Christian HergertThe Portland Himalayan community lost a member last week, shot and killed in a robbery at the convenience store they worked at. Absolutely tragic. Family left behind could use some support.
Andy Holmes
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Tobias BernardI always find it odd when people talking about high level policy stuff like EuroStack completely ignore end-user devices - Like, if you have fully sovereign EU AI cloud apps, where are you going to access them from? Your iPhone?
https://ecfr.eu/publication/get-over-your-x-a-european-plan-to-escape-american-technology
RevistoHad my first contribution to the gnome-shell project, it was a fun process :D
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/4001
status/volume: Use default color for muted microphone indicator (!4001) · Merge requests · GNOME / gnome-shell · GitLab
The muted indicator status is currently hard to distinguish from the unmuted one. As there is no privacy concern when muted, don't apply the privacy-indicator styling in that...
Outreachy InternshipsSustaining inclusive programs takes commitment, especially in challenging funding seasons.
As we welcome the December 2025 @outreachy cohort, we’re grateful for the organizations whose support helps keep this work strong and moving forward:
➡️ Equalizer: @wikimediafoundation, #Bloomberg
➡️ Promoter: @tarides #Cisco
➡️ Includer: #CUNY, @debian, @getsentry
➡️ Welcomer: @creativecommons , @mozilla, @gitlab, @gnome and #RedHat
Your partnership enables paid, remote internships and meaningful participation in open source for people facing systemic barriers.
Thank you for standing with us and investing in a more inclusive ecosystem
TheEvilSkeleton 🇮🇳 🏳️⚧️Hey, I've been under distress lately due to personal circumstances that are outside my control. I can't find a permanent job that allows me to function, I'm not eligible for government benefits, my grant proposals got rejected, paid internships are quite difficult to find. Essentially, I have no stable monthly income that allows me to sustain myself.
Nowadays, I work mostly on accessibility throughout GNOME as a volunteer, improving the experience of people with disabilities. I helped make the majority of GNOME Calendar accessible with a keyboard and screen reader — still an ongoing effort with !564 and !598 —which is an effort no company ever contributed financially. These merge requests take thousands (literally) of hours to research, develop, and test, which would have been enough to sustain myself for a couple of years if I had been working under a salary.
I would really appreciate any kinds of donations, especially ones that happen periodically to bump my monthly income.
These donations will allow me to sustain myself while allowing me to continue working on accessibility throughout GNOME, potentially even 'crowdfunding' development without doing it on the behalf of the Foundation.
I accept donations through the following platforms:
- “TheEvilSkeleton” on Liberapay: https://liberapay.com/TheEvilSkeleton/donate (free and open-source platform)
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Boosts welcome and appreciated.
#Accessibility #a11y #GNOME #GNOMECalendar #MutualAidRequest #MutualAid
GNOME Calendar: A New Era of Accessibility Achieved in 90 Days
There is no calendaring app that I love more than GNOME Calendar. The design is slick, it works extremely well, it is touchpad friendly, and best of all, the community around it is just full of wonderful developers, designers, and contributors worth collaborating with, especially with the recent community growth and engagement over the past few years. Georges Stavracas and Jeff Fortin Tam are some of the best maintainers I have ever worked with. I cannot express how thankful I am of Jeff’s underappreciated superhuman capabilities to voluntarily coordinate huge initiatives and issue trackers. One of Jeff’s many initiatives is gnome-calendar#1036: the accessibility initiative, which is a big and detailed list of issues related to accessibility. In my opinion, GNOME Calendar’s biggest problem was the lack of accessibility support, which made the app completely unusable for people exclusively using a keyboard, or people relying on assistive technologies. This article will explain in details about the fundamental issues that held back accessibility in GNOME Calendar since the very beginning of its existence (12 years at a minimum), the progress we have made with accessibility as well as our thought process in achieving it, and the now and future of accessibility in GNOME Calendar.
Till Kamppeter@nekohayo @amadeus @loveyoumore
Thanks, Jeff, for mentioning Kaushik's GSoC project to make GNOME Control Center ready for CUPS 3.x and with that mentioning me. Otherwise I had never seen Amadeus' post.
The project is about making G-C-C work with CUPS 3.x, which is all-IPP, handling IPP print destinations and not CUPS queues with PPD file and driver filter any more.
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Modal CollectiveHello world! We are Modal, a new collective born out of the local Berlin community around Linux infrastructure. We're involved in projects like GNOME, postmarketOS, p2panda, and systemd.
We organize the #BoilingTheOcean events, and work upstream on a number of difficult problems in emancipatory computing, including local-first networking, mainline Linux on phones, and platform security.
Our long-term goal: A free software platform that's competitive with the iPhone 🌈
KDEWoohoo! Goal achieved! Our #fundraiser has reached €100K well before the end of year deadline🎉.
https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2025/
Thanks to all our generous contributors. You are truly the lifeblood of our community!