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

Thank you

by LM

Thank you to everyone who helped make this year's Software Freedom Day, 2024 special. Good luck to those who are running later events this year. The official 2024 highlights page is up: https://digitalfreedoms.org/en/sfd/blog/software-freedom-day-2024-highlights If you have videos, pictures, recordings, articles or other resources you'd like to see added, please let us know. Again, thanks to everyone who participated. Is it too early to start brainstorming for 2025? What would you like to do differently for next year?

Sept. 22, 2024

Re: Looking for logging software for entering daily results from a fingertip blood glucose meter

by Don Saklad

Looking for logging software for entering daily results from a fingertip blood glucose meter that isn't meter manufacturer software in an app with unknown stuff ! or is there a better List to ask about this, a better resource of free software advocates? Any other hints, tips, pointers, ideas? in addition to... Finding Alternative Software for Blood Glucose Meter Data Understanding the Need: It's understandable to want more control and transparency over your blood glucose data. Many people prefer to have options beyond the default app provided by the meter manufacturer. Here are some avenues to explore: 1. Third-Party Health Apps: MyFitnessPal: This popular calorie-tracking app often integrates with blood glucose meters. HealthKit (iOS): If your meter supports HealthKit, you can sync your data to various health apps. Google Fit: For Android users, Google Fit can often integrate with health devices. 2. Dedicated Blood Glucose Tracking Apps: Carb Manager: While primarily known for carb tracking, it often supports blood glucose meters. Diabetologist: This app is specifically designed for diabetes management and may offer advanced features. 3. Cloud-Based Platforms: Nightscout: This open-source platform allows you to upload your data and visualize it in various ways. Dexcom Share: While primarily for CGM data, it might have options for integrating blood glucose meter data. 4. DIY Solutions: LibreLink Up: If you use a Libre sensor, you can use this app to upload data and share it with others. Custom Software: If you're tech-savvy, you could explore creating your own software or using APIs to connect your meter to a custom solution. Important Considerations: Compatibility: Ensure the software you choose is compatible with your specific blood glucose meter model. Data Security: Be cautious about sharing your health data with third-party apps. Research their privacy policies and security measures. Features: Consider what features you need, such as trend analysis, meal logging, or integration with other health devices. Additional Tips: Check Meter Manufacturer's Website: Sometimes, the manufacturer may offer alternative software options or APIs for developers. Online Forums: Communities like Reddit or diabetes-specific forums might have recommendations or discussions about different software options. Consult with Your Healthcare Provider: They may have specific suggestions or insights based on your needs and preferences. By exploring these options, you can likely find a suitable solution that gives you more control over your blood glucose data and better aligns with your preferences.

Sept. 21, 2024

Re: Looking for software for daily results from a fingertip blood glucose meter

by jurgen (Digital Freedom Foundation)

Hi Don, I found a few resources, but it seems the software is always strongly tied to open hardware - and still in prototyping phases. I found these results: * https://blog.arduino.cc/2021/06/02/diafit-is-a-customizable-glucose-monitor… * https://forum.arduino.cc/t/glucometer-with-max30102/1179083/4 It appears these are non-invasive, so won't be measuring blood values (probably making them less reliable) A lot will obviously depend on how technical you are and what level of tinkering you find acceptable. I'm not at all familiar with the world of biomedical devices, but from what I understand, it's mainly a matter of being able to communicate with the device. If you have a blood glucose meter already, you could search for that brand and model combined with terms like "reverse engineering". Have been trying to find what kind of sensor would be used to measure glucose levels in the blood. Couldn't immediately find a result for this, but maybe you can help me on that one. Once we have that, we can search further. What region are you from? This sounds like an interesting project to take on with people in a hackerspace. Greetings, Jurgen On 21/09/2024 02:37, Don Saklad wrote: > Looking for software for daily results from a fingertip blood glucose > meter that isn't the meter manufacturer's software in an app with > unknown stuff ! or is there a better List to ask about this, a better > List for free software advocates? > _______________________________________________ > SFD-discuss mailing list --sfd-discuss(a)mailman3.com > To unsubscribe send an email tosfd-discuss-leave(a)mailman3.com

Sept. 21, 2024

Looking for software for daily results from a fingertip blood glucose meter

by Don Saklad

Looking for software for daily results from a fingertip blood glucose meter that isn't the meter manufacturer's software in an app with unknown stuff ! or is there a better List to ask about this, a better List for free software advocates?

