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Our friends from Ink/Stitch are holding their 4th user meeting on May 23, 2026 in Hamburg, Germany! 🪡 🧵
Learn more and register to participate: https://inkstitch.org/en/2026-03-12-Usertreffen
For German speakers, there will be a (free!) introductory course on May 22 - register quickly, spaces are limited!
https://inkstitch.org/de/2026-04-02-Einsteigerkurs
#embroidery #inkstitch #artwithopensource #inkscape #Sticken
A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!
#243 Delayed Trains
https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2026/04/twig-243/
Ever spent time working on a document… and it just doesn’t look right?
Margins are off, text looks cramped, and fixing it takes longer than expected.
In this #FeatureFriday, we walk through the Layout tab in Collabora Online Writer — from adjusting margins and page setup to working with columns, breaks, and more.
🔗 Watch now and take control of your document layout: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pxuARFjGvk
📢 Tips and Tricks around TEI Publisher 10
Join our community meetup on April 7, 2026 at 17:00 CEST.
This session follows up on our February introduction and dives into practical best practices. We’ll have experienced developers sharing real-world insights from recent projects and migrations.
Read more: https://www.e-editiones.org/posts/community-event-tp10-tips-and-tricks/
Check out our interview with Jorge, Chilean designer and short film maker, and learn how #Inkscape helped him take part in an international short film festival 🎥 !
https://inkscape.org/news/2026/04/02/artist-interview-meet-jorge-who-made-a-short-film/
Brilliant news! We’ve set the course and left the dock, with the majority of Jolla Phone Batch #1 pre-orderers now paid and locked in for delivery starting July 8, 2026.
Pre-order holders from Batch #2: your payment link is ready. Choose your colour, your preferred accessories and complete your order by April 30, to lock in your delivery.
Check your email for your personal order link and please read the instructions carefully so you won’t forget to use your personal pre-order discount code.
⚡Remember, Day1 spots are limited — hurry up and claim yours before they're gone!
Happy sailing!
#Jolla #SailfishOS #DigitalSovereignty #PrivacyFirst #CommunityPowered #European
Document formats: a mystery to many
A licence tells you who owns the software, while the format tells you who owns the data.
ODF has to be native, default, and by design.
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/04/02/document-formats-a-mystery-to-many/
Euro-Office’s announcement – which sees IONOS, Nextcloud and other companies coming together to create a European alternative to office productivity software – has predictably sparked a wave of comments. Most of these focus on the issue of licensing: is the code open source? Who controls the repository? What are the conditions for forking, modifying or implementing it? While these are all valid questions, they fail to address the most important issue. The fact that almost no one is asking the question that matters tells us something significant about how the debate on digital sovereignty has been framed and who benefits from that framing. A licence tells you who owns the software, while the format tells you who owns the data A licence can be renegotiated, modified or updated. The history of FLOSS is full of projects that have changed governance models, divided communities, or changed course under new management. Licence terms are important, but they operate at the level of the software artefact. The native document format operates at a completely different level. It is the encoding level of every document produced, archived, and exchanged by institutions that adopt the software. It is the invisible structure of administrative memory within
Have you tried the #PeerTube Studio?
This feature gives you simple tools to edit your videos directly from the PeerTube interface!
WIP Wednesday: dozens of improvements in CAM, improved styling of cosmetic threads in accordance with ISO 6410-1, resetting and cenetering view on a NaviCube double-click, and many more improvements and fixes
https://blog.freecad.org/2026/04/01/wip-wednesday-1-april-2026/
Inkscape
Felix Häcker
Collabora Office
Zrythm DAW
e-editiones
jolla
LibreOffice
PeerTube
FreeCAD