July 2024 - SFD-discuss - lists.mailman3.com

Software Freedom Day update

by Jurgen Gaeremyn

Heya all, Last year this time, we had 8 events on the map. This year, we already have 18 events! Brazil is taking a flying start with 3 events right away! (see the map on the website for the most recent version, below is a screenshot) We have a very inspiring testimony <https://digitalfreedoms.org/en/sfd/blog/love-learning-and-libre-a-decade-of…> from Angélica M. Diaz Burgos from the SFD team at Bogota, Colombia. If you'd like to write about your SFD history... feel free to send me a message and we'll add it to the site. How's your preparations going? Are you trying out new things? I'm really curious, what things worked really great during previous events? System 76 is going an event in their factory, and they'll have things like a Software Freedom Bingo and a FOSS trivia quiz. Sounds like a lot of fun. Any tips or suggestions for new teams for what they really SHOULD do? If you have photographs to accompany it, that would even be cooler! Greetings, Jurgen

July 30, 2024

SFD Challenge from Huion

by Jurgen (Digital Freedom Foundation)

Heya all, Graphics tablet manufacturer Huion is awarding a screen tablet (Kamvas Pro 12) and two runner up prizes for SFD-participants (visitors and organizers) in an artistic challenge <https://digitalfreedoms.org/en/sfd/blog/art-for-digital-freedom-huion-chall…>. This can be a cool opportunity to organize a Krita, Blender or Inkscape workshop when you're having an event. Planning to organize an event, but don't know the details of what you're exactly going to do? Register your event soon and edit the content later. Go to our new website digitalfreedoms.org/sfd for more details. The blog has some crazy ideas <https://digitalfreedoms.org/en/sfd/blog/ten-ways-to-make-your-software-free…> for what you could do, there's a nice article by Angélica M. Díaz Burgos <https://digitalfreedoms.org/en/sfd/blog/love-learning-and-libre-a-decade-of…> (Bogota, Colombia). Would you like to see more of the website in your own language? Get in touch to proof-read and help translate. Current translations are limited by the language of the board team. Grtz, Jurgen P.S. Last year we had 49 events. Let's try to reach 100 events this year! There is no excuse for not organizing <https://digitalfreedoms.org/en/sfd/blog/what-is-stopping-you> it, it's easy to get started <https://digitalfreedoms.org/en/sfd/blog/sfd-is-easy>.

July 13, 2024

Fwd: Help the FSF at upcoming conference - Portland, OR; August 1–4, 2024 - Please Reply by July 18

by Jurgen (Digital Freedom Foundation)

Heya all, reaching out to our supporters living on the East-coast of the US or Canada (or maybe elsewhere in the world, but loving to travel) ... the FSF is having a booth at FOSSY in Portland, Oregon, Agust 1st till 4th and are looking for volunteers to man their booth. Anyone willing and interested to help our friends out there? Grtz, Jurgen -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Help the FSF at upcoming conference - Portland, OR; August 1–4, 2024 - Please Reply by July 18 Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2024 16:46:02 -0400 Free Software Foundation /Please consider adding info(a)fsf.org to your address book, which will ensure that our messages reach you and not your spam box./ Dear Free Software Supporter, The Free Software Foundation (FSF) will have a booth at FOSSY <https://2024.fossy.us/> (August 1–4, 2024) in Portland, OR, this year. Would you or someone you know be interested in helping us run the FSF booth at Portland State University? Doing so would involve face-to-face advocacy on behalf of free software, soliciting and accepting donations for the FSF, and selling FSF merchandise -- all to raise awareness and funds that power our campaigns. If you or a friend could help us, please let us know by replying to this email by Thursday, July 18. The shifts we need covered are: * *Day 1:* August 1, Thursday o 09:00 - 10:00 -- Setup o 10:00 - 15:00 -- Exhibit o 15:00 - 19:00 -- Exhibit * *Day 2:* August 2, Friday o 09:00 - 14:30 -- Exhibit o 14:30 - 18:15 -- Exhibit * *Day 3:* August 3, Saturday o 09:00 - 14:30 -- Exhibit o 14:30 - 18:15 -- Exhibit * *Day 4:* August 4, Sunday o 09:00 - 14:30 -- Exhibit o 14:30 - 18:15 -- Exhibit o 18:15 - 19:00 -- Pack up If you can help, please reply with answers to the following questions: * What is the best phone number to reach you? * Is it OK to share your contact information with the other volunteers or, possibly, the organizers? * Do you have access to a vehicle, and, if so, would you be willing to either bring merchandise to the venue and/or ship it back after the event? * Which of the shifts above would you be willing and able to take? * Will you need the FSF to get you an exhibit-hall pass, or will you already have a conference pass from some other source? Please let us know if you would be able and willing to volunteer your time. Conference booths are one of the most important ways we introduce new people to free software, GNU, and the FSF! They also raise funds that help fuel our work for the rest of the year and beyond. Thank you for supporting the FSF! Sincerely, Jeanne Rasata Membership Coordinator *Interested in helping us expand our reach?* Follow us on: Mastodon <https://hostux.social/@fsf> and PeerTube <https://framatube.org/accounts/fsf/video-channels>, showing your support for free, federated social networks. Get active on the LibrePlanet wiki: https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Main_Page Share on your blog or social network <https://www.fsf.org/share> that you support us, and why you do so. Join us as an associate member: https://www.fsf.org/jf; and display your membership button <https://my.fsf.org> on your website, to show how long you've been an FSF member. Subscribe to our blog via RSS <https://fsf.org/blogs/RSS> *Privacy Policy* Read the Free Software Foundation Privacy Policy <https://www.fsf.org/about/free-software-foundation-privacy-policy> Sent from the Free Software Foundation, 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor Boston, Massachusetts 02110-1335 United States You can unsubscribe from this mailing list by visiting the following link: https://my.fsf.org/civicrm/mailing/unsubscribe?reset=1&jid=168600&qid=89526… <https://my.fsf.org/civicrm/mailing/unsubscribe?reset=1&jid=168600&qid=89526…> To stop all email from the Free Software Foundation, including Defective by Design and the Free Software Supporter newsletter, click this link: https://my.fsf.org/civicrm/mailing/optout?reset=1&jid=168600&qid=89526470&h… <https://my.fsf.org/civicrm/mailing/optout?reset=1&jid=168600&qid=89526470&h…>

July 12, 2024

DFF on Peertube

by LM

There is a DFF Peertube account: https://tube.spdns.org/a/digitalfreedoms/video-channels If anyone would like to share videos of this or previous years' Software Freedom Day events, contact us about adding them to the DFF Peertube channel. Also, if you come up with any fun videos to advertise this year's Software Freedom Day celebration, we'd love to share them there.

July 2, 2024

Open Source podcast

by LM

If anyone's interested in an Open Source podcast or possibly being a guest on a podcast, this was mentioned on the Teaching Open Source mailing list: https://medium.com/open-source-science-initiative/the-first-episode-of-anot… If anyone can help volunteer to get the word out about Software Freedom Day by offering to be a guest on a podcast and speaking about their SFD experiences, that would be greatly appreciated. If you have any other ideas on how to get the word out about Software Freedom Day, please let us know on the mailing list. Thank you.

July 2, 2024