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Re: [SFD-discuss] Countdown available in English and French for now

by Mostafa Ahangarha

Hi I just wanted to know how I can help with Persian one. I think we in Iran (or even Afghanistan) will celebrate SFD one day before the official day since we have Friday as holiday Iran and Afghanistan. Yet I am not sure if this would be the decision for all (possible) teams. How this could be managed? -- Regards, Mostafa Ahangarha

June 28, 2021

Re: [SFD-discuss] SFD 2021 Preparation

by Mostafa Ahangarha

> We didn't die, Covid made us VERY uncomfortable to generate meetings. > One year later....here we are... I forgot to say I am happy that all of us are alive :D. We all passed a horrible year. Thanks for links you shared with me regarding social media and hashtags. Regarding the fact that Mastodon is getting more and more popularity and is already very much settled as the main FLOSS social media for many individuals and organizations (including FSFE and FSF) I think we need to consider it seriously. SFD should be be an example for others on how to opt ethical social platforms and start migration gradually. I think I shared this last year as well that we in Iran tried to introduce Mastodon (and in general Fediverse) to participants in 2019. We asked people to make account on different instances and share their comments about the program and then read them between each presentation. It was very good and I think very successful. I am not advocating to use only Mastodon and leave twitter (or other platforms). I am simply requesting to consider Mastodon as the primary account or at least one of them. We can discuss about the possible challenges. > We need to test and find out what works best for us, knowing "us" is a > wi(l)de community and we don't have a one size fit all. Sure. And I am not thinking about one solution for everyone. We can just suggest the possible option to hold SFD without compromising. I will try to share my thoughts on the relevant wiki page. -- Regards, Mostafa Ahangarha

June 28, 2021

Re: [SFD-discuss] SFD 2021 Preparation

by Ali Reza Hayati

On Mon, 28 Jun 2021 21:31:03 +0700 Frederic Muller - DFF <fred(a)digitalfreedomfoundation.org> wrote: > which basically gives our different addresses and hashtags. For this > year it says: "For twitter, flickr and any service using hashtags, our > tag is #softwarefreedomday or #sfd(plus)year e.g. #sfd2021 for year 2021 Should there be such notice, and a Facebook address? Like we're trying to invite people avoid such networks, not to invite them participate in Software Freedom Day using privacy-violating networks. Needless to mention that those networks make people run nonfree JavaScript. > Ok... we're still struggling to log back into Twitter because... you > know what?... not really into those SN private/I still your data/but I > don't tell you things. And I never tell anyone when I hurt my foot. What's the matter? Is there anything we can help? > > - Let's have an account on Mastodon (on fediverse). > mmm... I'm not sure. SN comes and goes. Over the past (almost!) 20 years > we've had our shares of different ones. However we would be more than > happy if someone can help us and take care of what they think matters. > We can discuss further, and with pleasure. Mastodon is a decentralized federated social network made by free software (licensed under AGPL) and many free software organizations like FSF and GNOME are active there. It would be wonderful if we make an account there. Postings to/from Twitter and Mastodon can be automatic using some bots/services. Also, I don't think "we had some accounts on some social networks 20 years ago" is a good excuse to avoid a popular ethical social network. In fact, we should be happy that such software and network exist and we can invite people to participate in that, instead of an unethical nonfree network. > > - Make a guideline for people to know how to celebrate SFD during the > > pandemic including hold an online program on ethical/FLOSS platforms. > > > So we have a start "something" here: > https://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/VideoConferencing > > and it is a work in progress. > I don't think that's what Ahangarha meant. I believe he meant something like inviting people to post that hashtag or join us fixing that bug or talk about free software and their rights with your friends kind of thing. Happy hacking everybody. -- Ali Reza Hayati (https://alirezahayati.com) Free culture activist and privacy advocate

June 28, 2021

Re: [SFD-discuss] SFD 2021 Preparation

by Frederic Muller - DFF

Hi! Please find answers below: On 6/28/21 9:03 PM, Mostafa Ahangarha wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I am happy to see SFD is still alive. I have these points: We didn't die, Covid made us VERY uncomfortable to generate meetings. One year later....here we are... > > - Lets choose one hashtag so we can find each other easier on social > media. Is SFD2021 good? We already have "everything" documented. If you missed it, we have a social media #hashtag page here: https://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/SocialNetworks which basically gives our different addresses and hashtags. For this year it says: "For twitter, flickr and any service using hashtags, our tag is #softwarefreedomday or #sfd(plus)year e.g. #sfd2021 for year 2021 Ok... we're still struggling to log back into Twitter because... you know what?... not really into those SN private/I still your data/but I don't tell you things. And I never tell anyone when I hurt my foot. > - Let's have an account on Mastodon (on fediverse). mmm... I'm not sure. SN comes and goes. Over the past (almost!) 20 years we've had our shares of different ones. However we would be more than happy if someone can help us and take care of what they think matters. We can discuss further, and with pleasure. > - Make a guideline for people to know how to celebrate SFD during the > pandemic including hold an online program on ethical/FLOSS platforms. > So we have a start "something" here: https://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/VideoConferencing and it is a work in progress. Now we are a community and this information come from Julian and lmemsm. We need to test and find out what works best for us, knowing "us" is a wi(l)de community and we don't have a one size fit all. Again... please try things and give us your feedback. It really helps. Thank you and happy preparation. Fred

