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Re: Counting down to SFD 2025

by LM

On Tue, Sep 2, 2025 at 5:01 PM rikki wrote: > So far we haven't any virtual event planned but may get some streaming > organized yet. In the past that hasn't proven fruitful as our timezone > is the earliest and so far ahead of most other SFD groups (overnight > hours in Europe). We'll update later on any jitsi provision we might > make. It may be useful for people in or closer to your timezone that can't make it live. If you do get something up and streaming, please share the link and I'll try to get the word out about it through the DFF site and social media posts. If you take any pictures or videos of your event, I hope you'll share them as well. Have a wonderful event!

Sept. 3, 2025

Re: Counting down to SFD 2025

by rikki

Hi LM and Team-SFD, Thank you for your inspiring posts, tips and motivational focus for SFD25. FYI, we'll soon have our annual Event on the #EndOf10 website where our Place is now amongst the https://endof10.org/places/ Ready now is our https://facebook.com/events/s/software-freedom-day-25/1289783849491849/ So far we haven't any virtual event planned but may get some streaming organized yet. In the past that hasn't proven fruitful as our timezone is the earliest and so far ahead of most other SFD groups (overnight hours in Europe). We'll update later on any jitsi provision we might make. Kia ora ('be well' in te reo Maaori), kia kaha ('be strong'), Rikki Chch NZ On 2025-09-02 08:20, LM wrote: > Welcome to September. 20 days until #SFD2025. There's still time to > register your team if you haven't yet or plan to host a virtual event. > If you have SFD2025 graphics, videos, multimedia, etc. to share, > please post the links. Check the DFF site for all the latest info on > SFD2025. Similar to last year, I'll be posting information about > ongoing activities and the latest news about SFD on the Digital > Freedom Foundation blog on this page and will be updating the page > live on Software Freedom Day: > https://digitalfreedoms.org/en/sfd/blog/software-freedom-day-2025-whats-goi… > Feel free to share anything you want announced or added to the page. > > Is anyone doing any virtual events this year? I loved the capture the > flag event last year and was wondering if anyone had plans to do it > again this year. > _______________________________________________ > SFD-discuss mailing list -- sfd-discuss(a)mailman3.com > To unsubscribe send an email to sfd-discuss-leave(a)mailman3.com

Sept. 2, 2025

Counting down to SFD 2025

by LM

Welcome to September. 20 days until #SFD2025. There's still time to register your team if you haven't yet or plan to host a virtual event. If you have SFD2025 graphics, videos, multimedia, etc. to share, please post the links. Check the DFF site for all the latest info on SFD2025. Similar to last year, I'll be posting information about ongoing activities and the latest news about SFD on the Digital Freedom Foundation blog on this page and will be updating the page live on Software Freedom Day: https://digitalfreedoms.org/en/sfd/blog/software-freedom-day-2025-whats-goi… Feel free to share anything you want announced or added to the page. Is anyone doing any virtual events this year? I loved the capture the flag event last year and was wondering if anyone had plans to do it again this year.

Sept. 1, 2025

Re: 3 weeks and counting

by LM

Sorry about the links and non-text parts in the previous post. That's what I get for copying a post's wording from another post I made instead of going back to the original text. Ignore the links in the previous email. If you want to check out the event map and what's going on where, please see: https://digitalfreedoms.org/en/sfd/archive?view=list Also, please feel free to share some of your ideas for planning Software Freedom Day 2025. Hope it's even better than last year.

Aug. 30, 2025

3 weeks and counting

by LM

We are 3 weeks away from #SoftwareFreedomDay2025 <https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/softwarefreedomday2025?__eep__=6&__cft__[0…>. There's room on the map for more events: https://digitalfreedoms.org/en/sfd/archive?view=list <https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fdigitalfreedoms.org%2Fen%2Fsfd…> They don't have to be large. They can be small. They can in person. They can be virtual. They can be hybrid. They don't have to be on Sept 20th. They can occur on a date that's convenient for you and the attendees. If you don't currently have an event in your area, please consider creating one. You might meet some new friends who also enjoy Free Software. If you are hosting an event in your area, please feel free to post some details about it on our mailing list. It might inspire others to create their own event or give other teams some ideas. Also, let me know if you've posted anything about it on social media. The DFF can boost your posts. The DFF can also share posts about your events on our social media accounts. You can share information about your events or event planning on the DFF blog as well. Is anyone hosting anything virtual this year? If so, we'd like to try to highlight it for people who may not have an event in their area but would still like to participate in some way. Hope you all have a wonderful Software Freedom Day 2025.

