Re: [GA] who is a member?

Am Dienstag 06 Februar 2018 23:19:38 schrieb Daniel Pocock: > This is why it is so important for us to determine if anybody else may > either have achieved the status of being a member by completing the > "Join the FSFE" form Which is quite clear form the constitution of the legal association: no

Re: please be excellent to each other (Re: application for FSFE e.V. membership and resignation)

Hi Daniel, Am Dienstag 28 August 2018 09:25:08 schrieb Daniel Pocock: > When council included a motion in the agenda of the extraordinary > general meeting calling for the immediate termination of my membership, > that was not "being excellent to each other". any organisation(+) reserves the

Re: supporting our fellowship representative

Hi Paul, Am Dienstag 28 August 2018 16:28:44 schrieb Paul Boddie: > I do recognise the > effort made by both staff and volunteers within the FSFE, but I do also > recognise the frustration some people have that their involvement with the > organisation is largely confined to paying their

Re: supporting our fellowship representative

Hi, Am Dienstag 28 August 2018 17:32:20 schrieb Michael Kesper: > Real membership was invite-only and restricted to about a dozen people. > Nowadays everyone can apply for it. note that Michael writes about the formal membership of the e.V. which is a legal backbone of the FSFE (but not

Re: terminating memberships responsibly (was: please be excellent to each other (Re: application for FSFE e.V. membership and resignation))

archives.] Am Dienstag 28 August 2018 22:05:05 schrieb Daniel Pocock: > On 28/08/18 09:27, Bernhard E. Reiter wrote: > > any organisation(+) reserves the right to exclude members that heavily > > obstruct the way it works. There is a point where this has to be done > > just

github and the like (Re: to git or not to git)

Am Dienstag 28 August 2018 01:19:54 schrieb Guido Arnold: > We need a decentralized infrastructure that makes their intentions > irrelevant. This is the direction where I believe we must head. However while doing so, as always in a long struggle, we need to be pragmatic. So each of us shall take

Re: Bernhard lectures on discussion@ (Re: what makes a good president and chairperson?)

Hi Matthias, Am Mittwoch 05 September 2018 14:16:15 schrieb Matthias Hager: > My connection with Daniel?  He is our representative, long live our > representative A number of people that were previously supporter or fellows-only have to become into internal communication channels and the e.V.

Re: what makes a good president and chairperson?

Am Dienstag 04 September 2018 23:21:36 schrieb Daniel Pocock: > > and how do you find such an ideal person? > > In most organizations, they let any member of the community nominate for > the position and then all the people can vote. An election. As others have pointed out before: This is not

Daniel on discussion@ (Re: what makes a good president and chairperson?)

Hi Daniel, Am Dienstag 04 September 2018 23:22:33 schrieb Daniel Pocock: > are you trying to change/misrepresent the intention of > somebody else's email? please read the exchange again and look at the quotes, I was asking what ostend...@gmail.com meant by quoting from an HTML mail by

Re: Tone of discussion

Hi Andreas, Am Mittwoch 05 September 2018 08:59:54 schrieb Bernhard E. Reiter: > While we are at speaking as oneselfs: > Another example I'd find un-acceptable is astro-turfing or using > sockpuppets to make it appear like an opinion is carried by many people. My message could

Conference Bits

Hello, there is a conference https://bits-und-baeume.org/en that aims to bring together several approaches for sustainability in the physical and digital world. I've learned about it only a few days before the closing of the CfP and submitted three proposals: a) Talk about "How to improve the

pros for hg instead of git (was: to git or not to git)

Am Mittwoch 05 September 2018 21:44:20 schrieb Alessandro Rubini: > Having two options instead of one is always good. Yes, this is why my post was about the effect chains if we use and support one tool or several ones. Because in a lot of situations others are already completely booked on one

hg SCM, history rewriting (Re: to git or not to git)

Am Donnerstag 06 September 2018 22:40:49 schrieb Timothy Pearson: > > I think you could do something similar to git with Mercurial but it > > wouldn't be exactly the same. > As long as the general class of functionality is present, that's fine.

