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Read the full report to discover all the work mentees have carried out to improve, Krita, Kdenlive, Cantor, KDE Linux, Karton, and more.

:spider_web: :jack_o_lantern: :bat: Hello dear self-hosterz, and welcome to this spoooOOooooking testing :bat: :jack_o_lantern: :spider_web:

Following the alpha-testing opened a few months ago, we are happy to announce that we are moving to the beta-testing stage for Trixie :tada: !

We consider that it should now be okay to upgrade to or install a fresh Yunohost 13.0+ running on Trixie for a production server if you are a tech-savvy person not afraid to debug stuff if needed. However, you should still remain careful, especially when running the Bookworm->Trixie migration depending on the complexity of your setup (but doing so helps spotting issues !). Additionally, some apps are still known to not be Trixie-ready yet.

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Nextcloud Hub 25 Autumn makes it easy to get started with powerful collaboration while in control of your data. Discover our latest release.

Their blog post is too long. 😑 Let's do a short summary ☺️

• tactile forms : buttons are more clickable
• improved UI & look in light & dark mode
• 11 new file templates across documents, spreadsheets, and presentations, and reworked six older templates to cover the most common tasks
• improved nextcloud UI & performance & make keyboard shortcut more visible
• added suggestion bar in nextcloud text to help users
• improved UI in nextcloud talk : bottom bar & side bar
• improved file search
• photo search filter & can create album based on search filter
• rewritten iOS app Nextcloud file : improved performance &UI
• improved navigation in the drawer menu in Android app nextcloud file
• busy button : selfactivate during a call
• live AI during call
• improved whiteboard for live session
• overview of everyone planning & vote schedule on empty slot
• new admin tool in occ
• clean up issue...

Ect

YesWiki homepage is in french. 😑 So i copy-pasted the whole section from OpenMindsProject 😁

The software is 100% translated in english :)

Personal experience: I love YesWiki. I used mediawiki but it didn't fit our need because we wanted a forum, an event, collaborative editing. And it was very complexe to set admin right, install plugin..you have to edit a config file, create group...wordpress was closer to our objective but too "bulky", "complex". it's hard to navigate.

So YesWiki, is in the middle ground with mediawiki & wordpress. It offer not only simple admin permission management, collaborative work, event but also a powerful tool "Dynamic Form"

Dynamic Form is a modular form that you can create. For example you want a page on books. You create a form : title, publishing date, image cover, language, theme...whatever you want, you are free :D

And user can use this form to add their books. More exactly, it will create a database, like the one in mysql. Then you choose how you want to display those info : a map, a calendar, a photoboth, a list...they are template in twig format with a mix of html,css & conditions.

That's all,
Good reading :3

YesWiki is an open source content management system (CMS) specially designed for creating collaborative wikis. Developed by a community of enthusiasts, YesWiki stands out for its ease of use, flexibility and features dedicated to exchanging and sharing information within groups, communities or projects.

Key features :

1. Ease of use: YesWiki is designed to be accessible to everyone, even users with no technical skills. Its intuitive interface makes it easy to create and manage web pages, articles, databases and forms, all without having to write a single line of code. The integrated WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor makes formatting content simple and straightforward.

2. Collaborative by nature: YesWiki is ideal for collaborative projects, allowing multiple users to contribute and edit content simultaneously. Each page has a complete history of changes, so contributions can be tracked and previous versions restored if necessary. Users can also comment on and discuss pages directly on the site.

3. Flexibility and customisation: YesWiki offers a wide range of customisation options. Users can create specific page templates, configure access rights for different categories of users, and adapt the appearance of the wiki using themes and extensions. This flexibility means that YesWiki can be adapted to a variety of uses, whether as a simple documentation site, a knowledge-sharing platform or a project management tool.

4. Mapping and geolocation: One of YesWiki's unique features is its integrated mapping module. Users can create and integrate interactive maps on which they can geolocate points of interest, resources or community members. This feature is particularly useful for local or community projects that require geographical visualisation of data.

5. Dynamic forms: YesWiki lets you create dynamic forms without programming, making it easy to collect information, manage databases or organise polls and surveys. The data collected can then be displayed in a flexible way, in the form of tables, lists or maps.

6. Modularity and extensibility: YesWiki is designed to be modular, which means it can be extended with various plugins and extensions to add specific functionality. The YesWiki developer community regularly releases new modules, allowing users to adapt the CMS to their evolving needs.

7. Hosting and installation: YesWiki can be easily installed on most web servers, whether shared or dedicated. Installation is quick and easy, requiring only a few configuration steps. For users who prefer not to manage their own hosting, there are also services offering pre-configured YesWiki instances.

