If you take just one thing away from #FOSDEM this is it.
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“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!
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Dear Fedi friends,
Good morning from #FOSDEM!
Yesterday was pure magic: I loved every single presentation in the Social Web devroom, with devs and Fediverse champions sharing their inspiring work.
I didn’t post anything because I was so absorbed in all the talks (plus @liaizon and @Sascha did a fantastic job chronicling the event).
I can’t stop thinking about one of @benpate’s closing slides:
“Every single thing you do to improve the Fediverse is a win for humanity”
YES! 🙌
Some interesting (to me) stats from #FOSDEM
Talks about NFTs: 0.
Presentations about the Metaverse: None.
Cryptobros inviting me to a party in order to schill their coin: Zip.
Really enthusiastic LLM users describing how AI has improved their OSS codebase: Zilch.
People complaining about pronouns and codes of conduct: Nada.
"Ironic" hats saying "Make xyz Great Again": Conspicuous by their absence.
What did *you* think was missing from FOSDEM?
Our free stickers went like hot cakes yesterday at #FOSDEM. The new "My friends are not for sale" ones are all gone, they were an experimental last-minute print of a new design (which is coming soon as a t-shirt, by the way!). The less stuff for us to carry back home, the better. I wish people would grab the leaflets too!
We are having a great time at #FOSDEM and we only have three enamel “Live Laugh Federate” pins left! (Two just got sold!)
As you figure out #FOSDEM at FOSDEM, consider how to help fellow attendees by improving
https://github.com/bagder/FOSDEM
Please help @bagder with his sticker problem #curl #fosdem #fosdem2026 #fosdem26
(location: chez theo cafeteria)
Good morning! We are streaming a selected list of rooms from FOSDEM to the Fediverse again! Here are the playlists:
➡️ https://makertube.net/w/p/tH91FM3JdSe7b3cnqsfhmW
➡️ https://vhsky.cz/w/p/ixCUdbv6dmPVgeWLcKxLLG
The streams start at 9 am CET.
Speaking of cool!! We have a European POWERHOUSE of open source procurement experts on stage at the EU Policy devroom! 🇧🇪🇫🇷🇩🇪🇳🇱🇩🇰
Procurement sounds *hella boring*, but it's the biggest bottleneck right now for governments wanting to use opensource.
Together with @Mastodon director @mellifluousbox , Open Networks advocate @samvie and EU MP @alexandrageese , @jmaris from the OS Initiative did a lovely shoutout to all the Mastodon mods and admins at the "Fediverse and the EU Digital Services" talk in the EU Policy devroom 🥹
Was very appreciated. 🙏 #FOSDEM
