Weekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (17/2025): LAS and funding news

Weekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (17/2025): LAS and funding news
This week in #FDroid (TWIF) is live:
* #NLNet funds more projects
* #ElementX fixes a #CVE
* #GadgetBridge offline #GPX maps & headphones
* #Linphone #SIP build fix
* v8 #Mindustry beta
* more #KeyMapper features
* #WikiReader improvements
* #OpenCamera preview shots, lens selector, #UltraHDR
+ 15 new apps
+ 199 updates
#NLnet #OpenSource #OpenInternet #PeerTube #DigitalCommons
'It is wonderful to see the growing number of people working on digital commons, inventing and improving technologies to the benefit of all humanity. 42 of such projects have been selected for funding in the October call of the NGI Zero Commons Fund. In terms of applications, it was the largest call round in NGI Zero's life time.'
https://nlnet.nl/news/2025/20250422-announcement-grants-CommonsFund.html
We need to shape native paths, not recreate #fashionista ones with shinier branding
We’ve got a new bunch of #mainstreaming tech devs flooding into the #Fediverse. Some from burned-out Big Tech, some from the academic funding circuits, some just looking for the next shiny project after the #AI hype wore thin. Now, this could be good. IF even a few of them started working on native, grassroots tech - tools built for and by the communities who actually use them, not just more #dotcons platform clones. Right now, we’re at a turning point. The first wave of the Fediverse […]Nice – MOULE WORLD is in the Phonebook of the Internet, listed 5 websites before the website of the Moulin Rouge!
If there's any DNS errors, you can try visiting a website by its IPv4 address.
https://nlnetlabs.nl/news/2025/Apr/01/phonebook-of-the-internet/
@KazukyAkayashi @feudjais j'ai souvent entendu du bien de Movim côté UI/UX, peux-tu décrire ce que tu n'aimes pas ?
Sinon j'ai développé avec Libervia une passerelle ActivityPub <=> XMPP grâce à une subvention NLnet/NGi0 qui devrait fonctionner avec Movim. Je suis très pris et je n'ai pas encore pu faire une release officielle, mais des gens utilisent déjà.
https://libervia.org/__b/doc/backend/components.html#activitypub-gateway
We need a free/libre fork of #Android for the public commons. Google cannot be trusted.
Maybe that could be #lineageos or #Graphene, but given that they build on top of Android rather than driving the core development, I'm not certain they would be enough as it stands.
https://9to5google.com/2025/03/26/google-android-aosp-developement-private/
@josemurilo Good points :)
@volkris the issue with your comment is that the #Fediverse comes from a long history, and it embodies this history, which is where the value comes from.
Yes, it comes from meany sub cultures, these are better described as communities rather than users. Hope that makes sense.
Keeping mess is grassroots cultural, allowing it to be messy is neoliberal #mainstreaming?
I agree with your point about the devs and funding from #NGI and #NLnet an on rolling mess.
#NLnet #EU #NGI #NGIzero – Will We Get It Right This Time? https://hamishcampbell.com/nlnet-eu-ngi-ngizero-will-we-get-it-right-this-time/ let’s ask again: Has #NLnet and the #EU stepped up this time? Are we funding the future, or are we just shuffling papers while the #deathcult eats our humanistic heritage and the last remains of the #openweb?
NodeBB will be making an appearance at this year's FOSDEM!
I'll like be present at the Social Web dev room during FOSDEM itself, and will be presenting a talk at the Social Web After Hours event alongside @darius@friend.camp, @pfefferle@mastodon.social, and @j12t@j12t.social at Hackerspace Brussels (HSBXL), on Sunday evening.
I'll be talking up the SWICG Forum and Threaded Discussions Task Force, and what we're working on to solve one of fedi's hard problems: combating the notion that "the fediverse is quiet". Come and listen!
Thank you to the great folks at @ngizero@mastodon.xyz, who have kindly funded my way there this year.
And wouldn’t it be amazing if the EU actually funded those of us working on building exactly that?
I’ve lost track of how many times we’ve been rejected by NLnet/ngi, etc. and how much time I’ve wasted applying for such grants over the years.
We’ve had ZERO EU funding for the work we’re doing to build the first iteration of the Small Web.
Thank goodness I’m designing a simple sustainable business model into it with Domain as there’s no way it could exist if we were to depend on these institutions for support.
https://ar.al/2024/06/24/small-web-computer-science-colloquium-at-university-of-groningen/
If you want to support our work, you can do so at https://small-tech.org/fund-us/ (and thank you, it currently covers our hosting costs).
#SmallWeb #SmallTech #EU #funding #NLNet #NGI https://mas.to/@timwaterman/113877224594196720
Code for #deltatauri is now public!
For now it contains only the most basic functionality - so more for the fellow developers to try out or/and review my code . That being said, it is already surprisingly usable.
https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-desktop/pull/4462
Thanks to #nlnet & #ngi0_entrust for funding this project: https://nlnet.nl/project/DeltaTauri/.
I'm making big progress on the #tauri version of #deltachat_desktop
So far it only takes 38 mb (78mb installed) in package size instead of the 150mb
(323mb installed) of the Delta Chat Desktop #electron version.
I'll keep you updated in this thread.
Thanks to #nlnet & #ngi0_entrust for funding this project: https://nlnet.nl/project/DeltaTauri/.
My proposal for integrating #GNUTaler with #Tryton/#GNUHealth was accepted by #NGITaler.
I will develop a Tryton module which would allows users to integrate payments with Taler into their webshops, businesses.
Tryton is a popular libre business management system written in Python, used for operating webshops and enterprise resource planning - there are many modules for financial accounting, sales, inventory and stock, CRM, shipping, subscription management, etc. Existing payment provider integrations within Tryton are limited to specific proprietary payment providers, having a Taler based option would allow organisations to deal with Taler based payments (incoming as well as outgoing).
This includes the users of GNU Health (which is built on Tryton) and which provides libre alternatives for Hospital Management software, Health Information Systems and Electronic Health Records.
https://nlnet.nl/project/TALER-Tryton/
#NLnet
@nlnet @NGI_Taler @Taler @tryton @gnuhealth @meanmicio