Sept. 21, 2024

SFD Highlights page

by LM

I tried to get a highlights page added to the DFF blog. Due to technical difficulties beyond my control, I'm putting the Highlights page here: https://lmemsm.dreamwidth.org/30017.html I can update it more easily with links to resources or videos that teams may want to share. We can move it to the official DFF site afterwards. There are a few resources already posted to the page for starters and I'll be adding more. Please send me any links or other information you may want to contribute. Also, would appreciate any chatter you can add to Mastodon about #SFD2024 in general or your local events. Have a great Software Freedom Day 2024!

Sept. 20, 2024

Re: List of cities organizing SFD 2024

by Jurgen Gaeremyn

That is great to hear! Thank you very much. If your presentation gets recorded, please don't hesitate to include a link to the live stream and/or recordings on the webpage! Jurgen On 20/09/2024 19:19, ParaLivre wrote: > Thank you very much. It looks much better with the flags of the > countries on the world map. So much so that I will include this image > in my presentation about what SFD is. > > -- > José Roberto da Costa Ferreira > Coordenador da ParaLivre - Comunidade Paraense de Software Livre > Belém, Pará, Brasil > > > > ---- Em sex, 20 set 2024 13:47:31 -0300 *Jurgen Gaeremyn > <jurgen(a)gaeremyn.be>* escreveu --- > > Hi José, > > A bit busy - organizing SFD Brussels and the global > communications. I tried to map it like here. Can you work with this? > > These are the countries: > > * Argentina > * Bangladesh > * Belgium > * Brazil > * Cameroon > * Canada > * China > * Colombia > * Ecuador > * Estonia > * Germany > * Ghana > * Greece > * India > * Iran > * Japan > * Kenya > * Mexico > * Nepal > * Netherlands > * Philippines > * Portugal > * Spain > * Taiwan > * UK > * Uruguay > * USA > * Vietnam > > Greetings, > Jurgen > > > > On 20/09/2024 15:34, ParaLivre wrote: > > _______________________________________________ > SFD-discuss mailing list -- sfd-discuss(a)mailman3.com > To unsubscribe send an email to sfd-discuss-leave(a)mailman3.com > > Is there a link to the cities that will hold Software Freedom > Day 2024? > On the official website at https://digitalfreedoms.org/ > <https://digitalfreedoms.org/> we only have a map with links > to city pages with some information. > It would be interesting if there was a page that listed the > cities that will hold Software Freedom Day 2024 organized by > continent, country and city. > > -- > José Roberto da Costa Ferreira > Coordenador da ParaLivre - Comunidade Paraense de Software Livre > > > > _______________________________________________ > SFD-discuss mailing list --sfd-discuss(a)mailman3.com <mailto:sfd-discuss@mailman3.com> > To unsubscribe send an email tosfd-discuss-leave(a)mailman3.com <mailto:sfd-discuss-leave@mailman3.com> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > SFD-discuss mailing list --sfd-discuss(a)mailman3.com > To unsubscribe send an email tosfd-discuss-leave(a)mailman3.com

