Tonight I'll be celebrating #ilovefs with the Portuguese community (and you can too!), but until then...
โค๏ธ @mediawiki
๐ @openstreetmap
These two are free software apps that, during this year, I felt thankful for existing, so today I want to send an heartfelt thanks to their maintainers!
๐ @microg
๐ @fdroidorg
But if we're focusing on maintainers, then I must send special hearts to the maintainers these two, who have had tough challenges during this year (and need our support and strength for 2026).
๐ #PublicMoneyPublicCode
I suppose the PMPC campaign started and is maintained by @fsfe (thanks!) but one of the beauties of it is how it has grown, and it is nowadays part of the public discourse. We see political parties refer to the term. We see position papers and even law proposals referring to it. We see open consultation submissions by non-tech entities mentioning it. More than a campaign, it is now a concept, a movement, an ideal. So thanks to all of you that keep saying: "Public Money? Public Code!"
๐ And of course, my love to all the free software I kept using in my daily life, things would be difficult without it (and their maintainers): ssh, telnet, vim, gvim, botany, git, konsole, @firefox, @ubuntu, @libreoffice, #mastodon, @element and many, many more!
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