Hey all,
irregardless of the split in our community between privacy pragmatists
and privacy absolutists, I think we should take note of this step
Mozilla has taken, as I believe FSFE still has a Facebook page (last
active on September 21st as far as I can ascertain).
> Dear global community we’ve had the opportunity to interact with over the past several years here:
>
> We’re taking a break from Facebook.
>
> At Mozilla we champion platforms and technologies that are good for the web and good for the people that use it.
> We stand up for transparency and user control because they make the web healthier for us all.
>
> That’s why we are pressing pause on any Facebook activity. Mark Zuckerberg has just promised to improve Facebook’s settings and make them more protective, which is a start! Please do that! But we can’t help but think we’ve heard it before, so we’re still going to wait and see what materializes before we resume spending our ad dollars or time here.
>
> IN THE MEANTIME:
> If you need support for Firefox or want to tweet at us, you can find us here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/
> and https://twitter.com/mozilla
(Non-tracked link to the source:
https://web.archive.org/web/20180323091845/https://de-de.facebook.com/mozil…)
What do you guys think?
Best regards,
Jonke
Hi everyone,
I wanted to point you to this open internship position at the FSFE:
https://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170811-01.en.html
As you know, when the FSFE was founded, we put together a document
describing our self conception. That was 16 years ago, and while I
believe it to still be relevant, we'll be looking at making a new
committment towards a revised organisational identity later this year.
As a part of this work, we're looking for an intern to support the
process for 3-6 months, working closely with me and others in the
FSFE on analysing how the different groups within and outside of the
FSFE perceive the organisation's identity, which will then work
towards understanding how aligned they are, and supporting a
renewed committment towards a self conception.
We've already started the work, and will be looking for someone who
could jump on board quite soon indeed, so don't wait to send this
to someone you think might be interested! Work description and other
application details on the page above.
Sincerely,
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Jonas Öberg, Executive Director
Free Software Foundation Europe | jonas(a)fsfe.org
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Just wanted to pass this along from the FSF on this side of the pond in
case you haven't seen it yet:
https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/support-the-talos-ii-a-candidate-for-re…
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Timothy Pearson
Raptor Engineering
+1 (415) 727-8645 (direct line)
+1 (512) 690-0200 (switchboard)
https://www.raptorengineering.com
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Dear All,
For a long time, I’m planning to bring on the issue here that several
accounts of Free Software related projects, communities, people,
companies, etc. are quite active on proprietary social network but
barely active or not active at all on the decentralized Free Software
based ones.
Now that #DeleteFacebook hashtag is trending and the diaspora*
federation doubled its active users in the past weeks (see,
https://the-federation.info/), I do believe that it is a right time to
finally fix this issue and all of us be at least as active on these
decentralized Free Software based social networks as we are on the
proprietary ones.
So please, if you post with some regularity on twitter, facebook, etc.
post the same thing also on one of the decentralized Free Software based
networks. It is not difficult to do that, but it can have a significant
impact on when Free Software will finally also triumph in the sector of
social networks.
Also please pass on this idea and encourage others to do the same. (You
know, if I only convince 2 people now but each of them also convinces 2
people, etc. then in just 37 steps we will convince more people than
that are ever lived on Earth
<https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=2%5E37+people+%3E++people+ever+lived+…>…
;-) Seriously, I alone can only convince a couple of people but together
we can convince a lot and start a real social media Liberation movement
<https://www.ted.com/talks/derek_sivers_how_to_start_a_movement/transcript#t…>
now...)
Thank you!
Gergely
Hi all,
Even in 2018 people are not celebrating Christmas and Easter at the same time,
but at the FSFE, we will celebrate the FSFE community meeting and the Libre
Software Meeting (in the francophone world also known as RMLL) at the same time.
This will be from 7 to 9 of July in Strasbourg and you can find the official
announcement and the call for participation in the latest news-item:
https://fsfe.org/news/2018/news-20180414-01
In a nutshell:
- FSFE hosts an own track at LSM 2018 in Strasbourg from July 7 to 9. We are
looking for inspiring sessions for this.
- From 7 to 8 of July there will be an informal community meeting in parallel
and a formal one on July 9
- Many staffers, coordinators and team members will be present
- more details are still to come but the deadline to apply for a talk/session
is April 30!
- Very important: There is a travel budget and we are happy to help you
financially being part of the FSFE community meeting.
Any additional questions, please ask.
Ah, and please spead this call
Best regards,
Erik
--
No one shall ever be forced to use non-free software
Erik Albers | Communication & Community Coordinator | FSFE
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