The European Commission has issued a survey on the Governance and Sustainability of Critical Open Source Software.

The survey hopes to identify "pathways for collective efforts" and make "actionable recommendations for public administrations".

It's a relatively short survey, takes max 15 minutes & provides lots of opportunities to rate FOSS as 'very important' 😛

https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/FOSSEPS_Governance_and_Sustainability_Survey

#FOSS #governance #NGI #NGI0

@kernellogger @geert That 6.17-rc5 was third complain ~last two weeks about Link tag, so I dropped it from my scripts. I see the rationale that automatically added Link which points to latest patch version, not even to the one with some sort of review happening, is just convenience instead of copy-paste of subject to lore.kernel.org. Useful to me but not worth dying for and I actually understand preference of having really useful Link or no Link at all.

With @andi we are organizing another Linux'n'Beer meeting in Zurich, CH:

When: Friday, 12th Sep, 18:00
Where: Bierwerk Zuri, https://maps.app.goo.gl/unN5AkKQUVj6DQ3H6

The place is known of good beer and they also have some beer-food (snacks, focaccia), but don't expect proper dinner served.

Please kindly let me know if you plan to come, so I will adjust the table booking if necessary.

Also just as reminder - we have a mailing list, so join if you do not want to miss such announcements
lch @ https://subspace.kernel.org/lists.linux.dev.html

And IRC channel #linuxnbeer-ch (on Libera)

@krzk the videos are published now!
https://youtu.be/dQgiWiyxU3A?si=mWDEyQ0dAy5X1n7_

https://youtu.be/TeygIvk4UHg?si=SVWs0YBPNInHxQEF

@fustini Nice! Thanks for pinging!

And if anyone wants the slides:
https://sched.co/25Vsl
https://sched.co/25VoV
(video recordings will appear a bit later)

Since few years I have been regularly speaking on each major Linux Open Source conference, so I could not miss Open Source Summit Europe in Amsterdam. I gave two talks and held speaker office hours for some more questions. I met many old friends and put face to the name known from online interactions in upstream community. It was to nice to hear that my talks are actually useful. :)

Event was very successful and intensive, so now well deserved rest... and looking forward to Japan in December, where I am planning to attend the main Linux conference (LPC 2025)!

P.S. "regularly speaking" except this year's Open Source Summit in USA, but that for obvious reasons - screw you Trump&Vance. I am not going to your little craphole.

Russia launched a massive overnight attack across Ukraine, striking eastern, central, and western regions. Explosions were reported in Mukachevo, Lviv, Lutsk, Dnipro, Kyiv, and Zaporizhzhia. Notably, Mukachevo was hit for the first time since the full-scale invasion began.

Except speaking on Open Source Summit Europe (OSSE) 2025, I will also participate in Speaker Office Hours on Wednesday 10:30 AM: https://sched.co/27flt

Happy to answer some questions regarding first Linux kernel contributions, Embedded Linux Kernel, ARM64 laptops (yep, I am daily using Lenovo T14s with Qualcomm X1E SoC), Devicetree bindings / DTS or why your last patchset was not merged. :)

@hrw No, I use it as an user, not as a developer. I don't tweak it, I don't fix it, I don't develop it.

It is true Linux is missing some things (e.g. camera), but ACPI won't solve it either, because they will be missing on ACPI as well.

Your push towards ACPI won't solve most of the problems Qualcomm platforms have - incomplete upstream support - because you still need to develop drivers, either for ACPI or for DT.

@hrw ... and by use, I mean daily use, completely replacing my previous machine.

@hrw More for hobby? Really? I don't think you ever really looked at this... I use Lenovo T14s laptop (so Qualcomm ARM64 SoC based) since half a year, and except totally broken hardware charging (independent of Linux), Linux works fine. That's not a hobby.

I think this shows how @linuxfoundation is not necessarily on our side.

https://social.lfx.dev/@linuxfoundation/114993371357953940

@linuxfoundation >Data privacy rules like GDPR are fueling a climate of risk aversion, slowing open data progress.
Linux Foundation, do I get your words above right: Protection of citizen's privacy and their personal information is fueling climate risk aversion and slowing open data progress? You cannot harvest personal data illegally and that is the slowdown? Sounds very evil, don't you think?

@linuxfoundation
„The Linux Foundation chose to host a workshop on the topic of open data at the 11th meeting of the World Open Innovation Conference. Fueling interest and participation in the workshop was the rapid growth of artificial intelligence software (AI), which requires extensive amounts of data to train the algorithms that AI employs.“

Ah, that's why… 🙄

The GDPR makes it harder for citizens to become learning material of shitty parrot programs, aka "AI". That's not a bug.

Oh no!

@bagder couldn't convince Emerson to shut up about CRAs, so they are now mailing debian-devel@

And here I am, wanted to cut down on the 🍿 this month.

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2025/08/msg00108.html

@monsieuricon I wish we did not have to subscribe, in the first place. For ex-vger lists this is achievable and I unsubscribed myself some years ago, but I cannot do that for infradead.org, launchpad, xen and few others.

git grep "moderated for non-subscribers" | wc -l
238

The "good" people at Emerson for some reason couldn't think for themselves when I responded to them on behalf of #curl and instead continue and send the same questions to the #libssh2 project with the same "demands".

"This is a gentle reminder regarding our earlier request for your input on the cybersecurity risk assessment of the software component “libssh2” version 1.11.0, as part of our compliance efforts with the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA)."

@bagder I know that other project(s) received EXACTLY the same requests from Emerson.

This is just disgrace for a big company like Emerson.