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Michael Downey 🧢

🚩 #OSI changing their "election" process mid campaign is one thing. Not releasing the results of the vote to the public until candidates suddenly comply with a requirement only for seated members, is another.

In past years, the results were released right away, typically within hours. It's been a full day & counting.

This last-minute change is just the latest in a string of irregularities. It doesn't inspire trust or demonstrate transparency.

discuss.opensource.org/t/board

OSI Discuss · Board Agreement required *post-vote* for all candidates?While the polls were open, we’ve heard that there may be candidates with no intention to sign the board agreement, which has become a mandatory requirement since you last served. We need to know who the actual candidates are before we run the STV calculation to determine the outcome of the vote. So for process efficiency, the board asked all candidates to confirm their good faith intention to serve on the board, so we can tell the software. The board agreement only applies to seated members.
#OpenSource#FreeSoftware
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code.gouv.fr

Yet another great #opensource #freesoftware project launched with French public money 🧢

👉 github.com/mnfst/manifest

It is now part of our "Awesome code.gouv.fr" list.

👌 code.gouv.fr/sources/#/awesome

"80% of websites and apps only use the most basic backend features. Using over-engineered solutions lead to unnecessary costs and complexity.

Manifest keeps it simple, delivering only the essential backend features and smoothly integrating in your project like any other file in your codebase."

Screenshot of a part of manifest's README.md showing a configuration file.
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Pirate Praveen

@ravi @fossunited Since we don't have any community members from #Bihar, this would mean people have to travel from UP and Delhi (we got two volunteers) and trains are all booked. So we have to look for tatkal or flights. We have some funds left from #PravConf, but more donations / sponsorships would help.

Conferences in places like Bihar is very important since they don't have an existing big Free Software community.

You can donate via prav.app/donate

prav.appDonate to Prav
#XMPP#FreeSoftware#prav
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Klaus Zimmermann :unverified:

Am I dreaming this morning? Which one is more impressive:

- #GIMP releasing 3.0
- An update to the #tut [1] client (probably the first one we had in like 2 years)

Either way, what a beautiful thing the world of #FreeSoftware is! Have a great week everyone!

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[1] tut.anv.nu/

tut.anv.nutut - Abouttut is a TUI for Mastodon with vim inspired keys. It features multiple-users, composing toots in your $EDITOR and viewing media in your desktop programs.
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Ravi Dwivedi

Would you like to volunteer for the #Prav stall at the #BiharFOSS conference organized by @fossunited?

The event will be held at IIT Patna on the 22nd of March. For details, check fossunited.org/c/bihar/2025 .

More about Prav 👉 prav.app

I am going to present Prav there but it would be nice if someone joins. Also, it would be great to have someone to accompany me and distribute stickers and flyers.

fossunited.orgBiharFOSS 2025
#FreeSoftware#OpenSource#XMPP
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🧊 freezr 🥶

The rise of Gimp 3

Big kudos to the #Gimp team!

I've just tested out the brand new version 3 and the most wanted feature, non-destructive-editig, just blew my mind!

I haven't realized that now, everything that is based on GEGL is editable, it is just amazing, this goes beyond what I expected as non-destructive-editing.

There are still plenty of room for improvements though , I hope in the future they will add a layer mask for each effect and the opacity channel to determine the amount of the intensity.

Nevertheless this result by itself it is just amazing and superior to other commercials solution even in its infantry!

This will boost my workflow cause now I can modify colors on my images without degrading the original ones and exporting the working file as jpeg-xl, this is already a pro level!

#opensource#freesoftware#DesignWithOpenSource
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    n8   Doesn't follow you 🇺🇦

On a radio news podcast this morning (don't remember which), they mentioned that Facebook's new "community notes" non-moderation feature is not just copying Twitter's but it will also use Twitter's OSS code....

Searching briefly, they clearly mean this:
github.com/twitter/communityno

But I don't think I have ever seen or heard an outside analysis of this project. Is there one? Have other real-world networks looked at it & kicked the tires any?

Documentation and source code powering Twitter's Community Notes - twitter/communitynotes
GitHubGitHub - twitter/communitynotes: Documentation and source code powering Twitter's Community NotesDocumentation and source code powering Twitter's Community Notes - twitter/communitynotes
#opensource#freesoftware#socialmedia
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KDE

digiKam, KDE's full-featured photo management software, releases version 8.6.0.

You can look forward to a smarter face management tool, an improved auto-tagging system that identifies elements in your images, fully automatic red-eye removal, and a new image quality feature that classifies images according to their aesthetic quality.

We also fixed 140 bugs!

digikam.org/news/2025-03-15-8.

#photography #OpenSource #FreeSoftware

@kde@lemmy.kde.social

A view of the Face Management tool.
digiKam tags a bunch of photos automatically.
Before-and-after images when applying the automatic red-eye removal plugin.
digiKam can help you assess the aesthetic quality of a photo.
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