Re: Implementing a code of conduct?

On 11/03/2016 03:19 PM, Erik Albers wrote: Are you in favor or against having a general Code of Conduct? I think having a Code of Conduct is a good idea. I respect Mauricio's opinion, but in many otherwise good communities a minority of people sometimes fail to be as kind and respectf

On receiving an interview request from Uber

Yesterday, I received a LinkedIn email from a talent scout at Uber asking if I'd like to work on their core infrastructure. My reply: "Thanks for reaching out, but this is not something I am interested in. A bit on principle, as I won't work with Uber on the grounds that * their apps are not

Re: On receiving an interview request from Uber

On 12/17/2016 08:29 PM, Charles Cossé wrote: On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 12:13 PM, Daniel Pocock > wrote: If you own an apartment in a building with elevators, you have to pay service charges to the company that maintains it. With all due respect, where's the mo

Re: On receiving an interview request from Uber

On 12/18/2016 08:03 PM, Charles Cossé wrote: On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 7:35 AM, mray > wrote: On 17.12.2016 18:46, Charles Cossé wrote: > What would that matter? > The question is "why would it not matter?" Free Software seems like a sensible default.

Re: A dual license system for code libraries?

On 02/26/2017 10:09 AM, Simon Hornbachner wrote: Honestly, I don't think you'll find one, for the reasons I mentioned earlier. For any NPO with the main goal to protect and strengthen Free Software, buying yourself out of the need to comply with the GPL would just be inherently at odds with the

Re: A dual license system for code libraries?

On 02/26/2017 05:40 PM, Agner Fog wrote: This is the best proposal so far. But it still nags me that this gives proprietary software vendors a free lunch when they are actually quite willing to pay, while the open source movement has so many financing problems. Here are some low-hanging frui

Re: A dual license system for code libraries?

On 02/26/2017 08:26 PM, Agner Fog wrote: If our business models never involve releasing under a proprietary license, we're not contributing to the proprietary software economy, and that's that. Acturally, we are contributing indirectly if an open source library is used in proprietary softwar

Re: FSFE General Assembly Fellowship Representative Election

Hi all, On 04/10/2017 04:16 PM, Paul Boddie wrote: > Now, reading the candidates' statements, only one of the candidates mentions > volunteering and really only in the context of more of it being required, > which doesn't necessarily make sense if volunteer activities end up not being > partic

Re: Open Agriculture / Free (as in Freedom) Food

On 05/10/2017 05:54 PM, Daniel Pocock wrote: > If you are not comfortable putting non-free software in your computer, > have you ever thought about the non-free nature of the food you put in > your body? > > A group at MIT's Media Lab have started the Open Agriculture (OpenAg) > initiative and th

Re: negative campaigning?

On 07/26/2017 12:14 PM, Daniel Pocock wrote: > This was raised by Jonas in the thread about proprietary software, but > it is a completely different topic, so I'm starting this thread about > it: "we also don't do negative campaigning overall. We tell people they > should use Free Software; we do

Re: Making free games and profiting on it?

On 08/14/2017 12:37 PM, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: > On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 12:04:44PM +0200, Giel van Schijndel wrote: > (...) > I stumbled in the past on people doing that kind of things on > Patreon... a non-free webservice, in that the software that runs the > website and platform is not free

Meetup in Barcelona?

Dear all, with the occasion of the Plone Conference, I'll be in Barcelona from October 12 to 23. I'll be giving a talk about the Baobáxia project: https://2017.ploneconf.org/talks/baobaxia-the-galaxy-of-baobab-trees If anyone would like to meet up and discuss free software and perhaps have a

Is lack of software freedom a valid reason for refusal?

I imagine a number of situations: * Suppose I'm unemployed and dedicated to only using free software - I'm offered a job where I'll have to use Windows and Microsoft Word. If I refuse the job because of software freedom. Can I still be claim unemployment benefit? * I'm an unemployed programmer a

Re: Is lack of software freedom a valid reason for refusal?

