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Recognition of open-source work as voluntary work
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this post was submitted on 14 May 2026
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Thanks for sharing! I thought there had been something similar in the past, but I can't remember
Apparently the petition went up in November 2025 and has a year to get enough signatures. Last I saw it was near to the halfway point of acceptance.
I came across it because I saw a post announcing that Inkscape was supporting it.
https://inkscape.org/news/2026/05/13/inkscape-supports-german-petition-to-recognize-ope/