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LibreOffice, SamNet Vinterkonferensen, OSI Still Selling Out to Microsofters, and FOSS Weekly is Out

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 17, 2023

LibreOffice at the Univention Summit 2023 - The Document Foundation Blog

Thorsten Behrens and Lothar Becker from the LibreOffice community attended the recent Univention Summit 2023 in Bremen, northern Germany.

Kushal Das: SamNet Vinterkonferensen 2023

This Tuesday I attended SamNet Vinterkonferensen, jointly organized by ISOC-SE, SNUS, DFRI and Dataskydd.net, focusing on technology, the internet, privacy, and decentralization. The organizers gave me caution before hand as the whole conference was in Swedish :)

The venue was Internetstiftelsen, which is already one of my favorite small conference venues in Stockholm (as we have done many open spaces there in the last 1 year).

After the morning coffee and breakfast, the day started with a talk about "blockchain", it felt more like a 2015 version of the presentation :) After that a very good detailed description of IPv6 and adoption. The third talk was on DNS from Mikael Kullberg. This presentation was a perfect mix of technical details and fun :)

Predictions in Open Source: Security, Mature Strategies, COSO, AI/ML [Ed: Just months after taking Microsoft money to repeatedly promote proprietary software, which is used to violate the licences OSI deals with, OSI now takes money from a Microsoft proxy, run by former Microsoft, to promote rubbish and FUD; Open Source would be better off if OSI just dropped dead]

I joined Javier Perez and Rod Cope of Perforce in a webinar...

FOSS Weekly #23.07: Terminal Basics, KDE Plasma 5.27 and Markdown Guide

Get a free bash scripting book, Markdown guides and learn to get comfortable with the new Terminal Basics series.