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Und gleich bin ich auch schon auf dem Weg nach #Berlin zur #OSBAConnect, ich freue mich darauf, euch und Sie alle dort zu sehen! #OpenSource #digitalsovereignty
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Join our #OpenSource policy Devroom at #FOSDEM on Sunday 1 February 2026! See you in #Brussels!
Large conference crowd many of them standing up. In the middle one person who received an award, and two traffic cones.
Please join me in a big round of applause for Jean-Baptiste Kempf from @videolan for his contributions to #SoftwareFreedom 👏
(Together with Raphael Barbieri I had the honour to hand over the European #SFSAward 2025 to him in the name of #Lugbz and @fsfe . ) […]
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Eight days more 🎶
Another week, another nominee 🇪🇺
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https://fosstodon.org/@europeanOSacademy/115464013351389343
International Criminal Court to ditch Microsoft Office for European #OpenSource alternative.
#EUpol
https://www.euractiv.com/news/international-criminal-court-to-ditch-microsoft-office-for-european-open-source-alternative/
Only a few days remain to nominate#OpenSource projects for the European Open Source Awards! Send your proposals by this Sunday, 2 November!
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Presidential election in the Republic of Ireland this Friday and Irish Independent reports that deepfakes of RTE news bulletins are circulating. It is quite likely that this falls under an #AIAct prohibition […]
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Schon angemeldet zur #OSBAConnect? Am 13. November findet in Berlin wieder die jährliche Konferenz der @OSBA statt, diesmal unter dem Titel: Innovationsbooster #OpenSource! Ich freue mich drauf, euch und Sie dort zu treffen! https://osb-alliance.de/featured/osba-connect-2025
21.10.2025 09:22 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1New round at the Prototype Fund is starting! Submit your proposals by 30 November! #OpenSource
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https://mastodon.social/@PrototypeFund/115298324426471742
Beim Prototype Fund geht die nächste Förderrunde los! Jetzt bewerben bis 30. November! #OpenSource
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Hat jemand einen Tipp, welche geschlechtsneutrale Anrede ich für eine Behörde verwenden kann, wo ich weder "Sehr geehrtes Team" noch "Mitarbeiter*innen" oder "Kolleg*innen" für angemessen halte? "Guten Tag" halte ich auch für zu unförmlich. Vielleicht habe ich mich etwas in die Ecke manövriert.
16.10.2025 12:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Hideaway, not bad a soundtrack for reading the WTO Agreement on Government Procurement.
14.10.2025 15:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Please send your song and playlist suggestions for "I don't want to continue working anymore, but just one more push" now.
14.10.2025 15:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A photo of Sebastian Raible (APELL) before a stylised Ghent cityscape, on the right, "Linux Foundation Europe Member Summit: 28 October 2025, Ghent, Belgium, #LFEuropeMemberSummit".
I'm excited to announce I'll speak at the @lfeurope #LFEMemberSummit in #Ghent on 28/Oct: Closing the Backdoor: Digital Sovereignty for EU & Public Authorities with Open Source
#OpenSource provides clear answers in the debate around #DigitalSovereignty: it […]
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Update: the deadline has been postponed to 31/October so there is still time to prepare your submission! #OpenSource
@apell @europeanOSacademy
Sebastian Raible presents on stage at Mindtrek conference, with a projector screen displaying a slide with relevant policy, including budget and public procurement. Attendees are seated in red chairs, engaged in the presentation. A neon light and a laptop are also visible.
Sebastian Raible presents on stage at Mindtrek conference, listening to an audience question.
A VIP pass for a speaker at an International Technology Conference, featuring the name "Sebastian Raible" and his title as Director of EU Government Affairs at APELL. The background includes a brown leather chair with a cushion.
This week I had the opportunity to present @apell at #Mindtrek conference in Tampere (FI): #OpenSource business is of strategic importance to the #EU!
That is why we engage with decision-makers in Brussels and throughout Europe to encourage policy change to […]
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The European Open Source Awards marks a celebration and one of a kind recognition of open source excellence in Europe.
Open Call for Nominations: https://europeanopensource.academy/open-call-nominations-european-open-source-awards-2026
I really enjoyed #SoftwareFreedomDay at @HSBXL last Saturday, you can find my slides and notes on my website now: Why we should care for #DigitalSovereignty https://kaerf.org/talk/2025/09/25/why-we-should-care-for-digital-sovereignty/
25.09.2025 20:11 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0🧵 (3/3)
(By the way, I challenge anyone to demonstrate they rely on purely proprietary software in their daily lives: *100% of our daily digital technology use rely on #OpenSource* at least as a component, if not as the Operating System, development environment…!)
(Not sure what happened to my thread, but here it is again)
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Our 2nd point is that Open Source and Free Software are established terms in the ICT sector, in use for just under thirty, and fourty years, respectively. They have led to an unprecedented, collaborative, global development of a […]
Changing the world. One config file at a time.
04.09.2025 13:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Screenshot of “Edit Search Engine” screen in Firefox, gist: search URL is https://google.com/search?q=%s&udm=14 and suggestions URL: https://google.com/complete/search?q=%s&udm=14
And be sure to add &utm=14 to your Google search configuration to get rid of AI “summaries”! Not because they cannot sometimes be correct, but because they are so ducking wasteful!
04.09.2025 13:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I agree, and the results seem more relevant than DuckDuckGo for example, and much less spammy than Google. It is not entirely without searching on Google a second time once in a while, but it makes a great default.
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While I was still working on the#AIAct, #PLD and coordinating on #CRA, my EP colleagues and I made sure the legislator understood the specific needs #OpenSource development and business models have. For example, the collaborative development of software on public platforms could be read as […]
04.09.2025 11:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Collage of photos of Sebastian
Has it really been ten years that I came to #Brussels? Here's to all the things I learned, dear ones I lost, friends and encounters I made along the way. Here's to hope and determination that things can be changed for the better. #10years
21.08.2025 08:51 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Oh dear, the Belgian government's #cybersecurity centre manages to write an entire page about the #EndOf10 without mentioning any other operating system than #Microsoft #Windows. Instead of telling people they might want switch to e.g. #Linux, they suggest to:
* pay Microsoft for #ESU, or
* buy […]
On 20 September 2025, I will celebrate Software Freedom Day at @HSBXL. Join me for my presentation on Why we need Digital Sovereignty and where it comes from! #digitalsovereignty #techsovereignty #SoftwareFreedomDay #sfd #sfd2025
https://hsbxl.be/events/software-freedom-day/2025-09-20/
"It always seems impossible until it's done." - Nelson Mandela
#Mandela #nelsonmandela #socialism #communism #southafrica #apartheid #revolution
Schematic drawings of wall outlets for illustration of standards
More Openness, accessibility and Open Source representation in European #Standardisation, please! Today we submit our recommendations to the @EUCommission on the revision of Regulation 1025/2012: more inclusivity, open structures and public collaboration to […]
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