June 28, 2021

Re: [SFD-discuss] Countdown -Chinese Simplified added

by Luna Jernberg

Updated the Swedish Countdown, not sure if everything is correct however, as i am not really used to translating .SVG images more used to .po, .xliff, .md files etc On Mon, Jun 28, 2021 at 9:09 AM Frederic Muller - DFF < fred(a)digitalfreedomfoundation.org> wrote: > Sure! > > Swedish is not available. You can find all the instructions here: > https://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/CountDown > > but in short: > 1. Get the English template here: > > https://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/CountDown/en?action=AttachFile&do=get&t… > 2. Get the fonts on your system: We've used VDS Fonts and Averia fonts > and SFD logo fonts (Font is Ubuntu Bold Italic: 20% tracking, 10% > leading) with specific changes being: > Flat-bottom and broken-barred 'f' > Flat-topped 't' > Straight descending 'y' > more here: https://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/Logo ) > 3. Then open and edit in Inkscape. > 4. when all done we ll help with the wiki page > > Please let us know if you have specific questions. > > Thank you. > > Fred > > On 6/28/21 1:37 PM, Luna Jernberg wrote: > > Hello! > > > > Can do Swedish if you don't have that is there somewhere to find the > > file/template/how to translate? >

June 28, 2021

SFD 2021 Preparation

by Mostafa Ahangarha

Hi everyone, I am happy to see SFD is still alive. I have these points: - Lets choose one hashtag so we can find each other easier on social media. Is SFD2021 good? - Let's have an account on Mastodon (on fediverse). - Make a guideline for people to know how to celebrate SFD during the pandemic including hold an online program on ethical/FLOSS platforms. -- Regards, Mostafa Ahangarha

June 28, 2021

Re: [SFD-discuss] Countdown -Chinese Traditional added

by Frederic Muller - DFF

And that's it! Traditional Chinese is done too. We might look into this "SVG" feature again... as this is very timely to generate each PNG one by one. Thank you .. and happy SFD preparation! Fred On 6/28/21 1:35 PM, Frederic Muller - DFF wrote: > Next will be Traditional Chinese, unless someone beat us to it with > another language. > > Thank you. > > Fred > > On 6/27/21 8:49 PM, Frederic Muller - DFF wrote: >> Dear all, >> >> We just enabled English and French (had to do 70 pngs...). We'll do >> the language we speak and for existing ones, it's only 3 images to >> redo. Those languages are: >> - Portuguese-Brasil >> - Portuguese-Portugal >> - Spanish >> - Catalan >> - Serbian Cyrillic >> - Serbian Latin >> - Estonian >> - Arabic >> - Greek >> >> Then some languages have been done but not up to 83 days before SFD. >> Those are: >> - German >> - Ukrainian >> - Russian >> - Persian >> >> And then.. the others need to be done from scratch if needed. >> >> Thank you for your help in the matter. >> >> Fred

June 28, 2021

Re: [SFD-discuss] Countdown -Chinese Simplified added

by Frederic Muller - DFF

Sure! Swedish is not available. You can find all the instructions here: https://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/CountDown but in short: 1. Get the English template here: https://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/CountDown/en?action=AttachFile&do=get&t… 2. Get the fonts on your system: We've used VDS Fonts and Averia fonts and SFD logo fonts (Font is Ubuntu Bold Italic: 20% tracking, 10% leading) with specific changes being: Flat-bottom and broken-barred 'f' Flat-topped 't' Straight descending 'y' more here: https://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/Logo ) 3. Then open and edit in Inkscape. 4. when all done we ll help with the wiki page Please let us know if you have specific questions. Thank you. Fred On 6/28/21 1:37 PM, Luna Jernberg wrote: > Hello! > > Can do Swedish if you don't have that is there somewhere to find the > file/template/how to translate?

June 28, 2021

Re: [SFD-discuss] Countdown -Chinese Simplified added

by Luna Jernberg

Hello! Can do Swedish if you don't have that is there somewhere to find the file/template/how to translate? On Mon, Jun 28, 2021 at 8:36 AM Frederic Muller - DFF < fred(a)digitalfreedomfoundation.org> wrote: > Next will be Traditional Chinese, unless someone beat us to it with > another language. > > Thank you. > > Fred > > On 6/27/21 8:49 PM, Frederic Muller - DFF wrote: > > Dear all, > > > > We just enabled English and French (had to do 70 pngs...). We'll do the > > language we speak and for existing ones, it's only 3 images to redo. > > Those languages are: > > - Portuguese-Brasil > > - Portuguese-Portugal > > - Spanish > > - Catalan > > - Serbian Cyrillic > > - Serbian Latin > > - Estonian > > - Arabic > > - Greek > > > > Then some languages have been done but not up to 83 days before SFD. > > Those are: > > - German > > - Ukrainian > > - Russian > > - Persian > > > > And then.. the others need to be done from scratch if needed. > > > > Thank you for your help in the matter. > > > > Fred > > > _______________________________________________ > SFD-discuss mailing list > SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss >

June 28, 2021

Re: [SFD-discuss] Countdown -Chinese Simplified added

by Frederic Muller - DFF

Next will be Traditional Chinese, unless someone beat us to it with another language. Thank you. Fred On 6/27/21 8:49 PM, Frederic Muller - DFF wrote: > Dear all, > > We just enabled English and French (had to do 70 pngs...). We'll do the > language we speak and for existing ones, it's only 3 images to redo. > Those languages are: > - Portuguese-Brasil > - Portuguese-Portugal > - Spanish > - Catalan > - Serbian Cyrillic > - Serbian Latin > - Estonian > - Arabic > - Greek > > Then some languages have been done but not up to 83 days before SFD. > Those are: > - German > - Ukrainian > - Russian > - Persian > > And then.. the others need to be done from scratch if needed. > > Thank you for your help in the matter. > > Fred

June 28, 2021