Re: Help for requesting to liberate a software

2017-04-06 Thread Nico Rikken
Dear Kaartic, Great find, and I agree a free license could make this a better project. From our point of view that is. Some developers are not aware of free software licenses at all, some are but still choose not to adopt a free software license. That's why I consider you sentence 'It would have

Re: Technical Research required for Sharing and Reuse Award 2017

2017-03-21 Thread Nico Rikken
I took a look at PDOK, the single Dutch listing. The example page shows what is possible, when wanting to create graphs for governmental viewing. https://geonovum.github.io/pdokkaart/examples Documentation and issues are available, but mostly in Dutch only https:

Re: ideas for laptop selection

2017-05-03 Thread Nico Rikken
Hi Daniel, Like you I'm also on the lookout for a replacement, especially for my dayjob as a developer. I need decent performance to run all the Docker containers with JVM processes, combined with the battery-life that can last me a large part of a day filled with meetings. For personal usage my

Re: accounting software used by FSFE and other associations

2017-06-16 Thread Nico Rikken
In the Netherlands EekBoek is a nice solution http://www.eekboek.nl/ which takes some tax laws into account. But it lacks an international focus, if only for the documentation. You might therefore consider GNU Cash https://gnucash.org/ Ledger http: //ledger-cli.org/ or Hledger http://hledger.org/

Re: ideas for laptop selection

2017-04-30 Thread Nico Rikken
Hi Daniel, Like you I'm also on the lookout for a replacement, especially for my dayjob as a developer. I need decent performance to run all the Docker containers with JVM processes, combined with the battery-life that can last me a large part of a day filled with meetings. For personal usage my

Re: Free software glorifying music - libretto wanted

2017-10-18 Thread Nico Rikken
Hey Benjamin, As a participant I can certainly say it was good fun, and I hope you'll have even more fun at CCC. There is a remixed version of the Free Software Song by Avantasia, which at least seems to have a more conventional rhythm:

Re: Introduction to software developer profession for teens

2017-11-20 Thread Nico Rikken
Hi Vitaly, Each year I go back to my highschool for a similar purpose. I tell them that there is more to software development than just coding: getting requirements, providing support, trying new stuff, drinking coffee, etc. I alway show a bit of code as a glimpse, but is quite offputting to

Re: Forcing students to use nonfree network services and software as a topic of a future campaign

2019-12-04 Thread Nico Rikken
Thanks Paul for this elaborate response. I totally agree. ___ Discussion mailing list Discussion@lists.fsfe.org https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion This mailing list is covered by the FSFE's Code of Conduct. All participants are kindly

Re: Forcing students to use nonfree network services and software as a topic of a future campaign

2019-11-24 Thread Nico Rikken
Hi Demetris, That is unfortunate. Personally I believe we already have so many different topics to focus on (governmental policies, PMPC, Open Standards, Router freedom, DRM exemptions, eduction, etc.) and so I like to align my efforts with the FSFE campaigns to have a greater impact. Doing a

Re: Forcing students to use nonfree network services and software as a topic of a future campaign

2019-12-02 Thread Nico Rikken
On Sun, 2019-11-24 at 18:25 +0200, Demetris Karayiannis wrote: > Hi Nico, > > thanks for reading > > > Personally I believe we already have so many different topics to > > focus > > on (governmental policies, PMPC, Open Standards, Router freedom, > > DRM > > exemptions, eduction, etc.) and so I

Re: Going beyond advocacy

2020-02-12 Thread Nico Rikken
By putting the Reuse project and the GNU project against each other I tried to favor a small targeted project compared to a large, seemingly all-encompassing effort. But as you showed me, even GNU has its points of focus. With regards to funding, there might be other organizations willing to

Re: Going beyond advocacy

2020-02-12 Thread Nico Rikken
I like your line of thinking. The Reuse software is a great example I think, rather than starting a full-blown European GNU project. I've heard the issues with PDF documents before in the Netherlands. Perhaps it makes sense to pinpiont the software requirements, and work to development a generic

