28 Oct 2026
Hey everyone,
As you may have noticed by the alert banner on our home page we’ve been having some issues with our infrastructure. Specifically the services generously hosted by F-Hub are currently down which includes our IRC and XMPP channels. While the Matrix rooms were still accessible the main room identifiers were unusable as they pointed to F-Hub and we had no moderators as those were all set up on the other chat protocols. Since this outage is gonna last a while and we needed a solution soon this prompted some reflection about our chat setup and how we may want to change it going forward. Here’s what we came up with:
We’ve decided to create an all new Matrix space that will serve as the main portal to our chat rooms. Right now we’ve got a general room, a hosts room for organization as well as an offtopic one.
The new space can be found here.
If you need help with Matrix check out our updated help page.
Bridging to other protocols has unfortunately been dropped for now. We are open to the idea of setting up bridges again in the future but don’t have the means to currently. If we do we will likely treat Matrix as the backbone. Bridging via IRC as the backbone with its fairly limited feature set has been one of the pain points discussed.
Voice chat during events will still be handled via Mumble. Nothing has changed here.
We hope to welcome you in our new space soon. Don’t forget that our next event is happening next week!
22 Oct 2026
Notice: The server that hosted our communication channels just went down. You can join our matrix channel via #onfoss:hribhrib.at in the meantime.
03 Jul 2026
Our next event will be coming very soon on Saturday 18th July 2026, 12:00 UTC. The host is Elouin and it will be livestreamed by Szkodnix.
17 Apr 2026
04 Apr 2026
Hello everyone! Public onFOSS events will be five years old on April 17th, 2026. To celebrate, we’ll be having a three-hour hangout on Saturday April 18th, 2026 starting at 16:00 UTC. There’ll of course be a game as well, as we will be continuing the VoxeLibre world we started during the last event. The server will be hosted by Huitsi.
03 Mar 2026
The next onFOSS event will happen very soon on Saturday 21st of March, 2026 starting at 12:00 UTC. The event will be hosted by Huitsi and livestreamed by hribhrib.
04 Jan 2026
Updated on 2026-02-04 with poll results and stream details.
22 Nov 2025
Hey everyone,
16 Nov 2025
Hey everyone, sndein here. I’ve been hard at work the last few months to bring you an all new game(mode).
26 Oct 2025
Hello everybody!
02 Oct 2025
Updated on 2025-10-16 with poll results and stream details.
04 Jun 2025
Our next event will be coming very soon on Saturday 28th June 2025, 12:00 UTC. The host is Elouin and it will be livestreamed by Szkodnix.
15 Feb 2025
Our next event will be coming very soon on Saturday 15th March 2025, 12:00 UTC. The host is Elouin and it will be livestreamed by Szkodnix.
30 Nov 2024
Our next event is right around the corner on Saturday 07 December 2024, 12:00 UTC and the host this time is sndein.
04 Jul 2024
Our next event will be coming very soon on Saturday 27 July 2024, 12:00 UTC and the host this time is Elouin.
16 Jan 2024
Our next event will be coming very soon on Saturday 17 February 2024, 12:00 UTC and the host this time is hribhrib.
27 Aug 2023
Our next event will be coming very soon on Saturday 23 September 2023, 12:00 UTC and the host this time is DeathByDenim.
11 Jun 2023
The “onFOSS-LAN” started as an idea by hribhrib to host a LAN-party-like experience online. Yes, the pun with LAN instead of WAN-party was intended but didn’t ripe well, however, what instead did ripe well was the whole event! Only one year after the first public onFOSS-LAN another host joined the team: DeathByDenim. Even more people got together to bring this experience to everyone that was interested in FOSS-Gaming, and group-effort hosting started to sprout, mostly by people of the LibreGaming community. After 15 successfully hosted events it is time for some changes.