Joshua Goins - C++ Rust and Qt Easier than you think

https://tube.kockatoo.org/w/tNShVP8Tz8Dwit5JALdsfw

Bart Ribbers - Daily driving Plasma Mobile and What's Still Lacking

https://tube.kockatoo.org/w/seiNNXNbuPAHyD3JEXQXJb

Kai Uwe Broulik- Contributing Is More Than Just Code

https://tube.kockatoo.org/w/c9MtHSGNUHLK4VV54Cina3

Hier in #Bremen #Schwachhausen #28213 haben wir jetzt einen neuen #Bücherschrank installiert. Wer die genaue Position wissen möchte schickt mir gerne eine PM. Getauscht werden Bücher, CDs, LPs, DVDs.

Gerne boosten. Gibt es ansonsten für sowas ein Verzeichnis irgendwo?

An Operating System of Our Own - Harald Sitter

https://tube.kockatoo.org/w/24UPoxLMd5juEtNQWNi7j3

Adapt or Die How new Linux packaging approaches affect wider KDE

https://tube.kockatoo.org/w/6FmSNLQxkuj1QPQz38n9kF

Calling all creatives! The #openSUSE.Asia Summit 2025 in #Faridabad needs a new logo. Can your design represent it?
Theme: Diversity, #opensource, & #community
Deadline: June 10
Submit: Asia Summit Team
More info https://news.opensuse.org/2025/04/07/osas-logo-competition/

"Read a lot of stories, listen to a lot of music, and think about what the stories you encounter mean for your own life and lives of those you love. In that way, you will not be alone with an empty self; you will have a newly rich life with yourself, and enhanced possibilities of real communication with others."

~ Martha Nussbaum,
in Take My Advice, James L. Harmon ed.

Open-Source Is Just That

https://vale.rocks/posts/open-source-entitlement

And, of course, it's much easier to meet people, too. On a bike I get chats with the crossing guard on the way to school, tours of people's verge gardens, waves with children riding their own bikes, and other small moments of beautiful connection.

Because I'm a nerd, here's some research that talks more about active transport and social connection: https://natcen.ac.uk/publications/understanding-influence-social-and-physical-environments-loneliness

After a hiatus during the pandemic, Tokyo Humanities Cafe is back with free events for the intellectually curious — no academic background required. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2025/04/07/issues/tokyo-humanities-cafe/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #community #issues #academia #humanities #universities #sugamo

I'm at a multi band performance (I go on after intermission) and this is exactly what I expect to see in the percussion section: the sticks don't match and one is chewed up and bent. #music #band #community #drumming #drunmerThings

A tiny story about creating community:

When I started to attend the ACM’s CHI (Computer Human Interaction) conference in the late 1980s, I didn’t know any other lgbtq people who worked in my field. At that time being out and gay was still really fraught, and could get you fired or ostracized in a lot of places. I myself was recently out, and felt a real lack of community.

Back then, before mobile phones, conferences had “message boards”. They were big cork bulletin boards put up in a central location. To leave a message for someone, you would write them a paper note, fold it up, write the recipient’s name on it and pin it to the board. People would check the boards for messages during the day.

The second year I went to CHI, I put a note on the message board that said “Lambda CHI lunch”, with a little pink triangle on it, and a time and place to meet. (In the 80s, gay folk knew what the pink triangle meant, but most straight people had no idea. “Lambda” was another symbol used by the gay community, although you see it less nowadays. I figured any bigot looking at the note would just assume it was for a fraternity.)

I waited with some trepidation at the meeting point, wondering if anyone at all would come. Was I the only one? Was my note too cryptic? To my delight, a crowd of about 10 people showed up, including one of the conference chairs. We had a great lunch, and I made some contacts I stayed in touch with over the years, some of whom later provided great support and mentorship to young me.

I organized Lambda CHI lunches for a few years, and after I stopped attending CHI, others did. Of course, decades later these kind of affinity socializing events have become part of official conference schedules.

The point of this story is that there is a lot of potential community in the world, just waiting for one person to seed it — to put out that first invitation with a time and place on it. At that first lunch, so many people said to me “I’m so glad somebody organized this”. So if there is a community that you wish existed, I encourage you to remember that you are somebody, and are therefore well qualified to start it. Sometimes all you need to do is specify a place and time.

Saturday, April 19
Dublin Repair Cafe
Do you have broken stuff lying around at home? Clothes, Small Appliances, Toys or Electronics? Bring them to our Repair Cafe to be fixed!
https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/repair-cafe-tickets-1277906194829 #Ireland #Eire #Dublin #RepairCafes
#SolarPunkSunday #RepairGroups #RepairCafe #Community

Want to run repair events in your own community? While there are already community repair groups all over the UK, not every neighbourhood has one. If there are no groups in your area, why not start your own? Read our advice below to learn the basics of running a repair event, like a Repair Café or Restart Party.
https://communityrepairnetwork.org.uk/how-to-run-a-repairgroup/
#SolarPunkSunday #RepairGroups #UKRepairGroups #Community

The April edition of ‘In Search of Beautiful Things (and Creative Inspiration)’ just dropped. Check out these 30 moments of everyday beauty - photographed by 5AM StoryTalk's readers and curated by me - to help inspire you on your personal and creative journeys!

#photography #community #creativity #inspiration #art #writingcommunity
 
https://colehaddon.substack.com/p/in-search-of-beautiful-things-and-4fb

If anyone interested in joining uses Tumblr at all - I'm working on shifting towards more of the open-source / less Meta & X social stuff and moving towards a more open-source options that I have better control over --> https://www.tumblr.com/join/8JCN4QfT

#HandsOff Junior agrees we need to protest the taking away of our rights! #Caturday #protest #love & #peace to you all in #mastodon #community

"Turns out what drives and sustains #decentralizedsocialmedia is not hype, but a sense of #community and the possibility to have some real #agency in one’s social media experience. This #decentralization and sense of community allows #Fediverse to survive even if individual instances disappear."

https://rys.io/en/177.html

Team work is a core part of our #RepairCafe and Sarah and Jo are demonstrating it at the moment as they work on a mobility aid.