Discussion July 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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Universities and schools with free software
by Tales Tomaz 18 Aug '20

18 Aug '20

Dear all, do you know of universities and schools that adopted non-commercial or free software solutions during this pandemic? Is there already any list of similar initiatives? I had a look at fsfe.org, but didn't find such a list. Thanks! Best, Tales -- Tales Tomaz, Ph.D. Researcher and lecturer in Media Policy and Media Economics Dept. of Communication Studies - University of Salzburg Sigmund-Haffner-Gasse 18 - 5020 Salzburg +43 662 8044 4195

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Free duty roster software
by Florian Schweikert 17 Jul '20

17 Jul '20

Hi, my girlfriend is looking for a software to create a clinic duty roster. The requirements are quite "standard", one doctor for early and one for late-shift per day (Mo-Fr). Also it is required (at least highly encouraged) that the MD doing the late-shift also does the early-shift the next (working) day. Does anybody has a recommendation for a free roster software that is suitable? I'm about to checkout optaweb-employee-rostering, anyone has experience with it? Thanks, Florian

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Free Software for live streaming
by Erik Albers 04 Jul '20

04 Jul '20

Hi all, there is the interest of a medium-sized German city to stream its city council meetings to the internet. They would like to use Free Software, are willing to spend some money for it and are looking for help now. Apparently there is OBS Studio in this area [1]. Theoretically, this could also be possible via Big Blue Button [2]? Does anyone here have experience with any of the mentioned software or in general with live streaming and Free Software and can share recommendations / pitfalls? Thank you and best regards, Erik [1] https://obsproject.com/de/ [2] https://bigbluebutton.org/ -- 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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