praising our moderators

2020-02-24 Thread Mark Galassi
Mike> [...] One again, I ask that people please assume that Mike> moderators are acting in good faith. I would like to say that Mike and others who have moderated have done a very generous and good job. Mike, I hope that you realize that most people feel that way (I'm a physicist, so

feeling intimidated for endorsing the GNU social contract

2020-02-23 Thread Mark Galassi
Dear GNU maintainers, I wrote to endorse the GNU social contract and received an email which made me feel insulted and intimidated (this one said "F*** you", so not much risk of misinterpreting the language). I also got a sequence of replied from people telling me I was wrong to do so. These

gnu social construct 1.0 endorsement

2020-02-13 Thread Mark Galassi
I am the founder and co-maintainer of the GNU Scientific Library, and of Dominion, and I am GNU contributor since 1985. I endorse version 1.0 of the GNU Social Contract, available at <https://wiki.gnu.tools/gnu:social-contract>. Mark Galassi

one-paragraph comments on s/w freedom being more important than tech niftiness

2020-05-10 Thread Mark Galassi
Dear GNU folk, Long ago I had a conversation with a fellow long-time GNU developer. We were talking about how we had come upon free software in the 1980s and early 1990s. We were discussing how sometimes we had felt exhilerated by, for example, the coming of gcc, or gcc-2, which were so

does anyone here work with VR (virtual reality) ?

2020-05-30 Thread Mark Galassi
Dear gnu folk, I'd like to find someone who works with virtual reality. Ideally with a free software slant, but anything helps. The idea is a fund-raising opportinity for a free software endeavor. Let me know if you can think of anyone.

looking for collaborators for free s/w-based research for high school kids

2020-07-30 Thread Mark Galassi
Dear GNU folk, Last year I ran an experiment in paying students to work with research mentors on doing computational research deeply rooted in free software. A description of the Institute for Computing in Research is at: https://computinginresearch.org/ (note that it has a top level tab