Announcing the winners in the Month of #LibreOffice, November 2025! If you contributed to our projects last month, claim your free sticker pack: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/12/08/winners-in-the-month-of-libreoffice-november-2025-grab-your-free-sticker-pack-%f0%9f%98%8a/ #foss #openSource #freesoftware

Schleswig-Holstein reports €15M yearly savings by replacing Microsoft 365 with LibreOffice across most government workplaces 💶

About 80% of offices have migrated, with a €9M one-time investment planned for 2026 to finish the shift and strengthen open-source tools 🧩

@libreoffice

🔗 https://itsfoss.com/news/german-state-ditch-microsoft/

#TechNews #OpenSource #Privacy #Security #Government #EU #Data #Sovereignty #IT #PublicSector #Digital #Microsoft #Office #Software #Tech #Cloud #FOSS #Germany #German #LibreOffice

Schleswig-Holstein reports €15M yearly savings by replacing Microsoft 365 with LibreOffice across most government workplaces 💶

About 80% of offices have migrated, with a €9M one-time investment planned for 2026 to finish the shift and strengthen open-source tools 🧩

@libreoffice

🔗 https://itsfoss.com/news/german-state-ditch-microsoft/

#TechNews #OpenSource #Privacy #Security #Government #EU #Data #Sovereignty #IT #PublicSector #Digital #Microsoft #Office #Software #Tech #Cloud #FOSS #Germany #German #LibreOffice

Today's #FreeSoftwareAdvent is Vaultwarden.

Vaultwarden is a readily self-hosted alternative implementation of Bitwarden, a password / credential manager.

It works with Bitwarden clients, and has its own web client.

Sandra and I use it to share passwords with each other, as well as keeping our own separate vaults in sync across multiple devices.

https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden

#Linux #FOSS #selfhosting

Here's a totally off-the-cuff pitch for the #p2p web: I just want to be able to load a webpage from a #bittorrent swarm by leeching, and then click an "I approve" button if it looks non-sketchy and I want to seed the page. I want to bookmark magnet links to make human-readable URLs and allow collisions between actual names/content to be decided socially (e.g. click to accept a new version of this page from this new swarm). I don't want a bunch of new protocols. No #crypto for domain names or donations. No vibe-coded corporate-sponsored AI BS. No #GitHub repos. Just give me the wild west with everything visible and no default seeding so that bad actors don't bother with it so much. Run it through a #VPN or something if you want privacy.

#web3 #internet #indieweb #foss #dweb

Today's #FreeSoftwareAdvent is Vaultwarden.

Vaultwarden is a readily self-hosted alternative implementation of Bitwarden, a password / credential manager.

It works with Bitwarden clients, and has its own web client.

Sandra and I use it to share passwords with each other, as well as keeping our own separate vaults in sync across multiple devices.

https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden

#Linux #FOSS #selfhosting

"All programmers, from hobbyists to those working at Microsoft or Google, use open-source software, which is present in between 70% and 90% of the computer applications we use today"
#FOSS #DigitalSovereignty
https://english.elpais.com/technology/2025-11-30/adriana-groh-the-internet-works-thanks-to-a-shared-infrastructure-that-nobody-owns-but-that-we-must-take-care-of.html

Ughhhh, et tu calibre?

New features
Allow asking AI questions about any book in your calibre library. Right click the "View" button and choose "Discuss selected book(s) with AI"
AI: Allow asking AI what book to read next by right clicking on a book and using the "Similar books" menu
AI: Add a new backend for "LM Studio" which allows running various AI models locally

Ughhhh, et tu calibre?

New features
Allow asking AI questions about any book in your calibre library. Right click the "View" button and choose "Discuss selected book(s) with AI"
AI: Allow asking AI what book to read next by right clicking on a book and using the "Similar books" menu
AI: Add a new backend for "LM Studio" which allows running various AI models locally

We have a new full-time developer! Dan Williams joins the #LibreOffice team, working on design, UI and #UX improvements – with an initial focus on macOS. Of course, everything we do is open source, so you can help him: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/12/04/welcome-dan-williams-new-libreoffice-developer-focusing-on-ui-ux/ #foss #openSource #freesoftware

Our next big #LibreOffice update is coming, in February! Help to test the new features, and report issues so we can make the final release rock-solid: https://qa.blog.documentfoundation.org/2025/12/03/libreoffice-26-2-alpha1-is-available-for-testing/ #foss #openSource #freesoftware

@juergen_hubert

You and @deadsuperhero are definitely on the right path. I rail against billionaires & capitalism, but there has to be a way to setup something outside of them to fight them.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, #Capitalism is not buying shit from your friends. Especially when your friends are being shutout from the main market
We need an alternative. A decentralized, federated, open source alternative.

#FOSS

@juergen_hubert

You and @deadsuperhero are definitely on the right path. I rail against billionaires & capitalism, but there has to be a way to setup something outside of them to fight them.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, #Capitalism is not buying shit from your friends. Especially when your friends are being shutout from the main market
We need an alternative. A decentralized, federated, open source alternative.

#FOSS