“Tech isn't the hardest part. Trust is.”
In a #CRAMondays session, Olle E. Johansson shared that building a trusted global organisation is step one, and only then should we build the tech.
Want to learn more? Check out the recording! https://youtu.be/zSsGLJTgWvU
@bagder +1 but yeah, I think @jwildeboer is pointing out that there should be a clear focus on #OpenStandards, no matter if file formats or APIs and ABIs...
Frage: Haben Sie wirklich die Kontrolle über Ihre Daten? Je nachdem, welche Formate Sie verwenden, könnte die Antwort nein lauten. Hier ist der Grund, warum das Open Document Format (wie es von LibreOffice und anderen Suiten verwendet wird) so wichtig ist:
https://de.blog.documentfoundation.org/2025/05/23/warum-ist-das-open-document-format-odf-so-wichtig/
#openstandards #fedilz #schule #Verwaltung
Question: do you really have control over your data? Depending on the formats you use, that answer might be no. Here's why the Open Document Format (as used by LibreOffice and other suites) is important: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/05/23/why-is-odf-important/ #openstandards
€264 Billion Annually: Asterès Report Quantifies Europe's Digital Dependency.
Time to invest in Europe's #digitalsovereignty, by supporting European industry and digital commons, prioritising #freesoftware and #opensource & #openstandards
That's what the #EuroStack calls for
https://euro-stack.com/blog/2025/5/asteres-report-europe-digital-dependency
"Or wherever you get your podcasts"
is quite possibly the the biggest achievement of open and decentralized standards that everyday folk come across regularly.
(but also, if there's no RSS, it doesnt exist to me)
Open Document Format (ODF) is the standard format in #LibreOffice – but can also be used in many other office suites (including Microsoft's!) And now we're celebrating its 20th anniversary: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/05/09/odf-20th-anniversary-video/ #foss #opensource #openstandards
Danke für den Beitrag, @Ruhrnalist! Gerade habe ich das Buch 'Big Tech muss weg' von @martinandree zu Ende gelesen und mich gefragt, was ich als Einzelner tun kann (ausser vielleicht eine richtige Partei zu wählen). Da kommt mir der Hinweis auf savesocial.eu sehr gelegen.
Open Document Format turns 20, but Microsoft Office still reigns supreme
“It’s been 20 years since the Open Document Format (ODF) became a standard, marking a milestone in the push for open, vendor-neutral file formats — and the beginning of a long but largely unsuccessful attempt to loosen Microsoft Office’s grip on the ...continues
See https://gadgeteer.co.za/open-document-format-turns-20-but-microsoft-office-still-reigns-supreme/
Open Document Format turns 20, but Microsoft Office still reigns supreme
https://squeet.me/display/962c3e10-fc090480-85ad0e4d0bf2a1b7
Germany to move to Open Document Format (ODF).
"Der IT-Planungsrat setzt sich dafür ein, dass in der Öffentlichen Verwaltung offene Formate wie das Open Document Format (ODF) zunehmend Verwendung findet und bis 2027 zum Standard für den Dokumentenaustausch wird."
Exciting news!
Our Matrix Space is now available: https://matrix.to/#/#ovr-foundation:nope.chat
Everyone is welcome to join — we aim to build a decentralized, community-driven standard for vulnerability coordination. 
The first PoC draft of the OVR standard will be released in the coming days. Stay tuned and help shape the future with us!
The Open Charge Alliance host our CEO, Amanda Brock in a webinar on "Open Source and Open Standards, the Highway to Governance" . Register: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/2505045274670389087 #opensource #openstandards #openuk #openchargealliance
@bjoernsta presenting #savesocial campaign at #ahoy
5 goals to ensuring freedom of expressions
5 goals to strengthening alternative #platforms
#openstandards
#outlinks
#publicmoneypubliccode
Savesocial.eu
@cwicseolfor @hakfoo @futurebird @lnlyisol There was also the politics of it.
For a long time, Silicon Valley positioned itself as being the enlightened, socially-conscious, pro-freedom, pro-consumer alternative disrupting established cartels and vested interests.
Instead of believing what the old media barons tell you about the War in Iraq and Saddam's WMDs, our platforms let anyone be a publisher!
Instead of the RIAA's boy bands and lip syncing pop idols, we allow talented independent artists to be heard!
Instead of IBM, and later Microsoft, having a monopoly, buy our products instead! Think different! Don't be evil! It just works!
And then once everyone was locked into the walled gardens, the enshittification began.
Now.
What we really should have collectively been insisting on was a genuinely enlightened, socially-conscious, pro-freedom, pro-consumer alternative.
Member-owned, community-run non-profits. Creating open source software, based on open standards and protocols.
Where you own, and are free to repair, and are free to tweak or upgrade, your hardware. Which comes pre-installed with open source software from member-owned non-profits.
The Wikipedia/Wikimedia Foundation model works for encyclopaedias. So let's do that for search too.
And let's not leave the design of tech to just the computer science majors and MBAs. Let's get some social science and humanities folks in that design process too.
We can still do it.
But we need to start by recognising that tech, and who owns it, and who designs it, and who makes decisions about it, is a political issue.
We, the people, need to make those decisions. Not just the billionaire VCs and CEOs.
#OpenSource #FOSS #enshittification #Fediverse #OpenStandards #Linux #Wikimedia #deGoogle #Google #Meta #Facebook #Apple #Microsoft
The Open Charge Alliance host our CEO, Amanda Brock in a webinar on "Open Source and Open Standards, the Highway to Governance". Register: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/2505045274670389087 #opensource #openstandards #openuk #openchargealliance
Digital sovereignty needs more than platform regulation: Initiatives such as #NGICommons, the #F5Alliance and #EuroStack call for structural investments in #OpenSource, #Infrastructure, #Interoperability and digital commons – for independence, democracy & innovation in Europe.
