Missed Office Hours last week? No problem: the full recording is ready to watch on YouTube and @tilvids.

The 3 developers behind the effort to bring native Microsoft Exchange support to Thunderbird discuss their adventures in Rust, and explain the long-term benefits and steep challenges associated with this project.

YouTube: https://youtu.be/yAJl3c0uMCs

PeerTube: https://tilvids.com/w/1np8cvwqBWtKNwuARtenHn

#Exchange #Thunderbird #Rust #Development

Rust + Exchange | April 2024 Thunderbird Office Hours

The three developers behind the effort to bring native Microsoft Exchange support to Thunderbird join us to discuss their adventures in Rust, and explain the long-term benefits and steep challenges associated with this project.

^TILvids

Thunderchat alert! 🚨

Our Rust and Exchange Community Office Hours start in one hour, at 16:00 UTC! Find out how to join us on Big Blue Button in our blog post. Hope to see you there! 🦀

https://blog.thunderbird.net/2024/04/april-2024-community-office-hours-rust-and-exchange-support/

#Thunderbird #Rust #Development

April 2024 Community Office Hours: Rust and Exchange Support - The Thunderbird Blog

Thunderbird developers discuss enabling Rust in Thunderbird, using Rust to provide native Exchange support, and their future plans.

^{Monica Ayhens-Madon (The Thunderbird Blog)}

In case you're not following our blog (gasp!), our Rust developers have the technical details on how we're using the language to bring in native Exchange support in the latest post.

So if you're a fan of all things Rust and email protocols, and you want to know what we've done so far and what's coming next, give it a read - and come to our office hours all about Rust and Exchange tomorrow at 16:00 UTC!

https://blog.thunderbird.net/2024/04/adventures-in-rust-bringing-exchange-support-to-thunderbird/

#Thunderbird #Rust #Development

Adventures In Rust: Bringing Exchange Support To Thunderbird

Thunderbird will support Microsoft Exchange Web Services (EWS) natively, all written in Rust! Read about our Rusty adventures, the technical nature of the EWS

^{Heather Ellsworth (The Thunderbird Blog)}

If you're eagerly anticipating Rust and native Exchange support in Thunderbird, have questions, or want to know what this is all about, you'll want to tune into our next Community Office Hours on April 23 at 16:00 UTC. 🦀

We'll have three of our Rust developers, including @brendan and @leftmostcat to provide info and answer questions and be in our new Big Blue Button room, provided by @kde ! Find out all the details here: https://blog.thunderbird.net/2024/04/april-2024-community-office-hours-rust-and-exchange-support/ 💙

#Thunderbird #Rust #Development

April 2024 Community Office Hours: Rust and Exchange Support - The Thunderbird Blog

Thunderbird developers discuss enabling Rust in Thunderbird, using Rust to provide native Exchange support, and their future plans.

^{Monica Ayhens-Madon (The Thunderbird Blog)}

Shoreline Shots

Silloth coast, on North Western edge of the Lake District.

#concrete #landscape #coast #waterways #shoreline #waves #cumbria #LakeDistrict #sea #water #photography #photographer #viltrox #fujifilm #landscapephotography #blackandwhitephotography #monochrome #beach #railings #metalwork #rust @your_lakedistrict

📦 Serpent OS Hopes To Ship Pre-Alpha ISOs In The Coming Weeks
— @phoronix

「 Serpent OS is tracking the work done by System76 on their Rust-written COSMIC desktop and look forward to offering it within Serpent OS 」

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Serpent-OS-Pre-Alpha-Soon

#SerpentOS #COSMIC #COSMICDE #Rust #Opensource

Serpent OS Hopes To Ship Pre-Alpha ISOs In The Coming Weeks

Ikey Doherty's Serpent OS Linux distribution project is hoping to be able to ship their pre-Alpha ISOs in a matter of weeks as they continue bringing up the initial desktop experience and getting more of their operating system's build tools into good…

^{www.phoronix.com}

I looked at the #rust based, #Cosmic #desktop #environment, by #System76. This is branded "alpha" right now, but I'm flabbergasted by the users online, who think that "by summer" that thing will be ready for general use.

News flash, it won't.

It generally takes 2-3 years minimum after the official release for a brand new DE (with a brand new #API & libs) to become truly useful to most people. DEs aren't adopted unless matured. Hamper your expectations, lads.

#cosmicde #linux #foss #opensource

The #PHP Foundation, alongside other #OpenSource organizations including the #Apache Software Foundation, #Blender Foundation, #OpenSSL Software Foundation, #Python Software Foundation, #Rust Foundation, and #Eclipse Foundation, announced today a collaborative initiative aimed at establishing common cybersecurity standards in alignment with the European Union’s Cyber Resilience Act (#CRA):

https://thephp.foundation/blog/2024/04/02/open-source-community-cra-compliance-initiative/

Joining Forces for Open Source Cybersecurity Standards

The PHP Foundation — Supporting, Advancing, and Developing the PHP Language

^{thephp.foundation}

We've got a new Developer Digest, and this one is full of updates on Rust and Exchange support, a better mailing list subscription experience, and a successful ESMification! 🎉

Read all about these developments and small but meaningful fixes and upgrades here: https://blog.thunderbird.net/2024/04/thunderbird-monthly-development-digest-march-24/

#Thunderbird #Development #Rust

Thunderbird Monthly Development Digest: March 2024 - The Thunderbird Blog

In this month's Thunderbird Development Digest, Alex updates us on Rust and Exchange, list management, and successful ESMification.

^{Alessandro Castellani (The Thunderbird Blog)}