Good examples where Free Software was used in development countries

2017-09-29 Thread Bjoern Schiessle
Hi all, in October I will give a talk about how Free Software can help to export wealth and knowledge to development country in order to empower them. For this I'm looking for some good examples. In the past there was the "One Laptop per Child" initiative. But I don't know how active they are tod

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

2017-10-06 Thread Bjoern Schiessle
On Wed, 04 Oct 2017 18:16:04 -0300 Adonay Felipe Nogueira wrote: > > I know of GNU Health being used in various places. GNU Health would be a nice example. Can you name some places where it is used, maybe with a public reference? Thanks a lot! Björn -- Björn Schießle Coordinator Germany Free S

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

2017-10-06 Thread Bjoern Schiessle
Hi all, Thanks everybody for the nice examples. I think I have now a nice list for my talk. Thanks a lot, Björn -- Björn Schießle Coordinator Germany Free Software Foundation Europe (https://fsfe.org) www: https://www.schiessle.org gnupg/pgp key: 0x0x2378A753E2BF04F6 fingerprint: 244F CEB0 C

Re: Apply for membership and meet us at FOSDEM

2018-02-06 Thread Bjoern Schiessle
On Tue, 6 Feb 2018 08:39:54 + Daniel Pocock wrote: > > Somebody could still require the donation to be used for capital > reserve in various ways though: in a will, when leaving a bequest, > they can simply write that if the money is not accepted with this > condition then it goes to some other

Re: subdomains for testing things

2018-02-08 Thread Bjoern Schiessle
Hi Max, while I agree with you in general, I see a small problem here: On Thu, 08 Feb 2018 12:02:02 +0100 Max Mehl wrote: > > Discourse could work similarly. It has been set up by a group of > volunteers and we gave them a free hand. Later it might serve as a > communication platform for a specif

Re: to git or not to git

2018-09-11 Thread Bjoern Schiessle
Hi all, sorry for being late in the discussion but I still want to comment on one point: On Tue, 28 Aug 2018 15:11:06 +0200 Carsten Agger wrote: > > I'd say, though, that my experience is that the "social media" aspect > of Github is not as important as e.g. on YouTube or eBay. People find > your

Microsoft to warn users not to install a different browser

2018-09-12 Thread Bjoern Schiessle
Hi all, I'm sure some of you remember the anti trust case of the European Commission against Microsoft in 2009. The argument back then was: "Microsoft's tying of Internet Explorer to the Windows operating system harms competition between web browsers, undermines product innovation and ultimately

Re: to git or not to git

2018-09-14 Thread Bjoern Schiessle
Hi Andreas, On Thu, 13 Sep 2018 17:05:41 +0200 Andreas Nilsson wrote: > > If this is the case then I would suggest to seperate out the parts > that makes Github and others to have an upper hand and then see how > the parts can be countered using free software and free innovation. I wrote a blog

Nice success story about Free Software in schools

2019-05-15 Thread Bjoern Schiessle
Hi, i just found this nice article which I would like to share with you: https://www.financialexpress.com/industry/technology/kerala-schools-to-save-rs-3000-crore-by-using-linux-os/1577396/ The region of Kerala in India migrates all their schools to Free Software. "More than Rs 3,000-crore savi