Re: Daniel on discussion@ (Re: what makes a good president and chairperson?)

Hi Stefan, Am Mittwoch 05 September 2018 19:03:46 schrieb Stefan Uygur: > If you have had just googled, for the sake of your intelligence, > my name, you will have seen that that email is associated to my name. when you wrote (on the 31th) that you | know and have been part of communities like

Re: to git or not to git

Am Samstag 08 September 2018 15:36:08 schrieb Adonay Felipe Nogueira: > Personally, I don't think we need to dive down into completely different > VCS software just because a VCS repository provider decided to go evil. The argument is about how to counter the network-effect that will makes it

Re: to git or not to git

Am Mittwoch 29 August 2018 07:04:05 schrieb Bastien: > https://www.gnu.org/software/repo-criteria-evaluation.html > https://www.gnu.org/software/repo-criteria.en.html Not taking new developments into account, though as the last evaluation came from 2016-04-13. -- FSFE -- Founding Member

Re: who has time for the GA? (was: terminating memberships responsibly)

Hello, Am Donnerstag 30 August 2018 17:28:50 schrieb Mirko Boehm: > > On 30. Aug 2018, at 07:34, Carsten Agger wrote: > > Many NGOs that I know of are run as traditional associations, with a > > yearly general assembly as te highest authority, a board elected by the > > participants at the

Re: to git or not to git

Am Freitag 31 August 2018 13:03:22 schrieb Alessandro Rubini: > > * Use hg or other trackers if you can. > > why? It's already oh so difficult to get people make decent commits to > git, where at least I can point to all the world doing that... * Because having a choice is good. If git is to

Re: who has time for the GA? (was: terminating memberships responsibly)

Hi Stefan, Am Freitag 31 August 2018 09:59:32 schrieb Stefan Uygur: > can the legal representative of FSFE > answer to these questions once for all pls? it is not that easy, as it is okay to critise us, FSFE, its president and members in principle and some of the points are raised as general

Re: who has time for the GA?

Daniel, Am Mittwoch 29 August 2018 23:03:41 schrieb Daniel Pocock: > Do you notice how in my own message, I made significant effort to avoid > being personal: instead of a focus on Bernhard's situation, I draw upon > a mixed set of examples from multiple people.  this I appreciate. However the

Re: who has time for the GA? (was: terminating memberships responsibly)

Am Freitag 31 August 2018 13:22:56 schrieb Besnik Bleta: > > convincing more than 18 thousand people code paid by > > public money should be published as Free Software > > Funny that you declare you don't know the "demos" of the fellowship, > although we pay (I myself no more) the membership fee

Re: Tone of discussion

Hi Andreas, Am Mittwoch 05 September 2018 07:31:05 schrieb Andreas Nilsson: > > Please respect that I can speak out for whomever I'd like, whenever I > > like. > I usually don't post here but this is a tone I'm not comfortable with > from you Bernhard. You don't have an automatic right to copy

Tone of discussion (Re: what makes a good president and chairperson?)

Stefan, > I clearly quoted to Matthias's email, was that hard to understand this. because of the HTML format of the email you were citing, I wasn't sure if you really meant to support what you have cited or meant the included citation of the email that redated it. > I don't think l have posted

Re: Daniel on discussion@ (Re: what makes a good president and chairperson?)

Paul, Am Mittwoch 05 September 2018 11:47:54 schrieb Paul Boddie: > Although we should always be cautious about whether people are who they > claim to be on the Internet, we should also exercise restraint in accusing > people of not being who they might say they are. Otherwise, we risk denying >

Re: what makes a good president and chairperson?

Hi Stefan, Am Dienstag 04 September 2018 13:07:28 schrieb Stefan Uygur: > This is becoming really noisy now, l have asked clearly to stop this debate > that is running on different threads and let the main representative to > feedback and respond to issues raised. Not accusations but issues. >

Re: The take-away message?

