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What is the QGIS Sustainability Initiative? At OPENGIS.ch, we believe that the long-term health of the QGIS ecosystem depends on more than just adding new features. Critical work like bugfixing, code reviews, codebase maintenance, and quality assurance often goes unnoticed, yet it is essential to…

Interested in future updates? Follow me on mastodon at @paul@soylent.green. Posts about hz.tools will be tagged #hztools. 🐶 Want to jump right to the draft? I'll be maintaining ARF going forward at /draft-tagliamonte-arf-00.txt. It’s true – processing data from software defined radios can be a…

Using the repair-friendly Framework 13 laptop chassis, I've tested the low-end x86 option (a Ryzen AI 5 340 Mainboard), the fastest RISC-V option (DC-ROMA II), and today I'm publishing results from the only Arm Mainboard, the MetaComputing AI PC, which has a 12-core Arm SoC and up to 32 GB of…

Connected via serial console. Does not have a package manager, web or ssh server, but can play tetris in the terminal (bsdgames in Debian have the same tetris version packaged).

This month in Radicle CI, April 2026 This is a monthly newsletter about the current state of Radicle CI, what has happened recently, and near future plans. Current status Radicle CI is in production use. There are several CI nodes, and Lars runs a public one for open source Rust projects at…

Debian Contributions: 2026-03 Contributing to Debian is part of Freexian’s mission. This article covers the latest achievements of Freexian and their collaborators. All of this is made possible by organizations subscribing to our Long Term Support contracts and consulting services. Debusine projects…

There was a silly little project I’d tried to encourage many folks to attempt last summer. Sri picked it up back in September and after many months, I decided to wrap it up and publish what’s there. The intention is a simple, 2-sided A4 that folks can print and give out at repair cafes, like the End…

Desde la Asociación QGIS España queremos compartir con la comunidad una reflexión abierta y, sobre todo, lanzar una consulta clave para la toma de decisiones de este año. Como ya sabéis, en 2026 no se celebrarán las Jornadas de SIG Libre de Girona, un evento que durante años ha sido el principal…

It seems my own plans and life's plans diverged this spring, so I am in the market for a new job. So if you're looking for someone with a long track record making your code go brrr really fast, give me a ping (contact information at my homepage). Working from Oslo (on-site or remote), CV available…

OSGeo PROJ 9.8.1 is released - OSGeo Warning It was discovered after the PROJ 9.8.0 release that several EPSG updates introduced after EPSG v12.033 – notably the introduction of national realizations of ETRS89 (ETRS89-XXX […] where XXX is the 3-letter ISO country code) – caused…

At last, I can run my own large language model artificial idiocy generator at home on a Debian testing host using Debian packages directly from the Debian archive. After months of polishing the llama.cpp, whisper.cpp and ggml packages, and their dependencies, I was very happy to see today that they…

At OPENGIS.ch, we create open-source software.We are contributors, maintainers, and in the case of QField, the team that builds it. That comes with a responsibility we take seriously: giving back. “Give back” is not a slogan. It is our first core value, and the very reason the sustainability…

It’s been a while since we last shared a major update of Graphs. We’ve had a few minor releases, but the last time we had a substantial feature update was over two years ago. This does not mean that development has stalled, to the contrary. But we’ve been working hard on some major changes that took…

Over the past week or two I've been working on a new web framework for Guile. This is based on the knowledge I've accumulated over the past 7 years working on things like the Guix Data Service, Guix Build Coordinator and Nar Herder, but also based on their code, as I've used Claude Code running…

The annual LibreOffice conference 2025 was held in Budapest, Hungary, from the 3rd to the 6th of September 2025. Thanks to the The Document Foundation (TDF) for sponsoring me to attend the conference. As Hungary is a part of the Schengen area, I needed a Schengen visa to attend the conference. In…

The PostGIS development team is pleased to provide bug fix and security releases for PostGIS 3.2 - 3.6.

This winter I was bored and needed something new, so I spent lots of my free time disassembling and analysing Monster World IV for the SEGA Mega Drive. More specifically, I looked at the 2008 Virtual Console revision of the game, which adds an English translation to the original 1994 release. My…

Red Hat just published the Accessibility Conformance Report (ACR) for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10. Accessibility Conformance Reports basically document how our software measures up against accessibility standards like WCAG and Section 508. Since RHEL 10 is built on GNOME 47, this report is a good…

QGIS.org is pleased to announce that we will be using some of the funding that is donated to us by our users and sustaining members to fund a dedicated administrative role for the project.  Principle duties: Support the PSC in activities such as organisation of the annual QGIS user…

This post attempts to explain how Huion tablet devices currently integrate into the desktop stack. I'll touch a bit on the Huion driver and the OpenTablet driver but primarily this explains the intended integration[1]. While I have access to some Huion devices and have seen reports from others,…

My Debian contributions this month were all sponsored by Freexian. You can also support my work directly via Liberapay or GitHub Sponsors. OpenSSH I fixed CVE-2026-3497 in unstable, thanks to a fix in Ubuntu by Marc Deslauriers. Relatedly, I applied an Ubuntu patch by Athos Ribeiro to not default…

The Shift in Software Consumption Historically, I have been a "distribution-first" user. Sticking to tools packaged within the Debian archives provides a layer of trust; maintainers validate licenses, audit code, and ensure the entire dependency chain is verified. However, the rapid pace of…

Over the past week, I’ve been building goblint, a linter specifically designed for GObject-based C codebases. If you know Rust’s clippy or Go’s go vet, think of goblint as the same thing for GObject/GLib. Why this exists A large part of the Linux desktop stack (GTK, Mutter, Pango, NetworkManager) is…

Welcome to the March 2026 report from the Reproducible Builds project! These reports outline what we’ve been up to over the past month, highlighting items of news from elsewhere in the increasingly-important area of software supply-chain security. As ever, if you are interested in contributing to…

Lutra Consulting wraps up FOSSGIS 2026 in Göttingen. Discover the top trends: QGIS user expertise, self-hosting Mergin Maps, PostGIS integration, and vendor lock-in concerns.