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November 2026 2 posts
Petition: Open source work should count as volunteering in Germany – about 15,000 signatures still missing
A petition to the German Bundestag calls for open source work to be recognized as volunteer work, on a par with sports clubs or the rescue services. Roughly half of …
PlanetFOSS: Weekly review, Bluesky and a search with filters
Every Monday, PlanetFOSS sums up the past week as a small magazine page: cover story, supernovas, new releases and the week in numbers. On top of that, PlanetFOSS now posts …
October 2026 4 posts
PlanetFOSS: Support your favorite sources directly
Blogs, magazines and publishers can now add a link to their subscription or donation page on PlanetFOSS. It shows up as a box on the source page, as a heart …
AI Ban on r/opensource: Who Actually Reviews the Code?
r/opensource and r/fossdroid are locking out AI-assisted projects, while the Linux kernel is dropping its label for AI code. Language models are a huge opportunity for free software, but somebody …
PlanetFOSS: Linux news that sorts itself
PlanetFOSS collects Linux and open source news from German and English sources and organizes it on its own: identical stories become bundles, new topics become comets, big events become supernovas. …
GNOME Needs Volunteers for the Extensions Team: EGO Reviews Are Drowning in AI Submissions
Javad Rahmatzadeh volunteers to review extensions for extensions.gnome.org and is now asking for help. The team needs reviewers, people to improve the Shexli linter, and donations.