On 09/22/2017 07:12 AM, Carsten Agger wrote: > I imagine a number of situations: > > > * Suppose I'm unemployed and dedicated to only using free software - I'm > offered a job where I'll have to use Windows and Microsoft Word. If I > refuse the job because of so

Re: separate GA and community meetings

On 09/26/2017 03:55 PM, Daniel Pocock wrote: > How do people in the GA and wider community feel about this topic? > > Would it be better to have a wider range of community members present > around the formal GA meeting in future years, or is it better to have > separate events? > > In out hackers

Re: Is lack of software freedom a valid reason for refusal?

On 09/28/2017 05:05 PM, Paul Boddie wrote: > On Friday 22. September 2017 15.57.26 Florian Snow wrote: >> Carsten Agger writes: >>> * I want to park my car in the city, but it's only possible to pay by >>> downloading one of two proprietary apps (real-world si

Re: community feedback on GA meeting agenda?

On 09/28/2017 02:22 PM, Jonas Oberg wrote: > Hi Daniel, > > In the interest of a structured debate, I'll let others chime in as well > after this, but quickly on point: > >> A simple way forward, changing it to a yes/no question, may be asking >> the GA to vote on the motion "The constitution is

Re: Meetup in Barcelona?

How does free software help to connect traditional communities? In our next meetup *Carsten Agger* (@agger_modspil <https://twitter.com/agger_modspil>) will explain the contrasts of helping to build the Danish government's infrastructure and the Baobáxia project, a collaborative system

Re: Free software and open source philosophies differ sometimes with radically different outcomes

On 11/17/2017 01:54 PM, Paul Boddie wrote: > Open source is not right wing, and free software is not left wing. > Nobody is saying that the software is one thing or the other. But I would > argue that people with a neoliberal perspective are unlikely to talk about > "Free Software": they will

Re: Free software and open source philosophies differ sometimes with radically different outcomes

On 11/17/2017 02:39 PM, Carsten Agger wrote: > > On 11/17/2017 01:54 PM, Paul Boddie wrote: > >> Open source is not right wing, and free software is not left wing. >> Nobody is saying that the software is one thing or the other. But I would >> argue that people with a

Re: Free software and open source philosophies differ sometimes with radically different outcomes

On 11/17/2017 02:47 PM, Carsten Agger wrote: > Admittedly, there's a lot of lack of ambiguity or clarity here. Argh, not a "lack" of ambiguity - there *is* a lot of ambiguity, sorry. > > Check out this very beatiful folder from one of our clients, the > munici

Re: Shouldn't we try to give a boost to the PMPC campaign?

One thing that might help ever so little ... Several of my colleagues signed the letter. My company wanted to support the project officially, including a donation of money, and desired to have its logo listed among the "supporting organizations". However, these can only be non-profits/civil soc

Re: Shouldn't we try to give a boost to the PMPC campaign?

On 12/13/2017 03:00 PM, Albert Dengg wrote: > On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 01:41:23PM +0100, Paul Boddie wrote: > ... >> So, maybe letting companies support campaigns is good for transparency, even >> if it might give an impression of self-interest amongst those companies. > well, we already did that

Re: 34C3

On 12-01-2018 13:39, Adonay Felipe Nogueira wrote: I want to make clear that I know no prooof that FSF is favoring Google by promoting Google's non-free software. Please if you know some, point it out. FSF is not doing anything of the kind. They don't recommend any non-free software at all.

Re: forums, mailing lists and other tools

On 01/18/2018 11:02 AM, Mirko Boehm wrote: Hi, On 18. Jan 2018, at 10:45, Daniel Pocock > wrote: The real questions: - can you trust a container to be available in the future the same extent that you can trust a package in a stable Linux distribution? - can you tr

Re: forums, mailing lists and other tools

On 01/18/2018 12:45 PM, Daniel Pocock wrote: If an organization like FSFE wants to know that the software, dependencies and build tools are all really free software then the "shortcut" to take is to use a Debian package because then you know somebody has checked all those things. Discourse i

