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

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