The Open Source community in Africa organizes this week the I Open Source Festival in this continent. This event will bring together more than 800 people in Lagos (Nigeria), including developers, designers, students and staff from different organizations. They all have a common interest: support for the open source and free software movement in Africa.
The KDE team has announced the availability of a new version of the popular desktop Plasma, which comes with the last name LTS, which means that it has extended support. That is, Plasma 5.18 will be the stable version for the next two years. Of course, it will receive periodic updates to polish and improve its functionalities.
Thousands of Free and Open Source Software developers from around the world will meet this weekend at one of the most important events in this sector: FOSDEM 2020. As usual, Brussels will host the 20th edition of this event organized by a community of volunteers to share ideas and work collaboratively.
If one of your purposes for 2020 is to replace the proprietary software in your devices with Open Source alternatives, we recommend you visit FossHub. This is a website containing free Open Source software downloads where you won’t run the risk that the programs you download include malware.
Christmas is just around the corner and surely in your shopping list to surprise your loved ones there are technological items. Before buying them, the Free Software Foundation (FSF) invites you one more year to think carefully on your choice: Does it respect user rights? Does it cost much more than it should? Are we giving power to the company that develops it?
This organization recommends avoiding gadgets that include patented software created by big manufacturers and replace it with devices that run Free Software to ensure that they respect the privacy and rights of users.
