Discussion June 2021

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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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Free software job hunt
by W. Kosior 14 Jul '21

14 Jul '21

Hello, I am the Pole who had his struggle to graduate without nonfree software during pandemic described on gnu.org[1]. I am now having anonther struggle - to find a free software job. Neither RMS nor local hackers helped me. Having 30 B1 posters hanged around my city advertising free software and my programming services[2] didn't do the trick either. So I resort to writing to free software mailing lists (I was told people sometimes advertise jobs there). Are you somehow able to help me with this matter? I think it's worth adding that if I end up going to a non-IT job it shall be an opportunity for people to once again mock the Software Freedom Movement 😕 And we don't want that, do we? I described my qualifications in [3]. I hope it would be possible to find some remote job or contracts since I don't want to have to leave Kraków. Wojtek Kosior [1] https://www.gnu.org/education/how-i-fought-to-graduate-without-using-non-fr… [2] https://koszko.org/en/ (this is where my posters pointed to) [3] https://koszko.org/en/cv.html -- website: https://koszko.org/koszko.html PGP: https://koszko.org/key.gpg fingerprint: E972 7060 E3C5 637C 8A4F 4B42 4BC5 221C 5A79 FD1A

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Save the date: Digital Sovereignty, Cybersecurity and Human Rights
by Lucas Lasota 16 Jun '21

16 Jun '21

Hello, On 23 June, 14:15 CEST, Lucas Lasota, FSFE Deputy Legal Coordinator and an Research Associate at Humboldt University of Berlin, will moderate a discussion on cybersecurity, human rights, and digital sovereignty together with Katerina Yordanova and Elisabetta Biasin from the KU Leuven Centre for IT & IP Law. The panel will be held in English. The Humboldt University BBB instance will be used for the event. Entrance is free but access is limited. To receive the link for participation, please send an email to sekretariat.zech(at)rewi.hu-berlin.de Hope to see some of you there! Lucas -- Lucas Lasota - Deputy Legal Coordinator Free Software Foundation Europe Schönhauser Allee 6/7, 10119 Berlin, Germany | t +49-30-27595290 Registered at Amtsgericht Hamburg, VR 17030 |(fsfe.org/support)

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Fw: [free-software-melb] FSM Jun 17th - Everyday Hardware for Free Software: Mobile Phones, Laptops, and more
by Jacob Hrbek 12 Jun '21