Hi Joe, Am Donnerstag 30 August 2018 09:57:04 schrieb Joe Awni: > I see the same patterns showing up in this discussion again and again. to me there are two topics: * How should FSFE improve involving supporters and active Free Software people? * What is respectful behaviour and how do we

Re: application for FSFE e.V. membership and resignation

Am Sonntag 02 September 2018 00:32:21 schrieb Besnik Bleta: > > Letting these opportunities pass and then opening countless disastrous > > discussions instead looks like nothing but trolling to me. > > Voting for something you judge wrong means giving it legitimacy, thus > going against yourself.

Re: what makes a good president and chairperson?

Hi, Am Montag 03 September 2018 22:12:28 schrieb Stefan Uygur: > Pretty much it > Can't say l disagree. thanks for quoting the HTML email. Can you say to which you agree with in particular? Carsten's statement that we believes that everything is basically fine? > On Mon, 3 Sep 2018, 21:08

Re: what makes a good president and chairperson? (was: supporting our fellowship representative)

Hi Daniel, Am Montag 03 September 2018 19:04:25 schrieb Daniel Pocock: > The ideal president or chairperson needs to be somebody who can unite > staff, volunteers, fellows, supporters, donors and external parties.  To > chair meetings, lead effectively and gain respect when representing FSFE >

Re: Free Software economics

Hi Paul, [deliberately breaking the thread, so this does not get drowned in unrelated stuff, only quoting a bit] Am Freitag 31 August 2018 15:35:21 schrieb Paul Boddie: > Unfortunately, the "for exposure" culture encourages people to overstretch. It is just one out of several motivations to

UNICEF wants to financially "invest" in Free Software products of companies

"[...] The Fund provides investment-style funding for early-stage, open source technology solutions that address the most pressing challenges faced by children and young people. [...]" [1]. Though full of overrated technology hypewords, it maybe of interest because its explicit requirement of

Innovation, funding and FS (was: to git or not to git)

Hi Andreas, Am Donnerstag 13 September 2018 17:05:41 schrieb Andreas Nilsson: > By the phrasing "leading provider" I assume that it means a company > that won't share the software innovations with the rest of the > community so that all can benefit. yes. > If this is the case then I would

Re: Innovation, funding and FS

Am Samstag 15 September 2018 17:20:26 schrieb Paul Boddie: > On Friday 14. September 2018 09.06.50 Bernhard E. Reiter wrote: > It is worth noting that there are a number of recurring obstacles. .. with micropayments and financial regulations being among them, yes! I'll have to take mor

Re: FSFE and censorship - not true?

Hi Andreas, Am Sonntag 16 September 2018 11:05:02 schrieb Andreas Nilsson: > Personal attacks are something else and are not criminal. but not welcome here either I hope, especially attacks that aim for degrading a person (lile "ad hominem" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem) as opposed

Re: Fwd: [FSFE PR][EN] Copyright Directive – EU safeguards Free Software at the last minute

Hello, Am Donnerstag 28 März 2019 09:47:34 schrieb Christian Imhorst: > in our last press release on the EU Copyright Directive meanwhile we have updated the press release, because some passages were not clear enough: https://fsfe.org/news/2019/news-20190326-01.en.html Press releases often

Re: Fwd: [FSFE PR][EN] Copyright Directive – EU safeguards Free Software at the last minute

Hi Christian, Am Donnerstag 28 März 2019 18:14:38 schrieb Christian Imhorst: > This means that on this limited subject the FSFE > is taken seriously as someone to talk to. > > I can not judge your last sentence, Bernhard, but I hope that's the > case. the indicators known to me: * Our

vscode - any known Free Software builds/packages?

