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Re: [SFD-discuss] SFD 2020
by LM 01 Sep '20

01 Sep '20

On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 Benson Muite wrote: > Other possibilities: > https://aws.amazon.com/chime or > https://www.akamai.com/us/en/resources/cdn-streaming.jsp > https://www.akamai.com/us/en/resources/cdn-streaming.jsp > https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/cdn > https://www.cloudflare.com/products/cloudflare-stream/ > https://cloud.google.com/cdn/ > https://www.centerserv.com/Streaming/ > https://gcorelabs.com/media-platform/live-streaming/ > https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cdn/ Are any of these options Free Software in the sense that the Free Software Foundation uses the term "Free" and with source code fully available? Some of our local group includes Free/Libre software advocates and I don't think they'd go for a solution that wasn't approved by the FSF. Thanks.

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SDF on Social Media?
by Mostafa Ahangarha 01 Sep '20

01 Sep '20

Hi I wanted to know more about the policies of FSD official website regarding social media. There are two questions: * Why SFD social media account on twitter is not active? It is not leading actor in propagation of SFD. * Why SFD has no official account on Fediverse and in particular on Mastodon? Not asking to leave twitter but like FSF, the main account should be on some FLOSS platform. Regards, Mostafa Ahangarha

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Re: [SFD-discuss] SFD-discuss Digest, Vol 118, Issue 13
by LM 31 Aug '20

31 Aug '20

On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 8:00 AM SFD-discuss posted: > https://github.com/Haivision/srt/blob/master/LICENSE have been under MPLv2 > but https://github.com/Edward-Wu/srt-live-server/blob/master/LICENSE is > under MIT which is not a compatible Free Software License. > > If you have to blend these 2 to meet your purpose then you are not using > Free Software anymore but the blend will become a proprietary one. Freedom > once compromised then you are not having the freedom anymore brother. :) I thought MIT license was compatible with GNU GPL. It's in the list of licenses marked green on https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html#X11License It says FSF recommends Apache 2.0 over this license, but it's still compatible with GNU GPL licenses. I wish the FSF list was more specific over the licenses like the OSI is ( https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT ). It would be nice if they linked to the license text to confirm they are discussing the same license you're reading. By the way, both MPLv2 and MIT are OSI approved licenses. I know both the MinGW-w64 and the MinGW projects chose to move to MIT license for their runtime and API libraries and are using it with the GNU compiler (GPL license). Are you saying that if you use MPLv2 with MIT that it's no longer GPL compatible? Because either license on its own with code that's GPL is compatible. MPLv1.1 is an issue with GPL, but many projects switched to 2 to avoid that.

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Suggestions on how to conduct SFD 2020
by Tawishi Sharma 25 Aug '20

25 Aug '20

I recently attended few events on Hopin and they were really good. But hopin is not an Open source platform. Found this article while looking for os replacement for Hopin. Hope it helps. https://www.reddit.com/r/opensource/comments/gldyc2/whats_an_alternative_to… ~Tawishi

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Re: [SFD-discuss] SFD 2020
by LM 20 Aug '20

20 Aug '20

On Thu, Frederic Muller wrote: > therefore the map. Not sure how to display "online events" on a map > though. Suggestion very welcome! My preference would be to put the location of the group running the online event on the map. That way, you can connect with people in your area and possibly meet some time in the future when things are safer. It would be great if anyone doing a virtual online event mentioned that people from other areas of the world are welcome. If someone does not have an event in their area, they could check out one of those virtual events. > To LM: the date is really flexible as it is impossible to find a date > which will work every year in every country. So it's really what works > best in your area. Just make sure the date of your liking is specified > on all your communication, wiki, etc... Thank you. Good to know. In that case, I'll definitely try to do something virtually this year even if it's still a small core turn out like last year. I've been contacting tech groups in my area and so far, haven't found anyone interested in attending or getting involved. I've also been mentioning it on some social media sites and tech forums to see if we can get more new groups involved with Software Freedom Day.

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SFD 2020
by LM 20 Aug '20

20 Aug '20

Was just wondering when the SFD wiki would be updated for 2020. Seems like a good time to discuss SFD 2020 since it was just mentioned in the Document Freedom Day thread. Just attended a couple of Linux, FLOSS related meetings using Jitsi. I think it would be great this year to host SFD 2020 virtually instead of at our local library. We might even get a bigger turn out. I wasn't impressed with the ability to share slides over Jitsi especially if someone's running it from a mobile device with low bandwidth. However, I have some info/slides I put together on the web for a local tech conference. Could supply the web links for viewing information and slides and have the meeting for SFD via Jitsi. Think it would be fun. With World Tai Chi Day, everyone did Tai Chi from home at 10 AM in there particular time zone. Think it could be really great if any groups doing SFD this year virtually could schedule their sessions at different times (especially if they're already in different time zones) so that people could attend and participate in multiple virtual events. Would also be wonderful to have one page on the SFD wiki that gives times and virtual locations for all the virtual events. I'd also like to come up with some ideas for reaching out to people who may not have the latest and greatest hardware or who have low resource or older computers or maybe just mobile devices. Any ideas on that front would be greatly appreciated. Think now would be a great time to start planning for SFD 2020.

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Re: [SFD-discuss] SFD 2020
by LM 11 Aug '20

11 Aug '20

On Sun, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > I made notes on virtual meeting softwares here > http://www.berklix.org/meet/ > Lot of links. More welcome. Here are the FSF links to remote communications: https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/better-than-zoom-try-these-free-softwar… https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Remote_Communication My links on Internet communications and distance learning: https://lmemsm.dreamwidth.org/14124.html It would be nice to see the event list for 2020 available and a mention of what events are online so people in other areas could join in on those events as well. My biggest problem this year is that I have another engagement on the same day and it can't be moved. I'm wondering if I could celebrate SFD on another date in September or if I'll just have to wait until next year.

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