BBC: Skype announces it will close in May
This is now a huge window of opportunity to promote alternatives / replacements. To this end, I am sharing a link to alternative to which is a huge database to help you find replacements for common software and tools.
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#Skype,#EndOfSupport,#Replacement,#Alternative,#OpenSource,#FreeSoftware
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Open Euro LLM
Open Euro LLM Is Europe's Bold Move Towards AI Independence
Europe is taking a big step towards AI independence with their Open Euro LLM initiative.
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This does seem a wonderful idea, Europe needs to make its own path and mover away from the cesspits that big tech has created.
Related (nay not be directly associated with the above)
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#EU,#Future,#Tech,#OpenSource,#AI
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T-dose 2023
T-DOSE 2023 will be held on the 22nd and 23rd of April 2023, at our new location the Weeffabriek in Geldrop (near Eindhoven).
About – Quoted from website
The T-DOSE Foundation (Technical Dutch Open Source Event) strives to promote the use and knowledge about Open Source software. By organizing a yearly event called T-DOSE the foundation hopes to give Open Source communities a platform on which they can interact amongst each other and present themselves to their user base. In the Netherlands a foundation is known as "Stichting".
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#Conference,#Tdose2023,#OpenSource
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T-dose 2023
T-DOSE 2023 will be held on the 22nd and 23rd of April 2023, at our new location the Weeffabriek in Geldrop (near Eindhoven).
About – Quoted from website
The T-DOSE Foundation (Technical Dutch Open Source Event) strives to promote the use and knowledge about Open Source software. By organizing a yearly event called T-DOSE the foundation hopes to give Open Source communities a platform on which they can interact amongst each other and present themselves to their user base. In the Netherlands a foundation is known as "Stichting".
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#Conference,#Tdose2023,#OpenSource
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FOSDEM 2023
FOSDEM is a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas and collaborate.
Every year, thousands of developers of free and open source software from all over the world gather at the event in Brussels.
Brussels / 4 & 5 February 2023
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#Software,#Developer,#OpenSource,#Conference,#FOSDEM,
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Open Invention Network
Also found on Mastodon
Open Invention Network, the organization formed to safeguard open source software and now the largest patent non-aggression community in history, announced today that U.S. Bank has joined as a community member" U.S. Bank Joins the Open Invention Network - Open Invention Network
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#OpenSource,#OpenInventionNetwork,#Advocacy.#Protection
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CyberSecurity part 25
Open Source vs Free Software
There seems to be confusion around the terms Free software and Open Source Software.
To briefly clarify this.
The primary difference is philosophy – The free software movement says we're here doing all this because proprietary software is unethical. Wrong. Unjust.
The open source movement says we're here doing all of this because we can get technically better software.
Free software
Free software, does not simply mean the software is free as in cost, it refers to Free as in Freedom and a free software license such as the GPL [2] grants a user 4 freedoms.
- Freedom to use for any purpose
- Freedom to study the software
- Freedom to modify
- Freedom to copy and share the software with others
The freesoftware movement is also therefore about philosophy.
References
1 OpenSource.org
2 GNU.org
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Open CV Tutorial
Open Computer Vision Tutorial. This looks interesting and something else to have an experiment with at some point. Would also be good at the Paignton Library STEM group meetings.
Posted to Mastodon on 23/12/2021 by Danie
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#technology #opensource #programming #coding #Python #OpenCV
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Linux Foundation events
This is a list of upcoming Linux foundation events.
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Big Blue Button 2.4 testing
I am in the process of helping to test Big Blue Button 2.4
This is going well and the improvements from 2.3 are welcome.
The faircam server will soon be running 2.4 once it is out of beta / testing and the test server will move to run the 2.5 beta / testing software.
It is quite nice when you find a problem and are able to report it, gives you a good feeling you have made a contribution to a wider project that is used all over the world.
I have actually made a suggestion on the developer forum for a feature that would be useful. So as with finding problems, making feature requests is also really good.
In most cases one of the the BEST thing you can do, is to let the developers know that the software works. I think this often gets overlooked, developers are human after all.
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#BigBlueButton,#OpenSource,#Education,#Video,#Conference
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