Hi, there is an MIT licensed base version called "vscode" which the proprietary version of Microsoft Visual Studio Code is based, which seems to be getting more popular. Does somebody know of Free Software re-building or packaging efforts? Best Regards, Bernhard == Details

Re: vscode - any known Free Software builds/packages?

Am Donnerstag 31 Januar 2019 17:17:43 schrieb Bernhard E. Reiter: > there is an MIT licensed base version called "vscode" > which the proprietary version of Microsoft Visual Studio Code > is based, which seems to be getting more popular. > > Does somebody know of

Re: Mobile phone details: Sailfish

Am Donnerstag 16 Mai 2019 13:38:20 schrieb Joe Awni: > Would love to hear more details about the early-days. What > Free Software projects where you following in 1989? My main computer these days were an Amiga 500 and the main source of Free Software the Fred Fish disks. There were Matt Dillons

Fairphone lessons (Re: Shiftphones details)

Am Freitag 10 Mai 2019 17:06:40 schrieb Paul Boddie: > it surprises me that they have not managed to > attract broader publicity. Shiftphones seem to focus on Germany (or German speaking companies). It is a significant invest to create text and give support in a second language. > My

Re: Strategy and serendipity

Am Mittwoch 08 Mai 2019 14:41:59 schrieb Carsten Agger: > I'd say a reasonable goal would be that it should be > realistically feasible for *everybody* to choose to use only free > software, on all kinds of software-equipped devices that people normally > use. The challenge is that "realistically

Shiftphones details

Am Mittwoch 08 Mai 2019 15:05:53 schrieb Paul Boddie: > >  * https://www.shiftphones.com/en/ > > You may have to provide a little more context about this for those of us > who do not readily read German and who are unfamiliar with this initiative. It got on my radar when I was looking for an

Re: Mobile phone details: Sailfish

Am Freitag 10 Mai 2019 17:37:19 schrieb Paul Boddie: > Maybe the FSFE Wiki could host such information, particularly if > the adminstrators reinstalled a half-decent way of formatting tables. Personally I think that the main work is in keeping the info maintained. (Independently from the

Re: Strategy and serendipity

Am Montag 06 Mai 2019 21:18:44 schrieb Carsten Agger: > But maybe the FSFE should, if it were possible, consider producing and > funding free software itself, the way the FSF has been funding and > spearheading the GNU project. The GNU project was started in different times. To me it has reached

Re: free software promotion and local status

Hi Paul, thanks for sharing your experiences! Helping others to understand Free Software is an ongoing task and it needs wit and patience. :) Am Freitag 03 Mai 2019 13:01:52 schrieb Paul Sutton: > I tried to approach people such as digital unite in the UK, who are > working to bridge the digital

FSFE "officials" on this list (Re: The "rival" discussion mailing list)

Hi Paul, Am Donnerstag 02 Mai 2019 21:45:40 schrieb Paul Boddie: > I would also encourage the FSFE leadership to use venues like this list to > more fully engage with the community, even when this involves encountering > dissent. doing a rough count on my personal archive which starts 2016:

Technical: about false unsubscribe attempts (Re: Unsubscription amusement)

Hi Paul, Am Montag 06 Mai 2019 10:00:06 schrieb Paul Sutton: > Now I am getting unauthorized attempts to remove me from the fsfe.org list > What exactly is going on here please. technically: Anyone can use the mailman interface to request an unsubscribe event for a specific mail address. Mailman

Fridays for Free Software ;)

Hello Friends of Free Software, as you may have heard a number of children refuse going to school on each Friday to make people aware that the world has to act swiftly if we want to protect our stable world climate. Free Software can help to protect the climate and the environment, because it

Re: Strategy and serendipity

Am Mittwoch 08 Mai 2019 09:03:48 schrieb Bernhard E. Reiter: > my point is that I do not want a list where a constructive, respectful > discussion is possible. .. that I want a list where constructive and respectul discussion is possible. [This is what I've meant to write, but managed to

