Ludovic Dubost
@ldubost.bsky.social
Creator of XWiki, CEO of XWiki SAS. Personal account. Posting in english and in french. #opensource #france #europe #xwiki #cryptpad #knowledgeispower #privacy
🚀❄️🩹 Winter fix release (2026.2.1) is now available on GitHub! This release contains important fixes for office documents, security, and other areas Please see full release notes for details: github.com/cryptpad/cry...
Release ❄️🩹 Winter fix release (2026.2.1) · cryptpad/cryptpad
This release contains important fixes for office documents, security, and other areas. Drive Fix Shared Folder added to own drive instead of team drive #2207 Office documents Missing rtChannel...
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“Building Open Source and living from it without selling your soul.” @ldubost.bsky.social’s foss-north talk gets into the hard part: Making open source sustainable without VC, lock-in, or exit pressure. 20+ years of lessons from XWiki and @cryptpad.org. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwN_... #oss
Building Open Source and living from it without selling your soul - Ludovic Dubost
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On my way to the Open Source Founders summit @05f5.bsky.social with a packed schedule 05f5.com/schedule and meeting great founders and Open Source people
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I've done my two presentations yesterday and today at FOSS North #fossnorth I really enjoyed doing the presentations and the crowd at FOSS North. Thanks for inviting me to talk about our journey in Open Source. For those that want to dive into our projects more in details, here are the slides 1/3
Great to be at #FOSDEM! Saturday was full of open source energy, great conversations around #OpenProject and digital sovereignty, and a relaxed evening in Brussels with @xwikisas.bsky.social, @nextcloud.bsky.social, @cryptpad.org, @passbolt.bsky.social, and the wider community. 💚 #FOSDEM2026
I'm participating today to the Euro Stack event "Rebuilding Europe's Sovereignty" in a full room. After this weeks Sovereignty Summit organized by the French state, this shows that the wind is changing directions and we finally in Europe are realizing the importance of Digital Autonomy.
If you share your key, your data gets a backdoor... In the cloud, it could be interesting to know what happens to disk encryption keys for such cases. www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...
Microsoft Gave FBI BitLocker Encryption Keys, Exposing Privacy Flaw
The tech giant said providing encryption keys was a standard response to a court order. But companies like Apple and Meta set up their systems so such a privacy violation isn’t possible.
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Free Software wins over real people ! Yesterday, I was at the Airport in Berlin, coming back from the European Digital Sovereignty Summit.
Blame as a Service www.humaninvariant.com/blog/blame > Productized scapegoating
Blame as a Service
Productized scapegoating
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XWikiers at @capitoledulibre.org this weekend Two talks: • 5 years of Confluence migrations, with Ludovic and Anca • 20 years of “hacking” XWiki and CryptPad financing, with @ldubost.bsky.social Plus a round table on digital sovereignty. 📍 Nov 15–16 • 🔗 capitoledulibre.org/programme/ #OpenSource
I've just contributed to CryptPad. Consider supporting them too — every little helps! https://opencollective.com/cryptpad
CryptPad - Open Collective
Collaborative suite, end-to-end encrypted and open-source. Made at XWiki.
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I used #cryptpad today and it's really really good and does very much exactly what I want. They're doing very good work! #opensource #programming
XWiki SAS (the company behind the open-source collaborative platform XWiki, and the encrypted office suite CryptPad) has left X (1.649 followers) Bluesky: @xwikisas.bsky.social
Super content d'avoir présenté @cryptpad.org 10 ans après au @parisjug.org Tools in Action avec @chouhartem@eldritch.cafe ! Merci Charles SABOURDIN et @sirot.org Jean-Christophe Sirot pour l'invitation. Bientôt la vidéo !
