Nice recipe on what can be used to run a virtual conference using only Free Software.

Clearly aims to demonstrate the superiority of their specialized hardware for training. That said it's nice to have proper open models available (architecture, training data, weights... it's all in the open).

This is a huge! DreamWorks Animation releasing its rendering pipeline as free software.

Early days for this type of research so a couple of limitations to keep in mind while reading this paper. Most notably: rather small sample explored (it's a qualitative study) and tends to conflate GitHub with "the Open Source community". The later especially matters since the vibe can be very different outside of GitHub.
That being said, very interesting findings in there. Some validate my experience with GitHub. It's clear that compared to other spaces there's much more entitlement behavior from some people. Interestingly the words seem on average less violent (although it does happen of course) than in other platforms... still this is important to keep in check since it could have implication toward prospective contributors.
The last point in their discussion section is promising. Some of the current manual interventions from maintainers seem to have good results (encouraging) and it seems possible to at least semi-automate the handling of toxic comments which could help with maintainers well-being.

Definitely agree with this, Github benefited from a powerful network effect and now a good chunk of important projects are "trapped" there. This can't be good long term.

Interesting business model. Could be a new path for at least some maintainers to be sustainably funded. Still a lot of unknowns though... probably worth keeping an eye on it.

Friendly reminder, if you're not paying authors of FOSS libraries, they owe you nothing.

There it is... at least for the developers and gamers demographic.

Looks like a good set of resources for OSPO and compliance in companies.

Alright, this going to be interesting. Pass me the pop corn. It's definitely a welcome move in any case.

Good reminder of the sometimes uneasy relationship between users and maintainers. This needs to stay healthy. Users need to know their place and maintainers should feel OK saying no to things.

Very interesting report although I admit I'm a bit skeptical at the strong "apolitical" message in it. This highlights very well a few challenges specific to Europe. We need to see them tackled I think. It's nice to see moves in the public sector but clearly it needs to go further and faster. Same thing regarding the creation of OSPOs in companies.

Slightly depressing when it's laid out like this... still there is some truth to it. Maybe it's time to rethink a few things.

More elements on why we should all be concerned about Visual Studio Code and the state of development tools overall. It's clearly moving more and more proprietary. Visual Studio Code's ecosystem is a very well designed trap. I see it more and more around me (even tried it for a little while to see what it was all about). What can I say... Go Kate Go! And also we clearly need many more LSP servers.

A good reminder for some of the loudly annoying Free Software users out there.

Indeed, there's more funding available. It's becoming a maze though and PR shouldn't be underestimated.

Let's hope we'll indeed see more indie game creators moving to Godot, it's a neat engine.

This is definitely well put, users shouldn't feel entitled. Maintainers do what they can (even if there's a company backing up your favorite FOSS project) and if you use the software for free with no support contract... things will be done when they're done.

Now that's an interesting idea to give back money to maintainers... can be sustainable only if enough company do this on a regular basis though.

Good reminder on why you don't want to depend on proprietary systems to support FOSS projects.