Re: recommendations for a mini laptop

Am Freitag 21 Juni 2019 17:17:38 schrieb Erik Albers: > I am looking for a tiny laptop in a size of 9 or 10 inch that runs > GNU/Linux What about * https://www.pine64.org/pinebook/ maybe to large, it is 11.6" :) * https://store.planetcom.co.uk/collections/gemini-pda/products/gemini-pda-1

Re: Strategy and serendipity

Am Freitag 14 Juni 2019 17:39:18 schrieb Paul Boddie: > In the end, even dedicated Free Software advocates are likely to just give > up, buy something, and use the device subject to whatever terms and > conditions are imposed on them just by powering it on. It makes sense to have a device that

Balance relationships with companies (Re: Who talks at conference for Free Software?)

Am Freitag 14 Juni 2019 16:50:05 schrieb Paul Boddie: > It can be tempting to collaborate with companies in order to > advance a common agenda, not least because those companies will have people > on staff who can do some of the tedious work that volunteers might > otherwise have to do. But then

Organisation democracy (was: Balance relationships with companies)

Paul, Am Montag 01 Juli 2019 12:12:58 schrieb Paul Boddie: > This reminds me of the still-unresolved matter of > organisational democracy that was helpfully shunted over to the rogue > mailing list only to disappear. the question of "organisation democracy" in the FSFE has been discussed many

Re: Balance relationships with companies

Hi Christian, Carsten, Paul, thanks for your thoughs on this thread! My response is coming late because school holidays were in between. Am Dienstag 02 Juli 2019 15:36:10 schrieb Christian Imhorst: > Am 28.06.2019 14:55 schrieb Bernhard E. Reiter: > > (Facebook, just like the comp

Re: Fairphone 3

Am Mittwoch 25 September 2019 16:07:36 schrieb Paul Boddie: > On Wednesday 25. September 2019 15.17.24 Carsten Agger wrote: > > I send the following question to Fairphone support: > > "I'm interested in buying a Fairphone 3, but I'm not interested in Thanks for requesting this, I think it is

IT customers (Re: recommendations for a mini laptop)

Am Mittwoch 07 August 2019 16:20:32 schrieb Paul Boddie: > Sadly, "more is better" continues to be the dominant theme of the > technology industry: power consumption benefits (due to more efficient > circuitry) are typically overturned by vastly increased consumption. It is a main theme of the

Fairphone 3

Hello, got caught by surprise by the launch of the Fairphone 3. It is clear that their success of pushing the state of the art in the area of consumer mobile phones is based on Free Software (like Android). The details are interesting, as there can always be something improved. Does somebody

Re: Organisation democracy (was: Balance relationships with companies)

Hi Mirko, Am Donnerstag 26 September 2019 22:27:17 schrieb Mirko Boehm: > repeating an argument does not make it tru-er. that is correct, but the same holds for critical arguments: Just repeating them, does not convince more people. Still to know the arguments and positions is the basis for a

Re: Fairphone 3

Am Dienstag 01 Oktober 2019 11:35:40 schrieb Carsten Agger: > I got this response from Fairphone: > *We are currently investigating the possibility of bringing back FP Open > on Fairphone 3.* Cool, thanks for having asked this. (The more people are seriously interested and let them know, the

SailfishOS Re: Fairphone 3

Hi Michael, Am Mittwoch 25 September 2019 10:04:38 schrieb Michael Kesper: > On 23.09.19 10:05, Bernhard E. Reiter wrote: > > That is also a mobile phone operating system which (limited) success is > > based on Free Software a lot. > > Sailfish is not completely Free Soft

Re: How FSFE is organised

Am Mittwoch 09 Oktober 2019 15:16:23 schrieb Paul Boddie: > I am sorry for the confusion here. In fact, I wasn't referring to the FSFE > with my remark Thanks for clarifying. I think it is clear that FSFE volunteers have other professional lives and need to earn their living. Many of them are

Old process (Re: FSFE-in-2020: Who are we?)