Aug. 30, 2025

Re: Last call for swag

by Jurgen Gaeremyn

Forgot to include the URL: https://digitalfreedoms.org/en/sfd/blog/order-swag Op 17/08/2025 om 22:10 schreef Jurgen Gaeremyn: > > Hey all, > > 20 hours from now, I will be sending out the swag packs. There are > still some left. If you're quickly, you can still get one in your inbox. > > Greetings, > Jurge > > > _______________________________________________ > SFD-discuss mailing list --sfd-discuss(a)mailman3.com > To unsubscribe send an email tosfd-discuss-leave(a)mailman3.com

Aug. 17, 2025

Last call for swag

by Jurgen Gaeremyn

Hey all, 20 hours from now, I will be sending out the swag packs. There are still some left. If you're quickly, you can still get one in your inbox. Greetings, Jurgen

Aug. 17, 2025

Website downtime - Software Freedom Day Updates - swag packs

by Jurgen Gaeremyn (Digital Freedoms)

Hey all, I've been hearing sounds from people already prepping for Software Freedom Day - and doing crazy stuff again. Also seeing small teams taking their first steps organizing something something cozy. Both are great! During the last 48 hours, the website has been down due to some technical issues. These are resolved. If you intended to register your event <https://digitalfreedoms.org/en/sfd/add-event> for Software Freedom Day — the site is back up now. Also, don't forget to spread the word with artists as they can win a nice Huion Tablet in our artist challenge <https://digitalfreedoms.org/en/sfd/blog/sfd-mascot-huion-challenge-2025>. Last year we had 3 entries for 3 prizes — so don't hold back. Everyone can be an artist. Did you see the great swag ideas <https://digitalfreedoms.org/en/sfd/blog/software-freedom-day-artwork-and-ex…> Chris created for this year? They all come with SVG-files so you can translate them to your local language too! Ah... and as a small sneak preview — swag is ordered this year for interested teams. The first 25 teams who register their event, can apply for free swag <digitalfreedoms.org/en/sfd/blog/order-swag> (or volunteer chip in a bit too). Hurry up, 15 events are registered already! And shipping will happen on August 20th so everybody gets their swag in time. Thanks to the Linux Professional Institute (LPI - lpi.org) for sponsoring for the swag.

Aug. 2, 2025

Some Free Software Favorites in the GUI category

by LM

In preparation for #SFD2025, I thought it might be fun to discuss lightweight GUIs. Maybe some of them will inspire you to create your own #FreeSoftware for #SoftwareFreedomDay2025. Please share your favorite Free Software with this list in preparation for Software Freedom 2025 in September. One of my favorites, #raylib. It's designed so students can start programming quickly without having to spend a lot of time learning how to get text and graphics on screen: https://github.com/raysan5/raygui Check out some of the games created for it: https://www.raylib.com/games.html #SDL is a popular graphics library: https://www.libsdl.org/ With addons like sdl3_ttf, sdl3_mixer, sdl3_image, sdl3_gfx, you can easily get text and graphics on screen or listen to music. Have SDL2 programs you want to keep enjoying? Check out the compatibility layer: https://github.com/libsdl-org/sdl2-compat #FLTK has a lot of the features of standard #GUI libraries but still manages to be lightweight with few dependencies. It's been used with #nano-x to create #XFDOS and #nanolinux. #TinyCore also features FLTK applications. FLTK applications even work on handheld and mobile devices. Here's a list of FLTK programs: https://www.fltk.org/links.php?LC+P22+Q While some are designed for older versions of FLTK, I've had no trouble updating many of them to later versions of the library. #nuklear doesn't have as many applications as many other GUIs, but it ports to an impressive number of systems. Here's a list of some programs written with it including a CAD program: https://github.com/vurtun/nuklear/issues/202 nuklear ( https://github.com/Immediate-Mode-UI/Nuklear ) is lightweight but still offers a lot of functionality. If you're looking for a GUI library that works with your #OpenGL programs, I really like #OTK: https://sourceforge.net/projects/otk/ There are some interesting sample programs for this library. #pdcurses ( https://pdcurses.org/ ) brings the ease of use of the classic curses library to a wide variety of platforms. It can even use a SDL backend so that you can run pdcurses applications with X Windows, Wayland, Android or anywhere else SDL works. Use BSD #form and #menu libraries with it to add more GUI functionality.

July 27, 2025

Re: Brainstorm swag ideas

by LM

On Wed, Jul 23, 2025 Marcos Marado wrote: > It isn't much of a craft, barwly an hack, but in the past we've used SFD > stickers to turn "blank notebooks" into "SFD notebooks" to give to people > to take notes on the event's presentations. I think that's a very inventive and useful idea. I really like it.

July 25, 2025