Thibault @thibaultamartin@mamot.fr

If you're interested in GNOME Mobile development, adaptive apps, and the future of the GNOME platform join our virtual Q&A later this week!

We'll have many of the core people behind various pieces of the stack, including @agx, @KekunPlazas, @exalm, @dos, and myself.

Thursday, July 29
14:00 UTC

meet.gnome.org/ale-z3p-pjq-kkn

It’s been an epic week in Matrix with @gematik1@twitter.com announcing adopting Matrix, work starting on native Matrix video/voip conferencing (at last!) & now the Royal Navy experimenting with low bandwidth Matrix. One can only imagine what next week will bring ;) 🚀https://matrix.org/blog/2021/07/23/this-week-in-matrix-2021-07-23

Incredibly exciting to get official confirmation that Germany's health service (@gematik1@twitter.com) has standardised on Matrix for secure decentralised communications, targeting all 150,000 healthcare organisations in Germany(!!!) 🤯 Read all about it at https://matrix.org/blog/2021/07/21/germanys-national-healthcare-system-adopts-matrix 💉🇩🇪🚀

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Weekly updates are now available here:
👉 http://thisweek.gnome.org

Oh hello... native matrix: URI support in @firefox@twitter.com 90!!!

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You know what: it'd be great if people who need accessibility didn't go around calling other people's work "trash". I get it: accessibility is hard, and required for people to use a computer—but you know how proprietary platforms deal with it? They pay developers. You know what Linux users do for it? They fucking whine about it, and then they go out and say that any effort made is trash.

Well, guess what: stuff doesn't fix itself.

Congratulations to our newly elected board members, Thibault Martin, Alberto Ruiz, and Philip Chimento!
They will be joining continuing members, Robert McQueen, Regina Nkemchor Adejo, Felipe Borges, and Ekaterina Gerasimova in the next term.

#opensource #FOSS

Part 3 of my series on how GNOME development works is out now. This time: How to get things you want.

https://blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/2021/06/23/community-power-3

@federico3 @rysiek Acknowledging your own privilege just means being grateful that you have been given chances that others might not have been given no matter how hard they worked.

It does not mean denigrating your own hard work or that of others.

It's a point of humility and a self-check to maybe not throw out a knee-jerk "meh, it's free software, patches welcome" the next time a person runs into an issue due to a sharp edge in some free software project. Maybe they have the opportunity to contribute. Maybe they don't. You don't know their life.

Fragments will get a big V2 update soon! 😎

Completely rewritten from scratch to make use of GTK4, libadwaita - and of course Rust!

A small sneak peek...

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(boost appréciés)

I've been working on a series of blog posts on how power works within GNOME.

It took me a while to get my head around this when I joined the project, I'm hoping this will be of use for the next generation of newcomers.

Part 1 is out now: https://blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/2021/06/11/power-community-1

Today's reminder that open source needs paid people writing docs - the PDF spec is Nice, actually, and I'm jealous.

Low Bandwidth Matrix is coming... matrix developers may want to take a look at https://matrix.org/blog/2021/06/10/low-bandwidth-matrix-an-implementation-guide and help us experiment and build it out :)