8. Active community and support: YesWiki benefits from an active community that contributes to its development, offers additional modules and provides support via forums, online documentation and tutorials. This community is a valuable resource for new users looking to get the most out of the CMS.

The people behind YesWiki are very diverse, ranging from geeks to advanced users, in a true spirit of popular education. Some of the members of the project have made YesWiki their profession and can help you: sort in this trombinoscope according to what you are looking for: ‘They can help you’.

Typical uses :

• Boosting a network of members Contexts of use.

Running a network involves complex issues: the members have common problems but they are sometimes geographically distant and running the network is not their core activity.

Equipping this dynamic with a YesWiki enables players to identify themselves and share their resources and news.

• A collaborative map

Building a map together and remotely with YesWiki is easy: contributors fill in a form and visitors consult the map with customised sorting filters. You can customise the form, map background, colours and icons.

• Participatory events

Showing and even co-constructing the programme, monitoring registrations, organising car pooling, telling the story of previous editions... these are just some of the tasks that a YesWiki can support for an event.

• Intranet, central station

A collective needs a meeting point. When that point can't (always) be physical, you can supplement it with an online central station that directs you to useful information: contacts, documents, news, tasks, etc.

• Sharing resources

Methods sheets, experience sharing, tutorials, technical sheets, toolboxes... whatever the subject we're working on, it's useful to share our content.

• Training platform

YesWiki has added an LMS (Learning Management System) to its range of services, providing a rich, customised training platform.

-Produce an E-Book

• Creating a website

With its customisable graphics, YesWiki can truly reflect your image and serve as a showcase for your project to the rest of the world. You'll also benefit from its collaborative qualities when it comes to co-constructing and updating the site: members are no longer dependent on a webmaster to enter information or adapt the structure of the site.

• See the faces of other members

A trombinoscope is a simple way of presenting your group, your team, your collective. It is essential for welcoming new members to a project.

Depending on the characteristics of your group, your trombinoscope can be displayed in a grid or on a map if each member's home base is important.

Conclusion

YesWiki is now a powerful and accessible collaborative CMS, perfect for any organisation wishing to create an online knowledge-sharing or project management space. Its flexibility, collaboration features and intuitive interface make it the tool of choice for communities and workgroups. It's used by thousands of associations, local authorities and personal projects, and yes, even weddings and Christmas parties are organised using this great tool!

Real talk about GIMP 3.0, caveats, future plans, project funding, and the name change

After excruciating seven years in the making, GIMP 3.0 is finally here. Let’s focus on just the major changes and then have a grown-up conversation about project’s future plans, funding, and the name change.

Disclaimer: I was a team member until late 2022.
What’s new in GIMP 3.0

Here are some of the release highlights:

• Layer filters
• Multiple layers selection
• Layer locks
• CMYK exporting / late binding
• Color management updates
• Text outlines
• Better file formats support
• New logo

Sorry, the project is mostly in french but that's a great tool for sysadmin with a very complete backup system.

Their homepage isn't updated. The lastest version is 3.5.1. Imho, if you are interested, used the automated translation from your browser. 🥲

AlternC is a software helping system administrators to handle Web and Email services management. It should be easy to install, based only on free software.

This software consist of an automatic install and configuration system, a web control panel to manage hosted users and their web services such as domains, email accounts, ftp accounts, web statistics...

Technically, AlternC is based on Debian GNU/Linux distribution and it depends on other software such as Apache, Postfix, Dovecot, Mailman (...). It also contains an API documentation so that users can easily customize their web desktop.

This project native language is French, and the code is commented in English. The packages are available at least in French and English, German and Spanish interfaces are usually available too.

CLIC, un kiosque à services et contenus libres et partageables

La proposition de CLIC est de s’auto-héberger (de faire fonctionner des services web libres sur son propre matériel) et de disposer de ses contenus et données localement, et/ou sur le grand Internet avec un système technique pré-configuré

CLIC's proposal is to self-host (run free web services on your own hardware) and store your content and data locally and/or on the wider Internet using a pre-configured technical system.

"A glimpse into "Flow"" by Martins Upitis, Konstantins Visnevskis at Blender Conference 2025

"Flow" is a feature-length animated film directed by Gints Zilbalodis, created entirely in Blender and rendered in real-time using Eevee.
In this session, technical artists Konstantīns and Mārtiņš will take you behind the scenes of the production, offering insights into the studio’s workflow and the creative and technical challenges they faced along the way.