Am Mittwoch 09 Oktober 2019 10:02:16 schrieb Mirko Boehm: > So let me rephrase this in > simple speech: The FSFE-in-2020 ground to a halt because the decision > makers (our GA and the president) did not prioritise it They did indeed not, but for good reasons (which you don't seem to agree to,

Re: FSFE-in-2020: Who are we?

Hi Paul, Am Freitag 08 Februar 2019 01:40:40 schrieb Paul Boddie: > On Friday 11. August 2017 12.54.53 Jonas Oberg wrote: > > https://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170811-01.en.html > > > > As you know, when the FSFE was founded, we put together a document > > describing our self conception. That

How FSFE is organised (was: Organisation democracy)

Hi Paul, Am Freitag 27 September 2019 18:00:28 schrieb Paul Boddie: > It seemed to me when I last looked at any minutes from FSFE meetings that a > lot of people eligible to vote were either delegating their votes to the > leadership or just not voting at all. those formal meetings of the

Supporting more PDF forms in Free Software products (Re: Going beyond advocacy)

Hi, to focus on the PDF form handling: Am Freitag 31 Januar 2020 17:29:18 schrieb Paul Boddie: > Having been sent a PDF form that needed completing, I rediscovered the > apparent lack of support in Free Software applications for performing this > task. > I ended up with the feeling that it

Re: Podcast about mobile phone communication with Harald Welte

Am Freitag 20 Dezember 2019 19:35:55 schrieb Matthias Kirschner: > about mobile phone communication and the general > status of Free Software in this area: > https://fsfe.org/news/podcast/episode-3.en.html Is there a chance to get transcripts? Best, Bernhard -- FSFE -- Founding Member

Re: suggestions/request for fsfe

Hi Veronica, Am Freitag 10 Januar 2020 15:50:47 schrieb V F: > Of course, ideally, a company should do so that it lasts > longer - but then profit motives come along and ruin any > honesty/transparency. any organisation has to be run economically in the sense that the incoming money must be

rich services dominating in media (Re: Wiki page about Free Software for remote working)

Am Dienstag 31 März 2020 21:29:12 schrieb Paul Boddie: > the media narrative seems to be dominated by technologies like > videoconferencing, "feature-rich" real-time chat, To understand why people long for those features, we have to look at the people and their ideas of workflow. If you want to

IRC ? Re: Wiki page about Free Software for remote working

Am Dienstag 31 März 2020 17:30:12 schrieb Sandro Santilli: > > https://wiki.fsfe.org/Activities/FreeSoftware4RemoteWorking > > Under the Chat/InstantMessaging app IRC is completely missing, while > still being the most stable and ubiquitous system for instant > messaging ? Can you back that

Re: Anonymous Voting System

Am Montag 30 März 2020 16:28:48 schrieb Michael McMahon: > With free software, you can fork a project if you can find the code. True enough, "Free Software products never die, they only sleep". :) Could you find the code? > It still seems like a valid concept as long as it does not scale to >

sandstorm.io easier hosting of Free Software collaboration tools?

Hello, just discovered https://sandstorm.io/ Self description: Sandstorm is an open source project built by a community of volunteers with the goal of making it really easy to run open source web applications -- either on your own private server, or on our community-run servers. Does anybody

Re: Voting and Free Software

Hi, Am Freitag 15 November 2019 12:24:49 schrieb Harald Welte: > I wholeheartedly agree with any criticism of so-called electronic (in > fact rather: software defined) voting. meanwhile there was another LWN article: Cryptography and elections https://lwn.net/Articles/810465/ By Jake Edge,

Re: Anonymous Voting System

Hi Jan, Am Montag 23 März 2020 22:01:53 schrieb Jan Wey.: > - Let a moderator give it a list of pseudonyms via some admin-interface > - print one of the 25 names, when opening a second URL. This should > consider, that some names may be taken by others already. > > Does anyone here know of such

Smartphone as Webcam with Free Software?

