crowbyte @crowbyte@fosstodon.org

What a fantastic waste of time and energy!
The @opensuse non-confidence petition failed. Read the figures here:
https://hacklog.in/opensuse-board-non-confidence-petition-result-announced/ #openSUSE #CommunityAffairs

How to become an @opensuse contributor?
It's easier than you would think - and if I can do it, so can you!
https://www.suse.com/c/how-to-become-an-opensuse-contributor/
#openSUSE #Community #FLOSS

The remaining seat in the @opensuse board is now set. Congratulations @hellcp!

And thank you crowbyte for participating.

A big THANK YOU to both of you for preparing the path of a brighter future for #opensuse!

It might seem contradictory: the best way to achieve #DigitalSovereignty is through collaboration 🤝
Build infrastructure solutions through an #opensource model, and deploy it locally 👉under your control!
Eu gov are working through #Nextcloud on this.
https://nextcloud.com/blog/eu-governments-choose-independence-from-us-cloud-providers-with-nextcloud/

The #Nextcloud developer program introduction - how you can build a great Nextcloud app and get our help promoting and monetizing it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcwX8q-QIco

I want to be able to tell my friends why #mastodon is better than the birdsite, so I wrote a thing: "Mastodon Is Better than Twitter: Elevator Pitch"
https://www.codesections.com/blog/mastodon-elevator-pitch/

I want this to be as persuasive as possible to outsiders, so I'd appreciate as much feedback as possible from Mastodon users

@opensuse Leap 15.1 DVDs have arrived!!!

I've written a guide on how to setup a @nextcloud server. This has been a lot of work, as I've tried to be as verbose as possible.

Hope you guys enjoy it.

https://kevq.uk/how-to-setup-a-nextcloud-server-in-ubuntu

Countdown banners are available for anyone who wants to help promote the release of @opensuse Leap 15.1 - http://bit.ly/2ZLX4ew

Tiny but practical improvement for the #Symfony validator: NotBlank: add a new option to allow null values

https://github.com/symfony/symfony/pull/29641

Hey, have you noticed how amazing Free Software is?

It's pretty great!

Let's all be friends and figure out together how we can use these "computers" and "networks" to make the world a better place! ❤️

Happy (American) Thanksgiving, y'all.

One of the many things I'm grateful for this year is the wonderful #fosstodon community that we've discovered/built together. You are all great—thanks for being you!

"People are still more worried that a third-party company like #CambridgeAnalytica used facebook's data instead of what they should actually be worried about: that #Facebook had that data to begin with"
"If Cambridge Analytica can sway elections and referenda with a relatively small subset of facebook's data, imagine what facebook can and does do with the full set." - @aral
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/facebook-cambridge-analytica-data-share-price-privacy

Apparently, #Mastodon has extensive keyboard shortcuts! In the WebUI of your instance, click here to view them! 🙂

(I love shortcuts so I thought I'd share them for others who hadn't seen the little link down there 😉)