Re: 2 discussions from Discourse

2021-06-10 Thread Nico Rikken
Hi Daniele, Thanks for putting this to my attention explicitly through this mailinglist. I added comments to both posts. Best, Nico signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ Discussion mailing list

Re: Mozilla: "We’re taking a break from Facebook"

2021-09-24 Thread Nico Rikken
Interesting remarks and helpful to the discussion. Happy to hear that the Norwegian Data Protection Authority came to that decision. I just checked the FSFE's Facebook presence https://www.facebook.com/thefsfe/ The last message is a post linking to other platforms: This site is inactive.

Re: Is Matrix a good choice?

2022-03-14 Thread Nico Rikken
I read it, and it was shared within the FSFE previously. Currently both XMPP and Matrix are available, but not bridged. Personally I think XMPP is fine for the FSFE, but Matrix is growing in adoption in the larger free software community, and thus might be a lower barrier of entry compared to

Re: Is Matrix a good choice?

2022-03-17 Thread Nico Rikken
On Thu, 2022-03-17 at 08:04 +0100, Dr. Trigon wrote: As I would assume all point from your list could implemented in XMPP as well, right? Certainly, if you look at the overview of XMPP standards, there are some new ones in progress that cover features like replies and stickers:

Will CRA further encourage subscription models?

2023-10-24 Thread Nico Rikken
Hey FSFE community, I really like to hear your points of view on a thought I had. The Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) is set to require companies to keep providing updates for the lifetime of a product. That will mean an increased an continued effort (thus cost) by the vendor. I expect that this

City of Lyon (France) will switch to FOSS office suite (published July 7th 2022)

2022-07-19 Thread Nico Rikken
Indeed it would be interesting to get more details. The writing in the article seems worrying, it uses 'logiciels gratuits' which focuses on being free as in beer. Further down it also refers to the software typically being free of cost, while the transition costs 3,5 million euro. It sounds

Re: FSFE in Linux Unplugged

2023-05-16 Thread Nico Rikken
Yeah, I was pleasantly surprised to hear you on it. It is one of the podcasts I listen to with great priority. Sometimes the topics on that podcast can become quite far removed from Linux or Free Software, but the amount of knowledge by the hosts and community makes it a good listen regardless.

Re: Your thoughts about RCS: an open standard in proprietary hands to replace SMS

2023-12-08 Thread Nico Rikken
Thanks for bringing this up, I'm interested to learn more about this too. I don't know about RCS but let me add some related thoughts. In the Netherlands we had SMS as a vendor-neutral text solution, later replaced by MMS with option to send images. Now WhatsApp and Signal are two most popular

Please send your Router Freedom photo for the FOSDEM presentation

2024-01-27 Thread Nico Rikken
osdem-2024-3315-digital-services-interoperability-intertwining-eu-telecom-law-the-dma-internet-devices-and-free-software/ You can order stickers here https://fsfe.org/contribute/spreadtheword.en.html#device-neutrality to decorate your router. Thank you, Nico Rikken Coordinator Netherlands sig

Re: banking and Free Software

2024-02-25 Thread Nico Rikken
Hi Florian and all subscribed, Thanks for the elaborate mail and investigation. As you mentioned we have been at this in the Netherlands for quite some while already. My personal experience is more in regards to mobile governmental identification which too revolves around non-free mobile apps.

Re: banking and Free Software

2024-02-27 Thread Nico Rikken
Hello all, Thank you for sharing these details. I think it will be a valuable basis for further steps. I can see us tracking this issue in a similar way to how we track the status of Router Freedom. Do any of you see political opportunity to adress this issue? Paul Boddie already touch on this

Re: banking and Free Software

2024-03-11 Thread Nico Rikken
Hi Sandro, Thanks for providing more details about the situation in the Netherlands. Best, Nico signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ Discussion mailing list Discussion@lists.fsfe.org