PSA: for users of extension/irc in OpenClaw: Your IRC channel may stop working. We have just shut down the #openclaw channel and a related channel. We normally don't announce closures, but since these were topical and will break things, we're making an exception. Please boost.

Hey everyone! While we're pleased with the reception of our IRCv3 upgrades, we realize that some people like older clients and don't want to upgrade. We are currently testing a way for older clients to benefit from our new IRCv3 features. For more info, please visit libera.chat/news/downgra...

Who is ready for ircpuzzles??? We'll be starting at 12:00 UTC on 2026-04-01 blog.ircpuzzles.org #ircpuzzles #IRC #puzzle #puzzles #InternetRelayChat #chat #Libera #LiberaChat #Internet @liberachat.bsky.social

Oregon State University's Open Source Lab is holding a fundraiser to help with their data center migration/upgrade. This move will allow OSUOSL to provide even more support to Open Source projects. Read more: https://osuosl.org/blog/data-center-migration-update-fundraising/

More IRCv3 on Libera! libera.chat/news/new-and...

TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-... 🧵

Thank you to all who responded to our previous post and our request for financial help. We have since received the legal advice regarding the OSA, and the news is good. If you want to know more, we have written a new post about our understanding of the advice we got at libera.chat/news/advised

Thank you to all who responded to our previous post and our request for financial help. We have since received the legal advice regarding the OSA, and the news is good. If you want to know more, we have written a new post about our understanding of the advice we got at libera.chat/news/advised

At our last MGM, we approved paying for legal advice about the UK's Online Safety Act. While we can afford this bill… it is just one bill. Laws like this are multiplying. So as awkward as this is, we are asking for help. See libera.chat/news/advice for more context.

At our last MGM, we approved paying for legal advice about the UK's Online Safety Act. While we can afford this bill… it is just one bill. Laws like this are multiplying. So as awkward as this is, we are asking for help. See libera.chat/news/advice for more context.

#OSUOSL will live on! osuosl.org/blog/osl-fut... Huge congrats to @ramereth.bsky.social and the team for securing their necessary funding. If you or your organization were still considering supporting the lab, don't let this good news stop you. Help it thrive, not just survive!

If you are reading this post, you have benefited from OSUOSL. Projects supported by them power today's Internet architecture. We need organizations that rely on the Internet to get on this page. Ask your employer to arrange an ongoing sponsorship now. 🕖🕘🕚 libera.chat/news/osuosl-... #OSUOSL

If you are reading this post, you have benefited from OSUOSL. Projects supported by them power today's Internet architecture. We need organizations that rely on the Internet to get on this page. Ask your employer to arrange an ongoing sponsorship now. 🕖🕘🕚 libera.chat/news/osuosl-... #OSUOSL

Libera.Chat would not be what we are today, if not for OSL. OSL has been an integral part of open source and open culture project support for a long time. Nonprofits, businesses, and governments, and you depend on projects OSL sponsors. OSL is worth saving. osuosl.org/blog/osl-fut... #osuosl

Libera.Chat would not be what we are today, if not for OSL. OSL has been an integral part of open source and open culture project support for a long time. Nonprofits, businesses, and governments, and you depend on projects OSL sponsors. OSL is worth saving. osuosl.org/blog/osl-fut... #osuosl

Is your favourite project an open secret on Libera.Chat? We've just rolled out some changes that will help folks decide if their channel visibility is correct. An overview of these features can be found at libera.chat/news/visibil...

We are LIVE!! Theme this year is MUSIC! blog.ircpuzzles.org/2025/04/2025... #IRC #LiberaChat #Puzzle #Puzzles #April #AprilFools #AprilFoolsDay #Chat #chats #game #games #AprilFool #music #musical #song #songs

It is time for us, as volunteers running a real-time communication platform, to address burnout. Doing this is important for the future of our work, and we will be leveraging ✨emerging technologies✨ to achieve it. libera.chat/news/burnout

This Week in Plasma brings a massive performance improvement to Spectacles screen recordings, a cleaner login screen for multi-monitor setups, and a less cluttered configuration page for displays. blogs.kde.org/2025/03/29/t...

Are you excited for ircpuzzles??? It starts at 12:00 UTC on 2025-04-01 blog.ircpuzzles.org #IRC #ircpuzzles #puzzle #puzzles #irc #AprilFools #AprilFoolsDay #AprilFool #game #games #LiberaChat @liberachat.bsky.social

"This Week in KDE Apps" brings a lot of improvements to your email, calendar and contact apps; devs consider improvements to Dolphin's new navigation bar; and new features land in you chat app of choice. blogs.kde.org/2025/03/24/t... #twika #apps #FreeSoftware #OpenSource

🎉 From our inaugural Science Fair to a “Night at the Museum” reception, the #GrafanaCON 2025 agenda includes a whole lot to be excited about! Plan your experience and register by Mar 31 to save 30% on your ticket: grafana.com/blog/2025/03...

