linux #OpenSource

"AI is a bubble and it will burst... So what will be left behind?

We will have a bunch of coders who are really good at applied statistics... a lot of cheap GPUs... And we will have the #OpenSource models that run on commodity hardware, #AI tools that can do a lot of useful stuff, like transcribing audio and video; describing images;... These will run on our laptops and phones, and open-source hackers will find ways to push them to do things their makers never dreamed of."

#Technology #News

“I really like the Small Web. Thanks for NOT supporting it.”

ar.al/2022/10/20/nlnet-grant-a…

(We tried one more time after that, got rejected again, and then stopped wasting time with @nlnet and @NGIZero. The Small Web will launch this year with ZERO EU funding in its six years of development from NGI/NLNet. If you want to support us before it does, please see small-tech.org/fund-us. After we launch, we aim for it to be self sustaining. So NGI/NLNet have been and are irrelevant as far as the Small Web is concerned.)

eupolicy.social/@jmaris/115940…

#SmallWeb #SmallTech #EU #funding #FOSS #OpenSource #EUpol #OpenSourceSustainability #NextGenerationInternet #NGI #NLNet #SmallTechnologyFoundation