"Germany’s Sovereign Digital Stack Mandates ODF: a Landmark Validation of Open Document Standards."
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/03/19/germanys-sovereign-digital-stack-mandates-odf/

"The Document Foundation (#TDF), the non-profit entity behind #LibreOffice, welcomes the inclusion of the Open Document Format (#ODF) as a mandated standard format in Germany’s Deutschland-Stack, the federal government’s sovereign digital infrastructure framework for all public administrations."

Florian Effenberger (@floeff), executive director of TDF: "You cannot claim digital sovereignty while allowing your documents to be locked in proprietary formats controlled by a single vendor."

#Germany #Formats #OpenSource #OpenStandards #Standards

We have a shiny new roadmap site, and an equally shiny new blog post to tell our community all about it:

#Thunderbird #OpenSource

https://blog.thunderbird.net/2026/03/introducing-our-public-roadmaps/

#OpenSource https://mastodon.social/@koen_hufkens/116260707661716142

We’re proud to share that Deb Goodkin, Executive Director of the FreeBSD Foundation, will be speaking at Open-Source Summit North America, hosted by the Linux Foundation.

📍 Tuesday, May 19, 2026, | 11:00am – 11:40am CDT | Room 101H

If you’re attending Open-Source Summit North America, we encourage you to join the session and connect with us.

Deb's talk: https://osselcna2026.sched.com/event/2JQsf/what-running-freebsd-on-a-modern-laptop-taught-me-deb-goodkin-the-freebsd-foundation?iframe=yes&w=&sidebar=yes&bg=no

We look forward to seeing you there.

#FreeBSD #OpenSourceSummit #LinuxFoundation #OpenSource #Community

On the latest #InfoQ #podcast, Andres Almiray - serial open-source contributor and creator of JReleaser - joins Olimpiu Pop to discuss:

✅ The current state of #JReleaser - why it’s a powerhouse for any ecosystem (not just Java)
✅ The mission and vision of the Commonhaus Foundation - the new open-source foundation that hosts JBang, Quarkus & JReleaser

🎧 Listen here / 📄 #transcript included: https://bit.ly/47QPO5w

#Java #OpenSource #SoftwareSupplyChain #Security #Commonhaus

Recently, I added #ProxSnap to #PegaProx which allows you to quickly find snapshots of your VMs and Containers. You can also filter them by date to quickly identify older or even outdated ones and clean them up at a central point!

ProxSnap: https://github.com/gyptazy/ProxSnap
PegaProx: https://pegaprox.com
Blog Post: https://gyptazy.com/blog/pegaprox-real-datacenter-manager-proxmox-clusters/

#pve #prox #homelab #virtualization #vmware #alternatives #opensource #enterprise #python3 #coding #development #foss #devops

Alt...

PegaProx with ProxSnap integration for Proxmox VE Clusters

Good news: $12.5M for open source security in times of AI-driven vulnerability overload.

The funding will be managed by Alpha-Omega and the OpenSSF to support maintainers and strengthen the open source ecosystem.

https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-foundation-announces-12.5-million-in-grant-funding-from-leading-organizations-to-advance-open-source-security

#opensource #security #cyber

We’ve just published the first monthly report for our Cyber Resilience Act Readiness project, part of our 2026 effort to prepare the FreeBSD community for the European Union’s landmark cybersecurity regulation.

This update provides a transparent look at our progress across key workstreams, including security and vulnerability handling, SBOM tooling, public documentation, and community engagement.

Read the report:
https://github.com/FreeBSDFoundation/all-projects/blob/main/Cyber%20Resilience%20Act%20Readiness/monthly-updates/2026-02.md

#FreeBSD #OpenSource #Security #CyberResilienceAct #CRA

Hey #fediverse #activitypub #mastodon #opensource who else is in beautiful #Amsterdam this week? Love to meet you there! @FediVariety #NOAW
@chillicampari @vn
https://www.fedivariety.org/unconference

We love seeing community members share why FreeBSD matters to them.

Community member Stefano shares his experience and what keeps him choosing FreeBSD, from performance and reliability to the project’s philosophy.

Read his full post here:
https://it-notes.dragas.net/2026/03/16/why-i-love-freebsd/

Tell us in the comments: what makes FreeBSD your platform of choice?

#FreeBSD #OpenSource #BSD #Community

Why I love FreeBSD

A personal reflection on my first encounter with FreeBSD in 2002, how it shaped the way I design and run systems, and why its philosophy, stability, and community still matter to me more than twenty years later.

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2026/03/16/why-i-love-freebsd/

#FreeBSD #ITNotes #RunBSD #IT #SysAdmin #OS #OpenSource

Episode 8 of Dark Blue Weekly released

https://darkblueproject.com/sites/news/dbw-e8.php

#darkblueproject #darkblueweekly #opensource #freesoftware #linux #endeavouros #cachyos #debian #gimp #libadwaita #gnome

The #future of #Microsoft #Windows is downright terrifying. If their previous OS releases haven't motivated you to switch to #Linux or some kind of #BSD, then after watching this video I think you will be.

#opensource #RunBSD #OwnYourData #selfhost #NoAI #tech #privacy #spy #surveillance #masssurveillance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7a89ZYcTo8

🆕 blog! “How Can Governments Pay Open Source Maintainers?”

When I worked for the UK Government I was once asked if we could find a way to pay for all the Open Source Software we were using. It is a surprisingly hard problem and I want to talk about some of the issues we faced.

The UK Government publishes a lot of Open Source code - nearly everything…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/03/how-can-governments-pay-open-source-maintainers/
⸻
#government #money #OpenSource

Happy International Pi Day! Celebrating the infinite possibilities of clean code and extreme portability.

What a better day to remind everyone: Of course it runs NetBSD! 🚩

#NetBSD #PiDay #PiDay2026 #OpenSource #RetroComputing #RunBSD #linux

Hello, Fediverse!

I think it's time for an #introduction to the broader audience of the fediverse.

We're the Dark Blue Project, an independent project based in Germany, which publishes content about free and open source software and educate about it. Our primary mission is to inform people about free and open source software and help them with using it.

At the time of writing this, the project is under active construction. Feel free to let a follow here and stay tuned for exciting things coming in the future.

See you!

#opensource #freesoftware #fediverse

FreeBSD 14.4-RELEASE is now available.

The FreeBSD Project has announced the release of FreeBSD 14.4-RELEASE, the fifth release from the stable/14 branch. FreeBSD 14.4-RELEASE is available for multiple architectures and can be installed via ISO, USB, VM images, cloud platforms, and OCI containers.
Download and release information:
https://www.freebsd.org/releases/14.4R/announce/

Thank you to the Release Engineering Team and the many contributors who make each release possible.
#FreeBSD #OpenSource #ReleaseEngineering

For our #Rust projects, we created a bespoke #OpenSource pipeline to build and publish binary packages for the last three major versions of Debian, Ubuntu, RHEL and derivatives.

Ploutos is now almost four years old, and the way #rustlang packaging is done for these OSes has evolved quite a bit. The pipeline is also closely built around GitHub Actions, and now that we're moving to @Codeberg we need to overhaul it anyway.

Any tips or experiences from the Rust community?

https://github.com/NLnetLabs/ploutos