How and what you alert on can mean the difference between meeting reliability goals and breaching an SLA. Join the webinar on March 19 to learn: 🚨 How & what to alert on with Grafana’s simplified alerting 🚨 How to avoid alerting toil and enable predefined alerting rules

If you are in the area, I'll give the keynote. And if you have a Meetup space for the Monday before I might be able to drop by for an impromptu talk.

To be clear, I will also be giving the keynote if you are not in the area.

#ObservabilityCON on the Road Sydney is happening in less than 2 weeks! Learn how to take your observability to new heights with AI/ML and Adaptive Telemetry — all while reducing costs: bit.ly/3XVKskz

"This Week in KDE Apps" is out! It covers a massive amount of improvements to KDE's personal information management suite (email, calendar, contacts, etc.), new levels in KDE's educational activity collection GCompis, fixes for Amarok, and digiKam's new version 8.6.0. blogs.kde.org/2025/03/17/t...

With the world changing around us, many governments and organisations are trying to reduce their dependency on tech giants. Here's an update on how one German federal state is moving 30,000 PCs to LibreOffice (and longer-term, Linux): blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/03...

After an extensive incident review into a recent Grafana Cloud outage, we want to explain what went wrong, how it was resolved, and what we are doing to prevent something similar from happening in the future.

Fixes in #Plasma this week: you can now remove the titlebar and frame from a window from the Task Manager, the digital clock gets a nicer-looking font picker dialog, and we have simplified the info shown on Display Configuration, among other improvements and changes. blogs.kde.org/2025/03/08/t...

The Travel Grant Application for the FreeBSD Developer Summit/BSDCan 2025 is now open! 🎉 The BSDCan 2025 application deadline is April 16, 2025 👉 buff.ly/UPMWMMg #FreeBSD #BSDCan2025 #TravelGrant

The PSF is excited to share that Ewa Jodlowska has been awarded our Distinguished Service Award for her pivotal role in transforming and stewarding the PSF to better serve the #Python community and its future 👏👏

We are very excited that the FreeBSD Project has once again been accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code. This is the Project's 21st year participating in the program, and we're thrilled to continue in 2025. 🔗 buff.ly/bLHSOni #GSoC #GSoC2025 #FreeBSD #opensource

irc is fun, you need to try it! come join us on #tangled @ libera.chat (you can also just use @libera.chat's web chat!: libera.chat/guides/webchat)

☀️ This week, we're heading to Scale 22x (@socallinuxexpo.bsky.social) in Pasadena, California! Meet us at booth #421 between March 6-9 and come check out the #MySQL, system design, and #OpenTelemetry talks from our Grafanistas: socallinuxexpo.org/scale/22x/pr...

Some extra videos from the #LibreOffice Conference 2024, covering the wider world of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS): blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/03...

"This week in Plasma" covers how KRunner now sees in color, the disk widget finds errors in your drives, Spectacle gets a spectacular overhaul, and much, much more! blogs.kde.org/2025/03/01/t... #desktop #Plasma #Plasma6 #opensource #freedesktop

KDE will be again participating in Google Summer of Code 🎉! Find out how you can contribute to KDE, learn valuable skills using Free Software technologies and get compensated. There are already proposals on the GSoC ideas page community.kde.org/GSoC/2025/Id... Which one are you going to do?

"This Week in Plasma" brings refinements for the weather widget, digital clock, System Settings, Widget Explorer side bar, and more. blogs.kde.org/2025/02/22/t...

First blog post of the year is out!

We love our project communities <3

As we count down to 2025, please join us in #libera-newyears on #liberachat for our traditional ascii art spam fest.

As we count down to 2025, please join us in #libera-newyears on #liberachat for our traditional ascii art spam fest.

Got the holiday lights up!

There is still time to organise a Software Freedom Day event for next Saturday! Check out digitalfreedoms.org for more info!

Impawtant mews everyone! The libera.cat shirts we promised have finally landed on freewear.org :3

Attention ZNC users: An RCE vulnerability has been discovered in ZNC's modtcl. You should disable this module until patched. More info at libera.chat/news/zncpsa (CVE-2024-39844)

Our Tor service now has the "Proof of Work defense" enabled. If you encounter new problems connecting over Tor please let us know.

We're three today! libera.chat/news/three