Re: forums, mailing lists and other tools

On 01/18/2018 06:32 PM, Paul Hänsch wrote: On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 04:34:50PM +0100, marc wrote: The client-side Javascript to me is not a relevant issue anymore since JS is an open standard and browsers are sandboxed these days. I'd like to disagree with this statement. I fully agree with

Re: forums, mailing lists and other tools

On 01/19/2018 06:04 AM, Paul Hänsch wrote: And note, with this I'm only defending JavaScript for building user interfaces, which I think is far too powerful a tool to be discarded; generally, the Web is far too powerful a technology to be discarded. I believe this is a great misunderstanding

Re: forums, mailing lists and other tools

Hi Jonas On 01/19/2018 11:50 AM, Jonas Oberg wrote: By and large, I believe *where* a certain piece of code runs is immaterial to the question, and what matters is the interface the user of a service is subject to. As we know, throughout the history of computing, we've constantly moved the pr

Re: forums, mailing lists and other tools

On 01/19/2018 01:51 PM, Carmen Bianca Bakker wrote: Hi Jonas, Je 2018-01-19 13:30:09, Jonas Oberg skribis: And to follow up, since I can anticipate one answer :-), you can decide what runs or what does not run on your computer. No one is forcing you to run priorietary JavaScript from Google

Re: forums, mailing lists and other tools

On 01/18/2018 10:28 AM, Daniel Pocock wrote: There is an issue: a) if the JavaScript is distributed as minified blobs and we can't rebuild it easily from source, b) if a large application makes heavy use of things like the NPM repository for its build process A lot of developers have given up

Re: who is a member?

On 02/02/2018 05:52 PM, Daniel Pocock wrote: On 02/02/18 17:48, Florian Snow wrote: Hi Daniel, As far as I remember, the form said "Join the Fellowship" and explained that this was a financial contribution. If you go to https://fsfe.org and click "Become a supporter" it still shows the s

Re: Apply for membership and meet us at FOSDEM

On 02/05/2018 12:06 PM, Florian Snow wrote: Hi Daniel, Daniel Pocock writes: It is quite simple to explain: - the funds from fellowship/supporters pay the salaries and other major expenses (over 50% of the budget comes from fellowship/supporter donations) - but the fellowship/supporters o

Re: 34C3

On 01/12/2018 10:25 AM, Werner Koch wrote: The background seems to be a discussion on the German list (and maybe on some Berlin meetings) on whether it is acceptable that the FSFE takes donations from Google. In the aftermath of this one Berlin based member canceled their membership which tri

Re: Criticizing Google as a military contractor

On 03/29/2018 06:39 PM, Carsten Agger wrote: FSFE is an organisation which works for software freedom. As a sister organisation of the FSF, it considers proprietary software to be unethical, and the ultimate goal of the free software movement is that *all* software supplied to the

Re: Public Money Public Code: a good policy for FSFE and other non-profits?

On 14-06-2018 11:51, Paul Boddie wrote: Of course. There is a need to define the scope of such a proposal, and here you give an example of how some initiatives have chosen to do so: Oh, and what about firmware? I personally shall be damned because I download binary blobs to my hardware's RAM

Re: How Spanish administrations reuse software

Hi Erik A suggestion, someone to talk to could be Rasmus Frey from the Danish OS2 collaboration, https://os2.eu/node/332 That's a cooperation between Danish municipalities to build and share freely-licensed and publicly available products to replace proprietary ones, but also just as a way

Re: Input on anticompetitive characteristic of public code

On 06/21/2018 02:33 PM, Erik Albers wrote: * How can we oppose the argument that publicly financed software released as Free Software is anticompetitive? ' From a Danish perspective, the notion of free software as anticompetitive is completely ridiculous. The Danish public IT infrastructure

Re: Input on anticompetitive characteristic of public code

On 22-06-2018 08:21, Bastien wrote: But it's not just "free SaaS": any kind of SaaS comes with hidden operational costs which prevents a rational approach of what would be a fair price. (Google Maps prices, for example, were certainly not very fair regarding competition: they first killed the

