Dear Free Software lovers,
Last year on "I love Free Software" day we rocked the internet and showed the world how important Free Software is for us. Countless people in social networks and blogs praised various projects or aspects of Free Software. Our sister organisation initiated the cryptovalentine activity, and the EFF used this day to declare the importance of Free Software for digital security. We had comics, poems, pictures... well, look at the 2015 summary yourself [1]!
This year on February 14th we want to surpass it again: thank more contributors, bring Free Software in the broad media, reach more people. But we need your participation to achieve this, and there are lots of ways to support the campaign.
On the website [2] we have collected some ideas. For us, the best contribution for this special day are videos and pictures (see gallery [3]). For example, you at a special location declaiming a poem for Free Software, filming your FSFE group at a candlelight dinner, creating a comic or meme or lovely graphic... videos and images are worth thousand words and we can reach incredibly more people using them.
However, if that's not your kind of thing, feel free to do something different. Maybe the website gives you some ideas or you can look at the more detailled wiki page [4] where you also can find information on how to create a whole different campaign part.
Let's make this an unforgettable day for everyone in the Free Software community! We are looking forward to see your ideas on February 14th or earlier. Just drop me a line if you want to share your feedback or have any question.
Best regards, Max
P.S.: Please share this mail with your FSFE groups and with friends who love Free Software as well
[1] https://fsfe.org/news/2015/news-20150303-01.html [2] http://ilovefs.org [3] https://fsfe.org/campaigns/ilovefs/whylovefs/gallery.html [4] https://wiki.fsfe.org/ILoveFS-2016
Hi everybody
I see that http://ilovefs.org redirects to
https://fsfe.org/campaigns/ilovefs/2016/
but https://ilovefs.org redirects to
Wouldn't be nice that we had the correct redirect also in https?
Sorry to send this here, I'm not sure who's in charge.
Thanks
Hi Laura,
* Laura Arjona Reina larjona@fsfe.org [2016-02-10 09:28:33 +0100]:
I see that http://ilovefs.org redirects to
https://fsfe.org/campaigns/ilovefs/2016/
but https://ilovefs.org redirects to
Wouldn't be nice that we had the correct redirect also in https?
Sorry to send this here, I'm not sure who's in charge.
Thanks. Max is already aware about it. We hope that we will soon have a certificate for ilovefs.org.
Regards, Matthias
On 10/02/16 09:49, Matthias Kirschner wrote:
Hi Laura,
- Laura Arjona Reina larjona@fsfe.org [2016-02-10 09:28:33 +0100]:
I see that http://ilovefs.org redirects to
https://fsfe.org/campaigns/ilovefs/2016/
but https://ilovefs.org redirects to
Wouldn't be nice that we had the correct redirect also in https?
Sorry to send this here, I'm not sure who's in charge.
Thanks. Max is already aware about it. We hope that we will soon have a certificate for ilovefs.org.
Regards, Matthias
Hmm, to me it looks like there already is a valid certificate in place for ilovefs.org. It's the redirect destination that's given after setting up a TLS connection that's wrong.
# Giel Van Schijndel [10.02.2016 @ 11:18]:
On 10/02/16 09:49, Matthias Kirschner wrote:
- Laura Arjona Reina larjona@fsfe.org [2016-02-10 09:28:33 +0100]:
but https://ilovefs.org redirects to
Wouldn't be nice that we had the correct redirect also in https?
Sorry to send this here, I'm not sure who's in charge.
Thanks. Max is already aware about it. We hope that we will soon have a certificate for ilovefs.org.
Hmm, to me it looks like there already is a valid certificate in place for ilovefs.org. It's the redirect destination that's given after setting up a TLS connection that's wrong.
Yes, this issue is known. Thanks for reporting anyway!
I'm in contact with our Sysadmin, he's looking into that problem. I hope we can fix it as soon as possible.