Hello, with webcams being hard to come by right now, and many people having smartphone or even lying around old one. Does somebody know how to use an android smartphone as webcam with Free Software? On F-droid I've found https://f-droid.org/de/packages/pl.hypeapp.endoscope/

FS tools for hackathons? (Re: COVID-19 Hackathons: Only Free Software creates global solutions)

Am Freitag 10 April 2020 08:59:55 schrieb Jens Lechtenboerger: > I wonder about running a hackathon with free software.  Lots seem to > rely on Devpost, whose piracy policy I find unacceptable (see “Other > Information” and “Information Collected by or Through Third-Party >

Re: COVID19-Tracing/-Tracking App in Singapore under GPL-3.0

Am Freitag 10 April 2020 12:00:34 schrieb Jan Wey.: > Singapore decided to release their Tracing-App under GPL-3.0 [0], which > obviously would establish better trust and would benefit other countries > and regions as well, as the software (or parts of it) could be re-used, > being in line with

Re: Smartphone as Webcam with Free Software?

Am Donnerstag 30 April 2020 22:53:41 schrieb Dmitry Alexandrov: > Hold on, we are not finished yet. :-) (-: [Step: setup USB network connection GNU-System <-> *droid device.] > > Am Mittwoch 29 April 2020 18:10:22 schrieb Dmitry Alexandrov: > There is a dozen ways to configure networking in

Re: Best video conferencing/distance learning tools?

Am Donnerstag 30 April 2020 20:39:01 schrieb Carsten Agger: > I'm tempted to go with BigBlueButton - it seems to have everything and > promises to be easy to install. You'll be interested in LWN's Video conferencing with BigBlueButton By Jonathan Corbet April 10, 2020

Re: Smartphone as Webcam with Free Software?

Hi Dmitry, thanks for your helpful response! Am Mittwoch 29 April 2020 18:10:22 schrieb Dmitry Alexandrov: > "Bernhard E. Reiter" wrote: > > https://f-droid.org/de/packages/pl.hypeapp.endoscope/ > > https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.majorkernelpanic.spydroid/ > &g

Experiences with BigBlueButton or CodeMD?

Hi again, about remote working tools with Free Software, just recently saw * https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton (web conferencing system for online learning) * https://github.com/codimd/server (Realtime collaborative markdown notes on all platforms.) Does anybody has

List of payable jitsi hosters?

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Re: Experiences with BigBlueButton or CodeMD?

Hi Christian, Am Sonntag 22 März 2020 02:25:23 schrieb Christian Busse: > Yes, I'm using CodiMD quite frequently, but don't have a definite opinion > on it yet. It is great for its core functions, but I am missing > functionalities that would allow long-term management of individual notes. >

Re: Universities and schools with free software

Hi Tales, Am Donnerstag 30 Juli 2020 11:22:46 schrieb Tales Tomaz: > do you know of universities and schools that adopted non-commercial or > free software solutions during this pandemic? there were a couple of examples in Germany. E.g. the University of Osnabrück adopted BigBlueButton

Games for online-meetings?

Hello, for groups that now meet online more often, it would be cool to have a few games that can be used to just play together and spend time to foster informal conversations. Mostly be causal games to get a group into it, without much preparations. https://skribbl.io/ is an online game, which

youtube-dl dev repo barred because of DMCA takedown notice by RIAA

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Re: Antivirus for Android?

Hello Lucas, Am Freitag 18 Dezember 2020 11:29:08 schrieb Lucas Lasota: > a friend has asked me if there would be an "antivirus" or at least an > app against malware in Android. there are apps out there that shall help to secure an Android device. Some help to analyse apps, others try to offer

Re: Is there a bank that is usable with a Google-free phone?

Am Freitag 19 März 2021 21:01:13 schrieb Jure Varlec: > A dedicated device is a good option, IMO. Yes, this works fine. > But I find it most interesting > that you still have SMS as an option. My bank (and others) used to offer > the same service, SMS-based second factor. But now,

#reclaimyourface citizen pedition against mass surveillance

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Re: RCS a standard to supercede SMS and Threema?