Re: to git or not to git

On 08/28/2018 01:19 AM, Guido Arnold wrote: What I see as the crucial part is the "social" component. I'm afraid this somewhat derails Alessandro's intended discussion as my point totally ignores "who" the current owner of github is. If you have a project and are looking for more developers t

Re: terminating memberships responsibly

On 08/28/2018 10:43 PM, Daniel Pocock wrote: It was attempted in a very underhanded and juvenile manner, an administrative motion tacked onto the last page of a 9 page notice (attached), reading "The current Fellowship representatives' membership ends immediately after the this extraordinary G

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

On 08/30/2018 03:49 PM, Nikos Roussos wrote: This brings me back to the original question then: democracy. Annual elections and allowing all the community to participate can provide regular renewal. When somebody doesn't have the time any more, either they don't run for re-election or the com

Re: what makes a good president and chairperson?

On 09/03/2018 07:04 PM, Daniel Pocock wrote: On 30/08/18 10:17, Erik Albers wrote: And Matthias currently has full support by the staffers. Matthias could continue to lead the staff in the Executive Director role, given Jonas' recent news that he is vacating that role?  Could this be the mo

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

On 09/03/2018 07:18 PM, Nikos Roussos wrote: That's true for most associations, but even in these cases usually there are some limitations on how you get to be a member. In many associations, besides paying a membership, it is required that some existing members vouch for you. This provides

Re: what makes a good president and chairperson?

On 09/03/2018 08:04 PM, Carsten Agger wrote: Typo alert: As a long-standing member of this community (I was active on FSFE mailing lists yearvs before I became a Fellow, now Supporter, in 2009) That was *2011*. My apologies. ___ Discussion

Re: Silent majority

On 09/06/2018 08:51 AM, Timothy Pearson wrote: On 09/06/2018 12:25 AM, b...@gnu.org wrote: [...] Perhaps you should gather in a field, organize a tournament and come back when someone wins -- or have a good discussion somewhere IRL? [...] All jesting aside, I'm also tired of seeing this floo

Re: Strategy and serendipity

Hi Paul Thanks for your mail, which raised some points that are very close to what I myself have been thinking for some time now, albeit I believe with a rather different backstory. On 5/6/19 5:39 PM, Paul Boddie wrote: [..] > I think I often make the point that advocacy has its place in encour

Re: Strategy and serendipity

On 5/8/19 9:12 AM, Bernhard E. Reiter wrote: > The GNU project was started in different times. To me it has reached its > goals > and should have been called concluded for good. (See comments to my article > [1]). It's my understanding that GNU considers itself to be a project for the creatio

Re: Strategy and serendipity

On 5/8/19 12:55 PM, Bernhard E. Reiter wrote: >> The question in relation to your post is: What are the precise goals >> of the GNU "initiativ" (my terminology, explained in [1]) and how can they >> be >> measured and reached? What is having a "free operating system"? >> >> One that is is "avai

Re: Fairphone lessons (Re: Shiftphones details)

On 5/14/19 8:52 AM, Bernhard E. Reiter wrote: When trying to get a product out of the doors, you face a large number of small and larger decisions. First of all, the product has to "work" for the expected usage. Fairphone 1 was good in this regard, but Fairphone 2 a bit less so. Backing up and

Re: [nomination]for Fellowship Council renewal and activism

On 5/13/19 11:57 AM, Christian Imhorst wrote: Hi, I support FSFE and not FSF - among other things - because of Stallman. No question RMS did much good for the Free Software movement. After all, he founded it and he is one of the reasons why Free Software even exists. But I don't think he

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

On 7/1/19 12:12 PM, Paul Boddie wrote: > > Should people be OK with harmful organisations as long as they throw code > over > the wall or parcel out gifts to Free Software developers occasionally? Is it > acceptable for communities to be bought or bribed by corporate generosity > that > often

Re: Analysis: The use of open-source software by terrorists and violent extremists

On 9/11/19 9:29 AM, Alexander Sander wrote: > Hi all, > > fyi: a weird Analysis of Tech Against Terrorism initiative was published: > > Analysis: The use of open-source software by terrorists and violent > extremists - > https://www.techagainstterrorism.org/2019/09/02/analysis-the-use-of-open-sour

