Season 3 - Episode 2: Diplomatic Community

Matrix and Blender get paid • Same old GNU • System 76 Coreboot Laptops • Linus not anti Microsoft • Open Libra • Projects to support if we won lottery • Warren 2020

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Chitchat

• Mike: switching to OpenSUSE + Plasma and Kubuntu

News

• Matrix receives funding and Nvidia contributes to Blender. 💶🌧️ (via GamingOnLinux)
• 🤷‍♂️ RMS: No major changes to the GNU project, meanwhile some GNU project devs call for him to go 🤢 (via Phoronix)
• System76 launches 💻💻 with Coreboot (via Phoronix)
• Linus 💙 Microsoft (well, is not anti-them , anyway) (via omg! ubuntu!)
• Facebook's Libra crypto to have an open source competition 🤑📕 (via The Verge)

Discussion

What Projects Would We Give Money To If We Won Euromillions?

• Mike:

  • 📊 VisiData
  • LibreOffice ✍️
  • Vim ⌨️
  • 🔥🦊🌐 Mozilla
  • KDE 💙
  • NextCloud ☁️📂 - they don't seem to have a "donate" link
  • OpenStreetMap 🗺️
  • The non-existent Linux marketing organization 🛍️

• Conor:

  • 📀 Videolan
  • Wine 🍷
  • Zorin OS 🖥️
  • ⚖️ EDRI
  • Digital 👨‍⚖️ Rights Ireland
  • Document 📄 Foundation
  • 💚🐧 Linux Mint
• Shane:
  • Blender 📹 Foundation
  • 🌎 Mozilla
  • Wikipedia 📚
  • Simple ⏺️ Screen Recorder
  • Godot 🎮 Game Engine

Events

• Ogg 🤓🤓🤓 Camp: October 19th & 20th, in Manchester
• 🏫 Clear Linux talk: November 2nd, in Dublin

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