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TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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The official home of the Python Programming Language
www.python.org
October 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Thank you to all who responded to our previous post and our request for financial help.

We have since received the legal advice regarding the OSA, and the news is good.

If you want to know more, we have written a new post about our understanding of the advice we got at libera.chat/news/advised
The good advice
First of all, a massive thank you to everyone who donated since our last post. Our income on Liberapay has roughly quadrupled from what it was before the post. We have also had people reach out to us ...
libera.chat
October 25, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Thank you to all who responded to our previous post and our request for financial help.

We have since received the legal advice regarding the OSA, and the news is good.

If you want to know more, we have written a new post about our understanding of the advice we got at libera.chat/news/advised
The good advice
First of all, a massive thank you to everyone who donated since our last post. Our income on Liberapay has roughly quadrupled from what it was before the post. We have also had people reach out to us ...
libera.chat
October 25, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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At our last MGM, we approved paying for legal advice about the UK's Online Safety Act. While we can afford this bill… it is just one bill. Laws like this are multiplying. So as awkward as this is, we are asking for help. See libera.chat/news/advice for more context.
libera.chat
October 1, 2025 at 10:57 PM
At our last MGM, we approved paying for legal advice about the UK's Online Safety Act. While we can afford this bill… it is just one bill. Laws like this are multiplying. So as awkward as this is, we are asking for help. See libera.chat/news/advice for more context.
libera.chat
October 1, 2025 at 10:57 PM
#OSUOSL will live on!

osuosl.org/blog/osl-fut...

Huge congrats to @ramereth.bsky.social and the team for securing their necessary funding.

If you or your organization were still considering supporting the lab, don't let this good news stop you. Help it thrive, not just survive!
Forging Our Future: OSL's Path to Sustainability – A Call for Smart Solutions and Enduring Support | OSU Open Source Lab
A nonprofit organization working for the advancement of open source technologies.
osuosl.org
May 9, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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If you are reading this post, you have benefited from OSUOSL.

Projects supported by them power today's Internet architecture. We need organizations that rely on the Internet to get on this page.

Ask your employer to arrange an ongoing sponsorship now.

🕖🕘🕚

libera.chat/news/osuosl-...

#OSUOSL
OSUOSL is worth saving
Hey everyone,
libera.chat
May 2, 2025 at 5:19 PM
If you are reading this post, you have benefited from OSUOSL.

Projects supported by them power today's Internet architecture. We need organizations that rely on the Internet to get on this page.

Ask your employer to arrange an ongoing sponsorship now.

🕖🕘🕚

libera.chat/news/osuosl-...

#OSUOSL
OSUOSL is worth saving
Hey everyone,
libera.chat
May 2, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Libera.Chat would not be what we are today, if not for OSL.

OSL has been an integral part of open source and open culture project support for a long time.

Nonprofits, businesses, and governments, and you depend on projects OSL sponsors.

OSL is worth saving.

osuosl.org/blog/osl-fut...

#osuosl
Future of OSL in Jeopardy | OSU Open Source Lab
A nonprofit organization working for the advancement of open source technologies.
osuosl.org
April 30, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Libera.Chat would not be what we are today, if not for OSL.

OSL has been an integral part of open source and open culture project support for a long time.

Nonprofits, businesses, and governments, and you depend on projects OSL sponsors.

OSL is worth saving.

osuosl.org/blog/osl-fut...

#osuosl
Future of OSL in Jeopardy | OSU Open Source Lab
A nonprofit organization working for the advancement of open source technologies.
osuosl.org
April 30, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Is your favourite project an open secret on Libera.Chat? We've just rolled out some changes that will help folks decide if their channel visibility is correct. An overview of these features can be found at libera.chat/news/visibil...
April 18, 2025 at 8:41 PM
It is time for us, as volunteers running a real-time communication platform, to address burnout. Doing this is important for the future of our work, and we will be leveraging ✨emerging technologies✨ to achieve it.

libera.chat/news/burnout
Addressing Burnout
A next-generation IRC network for FOSS projects collaboration!
libera.chat
April 1, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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This Week in Plasma brings a massive performance improvement to Spectacles screen recordings, a cleaner login screen for multi-monitor setups, and a less cluttered configuration page for displays.

blogs.kde.org/2025/03/29/t...
March 29, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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"This Week in KDE Apps" brings a lot of improvements to your email, calendar and contact apps; devs consider improvements to Dolphin's new navigation bar; and new features land in you chat app of choice.

blogs.kde.org/2025/03/24/t...

#twika #apps #FreeSoftware #OpenSource
March 24, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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🎉 From our inaugural Science Fair to a “Night at the Museum” reception, the #GrafanaCON 2025 agenda includes a whole lot to be excited about!

Plan your experience and register by Mar 31 to save 30% on your ticket: grafana.com/blog/2025/03...
March 24, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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How and what you alert on can mean the difference between meeting reliability goals and breaching an SLA. Join the webinar on March 19 to learn:

🚨 How & what to alert on with Grafana’s simplified alerting
🚨 How to avoid alerting toil and enable predefined alerting rules
Intro to Alerting with Grafana | Grafana Labs
Master alerting with Grafana: Navigate the complexities, reduce false positives, and boost reliability for your systems.
grafana.com
March 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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If you are in the area, I'll give the keynote.

And if you have a Meetup space for the Monday before I might be able to drop by for an impromptu talk.
March 15, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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To be clear, I will also be giving the keynote if you are not in the area.
March 15, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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#ObservabilityCON on the Road Sydney is happening in less than 2 weeks! Learn how to take your observability to new heights with AI/ML and Adaptive Telemetry — all while reducing costs: bit.ly/3XVKskz
March 15, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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"This Week in KDE Apps" is out! It covers a massive amount of improvements to KDE's personal information management suite (email, calendar, contacts, etc.), new levels in KDE's educational activity collection GCompis, fixes for Amarok, and digiKam's new version 8.6.0.

blogs.kde.org/2025/03/17/t...
March 17, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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With the world changing around us, many governments and organisations are trying to reduce their dependency on tech giants. Here's an update on how one German federal state is moving 30,000 PCs to LibreOffice (and longer-term, Linux): blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/03...
March 13, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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After an extensive incident review into a recent Grafana Cloud outage, we want to explain what went wrong, how it was resolved, and what we are doing to prevent something similar from happening in the future.
How we responded to a 2+ hour partial outage in Grafana Cloud | Grafana Labs
After an extensive incident review, we want to explain what went wrong, how it was resolved, and what we are doing to prevent something similar happening again.
grafana.com
March 13, 2025 at 9:20 PM