Re: Fairphone 3

On 9/23/19 10:05 AM, Bernhard E. Reiter wrote: > What are your experiences? > What is the best argument you could make for something if you wanted to raise > the chance of this person buying an FP3? I know, without having consulted the announcement, that I personally will be very interested in

Re: Fairphone 3

On 9/24/19 6:14 PM, Christian Imhorst wrote: > I have a Fairphone 2 since 10 month. It comes with Android 6 and Google but I > could flash easily Fairphone OpenOS, Android 7 without Google. I also use a > Galaxy S3 GT-I9300 with Replicant. Would be cool if we could have Replicant > on the Fair

Re: Fairphone 3

On 9/26/19 9:50 AM, Bernhard E. Reiter wrote: > 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

Re: How FSFE is organised

On 10/10/19 2:04 PM, Paul Boddie wrote: > Are we left to assume that whatever consensus was reached at this event is > the > reason for the FSFE being indifferent about possibly the most significant > licence compliance case in Europe in recent years? (One that was only > "settled" by the defe

Adgangforalle.dk - public money, proprietary license

Digitaliseringsstyrelsen (Agency for Digitisation) in Denmark have created an accessibility product called "acces for all" og "adgang for alle", which is basically a screen reader. It's available for Windows and MacOS, and for GNU/Linux-based operating systems it will work with an extension for Chr

Re: Adgangforalle.dk - public money, proprietary license

On 12/12/19 7:16 PM, Paul Boddie wrote: > On Wednesday 11. December 2019 12.57.10 Carsten Agger wrote: > Certain kinds of politicians don't want the state to be doing anything that > might interfere with the supposed "right" of people to make good money, > especiall

New Organisation directory tool

Minor report from the trenches of free software development, but a project for Danish local authorities I've been heavily involved with the last few years (since 2015, getting up to speed since 2017) made it to the Joinup site: https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/collection/open-source-observatory-osor/ne

Re: New Organisation directory tool

Hi Max Thanks for your response! I'd like to clarify a bit to explain the nature of the collaborations in municipal free software development here in DK - it's actually quite interesting: On 1/10/20 10:20 AM, Max Mehl wrote: >> https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/collection/open-source-observatory-osor/n

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

On 2/13/20 9:58 AM, Bernhard E. Reiter wrote: > It is hard work to "track" what the proprietary developers of the PDF format > do and it needs people that do this for years, which means they need to be > financed. We at Intevation were toying with how this can be done a few time, > but haven't

Re: List of payable jitsi hosters?

On 2020-03-20 12:57, Bernhard E. Reiter wrote: > Hello friends of Free Software, > > do you know a good list of jitsi hosters > that people can just book accounts or a server for their organisation? > > Similiar to https://wiki.mumble.info/wiki/Hosters ? > > === already found > the official way

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

On 2020-04-01 11:39, Bernhard E. Reiter wrote: > >> Meanwhile, asynchronous communications like e-mail keep >> getting the job done for many, despite continuing threats from the forces >> of consolidation and monopolisation towards independent mail (and Web) >> service providers. > It would be ve

Best video conferencing/distance learning tools?

I'm thinking og buying a low-power-consumption but powerful computer to set up as a video conferencing/communication server at home as a contribution to a very apparent need and as an alternative to FaceTime, Zoom and whatever. Do people have experience with this? I've tried having a Jitsi Meet in

Re: Best video conferencing/distance learning tools?

Hi Irmhild Thanks a lot! I think I'll go with BBB then. :-) Best, Carsten On 2020-05-01 09:14, Irmhild Rogalla wrote: > Am 30.04.20 um 20:39 schrieb Carsten Agger: >> I'm thinking og buying a low-power-consumption... >> >> I'm tempted to go with BigBlueButt

Re: Best video conferencing/distance learning tools?

On 02.05.2020 00.34, Paul Boddie wrote: > On Thursday 30. April 2020 20.39.01 Carsten Agger wrote: >> I'm thinking og buying a low-power-consumption but powerful computer to >> set up as a video conferencing/communication server at home as a >> contribution to a ve

Re: Best video conferencing/distance learning tools?