Sept. 20, 2024

Software Freedom Day highlights

by LM

Happy Software Freedom Day. Some countries are already celebrating and the rest of us we'll be joining them within the next 24 hours. Please use this mailing list to share how things are going with your events. If you need any information shared on the DFF social media accounts, let me know. I'll be monitoring Mastodon and checking the other social media accounts and trying to boost or like any posts related to #SFD2024 or #SoftwareFreedomDay2024. I'd love to get some traffic about Software Freedom Day going on Mastodon, so if you or any of your SFD attendees have Mastodon accounts, please post. We're working on trying to add a highlights page as a blog post to the DFF web site. If you have videos you'll be showing or digital resources you'll be sharing at your event that you wouldn't mind sharing with other groups, we can add them to the resources page. If you have pictures or recordings or articles about how your event went that you'd like to share afterwards, we'll add them as well. We're hoping the highlights will encourage people who didn't participate in Software Freedom Day this year to do so next year or maybe even create their own event next Software Freedom Day. Jurgen has a wonderful opening speech he's pre-recorded if anyone wants to show it during their SFD celebrations: https://digitalfreedoms.org/en/sfd/blog/celebrating-software-freedom-day-20… If you have other resources you'd like to share, feel free to post about it here. For a list of all Software Freedom Day events and times, you can check here: https://digitalfreedoms.org/en/sfd/blog/sfd-2023 Have a great Software Freedom Day. Please let us know how your celebrations turn out.

Sept. 20, 2024

Re: List of cities organizing SFD 2024

by ParaLivre

Thank you very much. It looks much better with the flags of the countries on the world map. So much so that I will include this image in my presentation about what SFD is. -- José Roberto da Costa Ferreira Coordenador da ParaLivre - Comunidade Paraense de Software Livre Belém, Pará, Brasil ---- Em sex, 20 set 2024 13:47:31 -0300 Jurgen Gaeremyn <jurgen(a)gaeremyn.be> escreveu --- Hi José, A bit busy - organizing SFD Brussels and the global communications. I tried to map it like here. Can you work with this? These are the countries: Argentina Bangladesh Belgium Brazil Cameroon Canada China Colombia Ecuador Estonia Germany Ghana Greece India Iran Japan Kenya Mexico Nepal Netherlands Philippines Portugal Spain Taiwan UK Uruguay USA Vietnam Greetings, Jurgen On 20/09/2024 15:34, ParaLivre wrote: _______________________________________________ SFD-discuss mailing list -- sfd-discuss(a)mailman3.com To unsubscribe send an email to sfd-discuss-leave(a)mailman3.com Is there a link to the cities that will hold Software Freedom Day 2024? On the official website at https://digitalfreedoms.org/ we only have a map with links to city pages with some information. It would be interesting if there was a page that listed the cities that will hold Software Freedom Day 2024 organized by continent, country and city. -- José Roberto da Costa Ferreira Coordenador da ParaLivre - Comunidade Paraense de Software Livre _______________________________________________ SFD-discuss mailing list -- mailto:sfd-discuss@mailman3.com To unsubscribe send an email to mailto:sfd-discuss-leave@mailman3.com

Sept. 20, 2024

Re: List of cities organizing SFD 2024

by Marcos Marado

Unlike with in the old site, the new one only has the map, but not textual list of events - this email makes me think this is something we can make better on the website for the future, so thanks for the feedback! Unfortunately it does not seem to be easy enough to do already for SFD 2024, but if Jurgen's reply doesn't give you all the info you're looking for, please just reply and ask, we'll try to give you all the information you're seeking. On Fri, Sep 20, 2024 at 6:14 PM Jurgen Gaeremyn <jurgen(a)gaeremyn.be> wrote: > Hi José, > > A bit busy - organizing SFD Brussels and the global communications. I > tried to map it like here. Can you work with this? > > These are the countries: > > - Argentina > - Bangladesh > - Belgium > - Brazil > - Cameroon > - Canada > - China > - Colombia > - Ecuador > - Estonia > - Germany > - Ghana > - Greece > - India > - Iran > - Japan > - Kenya > - Mexico > - Nepal > - Netherlands > - Philippines > - Portugal > - Spain > - Taiwan > - UK > - Uruguay > - USA > - Vietnam > > Greetings, > Jurgen > > > On 20/09/2024 15:34, ParaLivre wrote: > > Is there a link to the cities that will hold Software Freedom Day 2024? > On the official website at https://digitalfreedoms.org/ we only have a > map with links to city pages with some information. > It would be interesting if there was a page that listed the cities that > will hold Software Freedom Day 2024 organized by continent, country and > city. > > -- > José Roberto da Costa Ferreira > Coordenador da ParaLivre - Comunidade Paraense de Software Livre > > > > _______________________________________________ > SFD-discuss mailing list -- sfd-discuss(a)mailman3.com > To unsubscribe send an email to sfd-discuss-leave(a)mailman3.com > > _______________________________________________ > SFD-discuss mailing list -- sfd-discuss(a)mailman3.com > To unsubscribe send an email to sfd-discuss-leave(a)mailman3.com >

