Hi, I am Lorenz, I am interested in many things, lets see what comes next :)
I am contributor to the #OpenSource Software project #GNOME, I am GNOME Foundation Member and Board Director.
I am in Berlin/Germany, looking out to explore, meeting new people, and more opportunities!
| Pronouns | He/Him |
| Languages | english, german, a little spanish, more little khmer |
| Old profile | @lw64 |
Top 5 #accessibility improvements in #GNOME Calendar 49:
1. Focus indicators were added in various places
2. Events are focusable with a keyboard
3. Year/month spin buttons are navigable with arrow keys
4. Calendar grids are skippable with Tab, and cells are wrapped via keyboard focus
5. Calendar list box now behaves like a check box
For screen readers: events and year/month spin buttons have proper semantics!
Sustaining inclusive programs takes commitment, especially in challenging funding seasons.
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➡️ Equalizer: @wikimediafoundation, #Bloomberg
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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
The "walkaway" p2p lectures have finished after five sessions and I enjoyed it soooooooooo much! 😭😍
It's been super fun to go through all of this together with everyone, people have been SO ON IT, I especially loved the discussions. Thank you everyone for coming and listening to me babbling for literally hours.
This lecture series was 95% improvised and I'm very happy how that experiment turned out. It's rough, not all super thorough and some examples could have been better picked - trying to create something out of "chaos" in a safe space without expectations, instead of a "blank paper" for the "perfect lecture" was so much more fun and productive for me. If I'd approach it the other way around, it would have taken 2 years .. now I can "refine" the outcomes step by step, carving out a shape.
I have ca. 12 hours of recorded video (mostly audio track and mad whiteboard scribbles), 20k words of notes and 100k words of STT transcription (probably half of it "uhm" and "yeah").
Need to think now what to do next with it .. It will surely involve getting more people on board to check against it, come up with proper diagrams, structure and examples. Maybe a (free) book, video series, ..? Who has an idea?
Here are the notes btw, though, not super accessible for folks who weren't present: https://pads.offline.place/p/reading-list-and-notes-p2p-lectures
TBC
GNOME.Asia 2025 is live in Tokyo, Japan! The two day event has a fantastic schedule of talks and workshops.
https://events.gnome.org/event/303/
If you can’t attend in person, the sessions can also be viewed remotely; head over to the online registration to sign up and follow along:
GNOME.Asia Summit is the featured annual GNOME conference in Asia. It focuses primarily on the GNOME desktop but also covers applications and platform development tools. The summit brings together the GNOME community in Asia to provide a forum for users, developers, foundation leaders, governments, and businesses to discuss the present technology and future developments. Timetable: December 13-14: Talks, BoFs and Workshops Day December 15: Day Trip About GNOME GNOME is a free and open-source...
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)
- “TheEvilSkeleton” on Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/theevilskeleton
- “TheEvilSkeleton” on GitHub Sponsors: https://github.com/sponsors/TheEvilSkeleton
Boosts welcome and appreciated.
#Accessibility #a11y #GNOME #GNOMECalendar #MutualAidRequest #MutualAid
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.
Today we are calling on institutions around the world to take control of their #DigitalSovereignty, including their social accounts. Governments should communicate directly with their citizens on open platforms, not through the mouthpiece of a corporation.
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/12/the-world-needs-social-sovereignty/
Schleswig-Holstein reports €15M yearly savings by replacing Microsoft 365 with LibreOffice across most government workplaces 💶
About 80% of offices have migrated, with a €9M one-time investment planned for 2026 to finish the shift and strengthen open-source tools 🧩
🔗 https://itsfoss.com/news/german-state-ditch-microsoft/
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