On 2020-05-04 16:19, Sandro Santilli wrote: > On Mon, May 04, 2020 at 10:23:11AM +0200, Carsten Agger wrote: > >> Thanks to everyone for the feedback! My BBB instance is now running, and >> for now everyone who wants can register as a user. Feel free to test it >> and als

Re: Best video conferencing/distance learning tools?

On 2020-05-04 10:23, Carsten Agger wrote: > > In the end, what I could get was not a smart "small box" PC, but a > small-ish traditional Dell stationary with four cores and 12GB of RAM, I > believe an i7. > > Thanks to everyone for the feedback! My BBB instance i

Denmark publishes coronavirus tracking app with secret source code

The FSFE has released a statement about this today: https://fsfe.org/news/2020/news-20200629-01.en.html I'm trying to pass it on to Danish media and politicians, hoping to raise enough discussion to make them reverse that decision. Best regards, Carsten ___

Free GDPR compliance scanner hopefully getting reused

From "my very own world", I worked on an earlier version of this project for three years (not all the time, though), but the latest version to scan local disk drives is a complete rewrite by two of our other developers, all written in Python and Django and some frontend stuff: https://joinup.ec.e

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

On 2020-09-17 10:04, Erik Albers wrote: Hi all, a friend is looking for a good Free Software Project Management tool that she says offers "similar experience as MS Projects or Asana", including Budget, Mile stones, task assignments etc. Anyone here has a good recommendation? At my job we're

Re: FSFE-defined coding standards?

On 2/11/21 11:58 PM, Johannes Zarl-Zierl wrote: Hi, Apart from the principal discussion whether FSFE is well-equipped to define "coding standards" without defining a scope for that discussion, I'd like to address the introductory paragraph that almost reads as FUD to me: The (F)LOSS ecosystem

Re: FSFE and promoting software quality

On 2021-02-18 09:55, Bernhard E. Reiter wrote: There has been some cooperation in the past (I'll have to look it up), this is why I know that it is not easy and a wide field. For most people, the quality aspect of software development is not what they are interested in initially. And in general

Fairphone should officially sell FP3 with a Free Software Only option

I just bought a new Fairphone 3, and the experience inspired me to write the following on their official forum. I think I was called to do this mainly because I really like th project and think it's a shame they focus so little on free software, now they've apparently got so many other things r

Re: Fairphone should officially sell FP3 with a Free Software Only option

, Carsten On 07.03.2021 17.26, Carsten Agger wrote: > > I just bought a new Fairphone 3, and the experience inspired me to > write the following on their official forum. I think I was called to > do this mainly because I really like th project and think it's a shame > they

Re: "Open Source Gardens" and Free Software

On 3/14/21 4:20 PM, Erik Albers wrote: Hi all, although it is not directly related to Free Software, it is very close and I thought the gardeners among you might be interested in a project some friends and me are running: The world wide seed market is heavily dominated by three chemical compani

Re: GNOME fndn. is actively violating the Freedom 3

On 5/10/21 2:59 PM, Jacob Hrbek wrote: The freedom to /improve/ the program, and release your improvements (and modified versions in general) to the public, so that the whole community benefits is being actively violated by GNOME foundation[2] which is causing free software projects to die[1

John Sullivan on free software and corporations

A really good discussion from the outgoing FSF director: https://www.fsf.org/bulletin/2021/spring/thinking-clearly-about-corporations For software to be considered free, its license must allow for commercial use and redistribution. Yet, free software as a social movement is to a large extent

Re: FSFE and the war in Europe

On 3/17/22 19:15, Paul Boddie wrote: On Thursday, 17 March 2022 10:13:28 CET Vitaly Repin wrote: Yes, FSFE is not a polictical organisation. But what happens now is beyond any politics. This is a full-scale war which happens now and here, in Europe. I feel that FSFE MUST issue an official stat

DevOps inspiration from Toyota Production System and Lean considered harmful

I wrote a rant against the idolization of Lean and Toyota among certain DevOps people. Originally it was the synopsis for a more thorough article which I don't have the time to write, so instead I present only the conclusions. Maybe of interest to people here involved in programming (or union wo

Fwd: New FSFE group in Denmark - Take part!

