At FOSDEM 2025 the Geospatial devroom only had half a day, and we still ended up with a packed room and a queue down the corridor.
In 2026 we have the whole of Saturday to ourselves, so if you have something geo-flavoured to share, whether it is maps, data, tools, clever hacks, fieldwork tech, city projects, OSM magic, climate work or anything else, now is the moment to submit a proposal.
The CfP is open until 1 December:
https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2025q4/003698.html
#FOSDEM #Geospatial #GIS #OpenStreetMap #OpenData #Cartography #GeoTech #OSM #FOSS4G #Maps #Devroom #OSGeo
F*** ,I submitted 5 talk for #FOSDEM to the rooms i can add value to. Let's see how much will be approved.
Join the #LibreOffice Team as a Paid Developer focusing on scripting support, preferably full-time, remote: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/10/27/join-the-libreoffice-team-as-a-paid-developer-focusing-on-scripting-support-preferably-full-time-remote-m-f-d/
My slides from the talk about #Thunderbird at #openalt are ready:
https://talks.openalt.cz/openalt-2025/talk/9YV3GR/
To the one person who came, thanks!
Dear #Prague (#digital) #privacy community. I am thinking about organizing a meeting once in a while in a cafe, so we can talk about common topics. WDYT? Do you know anyone who will be interested in joining?
My talk about #Thunderbird at #openalt might involve a chocolate 🍫. It starts at 14:00. If you are not in #Brno for a good reason, you can watch it online: https://vhsky.cz/a/openalt/videos
I just submitted talk proposals for @fosdem and @FOSSBackstage. It goes beyond my usual ramblings on what privacy #foss tools we must use and it covers the "how" to convince people to start using them.
If you have encouraged someone to switch to say Signal, or Sessions, or #XMPP or some other tool/protocol, please reach out to me via *direct message* I need as much success stories as possible. Anonymity is guaranteed if requested.
There is no single central #Signal server. Signal uses #AWS cloud, plus Google Cloud, Microsoft Cloud and Cloudflare, all under US legislation. If any of these clouds goes down or becomes otherwise problematic, chatting degrades or fails.
With #deltachat you can choose #chatmail relays ( https://chatmail.at/relays ) which distributes the risk across a wider network. We are currently working on the multi-transport feature to finally remove any central point of chat failure https://chaos.social/@delta/115362144863345662
If you are looking for good privacy respecting messaging and other apps, you could check my slides from @linuxdays conference here : https://pretalx.linuxdays.cz/media/linuxdays-2025/submissions/KGHCKC/resources/FOSS_tools_to_fight__EE3GIn4.pdf
My talk about #Thunderbird was accepted at @openalt
it's a talk from a community perspective and I will share my personal story (not so much) and some aspects you wont find anywhere else:
https://pretalx.linuxdays.cz/linuxdays-2025/talk/KGHCKC/
What an interesting talk : #Foss tools to fight back at #linuxdays the next weekend.
Are you in #Prague ? You must visit my talk entitled:
Disobey: #FOSS tools to fight back!
https://pretalx.linuxdays.cz/linuxdays-2025/talk/KGHCKC/
You are welcome!
I need help: When talking about the secure communication, what is the app you would recommend? I am looking to expand my conference talk about secure communication, so please be wild and boost this as well.
I submitted some talks to @linuxdays in #prague and @openalt_konference in #brno
One of them is about #Thunderbird from community perspective.
The second one is about how to use #foss tools to protect your communication.
I hope I'll see you there!