João Azevedo @joao@librem.one

Help us reach our fundraising goal this year-end: 600 new associate members who will be at the heart of our foundation and the fight for software freedom. #ISupportFreeSoftware https://www.fsf.org/appeal https://status.fsf.org/attachment/1619955

Great to see how more and more satellite events around #FOSDEM make #Brussels for one week not only the capital of Europe but also the #European #epicenter of #FOSS. Check out the surrounding activities, find your favourites, plan ahead and have a great time together!

https://foss.events

#CHAOSScon @conservancy #MiniDebCamp #Byteweek
#SustainOSS #XMPP

🥳 beta3 of our new calendar app is out, go test it! #nextcloud #privacy
https://github.com/nextcloud/calendar/releases/tag/v2.0.0-beta3

François and @KekunPlazas represented Purism at the Linux App Summit and Capitole du Libre 2019 https://fediverse.blog/~/AdrienPlazas/linux-app-summit-and-capitole-du-libre-2019

#Funkwhale/ #podcast friends!

We've gathered several user stories to better understand the needs of podcasters and listeners. Now, we need to assign priorities to each story, to decide what we're going to work on first.

This poll is open to anyone with an account, you can create one at https://governance.funkwhale.audio.

Subscribers test group poll: https://governance.funkwhale.audio/d/v4MiWwjA/subscribers-test-group-podcast-channel-developmen

Creators test group poll: https://governance.funkwhale.audio/d/psEaAYN1/creators-test-group-podcast-channel-development/1

There will be a Debian booth in Paris Open Source Summit (@OSS_Paris) near from Paris on 10th and 11th December 2019 with @DebianFrance team. Come to greet us! https://www.opensourcesummit.paris/

New Debian Developers and Maintainers (September and October 2019) https://bits.debian.org/2019/11/new-developers-2019-10.html

Debian Installer Bullseye Alpha 1 release https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2019/12/msg00001.html

Registrations have been re-opened.

Lisboa, por vezes.

Social.Coop members and other Mastodontists! We are having an informal debrief zoom chat on the recent Platform Cooperativism conference at the New School in NYC, with @LeoSammallahti @mattcropp @michaelafisher and other Social.Cooperators who participated. All are welcome to join. Details forthcoming. For now, please RSVP on Loomio:

https://www.loomio.org/d/qae8YJw2/platform-coop-conference-debrief

@fsf Lists the Librem 5 in its Giving Guide https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/ethical-tech-giving-guide-freedom-is-the-gift-that-keeps-on-giving The Purism Librem 5 cell phone is another exciting addition to the Giving Guide this year: we're giving it a tentative recommendation because the company has publicly committed to doing the right things for prioritizing user freedom and privacy. We also have evaluated and endorsed the operating system that the Librem 5 will run, the fully free PureOS, and the phone is designed for maximum privacy, security, and user freedom.

The first Librem 5's are starting to arrive 😀 This is the first batch that is shipping to customers - the Birch batch.

Below, linked from reddit, is the first public report that I know of where a customer received his/her Librem 5.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Purism/comments/e2mqgb/i_have_my_librem_5_ama/

We are delighted to share that early yesterday we shipped the first #Librem5 Birch devices to backers https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-birch-shipping-announcement/

We contributed 20 patches and 23 Reviewed-by or Tested-by tags towards #Linux 5.4 https://puri.sm/posts/purisms-contributions-to-linux-5-4/

Including: improvements to the Librem 5 devkit’s IMU and panel drivers, preparation for a mainline display stack and Librem 5 bug fixes #Purism #Librem5 #OpenSource

Just small update though no breakthroughs.

After sleepless nights we have still not manage to find the root cause. Even though we've done quite some gymnastics over this and tried many things.

So as they say, The Saga continues!

"They know my one weakness: that I'm weak!"
- Homer J. Simpson