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Learn more about Blender Conference 2025 at https://conference.blender.org/2025/

#b3d #BCON25 #peertube #blender #foss #blender3d

Angela Plohman, former insider

When Ton mentioned his idea of interviewing different people from the industry, the name of Angela Plohman came out right on top. “She is so sharp and knowledgeable.”

Currently Executive VP of Strategy, Finance and Operations at the Mozilla Foundation, involved in high-level topics about the future of technology, Angela Plohman worked at Blender in the early days of the Foundation, around 2004-2007.

As a freelancer, she helped Ton on many structural aspects: she organized multiple BCONs, managed a large European subsidy, took care of artists working on the first open movie and was, overall, a great support and facilitator.

Angela was involved during a key moment of Blender, when Elephants Dream was in production and the first structural pillars were set. Since then, a deep respect and mutual admiration has remained between her and Ton – for those reasons, this conversation was less about the technology and more about the human side of Blender.

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Good reading 🤓

FREE SOFTWARE It was to much surprise waking up this morning and seeing the Servo 0.0.1 release for this Rust-based web layout engine that began as a Mozilla project and is now being developed independently via Linux Foundation Europe and other parties. Servo v0.0.1 was tagged in Git today as a rare tagged release for this web layout engine. Servo has been quite active in recent years with its Servo shell demo browser and working toward promising embedded web capabilities so that Servo can be easily used by various applications

The Servo open-source browser engine is out with their September 2025 development highlights. This Rust-based browser engine originally started by Mozilla continues making steady progress as well as to the "servoshell" demo/example browser implementation. [...]

NB : OP forgot to mention that the project was abandonned by Mozilla and is now supported, led by the Linux foundation europe.

After almost two years of work, we are happy to announce the release of Xfce 4.20.

Since Xfce 4.18 a lot of major development happened. Our team added many nice new features, did a gazillion of bug fixes and did various minor improvements. Finally, all that was released for your pleasure.

The major focus during this development cycle was the preparation of the codebase to be ready for Wayland. So that we meanwhile have experimental Wayland support for most components. More details in the 'Wayland' section below.

Assuming you have installed Xfce 4.18, here an overview on the major changes you will see on an upgrade to Xfce 4.20.

https://www.sfscon.it/

The South Tyrol Free Software Conference, SFSCON, is one of Europe’s most established annual conferences on Free Software. SFSCON promotes the use of Free Software in digital infrastructures as a tool to achieve greater innovation and competitiveness. Here decision-makers and developers meet, learn and get inspired.

The programme is online. For a complete overview of pre-events and side events taking place during the conference, please visit the dedicated Side Events page. Please keep in mind that the programme is subject to change and will be continuously updated until the conference opens, with all times expressed in Central European Time (CET) UTC+01:00.

The Arch Linux team has once again been forced to respond to a distributed denial-of-service attack targeting its AUR repository infrastructure. As a result, DDoS protection has been enabled for aur.archlinux.org to help mitigate the ongoing disruption.

While this measure helps keep the AUR website accessible, it has introduced a significant side effect: pushing to the AUR is currently not possible.

An aggregation of Gentoo-related weblog articles written by Gentoo developers.

Discover what's new in GNOME, the distraction-free computing platform.

The GNOME project is delighted to unveil GNOME 49, a milestone that reflects six months of collective effort from our vibrant community. A heartfelt thank you goes to everyone who helped shape this release.

We code named the release “Brescia”, after a beautiful Italian city that hosted this year’s GUADEC. Let’s explore what’s new and improved in this edition.

A free, free, privacy-friendly Android OS? This is the challenge launched by Gaël Duval with /e/OS! History, hardware, software support: we tell you everything!

In this interview, we discuss with him the creation of the project, the structuring between company and association, the business model as well as the relationship of /e/OS with its software ecosystem. We also talk about the relationship with phone manufacturers, especially Fairphone, and the creation of their own product line, but also about the different modalities of software and hardware support.

LINMOB.net is a blog about LINux on MOBile devices. With the PinePhone (Pro) and Librem 5 shipping it is back to report on GNU+Linux on mobile devices.

As you may have heard or rather read, the Spanish company Liberux recently launched a crowdfunder for their new mainline Linux "Nexx" phone on Indiegogo - starting at 8 GB RAM/128 GB eMMC/LTE for 799 EUR and going up to 32 GB RAM/512 GB/5G for 1300 (during the crowd-funder).

The specs include impressive things, such as two USB-C ports and a headphone jack - quite unusual these days. It's also somewhat modular (cellular modem, RAM, and storage are on modules) and they aim to open-source the hardware and plan to manufacture the devices in Spain - meaning, the Liberux Nexx will be (successful funding assumed) be one of the only (?) smartphones designed and build in Europe.