🎉 Les inscriptions sont ouvertes pour notre prochaine soirée : Tools in Action avec @glaforge.dev, @ldubost.bsky.social et Fabrice Mouhartem, Youssef Nait Belkacem et Jean-Eudes Couignoux 🏢 Chez Renault Digital 🗓️ Le Mardi 1er juillet 🎟️ Inscrivez-vous dès maintenant sur notre site parisjug.org
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Bienvenue au Paris JUG Le Paris JUG est un groupe d’utilisateurs Java ayant pour but de réunir les acteurs du langage (professionnels, communautés open source, institutions, étudiants, enseignants…) a...
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New blog article! 📝 Follow up regarding two security issues impacting CryptPad reported earlier this year. 🔐 blog.cryptpad.org/2025/06/18/2...
2024.12.0 security issues
Follow up regarding two security issues impacting CryptPad reported earlier this year
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Back in Paris from @apell.info conf, @ow2@fosstodon.org conf and @ngi4eu.bsky.social Forum 2025. All the conversations there gave me a huge motivation boost. Many contacts, many ideas, many opportunities, many challenges also to tackle. Open Source rocks. Thank you all. #ngiforum #opensource
Faut juste pas aller dans ces pays là .. #Dubai www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers...
« Une expérience traumatisante » : un Britannique détenu à Dubaï après une relation sexuelle avec une mineure
Un Britannique de 19 ans purge une peine d’un an dans les Émirats arabes unis, reconnu coupable d’une relation sexuelle, pourtant consentie,
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Great example of how BigTech can screw with us users and small tech actors. While Signal has the capacity to act, for many other it will be tough. What about browsers ?What about small companies or indépendant developers. #privacy #quitbigtech signal.org/blog/signal-...
By Default, Signal Doesn't Recall
Signal Desktop now includes support for a new “Screen security” setting that is designed to help prevent your own computer from capturing screenshots of your Signal chats on Windows. This setting is a...
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There are innovators, and there are people who don't mind playing with fire, it's fairly difficult not to end up in the second category when you do AI It's a good idea not to use Whatsapp. Now it's not like we did not know that already. #privacy #ai #quitbigtech www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
‘It’s terrifying’: WhatsApp AI helper mistakenly shares user’s number | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian
Chatbot tries to change subject after serving up unrelated user’s mobile to man asking for rail firm helpline
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Today I'm at NGI - The Next Generation Internet Forum 2025, and I see our friends of @openfoodfacts.bsky.social ! It's always good to tell again about the great work they do !
Said slightly differently: Amazon Boss is telling his employees to use AI to turn against each other to keep their jobs www.bbc.com/news/article...
Amazon boss says AI will replace jobs at tech giant - BBC News
Andy Jassy tells staff to embrace artificial intelligence (AI) as he warns the workforce will get smaller.
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Go for #ow2con2025 ! @xwikisas.bsky.social and @cryptpad.org are very happy to be part of the OW2 community a'd participate to the annual conférence ! Great to meet all at Orange Gardens !
Today, I'm at the APELL conference in Warsaw. We are happy at XWiki SAS to sponsor the 2025 conference. Thisorganisation is very important to unite European Open Source entrepreneurs and companies to work together.
We are delighted to be part again of the @nextcloud.bsky.social summit this year. The number of participants is impressive. We are already seeing many customers needing migration solutions to Open Source from Confluence and Jira. #opensource #europe
Murena is launching /e/OS 3.0. It's really great to see the progress ! But I'm especually proud that Murena also launched Murena Vault based on @cryptpad.org. Murena and CryptPad are great complimentary tools both promoting and protecting privacy. #privacy #e2ee news.itsfoss.com/e-os-3-0/
/e/OS 3.0 Debuts with Refined Parental Controls, New Privacy Tools and Murena Vault
A new chapter for the de-Googled /e/OS.
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Today and tomorrow, I'm with many other Open Source Founders at the second OSFS conference in Paris ! It's great to share our experience with other founders and also learn from them. Go Open Source ! 05f5.com
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France Becomes First Government to Endorse UN Open Source Principles, Joined by 19 Organizations (through CryptPad Forms !) Big news today, with France's government to endorse the UN Open Source Principles. XWiki SAS is also joining the movement and is being announced in the new 19 organizations.