Best, Max
On 2016-02-10 11:18, Giel van Schijndel wrote:
On 10/02/16 09:49, Matthias Kirschner wrote:
- Laura Arjona Reina larjona@fsfe.org [2016-02-10 09:28:33 +0100]:
but https://ilovefs.org redirects to
Thanks. Max is already aware about it. We hope that we will soon
have a
certificate for ilovefs.org.
Hmm, to me it looks like there already is a valid certificate in place for ilovefs.org. It's the redirect destination that's given after setting up a TLS connection that's wrong.
That is completely correct. The redirect works now as well.
# Paul Hänsch [11.02.2016 @ 14:45]:
On 2016-02-10 11:18, Giel van Schijndel wrote:
On 10/02/16 09:49, Matthias Kirschner wrote:
- Laura Arjona Reina larjona@fsfe.org [2016-02-10 09:28:33 +0100]:
but https://ilovefs.org redirects to
Thanks. Max is already aware about it. We hope that we will soon have a certificate for ilovefs.org.
Hmm, to me it looks like there already is a valid certificate in place for ilovefs.org. It's the redirect destination that's given after setting up a TLS connection that's wrong.
That is completely correct. The redirect works now as well.
Thanks a lot, Paul!
Best, Max
On 08/01/16 21:39, Max Mehl wrote:
Dear Free Software lovers,
Last year on "I love Free Software" day we rocked the internet and showed the world how important Free Software is for us. Countless people in social networks and blogs praised various projects or aspects of Free Software. Our sister organisation initiated the cryptovalentine activity, and the EFF used this day to declare the importance of Free Software for digital security. We had comics, poems, pictures... well, look at the 2015 summary yourself [1]!
This year on February 14th we want to surpass it again: thank more contributors, bring Free Software in the broad media, reach more people. But we need your participation to achieve this, and there are lots of ways to support the campaign.
One further idea comes to mind, I don't know if it is too late for 2016 though
14 February is typically a day when people are thinking about their spouse/family, depending upon where they are in life. I've noticed that when people retire from some free software communities or stop maintaining projects, they often cite "family reasons".
What does this mean in practice though?
It would be interesting to look at the relationship between free software, volunteering and the family. E.g. how does it compare to other forms of volunteering that impact family life?
Clearly, the family as a whole benefits from free software, just as a business or school is better with free software. Other family members don't always appreciate the benefit of what their developer-in-law is up to though, especially when the benefits are sometimes more abstract and long term.
Maybe FSFE could survey this issue and publicize some of the solutions on ILoveFS day 2017 (if this year is too soon)?
E.g. at DebConf this year there were many families who attended. FOSDEM does a city-tour for spouses. Free software developers often don't receive cash for some of the voluntary things they do, but there may be other ways their work could be more formally recognized, allowing them to show some tangible benefit to family members.
Hi Daniel,
# Daniel Pocock [10.02.2016 @ 21:12]:
14 February is typically a day when people are thinking about their spouse/family, depending upon where they are in life. I've noticed that when people retire from some free software communities or stop maintaining projects, they often cite "family reasons".
What does this mean in practice though?
It would be interesting to look at the relationship between free software, volunteering and the family. E.g. how does it compare to other forms of volunteering that impact family life?
Thanks for your input, Daniel. Sounds interesting, and it seems reasonable to have look into that.
Maybe FSFE could survey this issue and publicize some of the solutions on ILoveFS day 2017 (if this year is too soon)?
For this year this is far too short notice indeed. And I wouldn't even say that we should make this an ILoveFS only issue but build it on a broaded foundation.
E.g. at DebConf this year there were many families who attended. FOSDEM does a city-tour for spouses. Free software developers often don't receive cash for some of the voluntary things they do, but there may be other ways their work could be more formally recognized, allowing them to show some tangible benefit to family members.
As you noted, the first step has to be some kind of hard facts collection. Do you have some rough ideas how to do that? Ask a small peer group for their experiences in detail, or make a broader survey?
And do you, or anyone else, have other ideas how we could tackle this issue? What would FSFE be able to achieve? How could a solution for you personally look like?