Sept. 20, 2024

Re: List of cities organizing SFD 2024

by Jurgen Gaeremyn

Hi José, A bit busy - organizing SFD Brussels and the global communications. I tried to map it like here. Can you work with this? These are the countries: * Argentina * Bangladesh * Belgium * Brazil * Cameroon * Canada * China * Colombia * Ecuador * Estonia * Germany * Ghana * Greece * India * Iran * Japan * Kenya * Mexico * Nepal * Netherlands * Philippines * Portugal * Spain * Taiwan * UK * Uruguay * USA * Vietnam Greetings, Jurgen On 20/09/2024 15:34, ParaLivre wrote: > Is there a link to the cities that will hold Software Freedom Day 2024? > On the official website at https://digitalfreedoms.org/ we only have a > map with links to city pages with some information. > It would be interesting if there was a page that listed the cities > that will hold Software Freedom Day 2024 organized by continent, > country and city. > > -- > José Roberto da Costa Ferreira > Coordenador da ParaLivre - Comunidade Paraense de Software Livre > > > > _______________________________________________ > SFD-discuss mailing list --sfd-discuss(a)mailman3.com > To unsubscribe send an email tosfd-discuss-leave(a)mailman3.com

Sept. 20, 2024

List of cities organizing SFD 2024

by ParaLivre

Is there a link to the cities that will hold Software Freedom Day 2024? On the official website at https://digitalfreedoms.org/ we only have a map with links to city pages with some information. It would be interesting if there was a page that listed the cities that will hold Software Freedom Day 2024 organized by continent, country and city. -- José Roberto da Costa Ferreira Coordenador da ParaLivre - Comunidade Paraense de Software Livre

Sept. 20, 2024

web based FLOSS list

by LM

Tomorrow is Software Freedom Day. Hard to believe it's almost here. Some companies don't allow their employees to download software to their work machines. There are times when you may not have access to your own computer and can't install something on a public machine. That doesn't mean you still can't use Free, Libre and Open Software especially if you have access to the Internet. Check out several interesting web based projects on the LibreProjects page: https://libreprojects.net/ Plus, here's my list of web based Open Source projects you can use online: https://lmemsm.dreamwidth.org/28233.html If you're working on a presentation for Software Freedom Day, you may want to check out some FLOSS web based slide show software: https://www.w3.org/Talks/Tools/Slidy2/Overview.html#(1) https://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/ It's a great way to reach people through the Internet who may not be able to make your SFD 2024 event in person. If you create a web slide show this year, please share the link with us. We'd love to see what you come up with. Hope you'll post to this list tomorrow and let us know how things turn out with your local SFD event or share how you're celebrating in your own way. Have a great Software Freedom Day, 2024.

Sept. 20, 2024

Re: Software Freedom Day

by Maren Hachmann

Thank you! Yes, we're still spewing posts out to Twitter, but not engaging much there otherwise. Maren Am 20.09.24 um 03:03 schrieb LM: > I've been using #SoftwareFreedomDay, #SoftwareFreedomDay2024, #SFD and > #DFF to mark posts. I'll start checking for #SFD2024 on Mastodon if > anyone wants to use it. If anyone wants to share Software Freedom Day > information, I can boost it on Mastodon for you. Is anyone using > Twitter at all? I don't frequent it much but if anyone's using it, > I'll start checking there as well. > > SFD events are listed on the map: > https://digitalfreedoms.org/en/sfd/events?view=map > If you don't have an event in your area and don't have time to > organize something last minute, I think there are a few virtual events > going on this year. Hope you can join in on one of them or join us > using the Software Freedom Day matrix channel or interact with our > posts on Mastodon on Saturday: https://fosstodon.org/@dff > > Have a great Software Freedom Day, 2024. > _______________________________________________ > SFD-discuss mailing list -- sfd-discuss(a)mailman3.com > To unsubscribe send an email to sfd-discuss-leave(a)mailman3.com