Am Dienstag 30 März 2021 08:34:37 schrieb Matthias Kirschner: > Harald, Thank you for all your insights you shared with us. That was, as > always, very helpful. Same from me. > - if it is operated within a network operators network it is subject to > lawful interception in every country of the

Re: RCS a standard to supercede SMS and Threema?

Harald, Am Freitag, 26. März 2021, 20:38:59 CEST schrieb Harald Welte: > This means unless you know how to access this separate > IP tunnel used for IMS from the application processor, you would not be able > to write a FOSS or 3rd party RCS client. okay, that is a downside. And also that you

RCS a standard to supercede SMS and Threema?

Hello friends of open standards, did you know that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Communication_Services is a standard that aims at replacing SMS, now even with end-to-end encryption upcoming, where quite a few carriers are supportive? Open standards are good for Free Software and all

Re: Is there a bank that is usable with a Google-free phone?

Hi Jure, Am Donnerstag 18 März 2021 20:37:23 schrieb Jure Varlec: > First, am I the only one who was caught unawares by this situation? at least it did not hit me, as my bank can do business without app, they offered a small photoTAN device and still allow mobileTAN via SMS as second factor. >

Re: RCS a standard to supercede SMS and Threema?

Am Donnerstag 18 März 2021 14:54:13 schrieb Giel van Schijndel: > But until finding a relatively cheap > way to access the specification's text at least your crypto question > isn't answerable. https://www.gsma.com/futurenetworks/universal-profile-thank-you/ seems to have at least the 260 pages

Re: (F)LOSS stock trading?

Hello, Am Donnerstag 04 Februar 2021 03:25:22 schrieb Jacob Hrbek: > Looking for a (F)LOSS alternative to Robinhood > [] a software product could be the app, but for real transactions to work, you'd need a broker (some sort of banking service). It would be quite

Re: FSFE and promoting software quality

Hi Vitaly, Am Mittwoch 17 Februar 2021 09:25:29 schrieb Vitaly Repin: > I think that FSFE can focus on promoting open source as a way to improve > software quality. this is one of the aspects FSFE promotes for the reasons you have outlined. If we come up with other practical guidelines, even

Re: FSFE and promoting software quality

Hello, Am Donnerstag, 18. Februar 2021, 09:26:26 CET schrieb Vitaly Repin: [GNU coding standards] > Why not to promote them instead of inventing the wheel with FSFE > standards? As just I did, the GNU coding standards are still a good read for Free Software initiatives developing in C and

Guides/Howtos about how to upstream a feature?

Hi friends of Free Software, just did a small search to see if there are guides out there that explain how to give a change to a Free Software product. Do you know good ones? This would be about * Open a issue or discussion about the feature or fix. * Write up arguments (technical details,

Hosting REUSE tools on Github (Re: Constitution violation with the use of GitHub)

Hello, another comment: Am Montag 09 August 2021 12:39:37 schrieb André Ockers: > Taking FSFE's mission seriously, a migration to a platform in the Free > Software-friendly ecosystem would indeed look to be an appropriate step > to me. Our mission with FSFE is to further Free Software, spread

Re: Youth Hacking 4 Freedom

Am Montag 11 Oktober 2021 16:36:56 schrieb Daniele "Mte90" Scasciafratte: > they need mentors maybe the new generations need more mentors compared to > before as the technology is more complex then before? Yes. Also when I've started early, there were less deep story computer games and online

Re: Help with gathering resources for how to learn programming for children book

Michael, thanks for sharing your experiences. Am Dienstag 26 Oktober 2021 18:38:20 schrieb Michael McMahon: > Around the age of 10, I would switch them away from drag and drop > languages to Python or Lua if they were inclined through modifying > simple games and modifying Minetest mods. Reading

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