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Have you heard about the 🇪🇺 #EuropeanInteroperabilityFramework (EIF) and the #InteroperableEuropeAct (IEA)? In its feedback regarding the review of the #EIF, the FSFE is calling for #FreeSoftware and #OpenStandards to be the default when procuring and creating interoperable digital public services Find out more: https://fsfe.org/news/2026/news-20260730-01.html 📖 Read our position: https://download.fsfe.org/policy/consultations/EIF%202026/European%20Interoperability%20Framework%20-%20review.pdf

From internet routing and web protocols to accessibility, digital payments, encryption, federated social platforms, and electric vehicle charging, the technologies they maintain underpin the digital systems we rely on every day. Learn more and meet the people behind the code: https://www.sovereign.tech/news/meet-the-first-sovereign-tech-standards-cohort#OpenSource #OpenStandards #DigitalInfrastructure (2/2)

🆕 blog! “Scattered thoughts on social geolocation” I want to be able to share my location with my friends on social media. Twitter (RIP) had a way to attach an optional location to a post. Facebook still lets me check in to venues. But neither ActivityPub (Mastodon) nor AT Protocol (BlueSky) allow me … 👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/07/scattered-thoughts-on-social-geolocation/ ⸻ #ActivityPub #BlueSky #fediverse #FourSquare #geolocation #json #openstandards #OpenStreetMap

Fucking "app culture" drives me crazy. I got asked to install a mobile app just to look at the itinerary and accommodation information for a trip I'm going on. Why isn't it just a web page? So obviously I said "fuck that noise, hold my beer", reverse-engineered the app, and re-implemented it as a web page generator. It does all the same things as the "app" except now there's no tracking, no ads, and you get all the Web's features "for free" (deep links, copy-pasting, search-in-page, printing, works on anything, etc.). Here's the full story: 🔗 https://danq.me/your-app-could-have-been-a-webpage #appCulture #app #android #web #webPage #openStandards #reverseEngineering

Governments around the world are moving to free software and open standards. Learn how The Document Foundation, the non-profit behind #LibreOffice, supports efforts to get away from vendor lock-in: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/07/07/policy-and-digital-sovereignty-tdf-annual-report-2025/ #foss #openSource #openstandards

“Strava has been a big part of my fitness workflow for one big reason. I don’t really care about leaderboards or social features, but it acts as a great hub between devices, apps, and services. I use an Apple Watch and I also use a Garmin, and Strava lets me bridge all of these together. That setup has become a lot harder to maintain after Strava removed access to its free API tier for most consumer use cases. Since I also dabble in a range of other wearables that don’t really sync directly, this has understandably made it harder than I expected to get my fitness data synced to a common place. That pushed me to look for alternatives.” Strava has been incredibly useful to so many athletes, but that reason is because there is a mass of users using it (ever tried getting someone to leave Facebook for Nostr?) and it has a good API allowing more crowdsourcing of data from other apps. But we are all on borrowed time with Strava as it is a proprietary platform and is apparently filing for an IPO soon (remember when Facebook had open APIs to embrace all the 3rd party networks, and then starting shutting that access down?). So we don’t know the full implications of this yet, but Strava will become more restrictive as things go forward. As the linked article points out, you could self-host Endurain for similar stats for yourself, but if you are into sharing exercise stats, wanting to see similar stats, and following friends, then FitPub does look pretty good (see fitpub.social/timeline). But, of course, like with Facebook, your own friends won’t be on it! If they are anywhere on the Fediverse though, which uses ActivityPub protocol, then they can still follow you. The challenge is to get your exercise data in easily (no complicated file syncing etc). From what I see on Pebble watches you could use an app called GadgetBridge, Garmin users are best off as Endurain natively syncs with that service, Polar uses could sync to intervals.icu and there are hooks to then pull into FitPub. Apple users may be able to use Ride Journal which can sync to FitPub. The post mentioning the Strava API changes is at forum.intervals.icu/t/strava-a…. See xda-developers.com/strava-kill… #Blog, #exercise, #health, #opensource, #openstandards, #technology

Final reminder: The deadline for applications to join the #SovereignTechStandards network is Tuesday, 19 May 2026, at 23:59 CEST. Open standards shape the digital infrastructure we all rely on. But standards are only as good as the expertise behind them. https://www.sovereign.tech/programs/standards 1/ #SovereignTechAgency #DigitalInfrastructure #OpenStandards #FOSS #Maintainers

If you are an open source maintainer working with standards or want to help shape them, we encourage you to apply before the deadline. Learn more and apply: https://www.sovereign.tech/programs/standards 3/end #SovereignTechAgency #DigitalInfrastructure #OpenStandards #FOSS #Maintainers

Thank you, on behalf of #ODF - https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/05/05/thank-you-on-behalf-of-odf/ "We asked Euro-Office – the new coalition forming around a European alternative for productivity – whether ODF (the Open Document Format) would be its native document format." #openstandards

Do you really "own" your data? It depends – if it's stored in a proprietary, closed format from a single vendor, maybe not. Learn more about Document Freedom Day, which we celebrated in various places recently: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/04/15/libreoffice-at-document-freedom-day-in-noida-india/ #foss #openSource #freesoftware #openstandards

Document Foundation urges EU to ditch Excel lock-in for cybersecurity law consultation. #opensource #openstandardshttps://www.theregister.com/2026/03/05/document_foundation_excel/