Sept. 20, 2024

Re: Software Freedom Day

by LM

I've been using #SoftwareFreedomDay, #SoftwareFreedomDay2024, #SFD and #DFF to mark posts. I'll start checking for #SFD2024 on Mastodon if anyone wants to use it. If anyone wants to share Software Freedom Day information, I can boost it on Mastodon for you. Is anyone using Twitter at all? I don't frequent it much but if anyone's using it, I'll start checking there as well. SFD events are listed on the map: https://digitalfreedoms.org/en/sfd/events?view=map If you don't have an event in your area and don't have time to organize something last minute, I think there are a few virtual events going on this year. Hope you can join in on one of them or join us using the Software Freedom Day matrix channel or interact with our posts on Mastodon on Saturday: https://fosstodon.org/@dff Have a great Software Freedom Day, 2024.

Sept. 20, 2024

FLOSS writing tools

by LM

It's 2 days and counting until Software Freedom Day, 2024. We're almost there. Today's list of FreeSoftware covers tools for writers and authors: Stardict https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarDict XDXF for dictionary interchange https://sourceforge.net/projects/xdxf/files/ Spell checker https://sourceforge.net/projects/hunspell/ Rhyming dictionary https://stevehanov.ca/blog/index.php?id=8 GNU style & diction https://www.gnu.org/software/diction/diction.html If you want to script additional functionality such as autocorrection when typing or you want to check out other peoples' useful scripts, have a look at Autohotkey https://www.autohotkey.com/ It is Windows based, but there was a port to Linux called AutohotkeyX using Wine and xdotool: https://github.com/tinku99/ahkx/tree/master You can also use xdotool on its own on Linux: https://github.com/jordansissel/xdotool Here are some #FLOSS word processing programs for writers and authors: Lyx https://www.lyx.org/ Scribus https://www.scribus.net/ Wordgrinder https://cowlark.com/wordgrinder/ AbiWord https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/AbiWord FocusWriter https://gottcode.org/focuswriter/ Calibre https://calibre-ebook.com/ StoryCad https://github.com/storybuilder-org/StoryCAD Enjoy Software Freedom Day this year. Hope you'll be trying out some new Free and Open Source software soon.

Sept. 20, 2024

Re: Software Freedom Day

by ParaLivre

ParaLivre, the Paraense Free Software Community, from the state of Pará in Brazil, is using the following hashtags on its social media profile: #SoftwareFreedomDay #SoftwareFreedomDay2024 #SFD2024 -- José Roberto da Costa Ferreira Coordenador da ParaLivre - Comunidade Paraense de Software Livre mailto:contato@paralivre.org https://www.paralivre.org ---- Em qui, 19 set 2024 16:25:03 -0300 Maren Hachmann <maren(a)goos-habermann.de> escreveu --- Hi Jurgen, could we use #sfd25 or something shorter maybe next year? Makes it easier with the character limits. Maren Am 19.09.24 um 20:55 schrieb jurgen (Digital Freedom Foundation): > Hey Teams all around the world, > > We'll all be celebrating Software Freedom in our regions (or cherish the > memory if nothing is happening where you live - maybe next year again). > > Did you know that you can set your time zone on digitalfreedoms.org? > This means that start and end-hour of the events will be shown in your > time. For live streams, it can be handy to transpose times to your local > time. > > Also... I'd love to invite all the volunteers and evangelists to come > over and join our community in our #SoftwareFreedomDay Matrix channel > <https://matrix.to/#/#SoftwareFreedomDay:matrix.org> > > A gentle reminder... if you share pictures, stories, impressions or > videos on social media... please include #softwarefreedomday2024 so we > can all find it. > > Wishing you all the greatest of times the coming days - and may our > seedlings make a difference in the world! > > > Greetings, > Jurgen > > > _______________________________________________ > SFD-discuss mailing list -- mailto:sfd-discuss@mailman3.com > To unsubscribe send an email to mailto:sfd-discuss-leave@mailman3.com _______________________________________________ SFD-discuss mailing list -- mailto:sfd-discuss@mailman3.com To unsubscribe send an email to mailto:sfd-discuss-leave@mailman3.com

