SFD-discuss

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sfd-discuss@mailman3.com

March 2026

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💪 Software Freedom Day is growing, and so should our team!

by Jurgen Gaeremyn (Digital Freedom Foundation)

Hi Friends of Digital Freedoms, Software Freedom Day has grown significantly over the past few years: from 23 registered events in 2023 to over 100 locations last year. We've been building relationships with bloggers and sponsors across the FOSS ecosystem, and we're excited to be sending even more swag this year. From the beginning, we've agreed that active board members don't need to commit indefinitely. With that in mind, we're now looking for fresh volunteers to help us take Software Freedom Day even further in the coming years. We're looking for new board members willing to commit for at least one year, and also volunteers for specific tasks. *Want to join the board? Core responsibilities include:* * Taking collective decisions on how to shape Software Freedom Day and the other DFF events in the upcoming years * Attending our monthly online board meeting (typically around one hour, occasionally up to 90 minutes) * Being present in the DFF Matrix channel throughout the year * Helping prepare meeting agendas and taking notes * Managing our budget, handling sponsor invoicing, and ensuring financial transparency * Helping determine and establish the long-term legal structure and home of the foundation * Setting the annual SFD date, coordinating swag logistics, and keeping the event registration platform running for local organizers * Upholding and enforcing our code of conduct The board is not something for you? But you still *want to help?* We'd love additional help with any of the following. If you have something else to offer, don't hesitate to share your ideas! * Finding and approaching global sponsors * Reaching out to local teams and encouraging early registration * Writing blog posts on the website * Participating in social media * Maintaining our online infrastructure (Nextcloud, mail, Joomla site, VPS) * Helping with press outreach and partner organization relationships We work in English as our common language, though most of us are not native speakers. So no need to worry about that. If you're interested or know someone who might be, please get in touch. We'd love to hear from you! Mail us at board(a)digitalfreedomfoundation.org before April 4th. Warm regards, Laura, Chris, Joe, Ruwan, Jurgen

March 7, 2026

Document Freedom Day - Free Document Format countdown - gettext

by LM

We're officially counting down to #DocumentFreedomDay2026 on March 25th. One Free format I've been investigating is the mo file used by gettext. This format is a great way to provide #internationalization in a standardized manner to programs. Projects don't have to reinvent the wheel to provide language support. A msgfmt program converts po files (human readable) to mo format for use with libintl which is part of GNU gettext. There are other compatible implementations too. BSD offers libcitrus. musl C library includes support and gettext-tiny makes use of musl to provide a lightweight alternative for embedded systems. There are C, Perl and Python versions of msgfmt. I'm learning more about the format by writing my own msgfmt utility. Have favorite Free formats of your own? Please share them with the list as we count down to #DFD2026.

March 1, 2026