I’m a Libre Software Craftsman.
My name is Kevin Ottens and I live in France. In general, I love to learn new things regularly which can be technical or about soft skills. Because of that depending who you talk to, you can get a very different picture:
But really even in the different facets above, I always feel like there’s more to learn and more progress to be made. In fact I’m just a mere explorer.
If you want more exhaustive and professional information, you can also download my formal resume.
Let’s go for my web review for the week 2026-42.
Tags: tech, foss, licensing, community, ethics, governance
Good reminder that licensing is only one signal. The governance is what matters for Free Software communities. This means looking at more than just the license to pick your folks.
https://lumi.codeberg.page/blog/software-community.html
Tags: tech, rss, self-hosting
Nice resource listing many tools available around RSS. Plenty to choose from including self-hostable options (but not only).
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