Sept. 19, 2024

Re: Software Freedom Day

by Maren Hachmann

Hi Jurgen, could we use #sfd25 or something shorter maybe next year? Makes it easier with the character limits. Maren Am 19.09.24 um 20:55 schrieb jurgen (Digital Freedom Foundation): > Hey Teams all around the world, > > We'll all be celebrating Software Freedom in our regions (or cherish the > memory if nothing is happening where you live - maybe next year again). > > Did you know that you can set your time zone on digitalfreedoms.org? > This means that start and end-hour of the events will be shown in your > time. For live streams, it can be handy to transpose times to your local > time. > > Also... I'd love to invite all the volunteers and evangelists to come > over and join our community in our #SoftwareFreedomDay Matrix channel > <https://matrix.to/#/#SoftwareFreedomDay:matrix.org> > > A gentle reminder... if you share pictures, stories, impressions or > videos on social media... please include #softwarefreedomday2024 so we > can all find it. > > Wishing you all the greatest of times the coming days - and may our > seedlings make a difference in the world! > > > Greetings, > Jurgen > > > _______________________________________________ > SFD-discuss mailing list -- sfd-discuss(a)mailman3.com > To unsubscribe send an email to sfd-discuss-leave(a)mailman3.com

Sept. 19, 2024

Software Freedom Day

by jurgen (Digital Freedom Foundation)

Hey Teams all around the world, We'll all be celebrating Software Freedom in our regions (or cherish the memory if nothing is happening where you live - maybe next year again). Did you know that you can set your time zone on digitalfreedoms.org? This means that start and end-hour of the events will be shown in your time. For live streams, it can be handy to transpose times to your local time. Also... I'd love to invite all the volunteers and evangelists to come over and join our community in our #SoftwareFreedomDay Matrix channel <https://matrix.to/#/#SoftwareFreedomDay:matrix.org> A gentle reminder... if you share pictures, stories, impressions or videos on social media... please include #softwarefreedomday2024 so we can all find it. Wishing you all the greatest of times the coming days - and may our seedlings make a difference in the world! Greetings, Jurgen

Sept. 19, 2024

Free Software with a sci fi theme

by LM

We're 4 days and counting down to SoftwareFreedomDay2024. Today's list of links offers some science fiction related programs. Games: https://github.com/IceCreamYou/Daleks--JS-web-version- https://gitlab.com/esr/super-star-trek https://github.com/jj1bdx/bsdtrek http://starvoyager.bluesky.me.uk/ https://www.netrek.org/ https://identicalsoftware.com/games/smalltrek https://scp.indiegames.us/ https://github.com/gsobell/lightcycle https://web.archive.org/web/20200129140943/http://www.barnsdle.demon.co.uk/… Other sf related programs: https://github.com/louh/lcars https://sourceforge.net/projects/lcars24/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/lcars/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/lcars-system-3/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/lcars-win/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/gtklcars/ https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.example.android.maxpapers/ https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.hermit.tricorder/ https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.ddns.mlsoftlaberge.trycorder/ https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.tlhInganHol.android.klingonassistant/ Know of other #LOSS programs with a science fiction theme? Please share them.

Sept. 17, 2024

FLOSS accessibility programs

by LM

It's 5 days and counting to Software Freedom Day, 2024. How are you celebrating Software Freedom Day this year? Here's my next FLOSS list in honor of Software Freedom Day. This one has programs that help with accessibility: https://zendalona.com/accessible-coconut/ http://ta.twi.tudelft.nl/dv/staff/lemmens/jlemmens.nl/ https://github.com/liblouis/liblouis https://github.com/liblouis/liblouisutdml https://github.com/festvox/bard https://yasr.sourceforge.net/ Plus, here's my list of C/C++ speech/text libraries: https://lmemsm.dreamwidth.org/16168.html Know of some other interesting FLOSS programs. Please share them on this mailing list. Happy Software Freedom Day.

