TechdirtCongress Wants To Put The Law Behind A Paywall. Again.
Khronos GroupThe Khronos 3D Formats Working Group has launched an Education, Insights, and Outreach (EIO) Subgroup to help developers and creators get the most from #glTF and #KTX — closing the gap between specification and real-world practice.
The Subgroup's first public webinar takes place tomorrow, April 7: Gaussian Splats: Use Cases & Next Steps for glTF Standardization.
https://www.khronos.org/blog/from-specification-to-practice-unlocking-gltfs-full-potential
#Khronos #OpenStandards #GaussianSplatting
Global ChatThe IETF agents.txt draft expires April 10 and nobody seems worried about it. Meanwhile MCP, A2A, and agents.txt each define their own discovery mechanism with zero interop between them. Three competing approaches to the same problem, and the one that went through standards process is about to lapse. Feels like we're speedrunning protocol fragmentation.
Paolo MelchiorreAfter years relying only on social feeds, I’m going back to reading blogs via RSS on my laptop using NewsFlash on GNOME. 📰
I was honestly surprised to find that some blogs I usually read still don’t provide a feed in 2026. 🙃
If you self host your blog and write about Open Source, Python, Django, Linux or similar topics, please add an RSS/Atom feed. Otherwise people like me simply won’t know when you publish. 💡
Please boost. 🙏
#RSS #OpenStandards #OpenSource
CC @gnome
knoppixThe Document Foundation removed 30+ Collabora-linked developers, including top LibreOffice contributors, under bylaws tied to legal disputes. ⚖️
The move raises concerns over governance transparency and contributor influence in major FOSS projects. 🧩
🔗 https://itsfoss.com/news/document-foundation-collabora-feud/
#TechNews #LibreOffice #Collabora #OpenSource #FOSS #Governance #Transparency #SoftwareFreedom #Community #Fork #Linux #DigitalRights #OpenStandards #EthicalTech #Decentralization
California requires AI vendors working with the state to implement safety and privacy guardrails. Companies must adopt standards preventing misuse and protecting user rights. 🤖
#TechNews #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Privacy #Safety #Government #Public #Politics #GovTech #FOSS #Transparency #UserControl #Regulation #DataProtection #EthicalAI #Policy #OpenStandards #DigitalRights #California #US #USA
Khronos Group is hosting a free webinar on Gaussian Splats in glTF — featuring speakers from Cesium, XGRIDS, and the Smithsonian on real-world use cases in geospatial, capture workflows, and cultural preservation.
April 7 | 7:00 AM PDT | Free, online
https://www.khronos.org/events/gaussian-splats-use-cases-next-steps-for-gltf-standardization
#GaussianSplatting #glTF #3DStandards #OpenStandards
Steve Woods#ODF is the future, OOXML is the past.
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/03/27/odf-is-the-future-ooxml-is-the-past/
ODF is the future, OOXML is the past - TDF Community Blog
Whenever a user, a government, a school or a business chooses the format in which to store and exchange its digital documents, it is not merely making a technical decision, but is placing a bet on the kind of digital infrastructure on which it will depend in the future. In this sense, ODF and OOXML are not two equivalent options on the same shelf, but two radically different solutions: one geared towards a future of openness, interoperability and digital sovereignty, and the other towards a past of defending a vendor’s dominant market position through user lock-in. ODF: designed to be open and transparent Open Document Format was conceived from the outset to be an open standard. It was designed and developed by the community under the auspices of OASIS, and subsequently ratified by ISO, to be implemented by anyone, on any platform, without royalties, without hidden dependencies and without the permission of any single company. These are not trivial technical details, but a statement of political and economic strategy embedded within the format itself. ODF is based on a clean XML schema, easy to read even by non-technical users and reusable. Colour naming follows standard web conventions, and its architecture
blausand 🐟"CCC würd's feiern"
Jemand Bock, die Hausaufgaben zu machen, die mein Stochastischer Labubu Ohne Persönlichkeit (SLOP) mir so gibt?
Marcus SchulerGermany's IT Planning Council mandated ODF and PDF/UA as the only approved document formats across all public administration, excluding Microsoft's OOXML entirely. The Deutschland-Stack covers 50+ open standards targeting 2028 implementation, but the resolution lacks enforcement mechanisms. A test case for whether European governments can reduce dependency on proprietary formats at scale.
Germany Mandates ODF for Government, Excluding Microsoft
Germany mandated ODF as the sole document format for all public administration, excluding Microsoft's OOXML. The Deutschland-Stack covers 50+ open standards across seven layers. But the resolution lacks enforcement teeth, and the real test starts in procurement.