Discussion March 2020

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Mozilla: "We’re taking a break from Facebook"
by Jonke Suhr 04 Oct '21

04 Oct '21

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

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Wiki page about Free Software for remote working
by Erik Albers 02 Apr '20

02 Apr '20

Hi all, last week some people created the a FSFE-wiki page about Free Software solutions for remote working. I think it has grown quite cool and gives a good overview. What do you think? Is it good? Is there missing something essential? https://wiki.fsfe.org/Activities/FreeSoftware4RemoteWorking Best, Erik -- No one shall ever be forced to use non-free software Erik Albers | Programme Manager & Communication | FSFE OpenPGP Key-ID: 0x8639DC81 on keys.gnupg.net

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Anonymous Voting System
by Jan Wey. 31 Mar '20

31 Mar '20

Hello everyone, Due to not being able to gather in groups right now, I am currently in need to organize some online sitting of a group (25 ppl), probably via jitsi-meet. At some point, there will be votes regarding numerous things, which should be anonymous. Initially, I thought about simply using Dudle[0] (*NOT* doodle), where participants would simply not give their names (hence, anonymous). However, this comes with several issues. For one, we would be unable to confirm that everyone casted their vote. Secondly, if someone voted twice, we could not see that either. So there is some potential for manipulation. In order to avoid these issues, I came up with a simple system: - Moderator inputs 25 pseudonyms into some online tool (e.g. animal names). - Each participant opens a secondary URL to the tool, which randomly assigns them one of the 25 pseudonyms. Every participant should receive a different pseudonym, such that all 25 ppl have one unique pseudonym which is unknown to the moderator (and to everyone else). - The Moderator hence knows all 25 pseudonyms, however he/she does not know, who has been assigned to which pseudonym. - When filling out the poll, every participant gives their pseudonym. That way, double-votes can be excluded and votes from pseudonyms not in the list can be eliminated when counting. Now, while such a tool sounds simple in principle, I cannot find such thing out there... - Let a moderator give it a list of pseudonyms via some admin-interface - print one of the 25 names, when opening a second URL. This should consider, that some names may be taken by others already. Does anyone here know of such tool OR has a better idea to organize an anonymous online vote/poll? Thank you very much in advance! Kind regards, Jan -- Jan Weymeirsch (former intern) passionate european & FOSS enthusiast Encrypt your mail! http://jan.weymeirs.ch/gpg

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sandstorm.io easier hosting of Free Software collaboration tools?
by Bernhard E. Reiter 31 Mar '20

31 Mar '20

Hello, just discovered https://sandstorm.io/ Self description: Sandstorm is an open source project built by a community of volunteers with the goal of making it really easy to run open source web applications -- either on your own private server, or on our community-run servers. Does anybody has experienes with it? How helpful is it? What are the alternatives? Should we promote it more? Best, Bernhard -- FSFE -- Founding Member Support our work for Free Software: blogs.fsfe.org/bernhard https://fsfe.org/donate | contribute

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Voting and Free Software
by Matthias Kirschner 26 Mar '20

26 Mar '20

There is an interesting article on LWN about Free Software and voting: https://lwn.net/Articles/797557/ Several commenters argued that electronic voting itself should not be done. E.g. one of the first commenters (Roberto) wrote that: It is indeed pretty sad to see that in 2019 we still need to explain, again and again, why electronic voting is not feasible. I have been involved in public debate about electronic voting since the early 2000, when it was unfortunately introduced in France. Here is a recent summary of the key points, in English, that should make a nice reading. http://www.dicosmo.org/MyOpinions/index.php?post/2016/02/25/A-rule-of-thumb… Do you agree with this criticism or what do you think about that topic? Best regards, Matthias PS: Btw. there was also a good episode of John Oliver explaining this to a broader audience: $youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svEuG_ekNT0 -- Matthias Kirschner - President - Free Software Foundation Europe Schönhauser Allee 6/7, 10119 Berlin, Germany | t +49-30-27595290 Registered at Amtsgericht Hamburg, VR 17030 |(fsfe.org/support) Contact (fsfe.org/about/kirschner) Weblog k7r.eu/blog.html

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Request for translation help: Fevermap / GPLv3 mobile app to track the pandemic
by Otto Kekäläinen 24 Mar '20

24 Mar '20

Hello! I need to find people who know how to use git and speak German, Russian or Spanish, so I remembered I might have some friends here :) Would somebody like to help out and translate a new app I have been working on? The UI is very simple and it takes just 15 minutes to translate it. It is GPLv3 and source code available at https://gitlab.com/fevermap/fevermap To translate it copy, simply copy the en.json from https://gitlab.com/fevermap/fevermap/-/blob/master/app/src/assets/language/, translate it, and send it to me in email or submit it on Gitlab as a merge request. Thank you! - Otto

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"Awesome Free Software Site" www.afs.one
by Bernhard E. Reiter 24 Mar '20

24 Mar '20

Hi, recently discovered https://www.afs.one/ | Free Software Publisher Directory | Awesome Free Software One of the contributors is Jean-Paul Smets, well known last decade for helping to resist software patents. The idea is to find products and companies that actually make and maintain Free Software product with some info about them. What do you think of the approach and the site? Bernhard -- FSFE -- Founding Member Support our work for Free Software: blogs.fsfe.org/bernhard https://fsfe.org/donate | contribute

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Experiences with BigBlueButton or CodeMD?
by Bernhard E. Reiter 23 Mar '20

23 Mar '20

Hi again, about remote working tools with Free Software, just recently saw * https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton (web conferencing system for online learning) * https://github.com/codimd/server (Realtime collaborative markdown notes on all platforms.) Does anybody has experiences with those tools? Regards, Bernhard -- FSFE -- Founding Member Support our work for Free Software: blogs.fsfe.org/bernhard https://fsfe.org/donate | contribute

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List of payable jitsi hosters?
by Bernhard E. Reiter 21 Mar '20

21 Mar '20

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 -> FAQ -> Where can I get commercial support? -> https://community.jitsi.org/c/users/paid-work Forum ist just a forum for asking. Could be browsed for answers. https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/wiki/Jitsi-Meet-Instances is a list of public instances, but no info about if they are offering payable accounts/servers? Search engines find a few offers, some companies offer individual services and some couple it with proprietary elements. It would be cool to have a list for ready-bookable offers. :) == Remote working with Free Software Given that more people are looking into remote working, there is a need for good Free Software solutions. Quite a few organisations already start to collect link lists, though it is not easy as just a list is not enough in many cases. (FSFE started something at https://wiki.fsfe.org/Activities/FreeSoftware4RemoteWorking but it needs more work.) Best Regards, Bernhard -- FSFE -- Founding Member Support our work for Free Software: blogs.fsfe.org/bernhard https://fsfe.org/donate | contribute

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Collect old devices?
by Sascha Brawer 03 Mar '20

03 Mar '20

Does the FSFE accept donations of old devices, to be used as test hardware for projects such as Replicant, OpenWrt, Plasma Mobile, postmarketOS, etc.? Just a thought... perhaps the FSFE could collect devices and forward them to developers who’d use them for development/testing? — Sascha

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