The official Mastodon account for the Open Source Club at THE Ohio State University! Follow for upcoming meetings, photos from the club, and plenty more OSC-related happenings!
Go Buckeyes, and go free software!
Past meeting slides: https://drive.proton.me/urls/RCAE5ZCR44#BLnGYfPlV6pq
Hello all #touhou players on Mastodon! The Open Source Club at OSU wanted to shine a spotlight on a helpful guide made by one of our members that goes over how to play many of the #touhou_project games on desktop #Linux. #LinuxGaming gets better every year, and we're proud that one of our own members has put in the work to continue dropping the remaining barriers!
You can read the guide on his GitHub pages link here: https://daichungus.github.io/touhoulinuxguide/
@osc_at_osu I loved watching your video. This is really great.
@dff The video itself is licensed as CC-BY, and we used @libreoffice Impress to make the slides, then @kdenlive to edit the final cut! 😄
@dff Why yes, we have! Our student organization partnered with our university ACM-W chapter to give a presentation introducing FOSS to the layperson a few months back: https://spectra.video/w/jdonEwcXtycZLzJEq4cCz9
#EndOf10 "The Open Source alternative to forced obsolescence"
https://opensource.org/blog/end-of-10-the-open-source-alternative-to-forced-obsolescence
> Open Source isn’t just about code. It’s about community, sustainability, and autonomy. The “End of 10” campaign is a chance to show the world how powerful those values can be.
> We invite everyone—users, developers, educators, and advocates—to be part of this movement. Because the end of Windows 10 isn’t the end of the road. It’s a new beginning.
SFD Mascot Challenge 2025 is live! Design a mascot with #FLOSS (#Krita, #Blender, #GIMP…), license CC BY-SA or CC BY, submit by 20 Oct 2025. Win a Huion Kamvas Pro 16, Pro 12 or Inspiroy tablets. Details: https://digitalfreedoms.org/en/sfd/blog/sfd-mascot-huion-challenge-2025 digitalfreedoms.org
Please boost & share! #SFD2025 #DFF #FOSS #CreativeCommons
We had over 66 local groups participate in #SoftwareFreedomDay in 2024. We're looking to increase that to 75 this year. Can you help us make the goal a reality by by organizing a local or virtual event for 2025? Be sure to register your event at https://digitalfreedoms.org/en/sfd #DFF #SFD2025 #SoftwareFreedomDay2025
Congratulations to our member Natalie for winning our LibreOffice Impress Template-a-Thon! Thank you to @dff for helping organize the Document Freedom Day events across the globe, and thank you @libreoffice for providing OSC with prize material! The swag was more than worth the international-shipping wait. 🤩
Natalie has chosen only to display the back of the sweater on social media, but we can assure you that the front is just as fire. 😎
Back in February, we had the opportunity to present an Introduction to Open Source; a collaborative venture between OSC and the ACM-W chapter at OSU (full recording on our linked PeerTube!) At the end of the presentation, we played a fun Fuiz (thanks for the FOSS Kahoot alternative, @adhami !) where the prize was the winner's choice of merch, courtesy of @freewear. Now that the merch arrived, we wanted to publicly congratulate our winner, Bennett, sporting his #archlinux swag! Way to go!! 🥳🎉🎉🎉
Open Source Club had another great meeting today! One of our members (likely soon-to-be Executive Officer... 👀) went over some great ideas for how OSC can achieve MORE student engagement next year, as well as some great fundraising ideas! Then, we had a fruitful conversation about desktop/consumer Linux, and ways we can improve messaging and reduce jargon to introduce more people to the world of free and sovereign software.
Meeting slides can be found in the link in our bio. 😎
If you'd like to see or use the templates for yourself, you can find them on our Drive here: https://drive.proton.me/urls/YZ2PRVR6KC#zCAmotKooqT3
Happy #DocumentFreedomDay everyone! 🤩 Today, the Open Source Club at OSU had members present templates made in the open OPT standard, bringing more creative resources to the open format community at large! Big props to @dff and @libreoffice for all the work they do in bringing accessibility and sovereignty to people’s academic and professional digital lives. 😎 We can’t wait to do it again next year!
@dff We're certainly planning to! We'd love to connect to discuss potential plans over this summer. 😎
Looking forward to #DFD2025. What #FLOSS tools do you use to read #CSV files? Any FOSS #ETL tools to copy CSVs to/from databases? Is there a #Free, #OpenSource ODBC driver for connecting to CSV files?
#AskFedi #AskFediverse #DFF
To start off, while we would have loved to simply boost our "Intro to Open Source" presentation we did on campus, it seems the video isn't quite loading on our Mastodon feed (it is rather long...), so, here's a direct link! For the vets in the field, let us know what you think, and how we can improve messaging of the benefits of FOSS to those who are unfamiliar!
Hello, Mastodon! 👋
We're the Open Source Club at the Ohio State University in Columbus, OH. As good as word-of-mouth can be for gaining awareness, we decided it was about time we start spreading our reach further into the net - and, being a club dedicated to free software, we thought it appropriate to get on the Fediverse, too! 🐘
It's early beginnings, so we may not post much yet, but we hope to become a wonderful addition to the Mastodon community! 😎🎉
