GIMP is Free and Libre Open Source Software, but none of it is possible without the people who create with and contribute to it. Our project maintainer Jehan wanted to interview the volunteers who make GIMP what it is, and share their stories so you can learn more about the awesome people behind…
read more ➔Welcome to the Q2 edition of the Engineering Effectiveness Newsletter! The Engineering Effectiveness org makes it easy to develop, test and release Mozilla software at scale. See below for some highlights, then read on for more detailed info! Highlights Improved mach startup overhead by 30-50%,…
read more ➔The latest version of the Firefox Profiler is now live! Check out the full changelog below to see what’s changed: Highlights: [Florian Quèze] Add “/” and “f” keyboard shortcuts to focus the panel filter box (#6025) [Markus Stange] Change profile.shared.stackTable.prefix to prefixOffset (delta from…
read more ➔This year was the fourth year in a row that a bunch of display driver and compositor developers met for the Display Next Hackfest, to discuss, present, and tackle issues related to displays, GPUs, and compositors. Thanks to Collabora (Robert Mader and Mark Fillion specifically) for continuing this…
read more ➔Para organizaciones científicas como el Instituto de Ciencias del Mar (ICM), la alineación con los estándares internacionales no es solo una cuestión técnica, sino una necesidad estratégica para que sus investigaciones tengan un impacto real. El uso de estándares permite que los datos dejen de ser…
read more ➔Hasta ahora hemos trabajado dentro del documento Vista: cargar capas, simbolizarlas, consultarlas, editarlas. En este séptimo vídeo damos el paso al documento Mapa, que es el componedor cartográfico de gvSIG Desktop, donde montamos una salida lista para imprimir o exportar a PDF, con su rótulo, su…
read more ➔La soberanía digital europea se ha convertido en una de las grandes cuestiones estratégicas de nuestro tiempo. Ya no se trata únicamente de disponer de tecnología, sino de decidir qué tecnología usamos, bajo qué condiciones, con qué garantías y con qué capacidad real de control sobre nuestros datos,…
read more ➔The Rust team is happy to announce a new version of Rust, 1.97.0. Rust is a programming language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. If you have a previous version of Rust installed via rustup, you can get 1.97.0 with: $ rustup update stable If you don't have it already,…
read more ➔If you teach Geography, or Social Sciences in Grades 8 and 9, in Southern Africa, you know the struggle of finding high-quality, relevant, and curriculum-aligned maps for your classroom. The days of fighting with a temperamental photocopier over a faded, ten-year-old map sheet are officially behind…
read more ➔This month’s Plus One celebrates the people and projects shaping the ASF community. We reflect on the role of mentorship through the Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit, share the latest for Community Over Code Glasgow 2026, and welcome Apache Livy and Apache Magpie as ASF’s newest Top-Level…
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read more ➔GNOME’s Code of Conduct is our community’s shared standard of behavior for participants in GNOME. This is the Code of Conduct Committee’s periodic summary report of its activities from October 2025 to June 2026. The current members of the CoC Committee are: Anisa Kuci Carlos Garnacho Christopher…
read more ➔The 'Special Value' Pi 4 pictured above is probably the rarest Raspberry Pi I own—even rarer than my <lue special edition Pi. A Raspberry Pi reseller briefly listed a special 'value edition' Pi 4. But the product page 404's now. While it was up, my curiosity got the better of me, and now I have two…
read more ➔We don’t put our name on much. So when we do, it means something. Starting with the 2026/27 season, Firefox is Wrexham AFC’s Official Web Browser Partner and front-of-kit sponsor on the men’s and women’s teams. More than 160 years old and nearly lost for good, the football club was saved by the…
read more ➔Verily, some of our brethren (and sistren) be afflicted with a sinister disposition. While the righteous scroll using the thumb of their right hand - as is good and proper - an accurs'd minority swing the other way. Look, you try writing an interesting bug report without sounding like a clanker,…
read more ➔Hello and welcome to another issue of This Week in Rust! Rust is a programming language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. This is a weekly summary of its progress and community. Want something mentioned? Tag us at @thisweekinrust.bsky.social on Bluesky or @ThisWeekinRust…
read more ➔SRFI 277 is now in draft status. Cyclic ports are like infinite string and bytevector input ports: they produce the elements of a given sequence repeatedly, forever. While their intended use is as reusable seeds for SRFI 271 random ports, they are also useful whenever a…
read more ➔A few weeks ago, we conducted hour-long conversations with 10 of our users to dig deep into how you manage your preferences and configurations in Thunderbird desktop. While this specific research cycle focused on the desktop experience, our ultimate goal is a holistic strategy that ensures our…
read more ➔Well, that went by quick! I joined Mozilla as an intern in 2016. I wouldn’t believe you if you told me I’d still be here in 2026, working on their WebAssembly engine and contributing to the WebAssembly standards process. Ten years at one company is a long time in this industry. I’m feeling a bit…
read more ➔Welcome to FOSS4G The Romanian city of Timișoara provided the perfect relaxed setting for this year's European Free and Open Source for Geospatial (FOSS4G-EU) conference. GeoCat was excited to attend ...
read more ➔July is Disability Pride Month. I want to use the occasion to speak about my perspective on accessibility in GNOME and what I think we should do. For disabled people, computers are often even more important than for abled (non-disabled) people. Many areas of everyday life are currently only…
read more ➔On July 1st 2026, the INSPIRE Geoportal (the European Union's central discovery point for geospatial datasets) was officially decommissioned. For many in the geospatial community, this marked the end ...
read more ➔Hasta ahora hemos cargado capas que ya existían (locales o publicadas como servicio). En este sexto vídeo damos el paso de crear y editar nuestra propia cartografía dentro de gvSIG Desktop, recorriendo los tres tipos básicos de geometría: puntos, líneas y polígonos. Es el flujo más habitual cuando…
read more ➔Week 25 This week's icon is for Val Packett's project: Demostage: "Perform live demos from a virtual desktop" Check out all weekly app icons created so far over here and follow my icon creation adventures as they happen…
read more ➔Sourcepole attended FOSS4G Europe 2026 in Timișoara and contributed to the programme with presentations on SensorThings and QGIS Web Client.
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