Danna Ingleton, ED of HURIDOCS (Human Rights Information and Documentation Systems) will share why free and open source software (FOSS) is essential for justice-oriented work. Beyond ethical alternatives to big tech, open source tools safeguard security, protect data sovereignty, and empower practitioners in human rights, social justice, and humanitarian response. This talk will highlight the urgent need for interoperability within the FOSS community to build the critical technology infrastructure that civil society needs to claim rights, seek justice, and recover from crises.

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The EU OS project pools on one side existing case studies on Linux for desktop computers in the public sector. On the other side, it proposes a realistic concept on how the public sector in the EU could switch from Microsoft Windows to a common Linux OS within rather months than years to gain more digital sovereignty. In this talk, project lead Robert Riemann gives a status update, calls for action and answers your questions.

By Robert Riemann

Governance is a key aspect of software development, especially in Open-Source Software (OSS), where the collaborative nature of the process requires clear guidelines and policies to ensure effective decision-making and accountability. While some mature projects have established clear governance structures, many others rely on informal practices, which can lead to misunderstandings, conflicts, or lack of accountability. The rise of increasingly diverse contributors—including not only people from different backgrounds but also AI-powered agents—adds a new layer of complexity to governance. This raises important questions: Who gets to decide? How are rules enforced? And how do communities remain transparent and fair when the lines between human and non-human contributors blur? In this talk, we will explore the growing governance challenges facing OSS projects, why they matter for the sustainability of open collaboration, and potential pathways to making governance more explicit, transparent, and adaptable.

By Adem Ait

Activisme thérapeutique et sociologie du sida (Steven Epstein) (publiée le 14 juillet 2024)

Résumé

Par cette étude, Epstein cherche à montrer la manière dont la redéfinition des frontières du champ scientifique est toujours contextuelle et contingente, comment celui-ci s’est paradoxalement démocratisé alors même que se renforçaient les relations d’autorités et de confiance qui définissent la place de la science dans nos sociétés.

Notes

Epstein reproche à Randy Shilts (And the Band Played On) et Steve Connor et Sharon Kingman (The Search for the Virus) de raconter l’histoire du Sida sans inclure la politique de la science. Il cite aussi les travaux de Dennis Altman, Cindy Patton, Charles Bosk, Joel Frader, Mary-Rose Mueller, Robert Wächter et Charles Rosenberg, importants dans sa démarche mais qui omettent selon lui le rôle de la dissidence scientifique. Les études de Joan Fujimura et Danny Chou sont en cela, des exceptions notables.

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Nix Your Bugs is a meetup for people in the Rhein-Neckar region that are interested in Nix (the package manager) or NixOS (the Linux distribution). The meetup begins with talks related to NixOS, and ends with casual networking and exchange between the meetup participants.

Michael Stapelberg is the inventor and maintainer of the i3 window manager, a former Debian Linux Developer, and creator of the Go appliance platform gokrazy. Having occasionally tried NixOS over the years, Michael finally went all in in 2025 and has published multiple blog posts in the process:

At our Nix Your Bugs #6 Heidelberg meetup on Friday, 17 October 2026, Michael told us more about why he switched and what he learned.

Interesting connection found as I looked into the pardoning of Honduras Ex-Pres (alleged connection to 400 tons drugs entering USA), to his role helping establish Prospera, its investors: interestingly enough, some of those Prospera investors also were donors to USA administration campaign etc.

And how ironic to see this pardon given the boats being blown up in the carribean in the name of "stopping drugs".

Granted, Hernandez claims he never directly accepted money from alleged traffickers, his brother was sent to prison earlier, and he followed in 2024 conviction.

Highly influencial group of Big Tech billionaires proposed "Freedom Cities": their very own regulation-free sovereign Charter Cities. Possibly on US federal land under the current USA administration. We explore how this relates to current events, and how this may connect to Stargate AI project, along with mRNA longevity experiments, among other unique features.

There is even a claim from The Grey Zone on declaring the left party election "illegitimate" if they win, instead of the GOP ally winning, using a series of US friendly NGO's and international election observers - all alleged from the Grey Zone article:

You also may like to read other articles we looked at:

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https://goodauthority.org/news/freedo...

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In this special live episode from the Software Architecture Gathering, Jacqui Read joins Eberhard and Ralf for an insightful conversation on the rise of diagrams-as-code and the role of AI in software documentation. Jacqui highlights how using textual notations like PlantUML, Mermaid, and Structurizr transforms diagramming from an artistic task into a systematic, data-driven process. They discuss the benefits, limitations, and need for critical understanding when working with AI-generated diagrams, empowering teams to improve consistency, collaboration, and automation behind the scenes of architecture workflows.

The education sector is a significant supporter of open source philosophy and creator of tools. However widespread adoption of the available tools is only possible when they can be easily integrated into the wider learning ecosystem.

This talk will look at the role of open standards in facilitating the development and growth of the open learning ecosystem.

Find out how the 1EdTech community collaborates on the development and governance of the open standards that underpin billions of learning interactions every year. We will also look at some new developments to make it easier to support European use cases in the global ecosystem.

By Gill Ferrell

Open-source software is widely praised for its transparency, adaptability, and freedom. In educational technology, however, this openness often stops at the level of code and licensing, while the pedagogical assumptions and implicit theories of learning embedded in digital tools remain opaque. This talk argues that truly open educational technology must extend the principle of openness to pedagogy itself. Every platform—whether a learning management system or an AI tutor—encodes a particular conception of learning, shaping what teachers and learners can do, often without making these assumptions visible or debatable. Drawing on the distinction between the grammar of schooling (the institutional routines and constraints that structure formal education) and the grammar of learning (the evolutionary and socio-cultural dynamics of how humans learn), the talk shows how even open-source projects risk reproducing outdated models of schooling if their pedagogical underpinnings remain implicit. Advocating for “open pedagogy for open EdTech,” it proposes aligning code transparency with pedagogical transparency by co-creating tools with educators, embedding multiple theoretical and didactical options, and enabling communities to adapt technologies to diverse learning contexts. Such an approach would move open-source EdTech beyond technical freedom and toward supporting learning sovereignty—empowering learners and educators to shape technologies in accordance with how learning actually works.

By Robert Reuter

When it comes to AI in Education, RAG software is what most people are after. The ability to create a knowledge base and use it with a Large Language Model to generate answers for a private chatbot is a common requirement. We are developing at the LMDDC a mainstream solution for education leveraging open source software. During this presentation, Pierre will walk you through our journey and explain which open source solutions we used.

By Pierre de La Celle