Panos Alevropoulos @panosalevropoulos@mastodon.social

@pluralistic "seize the means of computation." excellent phrasing

The EC/EU also realizes that they need to cooperate with open communities and innovative initiatives to achieve their goals.

And that these initiatives are often fighting uphill battle against Big Tech and need to be supported by funding and other forms of help.

Here @NGIZero is already playing a big role, and https://ngi.eu is central to many plans. But there will be other funds and grants too.

At #SocialHub we track all @activitypub dev opportunity.

E.g. at https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/grants-and-funding-for-our-projects/86

Part of the workshop will be focused on bringing https://europa.eu to the #fediverse

The #EC just laid out their digital targets for 2030

https://ec.europa.eu/info/strategy/priorities-2019-2024/europe-fit-digital-age/europes-digital-decade-digital-targets-2030_en

Per 4 years they set their #OSS strategy

https://ec.europa.eu/info/departments/informatics/open-source-software-strategy_en

And for upcoming legislation i.e. EU Digital Services Act they look for #interoperability standards, and we promote @activitypub for that in our #SocialHub SIG.

All this is where our #FediverseFutures align.

@NGIZero

If you are interested in helping, or want to suggest topics for discussion, then we invite you to join #SocialHub as a member.

https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/

This event is a great opportunity for #fediverse evolution. The EC/EU itself is interested in making a move towards #foss and pursues a set of values of being more #Open #Privacy respecting #Collaborative with #Transparency and #Inclusion as principles.

We can help them get there!

#ActivityPub
#SocialMediaReimagined
#HumaneTechNow

@NGIZero

Dear #fediverse and especially #foss and #activitypub tech enthusiasts amongst you ..

At #SocialHub we're preparing a great event in the form of two webinars and a workshop in April, for representatives of the European Commission.

The topics are #ActivityPub #Interoperability and #FediverseFutures within the EU.

Interest for the event came from EC itself, who via @NGIZero - funder of many great AP projects - approached SocialHub to organize.

You can help prepare and certainly join the Event!

Improving a design so it explains itself is better than writing documentation how to use a bad design

I'm flatting my comic pages and Krita 'Colorize Mask' is really 🤯
Here are two screenshots: the input with lineart scribbled with color indicators and then the output rendering. This feature saves me hours!
(Note: I use random colors to split areas −WIP−).
#krita #webcomic

If you weren't among the 33,600 people 😮 at online #FOSDEM this weekend, be advised: 100% #FOSS for online conferences is production ready *today*. Say NO to any Zoom (or other proprietary software) online events from now on. Demand software freedom! https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2021/feb/08/just-say-no-to-zoom/

Google has suspended Element (@matrix) from the Play Store for "Sexual Content and Profanity". Basically same story as with Subway Tooter a while back. Element is to Matrix as Chrome is to the web. Curiously, Chrome is still on the Play Store.

Today we published our yearly report "#Software #Freedom in #Europe 2020". An entertaining and compact read about all important things the #FSFE and our community has done and achieved during the last 12 months: https://fsfe.org/news/2020/news-20201110-01.html