BlueHats

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Yet another sad example of why governments shouldn't force their citizens to use nonfree software: https://u.fsf.org/46t
How California sent residents’ personal health data to LinkedIn – The Markup

The state’s health insurance exchange transmitted pregnancy and domestic abuse data during a marketing campaign. It is reviewing its website practices.

France Endorses UN Open Source Principles | Hacker News

"France Becomes First Government to Endorse UN Open Source Principles, Joined by 19 Organizations"

👉 https://unite.un.org/fr/news/france-becomes-first-government-endorse-un-open-source-principles-joined-19-organizations

The 8 UN #OpenSource principles:

1. Open by default
2. Contribute back
3. Secure by design
4. Foster inclusive participation and community building
5. Design for reusability
6. Provide documentation
7. RISE (recognize, incentivize, support and empower)
8. Sustain and scale

cc @ambnum @numerique_gouv

France Becomes First Government to Endorse UN Open Source Principles, Joined by 19 Organizations | Le Bureau de L'informatique et des Communications

The United Nations Open Source United community is proud to announce a major milestone: The Government of the French Republic became the first national government to endorse the UN Open Source Principles. Additionally, 19 organizations joined France in endorsing the principles, underscoring growing international support for open source collaboration within the UN system.

La CPI bloquée.

« Microsoft, a supprimé l'adresse électronique de M. Khan, ce qui a contraint le procureur à utiliser Proton Mail, un fournisseur d'accès suisse, ont indiqué des membres du personnel de la CPI (...)
Microsoft n'a pas répondu à une demande de commentaire. »

Je pense que la Cour Pénale Internationale vient de comprendre le concept d'autonomie stratégique.

https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/trumps-sanctions-icc-prosecutor-halted-tribunals-work-121824057

#Souverainete #Autonomie #Numerique

Trump's sanctions on ICC prosecutor have halted tribunal's work

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We are excited to welcome Jean-Luc Dorel as a speaker at the ✨APELL Conference 2025✨ on 10 June in Warsaw to present the @EUCommission's plans for the future of @EC_NGI
🏋️ "European Commission's NGI to Open Internet Stack: 7 years of funding #OpenSource"
Sign up now and join us in #Warsaw: https://apell.info/apell-conference-2025-warsaw/ #APELLconference2025
APELL Conference 2025 in Warsaw - APELL

The APELL Conference is the premier event for businesses to get together with industry leaders and innovators from the Open Source ecosystem to discuss the future of Open Source business! Hosted by APELL, the European Open Source Business Association, the APELL Conference 2025 is the fourth edition of our annual event. After its successful predecessors […]

APELL

"UN Gives the Encrypted Open-Source Office Suite CryptPad a Try"

👉 https://fossforce.com/2025/04/un-drops-google-for-cryptpad-an-encrypted-open-source-office-suite/

"The open-source project recently picked up some unexpected recognition from the United Nations, when the organization chose to use CryptPad to collect endorsements for its Open Source Principles. Here’s what you need to know about the open-source project that’s on the rise."

đź‘‹ To test Cryptpad: https://cryptpad.fr

cc @CryptPad

UN Gives the Encrypted Open-Source Office Suite CryptPad a Try - FOSS Force

The United Nations became the latest large organization to embrace CryptPad when it used it to replace Google Forms.

FOSS Force

Utilisateurs de #Nextcloud comme espace de stockage et pour pour sa fonction collaborative ? Nous avons besoin de vos retours d'expérience sur la liste de discussion #FNL :)

Pas encore inscrit ? C'est par ici : https://france-numerique-libre.org/

France Numérique Libre

The new upcoming federation feature in forgejo will allow to follow user-activities accross the fediverse 🙂

#Federation #Forgejo #fediverse

📢 Event announcement: the association of open source business in Europe APELL, organises its annual event 10th June in Warsaw; agenda and registration available:
https://apell.info/apell-conference-2025-warsaw/
@apell #opensource
APELL Conference 2025 in Warsaw - APELL

The APELL Conference is the premier event for businesses to get together with industry leaders and innovators from the Open Source ecosystem to discuss the future of Open Source business! Hosted by APELL, the European Open Source Business Association, the APELL Conference 2025 is the fourth edition of our annual event. After its successful predecessors […]

APELL
Today we're releasing #LibreOffice 24.8.7, the last update to the older branch. After this, all users are recommended to upgrade to LibreOffice 25.2, the newer stable branch: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/05/08/libreoffice-24-8-7/ #foss #OpenSource
LibreOffice 24.8.7 is available for download - The Document Foundation Blog

Berlin, 8 May 2025 – LibreOffice 24.8.7, the seventh and last minor release of the LibreOffice 24.8 family of the free open source, volunteer-supported office suite for Windows (Intel, AMD and ARM), MacOS (Apple and Intel) and Linux, is available at https://www.libreoffice.org/download. LibreOffice is the only office suite that respects the privacy of the user, […]

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