Sept. 16, 2024

Software Freedom Day CTF!

by Jurgen (Digital Freedom Foundation)

We are excited to announce the first-ever Software Freedom Day Capture the Flag (CTF) Contest on Saturday, September 21, 2024, from 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM CST. This contest is being held in cooperation with the Ubuntu Illinois LoCo team <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IllinoisTeam> and the LibrePlanet Illinois Team <https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:LibrePlanet_Illinois> as part of their local celebration at the Peoria-Area Amateur Radio Club's Midwest Superfest <https://www.w9uvi.org/midwest-superfest/>. Event Details: * *Date:* Saturday, September 21, 2024 * *Time:* 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM CST * *Location:* Online The CTF contest is designed to help participants learn about Free Software principles and cybersecurity in a fun and interactive way. The challenges are suitable for all experience levels, from beginners to experts, offering a great way to develop new skills while exploring the world of software freedom. For those attending the Midwest Superfest in Peoria, this will be an exciting opportunity to connect with the Free Software community and engage in hands-on learning. Whether you're participating online or in person, the event promises to be an enriching experience! For more information, visit zmef.freeshell.org <http://zmef.freeshell.org/>. Registration is now open, so be sure to sign up: Register here <https://sfdctf24.ctfd.io/register>. We can't wait to see you there! P.S. Kudos to the team of volunteers under impulse of Zack F. for organizing and working out this great event!

Sept. 16, 2024

Free Software List

by LM

I updated my Free Software List for SFD 2024. If you have any recommendations for additions to it, please let me know. You can find the list at: https://www.distasis.com/cpp/pbtc.htm Thank you. Sincerely, Laura Michaels

Sept. 15, 2024

FLOSS games

by LM

We're 6 days and counting down to Software Freedom Day, 2024. Today's list of links covers how to find FOSS games: https://libregamewiki.org/Main_Page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open-source_video_games https://osgameclones.com/ https://portableapps.com/apps/games https://f-droid.org/en/categories/games/ Here's a link to my personal list of FLOSS educational games: https://codeberg.org/lmemsm/delightful-educational-games Have a happy Software Freedom Day.

Sept. 15, 2024

FLOSS for Android

by LM

Eight days and counting to Software Freedom Day, 2024. To get us in the mood, I thought I'd try sharing lists of Free Software. Today's list is on FLOSS Android apps related to health and wellness. Here are some of my favorites: Medito - meditation app https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/meditofoundation.medito Mindfulness Meditation - meditation app https://f-droid.org/en/packages/biz.binarysolutions.mindfulnessmeditation/ Be Well - HRV and heart rate monitor https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/com.bewell.lite Red Moon - red shift screen filter app for night time phone use https://github.com/LibreShift/red-moon Fake Dawn - gentle alarm clock https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.balau.fakedawn/ Have other FLOSS recommendations or a list of your own favorite Free, Libre and Open Source Software to share? Please post them to this mailing list. Have a wonderful Software Freedom Day this year. Sincerely, Laura

Sept. 13, 2024

TUXEDO supports the SFD and sends gifts

by "Jurgen (DFF) <jurgen"＠digitalfreedomfoundation.org

/Hello Software Freedom Friends,/ /There is currently no event taking place at TUXEDO on site, but they are working to make sure that there will be a possibility. To shorten the waiting time and to draw attention to this special day and the important topic, they will send a TUXEDO-Linux-Fan-Package! / / Tell them why you love Software Freedom Day and have a look at their website, see if there's something that stands out in their products. Tell them something you like about it or tell about your personal TUXEO, when you have one. / / / /Send your email to getyourgift(a)tuxedocomputers.com and put your postal address in there so they can send you a personal Software Freedom Day gift. / /Greetz, Jurgen/ /P.S. Annika at TUXEDO promises your information will only be used to send you your gift. You won't land into any newsletter or subscription. But if you want to get informed for new TUXEDO devices or about interesting Linux news, you’re welcome to subscribe to their newsletter <https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/index.php?module=newsletter>. /

Sept. 13, 2024