Here in the college where I study in Brazil I'm also doing some similar effort, although I do this in college/university still.
Last year I made an edition of the Latin American Free Software Installation Festival (in portuguese: Festival Latino-americano de Instalação de Software Livre, FLISoL) in the city of Balneário Camboriú, where I made a 40min introduction to free/libre software *philosophy* and its members as important stakeholders for society and sustainability. I'm not going to dwelve into how many people attended the speech because what matters is the quality of the message, which as far as I can tell was great. ;) Next year I'll try to do the same, in the same college, if my time, patience and money is found to be enough. Right now I'm struggling to find a job or a way to receive money for the work I do as free/libre software activist while still being compliant with local tributes/tax laws. Donations and registering as an autonomous professional could be a way, but I don't know how this works in case I receive donations and how could I prove that these came thanks to my services. First I sought advice from municipality's mayor/management office, but no single reply yet, now I'm looking for other local organizations that might help (in fact, I do have a list which I'll try to contact now, hoping that they don't sell me "the next course that requires non-free software through web browser in order to attend"). ;) Finally, I'm also writing a Bachelor's degree final work on the subject of university management, teaching-learning process and the importance of free/libre software *philosophy* in these cases ([2]). [1] <https://flisol.info/FLISOL2017/Brasil/BalnearioCamboriu>. [2] <https://notabug.org/adfeno/Trabalho_sobre_gestao_universitaria>. 2017-11-24T01:45:53+0100 [email protected] wrote: > This is a good book on that topic: > https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/fsfs/rms-essays.pdf > > People buy the things that fbit mentions because they do not know any > better and/or conditioning. If part of the RMS' books can be distilled > into some more digestable format to explain to people the importance > of privacy and the four freedoms, things may change. This whole new > technology is just that, new. It has not been legislated and regulated > yet. Right now commercial enterprise does as they want with user data, > this should not be so. Proprietary software is used for government and > education. This should not be so. When you try to explain the > importance of free software to others, their eyes glaze over or they > ask, "can you install it on Windows?". Even so-called sophisticated > computer users and technicians who know better, buy these very things > that violate privacy. Some do so automatically because everybody else > buys it and advertising, others because there is money in it as a > developer. The idea of FSF and Libre software usually enters people's > minds when they reach university. By then, they have been > indoctrinated into the proprietary stuff that it is tough to break out > of the loop. Educate these ideas to youngsters, explain to them the > importance of free software to a society that wants to be free. It is > like educating the importance of taking care of the environment. Libre > software and the environment should go hand-in-hand. Libre software > ought be taught in schools and used as tools to teach > with. Proprietary whatever has no place in government or educational > spaces. Do we write to our senator to ask that Libre software be part > of social fabric of our society? Perhaps now is the time. > > Time to take Free Software Free Society to primary schools, libraries, > community centres and any other such civic engagment. RMS' book is > still obscure and this should not be so. > -- - https://libreplanet.org/wiki/User:Adfeno - Palestrante e consultor sobre /software/ livre (não confundir com gratis). - "WhatsApp"? Ele não é livre. Por favor, veja formas de se comunicar instantaneamente comigo no endereço abaixo. - Contato: https://libreplanet.org/wiki/User:Adfeno#vCard - Arquivos comuns aceitos (apenas sem DRM): Corel Draw, Microsoft Office, MP3, MP4, WMA, WMV. - Arquivos comuns aceitos e enviados: CSV, GNU Dia, GNU Emacs Org, GNU GIMP, Inkscape SVG, JPG, LibreOffice (padrão ODF), OGG, OPUS, PDF (apenas sem DRM), PNG, TXT, WEBM.
