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We're happy to welcome two technical writers for this year's Google Season of Docs!
Pranali will be working on improving in-app help, and Wisdom will be writing a tutorial about GObjects, a core object of GNOME-friendly applications.
https://www.gnome.org/news/2020/08/season-of-docs-update/
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Congratulations to our Community Engagement Challenge Phase One winners! Thank you to everyone who participated and to our judges for accomplishing the very difficult task of choosing our winners. See the winning #GNOMEChallenge projects: https://www.gnome.org/challenge/phase-one-winners/
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The Community Engagement Challenge deadline is right around the corner. All proposals are officially due by 11:59 p.m. US/Eastern time on July 1 (4:00 UTC on July 2). Make sure to wrap up your applications and hit that submit button! https://www.gnome.org/challenge/
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And this role is open to remote and/or non USA folks.
Our extended UN open source family is growing. Looking for someone with an #OpenSource dev background but it's not a coding role.
If this #job looks interesting to anyone let me know and I can connect you to the right people. Or feel free to share with others.
http://jobs.unicef.org/cw/en-us/job/532044?lApplicationSubSourceID=
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Join us in IRC #conservancy in two hours (2pm ET/6pm UT) for a discussion on, "How is racism a free software issue?" lead by Molly de Blanc. More on how to join us for this conversation here, https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2020/mar/12/virtualchat/
"When we #revolt it’s not for a particular culture. We revolt simply because, for many reasons, we can no longer breathe."
- Frantz Fanon
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"Every model, every config" -- Lenovo brings #Ubuntu to its workstation line
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2020/06/ubuntu-on-lenovo-laptops
"If you live in this system of white supremacy, you are either fighting the system or you are complicit. There is no neutrality to be had towards systems of injustice, it is not something you can just opt out of."
-- Ijeoma Oluo
@ademalsasa @hund Interesting idea. Discourse has this functionality via a short snipped of JavaScript embedded in any given web site/blog.
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Joomla security breach exposes unencrypted personal data stored on S3 bucket
-Full name
-Business address
-Business email address
-Business phone number
-Company URL
-Nature of business
-Encrypted password (hashed)
-IP address
-Newsletter subscription preferences
Well, unlike yesterday, I didn't wake up with a sore throat and cough from inhaling tear gas from our local police throughout the night while staying inside my apartment.
So maybe today will be a better day.
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#FSFIndia on #AarogyaSetu app release as #FreeSoftware.
It is the first step towards achieving "transparency, privacy, and security" as mentioned by CEO of NITI Aayog, Amitabh Kant as the core values on which the application was designed. However, we stress that, this is only a first step and we hope that the government will follow up with some more actions that further strengthen the commitment made towards transparency, privacy and security.
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Hi Fediverse 👋
to break the quietness of this account, here's a quick news flash:
- We added a list with Zoom alternatives 🤙
https://swiso.org/replace/zoom/
- We replaced some entries on "Bubbling under" 🔧
https://swiso.org/list/bubbling-under/
- We added Cryptpad to the Doodle list as it has a poll feature 🗒️
https://swiso.org/replace/doodle/
- Our DRM article has images now 🙃
https://swiso.org/articles/digital-rights-management/
- We have an Audible list in the pipeline 🎧
https://codeberg.org/swiso/website/pulls/81
Thanks to @uniq for the nudge to write this! 😊👍
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Please get your parents off FaceBook: https://markosaric.com/off-facebook/
(I usually aren't interested in discussing social media, but I like this article)
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