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"A glimpse into "Flow"" by Martins Upitis, Konstantins Visnevskis at Blender Conference 2025

"Flow" is a feature-length animated film directed by Gints Zilbalodis, created entirely in Blender and rendered in real-time using Eevee.
In this session, technical artists Konstantīns and Mārtiņš will take you behind the scenes of the production, offering insights into the studio’s workflow and the creative and technical challenges they faced along the way.

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Learn more about Blender Conference 2025 at https://conference.blender.org/2025/

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Angela Plohman, former insider

When Ton mentioned his idea of interviewing different people from the industry, the name of Angela Plohman came out right on top. “She is so sharp and knowledgeable.”

Currently Executive VP of Strategy, Finance and Operations at the Mozilla Foundation, involved in high-level topics about the future of technology, Angela Plohman worked at Blender in the early days of the Foundation, around 2004-2007.

As a freelancer, she helped Ton on many structural aspects: she organized multiple BCONs, managed a large European subsidy, took care of artists working on the first open movie and was, overall, a great support and facilitator.

Angela was involved during a key moment of Blender, when Elephants Dream was in production and the first structural pillars were set. Since then, a deep respect and mutual admiration has remained between her and Ton – for those reasons, this conversation was less about the technology and more about the human side of Blender.

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FREE SOFTWARE It was to much surprise waking up this morning and seeing the Servo 0.0.1 release for this Rust-based web layout engine that began as a Mozilla project and is now being developed independently via Linux Foundation Europe and other parties. Servo v0.0.1 was tagged in Git today as a rare tagged release for this web layout engine. Servo has been quite active in recent years with its Servo shell demo browser and working toward promising embedded web capabilities so that Servo can be easily used by various applications

The Servo open-source browser engine is out with their September 2025 development highlights. This Rust-based browser engine originally started by Mozilla continues making steady progress as well as to the "servoshell" demo/example browser implementation. [...]

NB : OP forgot to mention that the project was abandonned by Mozilla and is now supported, led by the Linux foundation europe.

After almost two years of work, we are happy to announce the release of Xfce 4.20.

Since Xfce 4.18 a lot of major development happened. Our team added many nice new features, did a gazillion of bug fixes and did various minor improvements. Finally, all that was released for your pleasure.

The major focus during this development cycle was the preparation of the codebase to be ready for Wayland. So that we meanwhile have experimental Wayland support for most components. More details in the 'Wayland' section below.

Assuming you have installed Xfce 4.18, here an overview on the major changes you will see on an upgrade to Xfce 4.20.

https://www.sfscon.it/

The South Tyrol Free Software Conference, SFSCON, is one of Europe’s most established annual conferences on Free Software. SFSCON promotes the use of Free Software in digital infrastructures as a tool to achieve greater innovation and competitiveness. Here decision-makers and developers meet, learn and get inspired.

The programme is online. For a complete overview of pre-events and side events taking place during the conference, please visit the dedicated Side Events page. Please keep in mind that the programme is subject to change and will be continuously updated until the conference opens, with all times expressed in Central European Time (CET) UTC+01:00.

Discover what's new in GNOME, the distraction-free computing platform.

The GNOME project is delighted to unveil GNOME 49, a milestone that reflects six months of collective effort from our vibrant community. A heartfelt thank you goes to everyone who helped shape this release.

We code named the release “Brescia”, after a beautiful Italian city that hosted this year’s GUADEC. Let’s explore what’s new and improved in this edition.

A free, free, privacy-friendly Android OS? This is the challenge launched by Gaël Duval with /e/OS! History, hardware, software support: we tell you everything!

In this interview, we discuss with him the creation of the project, the structuring between company and association, the business model as well as the relationship of /e/OS with its software ecosystem. We also talk about the relationship with phone manufacturers, especially Fairphone, and the creation of their own product line, but also about the different modalities of software and hardware support.

LINMOB.net is a blog about LINux on MOBile devices. With the PinePhone (Pro) and Librem 5 shipping it is back to report on GNU+Linux on mobile devices.

As you may have heard or rather read, the Spanish company Liberux recently launched a crowdfunder for their new mainline Linux "Nexx" phone on Indiegogo - starting at 8 GB RAM/128 GB eMMC/LTE for 799 EUR and going up to 32 GB RAM/512 GB/5G for 1300 (during the crowd-funder).

The specs include impressive things, such as two USB-C ports and a headphone jack - quite unusual these days. It's also somewhat modular (cellular modem, RAM, and storage are on modules) and they aim to open-source the hardware and plan to manufacture the devices in Spain - meaning, the Liberux Nexx will be (successful funding assumed) be one of the only (?) smartphones designed and build in Europe.

I asked Liberux for an interview, and they were happy to answer my questions. While they would have prefered to do this as a video interview, I just could not swing that (we're preparing to move, and I have to stand-in for a colleague on holiday at the dayjob right now) - so gladly, they agreed to do it in a back and forth via email. With that said, here you go [...]

Free the phone!

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has been working on software freedom in computing for 40 years now, and now, we are venturing into what we have found to be one of the most challenging areas of computing: Mobile phones. Most individuals do a lot of their computing on mobile phones.

A lot of work is being done in mobile phone freedom. However, mobile phone computing remains largely nonfree due to a wide range of nonfree software blobs that commonly occur in even the most progressive "free software" operating systems.

Librephone is the FSF's project to free up those blobs. This project's goal is not another Android distribution, but a long-term project to better understand and reverse-engineer the nonfree blobs used by virtually all SoCs made today.

Launched on FSF's 40th anniversary, our aim is to bring mobile phone users into the "free world" we've already created for servers and desktops. As far as we know, a project as ambitious as this hasn't been attempted before. That means that if we're going to succeed, we need your help. Donate today!

The FSF conducted an interview with Librephone lead developer Rob Savoye. You can listen to it on the FSF website.

For more information, the FAQ, and the project documentation is hosted here There's an initial IRC channel at irc.libera.chat:6697, #librephone. Please join the community!

As part of the FSF40 celebrations, we're inviting you to participate in a global, online hackathon to help improve important libre software projects.

When we first announced plans to celebrate the Free Software Foundation's (FSF) fortieth anniversary, we promised to do so in the spirit of bringing the international free software community together. On November 21--23, we invite you to participate in a global, online hackathon to help improve important libre software projects. It's at the core of the FSF's mission to foster free software development. With this hackathon, we want to spotlight the indispensable and hard work free software hackers are carrying out in the background, often without being seen and valued enough.

Register now to participate in the FSF40 hackathon.

Participating projects

Here is the list of projects so far that have declared that they will participate in the FSF40 hackathon:

• Don't track bugs: track valuable discussions, a tool to help contributors track bugs, patches, featured requests, and other valuable discussions shared on mailing lists;
• The Free Software Directory, the FSF's free software catalog;
• GNU Boot, a boot software distribution that can replace nonfree boot software like BIOS or UEFI on specific computers;
• GNU Guix, a reproducible package manager;
• Lewa, an interactive platform to learn African writing systems;
• LibreVR, a project working on ethical replacements for nonfree VR games;
• op-mattermost, OpenProject integration for Mattermost; and
• Org Mode, the notes management and organizer for GNU Emacs.

You don't need to be a developer to participate in the FSF40 hackathon. There will be tasks for all kinds of interests and every experience level. In addition to advancing the participating projects, the goal of this hackathon is also to learn from each other, acquire skills, and sharpen them.

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