Dear #FreeSoftware community, isn’t it interesting how things designed for the common good often work better than those built for profit?

Now imagine that for our whole society, does it ring a bell?

Dear #FreeSoftware community, isn’t it interesting how things designed for the common good often work better than those built for profit?

Now imagine that for our whole society, does it ring a bell?

I'm a software developer with 40 years' professional experience, lucky enough to be considering early retirement. I love writing code and don't want to stop. I'm keen to give something back and contribute to one or more open source projects.

The questions are, to what shall I contribute, and how do I get started?

My skills are mainly C++, having spent much of the past decade programmatically dismantling and reassembling Microsoft Office files. I'm quite happy to learn Rust or Go, but don't really like webby front-endy ux stuff.

Any suggestions for a worthy project to which I could contribute? Please boost if you can.

#SoftwareEngineering #SoftwareDevelopment #SoftwareDev #OpenSource #FreeSoftware

I'm a software developer with 40 years' professional experience, lucky enough to be considering early retirement. I love writing code and don't want to stop. I'm keen to give something back and contribute to one or more open source projects.

The questions are, to what shall I contribute, and how do I get started?

My skills are mainly C++, having spent much of the past decade programmatically dismantling and reassembling Microsoft Office files. I'm quite happy to learn Rust or Go, but don't really like webby front-endy ux stuff.

Any suggestions for a worthy project to which I could contribute? Please boost if you can.

#SoftwareEngineering #SoftwareDevelopment #SoftwareDev #OpenSource #FreeSoftware

Up next in the Legal & Policy Devroom at #FOSDEM: "CRA – Role of Free Software and Q&A" with our colleague @lexelas, Michael Schuster, and Tommaso Bernabo.

Don’t miss this discussion on how Free Software shapes the CRA and the chance to get your questions answered!

#FreeSoftware #SoftwareFreedom #CRA

Up next in the Legal & Policy Devroom at #FOSDEM: "CRA – Role of Free Software and Q&A" with our colleague @lexelas, Michael Schuster, and Tommaso Bernabo.

Don’t miss this discussion on how Free Software shapes the CRA and the chance to get your questions answered!

#FreeSoftware #SoftwareFreedom #CRA

If it wasn't for the dogmatic adherence to GNU philosophy then I would have probably pivoted to Guix already. People are that deep in their ideology that the Nonguix repository emphasize it should be used as a last resort and that the repository should not be discussed in official channels. Imagine being so free that you circle back to being overbearingly authoritarian by not letting people pick what they want to use.

@fsf@hostux.social

#FreeSoftware, #Guix, #GNU, #FOSS, #FLOSS, #Linux.