Hi If anyone is in or near Aarhus, Denmark, we are resuming our local group activities there with the first meeting being on Thursday: Forwarded Message Subject:New FSFE group in Denmark - Take part! Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2022 14:49:21 +0200 From: Carsten Agger To

Re: Invitation 1st International Congress on Democratic Digital Education and Open Edtech

Hi alle On 6/27/22 13:32, Lina Ceballos wrote: Hi all, We are happy to share with you the upcoming 1st International Congress on Democratic Digital Education and Open Edtech. It will take place in Barcelona, Spain on 12-13-14 July 2022 and it is organised by Xnet, University of Barcelona, Open

Re: Fwd: New FSFE group in Denmark - Take part!

/22 09:34, Carsten Agger wrote: Hi If anyone is in or near Aarhus, Denmark, we are resuming our local group activities there with the first meeting being on Thursday: Forwarded Message Subject:New FSFE group in Denmark - Take part! Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2022 14:49:21

Op/ed about Free Software in Danish newspaper Information

Øjvind from our Danish FSFE team had a feature/opinion piece in the Danish newspaper Information the other day, print edition and online: https://www.information.dk/debat/2022/08/baeredygtige-it-fremtid-benytte-fri-software-microsoft-google-apple Its headline is: "Our sustainable IT future mu

If in near Aarhus (Denmark), join our Local Group Meeting

The next Local Group meeting in FSFE Aarhus will be on THURSDAY, JANUARY 12 at Silkeborgvej 260, 8230 Åbyhøj at 17:00 hours. The location is kindly sponsored by Magenta ApS, https://magenta.dk. See also: https://wiki.fsfe.org/LocalGroups/Aarhus Topics will include * Campaigns * Activities,

Re: If in near Aarhus (Denmark), join our Local Group Meeting

On 1/9/23 18:38, Carsten Agger wrote: The next Local Group meeting in FSFE Aarhus will be on THURSDAY, JANUARY 12 at Silkeborgvej 260, 8230 Åbyhøj at 17:00 hours. The location is kindly sponsored by Magenta ApS, https://magenta.dk. See also: https://wiki.fsfe.org/LocalGroups/Aarhus Topics

News about the use of Google Classroom in Denmark

In August, the Danish data protection agency banned the use of Google's products in the municipality of Helsingør. If this ban is upheld, the use of Google Classroom in 40+ municipalities will be illegal. The agency has allowed Helsingør to continue using the product until supplying further

Life without the tech giants

On September 18, the FSFE Local Group in Denmark is organizing a talk about "Life without the tech giants": https://freely.modspil.dk/agger/et-liv-uden-tech-giganterne-mode-hos-prosa-i-aarhus (in Danish) We'll discuss how to build our daily software infrastructure on Free Software only, u

Re: Retroactive determination of "GPLv2-only" or "GPLv2-or-later" in an adopted project

at assumption, I think "or later" needs to be explicitly stated. I'm no lawyer, but that's what makes most sense to me. "or later" is a relaxation of the original terms that needs to be explicitly stated. best regards, Carsten -- Carsten Agger - ag...@fsfe.org

Re: Retroactive determination of "GPLv2-only" or "GPLv2-or-later" in an adopted project

On 7/22/24 10:56, Carsten Agger wrote: On 7/19/24 13:19, c.bu...@posteo.jp wrote: The project is under GPLv2. This is stated on Microsoft GitHub, in the license file, and the header of each code file. However, only the known standard text of the GPLv2 has been copied without any

On new and lost opportunities for free software

..." It's a good and thought-provoking read: https://is.efeefe.me/stuff/open-for-all -- Carsten Agger -ag...@fsfe.org https://fsfe.org ---https://blogs.fsfe.org/agger/ FSFE Denmark Coordinator, General Assembly & European Team Member Free Software, Free Society! _