12 Jun '21

The Free Software Australia group is spreading the importance of libre hardware to the public. I suggest we support them as their actions are aligned with FSF* mission. -------- Original Message -------- On Jun 12, 2021, 12:50, Jacob Hrbek wrote: > I suggest to highlight the importance of projects such as https://www.powerpc-notebook.org/en/ which is a libre hardware development of POWER9 based notebook. > > Also I suggest highlighting raptor computers and their Talos II, but their development is non-free (schematics, boardviews, etc.. not publicly accesible under four freedom respecting license) even though FSF highlight them in respect your freedom campaign . > > Talking about projects such as kicad used to develop free hardware should also be a priority > > And highlighting the importance of breakout boards such as what pinepen is doing so that the end user can actually interact with the device easily on hardware level to avoid doing lots of jumper wires for programming the chips. > > I also suggest talking about ecology especially in this day of age the libre hardware developers should ensure that their devices are 100% recyclable while giving recycling centers motivation to perform the recycling e.g. using investment silver for traces to get the price for 30 USD per board recycled, but FR4 (the fibreglass holding the components on the PCB) is not great either as it produces waste.. I personally work on glass PCBs but that is not yet ready.. > > and the recent HUGE! win for the right to repair in New York https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SMByk0Oml44 people such as Louis rossman would be probably more then happy to talk about that with you. > > Sent from ProtonMail mobile > > -------- Original Message -------- > On Jun 12, 2021, 10:56, FSM Committee wrote: > >>>> Free Software is owned by its community of users and creators, for the benefit of that community, and of human society in general. Free Software respects the autonomy and privacy of its users — especially important in this age when so many companies base their business on control and surveillance of their customers. >>>> >>>> But all software runs on hardware, and similar considerations apply. In order to maintain control over our software we also need hardware devices that respect the autonomy and privacy of their users. >>>> >>>> This is a vast topic. My goal for this talk is more modest: A tour of some hardware that's friendly to Free Software, in the hope that you might learn about something you can use. My main focus will be on devices for everyday use: mobile phones, laptops, and single-board computers usable as desktop computers or as home servers, some of which I own and can therefore demonstrate live in the talk, and can speak of from my own experience. >>>> >>>> Devices I plan to talk about: Pinephone, Pinebook Pro, SOPINE A64 (from Pine64); Librem5 phone and Librem laptops (from Purism); Odroid-XU4, Odroid-H2+, Odroid Home Cloud devices (from HardKernel); Raspberry Pi 4; and possibly the MNT Reform laptop and GNUBee PC-1. >>>> >>>> Also, if you have some favorite privacy respecting or open hardware you would like to demonstrate or show off, you're welcome to join in at the meeting and do a brief lightning talk about it, especially if you have it at hand for show'n'tell. >>>> >>>> We look forward to seeing you at the online meeting! >>>> >>>> Details >>>> >>>> - Thursday,17th June 2021, 7:30pm-9:00pm >>>> >>>> - Join us at: https://meet.glasswings.com.au/b/fsm-iv6-tce-vpu >>>> >>>> - Short video intro to Big Blue Button (BBB): [https://www.y](https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=uYYnryIM0Uw)[ewtu.be](https://w… >>>> >>>> - Meeting Tips: >>>> >>>> - Be sure to test your audio on the way in. >>>> >>>> - Your mic will be muted when you join the room. >>>> >>>> - Headsets are recommended to reduce any feedback. >>>> >>>> - Code of Conduct: https://freesoftware.org.au/code-of-conduct >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Free-software-melb mailing list >>>> Free-software-melb(a)lists.softwarefreedom.com.au >>>> https://lists.softwarefreedom.com.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/free-software… >>>> >>>> Free Software Melbourne home page: http://www.freesoftware.asn.au/melb/

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2 discussions from Discourse
by Daniele "Mte90" Scasciafratte 11 Jun '21

11 Jun '21

Hi people, I wasn't subscribed in the mailing list but just on the forum (also if member since few years). I am here to share 2 discussion that I started on Discourse: * https://community.fsfe.org/t/there-is-a-list-of-projects-that-applied-to-th… * https://community.fsfe.org/t/how-to-get-in-touch-with-other-members-of-the-… -- Daniele Scasciafratte - OpenSource MultiVersal Guy daniele.tech <https://daniele.tech> - @Mte90Net <https://twitter.com/Mte90net> - GitHub <https://github.com/Mte90> - Italian Linux Society council member <http://www.ils.org/> - Mozillian <https://people.mozilla.org/p/Mte90> Mozilla Reps, Mozilla TechSpeakers, WordPress Core Contributor <https://profiles.wordpress.org/mte90>, FSFE member <https://fsfe.org/>, LibreItalia member <http://www.libreitalia.it/soci/>, Wikimedia Italia member <https://www.wikimedia.it/> and LUG Rieti founder <http://lugrieti.linux.it/>.

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We help projects adopting licensing best practices
by Max Mehl 09 Jun '21

09 Jun '21

Hi all, Today, we've launched REUSE Booster. This is a programme to help Free Software projects to adopt the REUSE best practices for copyright and licensing. Especially if projects contain multiple licenses or a more complex copyright history, marking this properly can become burdensome. REUSE assists with this, providing very simple guidelines and tools. In the end, you'll have a project whose conditions for re-use and copyright status are clear and unambiguous. The existing documentation and tools make adopting these best practices no rocket science at all. However, some projects might prefer a helping hand, especially if the licensing situation is unclear. These can now register for getting help by the FSFE's legal experts here: https://reuse.software/booster/ The registration is open until 8 July. If you would like to read some more context, please refer to our today's news: https://fsfe.org/news/2021/news-20210609-01.html We are looking forward to your project's registration. Please also motivate others to have a look at REUSE. Thank you! Best, Max -- Max Mehl - Programme Manager - Free Software Foundation Europe Contact and information: https://fsfe.org/about/mehl | @mxmehl Become a supporter of software freedom: https://fsfe.org/join

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