Inkscape supports the German petition to officially recognize Open Source volunteers!

Learn more here:
https://inkscape.org/news/2026/05/13/inkscape-supports-german-petition-to-recognize-ope/

#volunteering #Germany #FLOSS #ehrenamt

Today we are celebrating our first birthday! 🍰🎈

As it's been a very busy year – full of new community members, new features, and more – we've written up a summary of all the things that have happened.

And to give all of you a small gift: If you press the *Check Updates* button in the 2026.05.06 version of CoMaps, you'll find some freshly updated maps that were quietly released for you yesterday!

https://www.comaps.app/news/2026-05-12/celebrating-the-first-comaps-birthday/

#OpenStreetMap #opensource #freeSoftware

Bürosoftware nutzt fast jede:r täglich. Die Frage ist dabei nicht nur: Welche App?, sondern auch: Welches Format? Wer ein offenes Format wie ODF nutzt, ist frei in der Wahl der Software und muss beim Datenaustausch kaum Probleme fürchten. Unser Beitrag zum #DIDit im Mai erklärt, warum das so ist, und stellt außerdem Microsoft-Alternativen wie LibreOffice oder Collabora vor.

Offen bleiben. Format zeigen. 👇

https://d-64.org/format-zeigen

#ODF #OpenSource #DigitaleSouveränität

How Free #OpenSource software tools bailed out a disaster recovery team in #Turkey
https://www.fsf.org/bulletin/2023/spring/ground-zero-navigating-in-freedom

from #FreeSoftwareFoundation Bulletin
Spring 2023

At ground zero, #OpenStreetMap provided us with the mapping that we very much needed. When I was finally...deployed on the field, nobody was yet able to navigate properly. Along with much of our critical equipment, our dedicated GPS devices were sent somewhere else because the location of the earthquake's epicenter was misjudged, and almost all the personnel were trying to use their data connection to download the same maps over and over again in order to respond to every direction given by the command center. It was in this setting that I introduced a powerful free software tool called "OsmAnd~" (#OSM for Android), along with pre-downloaded maps that I had on my handheld device, which I was using to flawlessly navigate through the city.

When others saw this, it was received by the group as "magic."

#FLOSS #FreeSoftware