Hi all,
I had a closer look at the FOSS4SMEs website and would like to leave and
share some feedback. Sorry in advance for nitpicking ;)
- The title could be changed to something different than a "welcome
to...". What about "FOSS4SMEs - Increase digital competency in small
and medium-sized businesses with FOSS"? This involves both the website
title and the orange text in the slider.
- foss4smes.eu/the-project on "Why FOSS":
- I would add the argument of vendor independence a.k.a. decreasing
vendor lock-in
- change "hardware" -> "technology", the control includes more than
just the silicon ;)
- foss4smes.eu/what-is-foss/:
- open source was rather created as a marketing term for Free
Software, not as an "alternative".
- I don't quite like that Free Software is described as an
alternative. Actually, all software has been FOSS until the 80's.
But I see that most readers don't know this nuance.
- Regarding the confusion about the different terms, this article [^1]
explains it quite well. This "interpretation" is equal to OSI's by
the way.
- foss4smes.eu/the-consortium/:
- It could be good to add some short descriptions of the partner
organisations to this page, next to the individual logos.
- If that's too much work, make the links of the logos go to the
partners' websites instead of the larger version of the image.
- foss4smes.eu/category/latest-news/:
- All news are from 19 April which doesn't really make much sense.
Could you please change the dates to fix the order?
- Technicalities
- The website should be accessible via HTTPS, so with an SSL
certificate. Otherwise visitors will see security warnings, and
search engines may downgrade the website
- The website includes external resources from google.com, vine.co and
twitter.com and therefore leaks visitors' data to those companies.
In the light of GDPR and our visitors' privacy, can we disable these
external inclusions?
- The menus sometimes lead to blank pages. For instance, a click on
"FOSS4SMES" and "FOSS BUSINESS USER" in the navigation bar.
I hope this helps :)
Best,
Max
[^1]: https://fsfe.org/freesoftware/basics/comparison.html
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Hi All,
Please find attached the draft document for the training plan as discussed
in our last meeting. I welcome any feedback back or comments on the content
which may need further clarification. The description of
preparation material for the video content is to follow. I think this will
be clearer to myself and Brian Gillespie once we have completed a working
version of our unit. You can, of course, continue with preparing your
content without this information.
I will upload the reviewed version to Keybase next week after comments.
Many thanks to Katerina as always for her valuable input and assistance in
creating this.
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Dear partners,
this is to inform you that I have just uploaded in our common Keybase
repository the document:
- draft version of the Management, Coordination and Evaluation Plan.
File name: MCE Plan_20180111_v.01.
Where? In the Management folder.
Plase take a quick look at the text before our next telco, where we will
decide how to proceed with this as well as the documents drafted by Dlearn.
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Dear all,
since our team has more experienced partners than us in FOSS, I want to
take the chance and ask you all for the sources you are going to use for
the content development of your assigned Unit within the training course.
This will help us follow a uniform approach. Please suggest us with both
books and online sources. As you know within Unit 1 our topics are:
1.1 Defining the concept of "Free and Open Source Software" (FOSS) and the
difference with proprietary software
1.2 FOSS facts and myths related to FOSS theory and applications and the
different types of freedom
1.3 Licensing, rights and responsibilities
1.4 FOSS communities and their ways of collaboration
Thank you in advance for your support.
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Dear partners,
this is to inform you that I have just uploaded the IO1/A2 FOSS BU
Competence Profile in the our shared keybase folder.
You can find it under implementation -> Output 1 -> A2 -> FOSS4SMEs_ECVET
FOSS BU profile.
Thank you everyone for your valuable contributions and input to this
activity!
We have tried to do our best to put everything together and create a
consistent competence profile, adjusting the contents you provided in order
to make them look uniform.
To this respect, I kindly ask everyone to read the document and give
feedback where needed. You will find also a few explanatory comments at the
side of the text.
The last two Annexes are the standard templates for the Memorandum of
Understanding and the Learning Agreement.
The MoU will be signed by each partner as soon as the actual training will
be finalized, while the second one will just serve as a form to be used in
case of mobility (we don't have to fill it out because we are not actually
providing any mobility).
Please provide your feedback on the profile by the next Friday 6th July, so
we can finalise this deliverable in due time.
Wish you all a very nice and relaxing weekend!
Best,
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Dear partners,
As agreed I've compiled a strategy to enable us to release the material
we create to the public in order to make it reusable and improvable for
others. Please see the first version attached and provide your feedback
until the end of July.
Short summary: I propose using CC BY-SA 4.0 by default which allows
others to use and reuse the material if they give credit to us (the
project) and keep the licensing terms equal. Alternatively, for some
edge cases, we can also allow CC0, e.g. for small graphics.
You can find the document attached and in keybase.
Best,
Max
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