I asked Liberux for an interview, and they were happy to answer my questions. While they would have prefered to do this as a video interview, I just could not swing that (we're preparing to move, and I have to stand-in for a colleague on holiday at the dayjob right now) - so gladly, they agreed to do it in a back and forth via email. With that said, here you go [...]

Free the phone!

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has been working on software freedom in computing for 40 years now, and now, we are venturing into what we have found to be one of the most challenging areas of computing: Mobile phones. Most individuals do a lot of their computing on mobile phones.

A lot of work is being done in mobile phone freedom. However, mobile phone computing remains largely nonfree due to a wide range of nonfree software blobs that commonly occur in even the most progressive "free software" operating systems.

Librephone is the FSF's project to free up those blobs. This project's goal is not another Android distribution, but a long-term project to better understand and reverse-engineer the nonfree blobs used by virtually all SoCs made today.

Launched on FSF's 40th anniversary, our aim is to bring mobile phone users into the "free world" we've already created for servers and desktops. As far as we know, a project as ambitious as this hasn't been attempted before. That means that if we're going to succeed, we need your help. Donate today!

The FSF conducted an interview with Librephone lead developer Rob Savoye. You can listen to it on the FSF website.

For more information, the FAQ, and the project documentation is hosted here There's an initial IRC channel at irc.libera.chat:6697, #librephone. Please join the community!

As part of the FSF40 celebrations, we're inviting you to participate in a global, online hackathon to help improve important libre software projects.

When we first announced plans to celebrate the Free Software Foundation's (FSF) fortieth anniversary, we promised to do so in the spirit of bringing the international free software community together. On November 21--23, we invite you to participate in a global, online hackathon to help improve important libre software projects. It's at the core of the FSF's mission to foster free software development. With this hackathon, we want to spotlight the indispensable and hard work free software hackers are carrying out in the background, often without being seen and valued enough.

Register now to participate in the FSF40 hackathon.

Participating projects

Here is the list of projects so far that have declared that they will participate in the FSF40 hackathon:

• Don't track bugs: track valuable discussions, a tool to help contributors track bugs, patches, featured requests, and other valuable discussions shared on mailing lists;
• The Free Software Directory, the FSF's free software catalog;
• GNU Boot, a boot software distribution that can replace nonfree boot software like BIOS or UEFI on specific computers;
• GNU Guix, a reproducible package manager;
• Lewa, an interactive platform to learn African writing systems;
• LibreVR, a project working on ethical replacements for nonfree VR games;
• op-mattermost, OpenProject integration for Mattermost; and
• Org Mode, the notes management and organizer for GNU Emacs.

You don't need to be a developer to participate in the FSF40 hackathon. There will be tasks for all kinds of interests and every experience level. In addition to advancing the participating projects, the goal of this hackathon is also to learn from each other, acquire skills, and sharpen them.

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What’s Up?

offdem.net is the continuation of the Off-festival, initiated by petites singularités, of the Free and Open-Source Developer European Meeting to accompany FOSDEM during its 20th anniversary celebration. After four editions, the OFFDEM community decided to make it fly on its own, and this is where it happens.

Why does it exist?

Some free software developers have been unhappy with the takeover of the community event by corporate sponsors from Silicon Valley’s surveillance capitalism. Since there was no way to reform the original gathering, we decided to fork FOSDEM.

Why does it still exist?

As we moved away from FOSDEM, we embraced different ways to organize a political gathering around free technology production. What we’re doing here did not exist before, except to a point in some related hacker circles. Moreover, FOSDEM remains subjugated by the same corporate sponsors that we refuse to see in our community spaces.
What’s next?

We are organized the upcoming events in our forum. You’re welcome to give a hand. Note that there is still some work to do moving our archives from our previous home to here and it may take some time, according to our availability and priorities — but the ongoing activity remains steady.

Since 1996, April has been defending and promoting free software. A key player in France, she has participated in many battles. It has also been able to evolve to meet current challenges

The OpenStreetMap project is to build the most complete, exhaustive and up-to-date global database of free geographical data

Walid: Today, dear listeners, we’re going to talk about a topic that we very quickly addressed in episode 14 of season 2, with Manon Corneille, we were talking about Open Food Fact and we talked about OpenStreetMap.

And that’s good because today, we’re going to do an introductory episode on OpenStreetMap to understand who’s behind it, how it works and why.

And with me, I have the great pleasure of having as a guest Christian Quest, whom I will let introduce himself afterwards, with whom we will talk about OpenStreetMap to try to find out more.

Christian, welcome to the Free Projects podcast! I hope you’re doing well and hello to you.

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