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Call for Sessions and FSF Award nominations have been extended until December 15. No news yet on whether Richard Stallman will be a speaker.

AlmaLinux has opened some doors to make it easier for its community to stay in touch with the Linux distribution.

The “State of the Word” address from the WordPress CMS project will be both live and in person, as well as streamed for viewing from home.

Nextcloud, The Document Foundation, FSFE, OnlyOffice, and 26 other organizations are pushing the EU and member states to end noncompetitive actions by Microsoft and others.

The PHP Foundation is an effort by 10 key PHP-dependent vendors to assure adequate funding to keep the popular scripting language viable.

The proposed legislation, which would regulate “gatekeeper” platforms in the EU, doesn’t go far enough, according to the FSFE.

Electronic versions of LibreOffice’s guides are available as free downloads, or print-on-demand versions through Lulu.

Todd Lewis, the founder and chairperson at All Things Open, writes about the challenges of launching a major in-person event during the Age of Covid.

The state parliament of Schleswig-Holstein in Northern Germany has already produced plans to make the state government almost 100% open source by the end of 2026.

Bilbili becomes the third large China-based video centered social network to throw its patents into Open Invention Network’s kitty this year.

The EU and many of its member states are highly supportive of open source software. France takes that to new levels.

The recipes that Carla Shroder shares here only begin to scratch the surface of what’s to be found in the Second Edition of her classic guide to Linux. If it was up to us, however, we would have called it “The Joy of Linux”.

Since Open Source Summit Japan will be all virtual again this year, meaning live access anywhere, we’ve made some picks and suggestions, as well as some observations.

A dozen years ago, the notion of Microsoft doing anything to make it easier for Windows users to find and install open source software would’ve been unthinkable.

Users can download now for on-premises and edge installations. Images for AWS, Azure, GCP and other clouds will be available soon.

Two seats on the board at openSUSE are up for grabs. Candidates will be announced on November 22, and voting begins on December 13.

In the beginning it was The HeliOS Project, and just getting donations of equipment was a challenge to say the least. But by 2012 we had morphed into our own nonprofit with our own facility, and a pool of over 100 volunteers who made Reglue.org the success it became. Since then, Reglue.org has placed 2,237 computers into financially-disadvantaged homes of students, ranging from middle school kids to graduate students.

The Raspberry Pi Foundations latest project, Code Club World, turns learning to code into fun games and challenges.

“2021 State of the Onion” will be online on November 17 and will be available for viewing on Tor’s YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter accounts.

Spoiler alert: “Most tech authors don’t write to make money. We write to share cool stuff.”