Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 22, 2023

• Why you should attend the Ubuntu Summit

  We are very excited about the upcoming Ubuntu Summit 2023! This year, we’ll be gathering in the beautiful city of Riga, Latvia, from November 3rd-5th.

  There are many reasons to attend the Ubuntu Summit, including electrifying talks from industry leaders, invigorating hands-on workshops, and a unique opportunity to network with like-minded people from across the open-source world.

• Facebook, Fosstodon & The Fediverse

  Mike and I have been asked, multiple times, about what Fosstodon’s position is on Facebook potentially joining the Fediverse.

  If you’re not aware, the TL;DR is that Facebook, or their parent company, Meta, is planning to create a Twitter clone that will support ActivityPub (more here). That means that Facebook, or some semblance of it, could be coming to a Mastodon instance near you.

  Needless to say, this has a lot of folk on Mastodon a little worried - hence the constant stream of messages to myself and Mike asking what we, as admins of Fosstodon, plan to do about it.

• FOSS Weekly #23.25: ONLYOFFICE, Clipboard App, Bash Variables and More Linux Stuff

  The bash basic series continues and so does the Linux learning.

• Aerospike invades the graph database space with a little help from Apache TinkerPop

  Aerospike is expanding its database capabilities with its Aerospike Graph database, which brings graph data model capabilities.