Re: FSFE and the war in Europe

Hi all, Am 17.03.22 um 21:38 schrieb Carsten Agger: In response to Paul and Vitaly: I am personally horrified and appalled by the Russian attack on Ukraine and the crimes they are currently committing. It is tragic, and it's something we had very much hoped not to see in Europe in our

Re: Is Matrix a good choice?

Hi all, Am 17.03.22 um 08:04 schrieb Dr. Trigon: Thanks a lot for the details on this decision! Hmmm, I am wondering whether its fair to say that to me it looks like XMPP development has slowed down and Matrix is still going strong? As I would assume all point from your list could

Re: FSFE-defined coding standards?

Hi all, Am 10.02.21 um 13:10 schrieb Alessandro Rubini: > The problem your describe is that of bashisms. I agree we should use > /bin/sh in published scripts (and ensure our own sh is not some > featureful derivation). I think one should not publish any shell scripts any more except for the

Re: Anyone knows a good Free Software Project Management Tool?

Hi all, Am 17.09.20 um 11:21 schrieb Michael Weimann: > I have tried Tuleap [1] in the past. It is quite usable. > Some nice people from France are working on this. > Met them at some conferences. I was quite impressed by tuleap at first. We tried it at my employer. Sadly it had some real

Re: Free Software for live streaming

Hi all, On 02.07.20 15:21, Patrick Ohnewein (FSFE) wrote: > Hi Erik, > > On 02.07.20 13:56, Erik Albers wrote: >> there is the interest of a medium-sized German city to stream its city >> council >> meetings to the internet. They would like to use Free Software, are willing >> to >> spend some

Re: nitter equivalent for telegram

Hi all, On 16.06.20 11:37, V F wrote: > Hmmm... > >> I believe, it would be more productive to ask something more specific — >> namely, what do you what to achieve. >> > > Lets say I would like to see if my question was asked and solved > cannot as it is at > > https://t.me/phhtreble > > >>>

Re: Voting and Free Software

Hi Richard, On 06.11.19 04:33, Richard Stallman wrote: > I am against using computers to enter votes. > See stallman.org/evoting.html. > > We used to have a GNU package, GNU FREE, for holding elections. > We decided, the developer and I, to withdraw it because software > should not be used for

Re: Voting and Free Software

Hi Stephane, On 06.11.19 09:50, Stephane Ascoet wrote: > Le 05/11/2019 à 08:55, Matthias Kirschner a écrit : >> Do you agree with this criticism or what do you think about that topic? > > Hi, this is Roberto Di Cosmo, one of the oldest and most important free > computing activists in Europe.

Re: Fairphone 3

Hi all, On 23.09.19 10:05, Bernhard E. Reiter wrote: > I've heard that a sailfish OS port to FP3 is likely. :) > That is also a mobile phone operating system which (limited) success is based > on Free Software a lot. Sailfish is not completely Free Software:

Re: recommendations for a mini laptop

Hi Paul, On 17.07.19 13:30, Paul Boddie wrote: > And obviously, with everybody loading up the "modern" Web with superfluous > gadgetry, Firefox will gladly saturate the CPU, I/O channels and take lots of > RAM. Unfortunately, more lightweight browsers like NetSurf [3] are likely to > struggle

Re: recommendations for a mini laptop

Hi Erik, On 03.07.19 13:44, Erik Albers wrote: > On the german list someone came up with the eeePC. This is from size exactly > what I am looking for and you can get them second hand at around 50 euro. That's great, much better then dumping these old PCs. I saw there are some available featuring

Re: [nomination]for Fellowship Council renewal and activism

Hi all, On 27.05.19 10:21, Christian Imhorst wrote: > I think RMS is a brilliant mind when he talks about Free Software. No > question. Unfortunately he is not so brilliant in other topics. And it's not > an excuse that he is a child of  the decade he was born in. [1][2] RMS is not a speaker

Re: obedience and control (was: ....)

Hi, On 07.05.19 10:33, Daniel Pocock wrote: > > > On 03/05/2019 12:35, Florian Snow wrote: >> Hi Christian, >> >> I am also not directly involved in this, but I think legal action (snip) >> >> (snip) For example, anyone who wants to can file a GDPR violation with their >> local data

Hijacking attempt by Daniel Pocock

Dear all, It seems that former fellowship representative Daniel Pocock has a) set up a mailing list discuss...@lists.fsfellowship.eu b) subscribed all participants of this list (I guess) c) Sent an email asking people to unsubscribe from _this_ list Clearly, I did not give consent to b) nor c).

Re: to git or not to git

Hi all, Am Donnerstag, den 06.09.2018, 12:21 -0500 schrieb Timothy Pearson: > On the topic of history rewrite, I'd argue that allowing it on a > private > (read: development) repository provides better commits and less > chance > of losing work.  It allows the developer to incrementally commit >

Fwd: Call to Action: Save Free Software this September

Dear list members, time is running up for this campaign, please participate and spread the message! Best Michael > In the context of our https://savecodeshare.eu/ campaign we just > published this call to action: > > We would be happy if you spread this message to your networks: https: >

Re: transparency about the fellowship

Hi all, Am Dienstag, den 10.07.2018, 15:21 +0200 schrieb Florian Snow: > > Am 10. Juli 2018 09:19:27 MESZ schrieb Michael Kesper rg>: > > If you make your last will with a (for you, at least) substantial > > amount of money I bet you know who you want to support EXACT

Re: LWN article on Limux / WiMue and PMPC

Am 10. November 2017 21:36:22 MEZ schrieb Werner Koch : >Matze, > >publishing a private subscriber only URL to a _public_ mailing list is >not for what LWN generate them as a favor to their subscribers. It's common practice on hackernews for example. LWN now shows a 'please

Re: Good examples where Free Software was used in development countries

Hi all, Am 04.10.2017 um 23:16 schrieb Adonay Felipe Nogueira: > I know of GNU Health being used in various places. > > I know some examples of Raspberry Pi, but we cannot run free/libre > distros on it, see > . That page hasn't been

Re: Ethical phones

Am 19. Juli 2017 00:23:00 MESZ schrieb Kurtis Hanna : >What I'm saying is that, IMHO, buying/using a device that likely would >have ended up in the trash or recycled for parts is more ethical than >buying a newly manufactured phone every 18 months, even if it is made >with

Re: Crowdfunding a NAS device that respects your freedom

Hi all, Am 02.05.2017 um 15:06 schrieb Christian Pietsch: > On Tue, May 02, 2017 at 03:01:18PM +0200, Karsten Dreifus wrote: >> While I appreciate the efforts of the creators of this project, >> MediaTek is very (un)popular for poor kernel updates. Any info on how >> to deal with this or am I

Re: EOMA68 crowdfunding campaign (the last few days) plus ways forward for Libre Computing

Hi Paul, Am 22.08.2016 um 19:10 schrieb Paul Boddie: Hello, I last mentioned EOMA68 on this list in early July, noting that I would have blogged about it, too, but couldn't at the time. Unfortunately, real life got in the way of either following up with the blog volunteers about the blogging