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Re: Software Freedom Day 2023
by Frederic Muller - DFF Feb. 17, 2024

Feb. 17, 2024

Dear all, It seems my message didn't go out very well. So I am resending it. Mailing lists have moved to mailman3.com domain and is now: sfd-discuss(a)mailman3.com The current board is also resigning. I'll stay around to help out and ensure SFD runs again this year. If anyone wants to take over please let us know. Thank you. Fred On 05/05/2023 14:16, Jurgen Gaeremyn wrote: > Hello, > > We're planning for Software Freedom Day 2023 in Hackerspace Brussels > (hey... it's our 20th edition, we should celebrate!) We picked the topic > "Freedom in education" > > Is anyone else doing SFD this year? I haven't seen a lot of activity on > the mailinglist. Maybe we could meet in a Matrix channel? I created > #SoftwareFreedomDay:matrix.org where we could coordinate and exchange > ideas) > > Grtz, > Jurgen >

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20 years Software Freedom Day - and the future
by Jurgen Gaeremyn July 2, 2023

July 2, 2023

Dear Friends of Digital Freedoms, (if nothing else, please read the last paragraph with a practical question) Over the last 20 years, many people have stepped up to make Software Freedom Day big. Under the leadership of Frederic Muller, Patrick Sinz, Pockey Lam and Julien Forgeat - the celebration of Software Freedom Day grew further to an international event with celebrations in every continent, gathering thousands of people. Read more about the history on https://www.digitalfreedomfoundation.org/index.php/about On May 27th 2019, Patrick died in a traffic accident. He contributed very much to the French speaking Open Source community, was a friend to many and was also a loving father and spouse. The other board members were struck hard by this blow. This loss, with consequently the COVID pandemic and personal health issues, have lead the board into being less and less active the last few years. Recently it was announced on the mailing list that the complete board of the Digital Freedom Foundation have resigned and are looking for people to take over the task. Despite multinational companies growing into bigger and bigger closed source eco systems, great projects like Linux, LibreOffice, NextCloud, Inkscape and Moodle succeed in setting an example in an economical viable way, while still setting new standards for Open Source Software. It is more important than ever to give voice to the many great projects out there that choose to be available to every person on the globe, giving them the freedom to use, study, modify and pass on this software. Putting Free and Libre software front and center, is a core challenge of the Digital Freedom Foundation. Over the years, we gradually grew bigger and next to Software Freedom Day (SFD, since 2004) also added the Document Freedom Day (DFD, since 2008), the Hardware Freedom Day (HFD, since 2013) and the Education Freedom Day (EFD, since 2013) to their calendar. With the 20^th edition of SFD up the horizon, we need to look who is willing to step up and put in a helping hand for the Digital Freedom Foundation (DFF), who is willing to put their shoulders under respectively SFD, DFD, HFD and EFD? Are you willing and able to help think about shaping the Digital Freedom Foundation and help organize their events? Please fill out this Framadate page <https://framadate.org/OJEn7rqio6NX37LN> so we can pick a time slot for an online meeting. Greetings, Jurgen

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Software Freedom Day in Brussels
by Jurgen Gaeremyn June 12, 2023

June 12, 2023

Hello, We're planning for Software Freedom Day 2023 in Hackerspace Brussels (hey... it's our 20th edition, we should celebrate!) We picked the topic "Freedom in education" Is anyone else doing SFD this year? I haven't seen a lot of activity on the mailinglist. Maybe we could meet in a Matrix channel? I created #SoftwareFreedomDay:matrix.org where we could coordinate and exchange ideas) Grtz, Jurgen

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