Best, Max
On 10/02/16 22:33, Max Mehl wrote:
Hi Daniel,
# Daniel Pocock [10.02.2016 @ 21:12]:
14 February is typically a day when people are thinking about their spouse/family, depending upon where they are in life. I've noticed that when people retire from some free software communities or stop maintaining projects, they often cite "family reasons".
What does this mean in practice though?
It would be interesting to look at the relationship between free software, volunteering and the family. E.g. how does it compare to other forms of volunteering that impact family life?
Thanks for your input, Daniel. Sounds interesting, and it seems reasonable to have look into that.
Maybe FSFE could survey this issue and publicize some of the solutions on ILoveFS day 2017 (if this year is too soon)?
For this year this is far too short notice indeed. And I wouldn't even say that we should make this an ILoveFS only issue but build it on a broaded foundation.
E.g. at DebConf this year there were many families who attended. FOSDEM does a city-tour for spouses. Free software developers often don't receive cash for some of the voluntary things they do, but there may be other ways their work could be more formally recognized, allowing them to show some tangible benefit to family members.
As you noted, the first step has to be some kind of hard facts collection. Do you have some rough ideas how to do that? Ask a small peer group for their experiences in detail, or make a broader survey?
There seem to be a number of universities that have free software (or dare I say it, "open source") research groups looking at various metrics from the free software world. Maybe reaching out to some of them and suggest it is a worthwhile thing to study, see if any have an interest?
Other researchers (e.g. in social sciences, anthropology) may also be interested http://lwn.net/Articles/425897/
And do you, or anyone else, have other ideas how we could tackle this issue? What would FSFE be able to achieve? How could a solution for you personally look like?
FSF is updating their high-priority project list. I wrote a reply suggesting that the first group of things to address should be those products that make the home environment run smoothly[1]. Maybe that idea should be extended to include wider family. Many projects in this space seem to be constantly changing, that only causes irritation for people trying to share these solutions with other members of their home.
Another thing that comes to mind is further education or certifications. It is a lot easier for people to explain to their spouse that they have a goal, such as earning a masters degree or postgraduate diploma and they are doing a bit of free software work in their spare time as part of achieving that goal. This could be much easier to explain if the spouse has done something similar. Maybe it would be possible to build a public listing of courses or research opportunities that involve active free software participation in some way. People tend to be most successful in education when doing something they are intrinsically interested in. As an example, if they are already volunteering their time to work on something such as software packaging tools, that would be a strong hint that this is the area of computing that interests them most and they would be able to complete a postgraduate diploma in software engineering process and distribution practices, if they only knew where such opportunities existed.
Going back to the research idea, research could also involve a comparison against other hobbies, communities and volunteering. This might make it easier for us to identify ideas that could be extrapolated from other volunteer-based communities. For example, how do amateur sporting clubs or charities involve spouses or families of the people who participate?
Regards,
Daniel
1. https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreplanet-discuss/2016-02/msg00075.html
Hello Daniel,
On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 08:40:07AM +0100, Daniel Pocock wrote:
On 10/02/16 22:33, Max Mehl wrote:
# Daniel Pocock [10.02.2016 @ 21:12]:
As you noted, the first step has to be some kind of hard facts collection. Do you have some rough ideas how to do that? Ask a small peer group for their experiences in detail, or make a broader survey?
There seem to be a number of universities that have free software (or dare I say it, "open source") research groups looking at various metrics from the free software world. Maybe reaching out to some of them and suggest it is a worthwhile thing to study, see if any have an interest?
Other researchers (e.g. in social sciences, anthropology) may also be interested http://lwn.net/Articles/425897/
Thanks for this! I've been pushing off a more elaborated reply for weeks now and just created a ticket in the "action" tracker [1] as I don't foresee that I will be able to actually work on it in the near future. Hopefully someone else is interested to pick it up in the meantime.
Greetings and thanks again!
Guido
[1] https://action.fsfe.org/ticket/59