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Re: Hardware Freedom Day

by LM

On Sun, Apr 13, 2025 at 5:00 PM, Zac wrote: > Is anyone privy to any easy open hardware projects we could use that teach > about the importance of open and free hardware? Was going to wait until the 19th to post links, but maybe this will inspire some ideas for celebrating Hardware Freedom Day. This is a list I put together a while back on Open Hardware and Software for smart watches: https://lmemsm.dreamwidth.org/26300.html This is my list of off-grid hardware and Open Hardware for emergencies: https://codeberg.org/lmemsm/delightful-off-grid-open-tech I'd love to get together on Saturday virtually and have a short open discussion on Open Hardware technology and what's useful for emergency situations. If anyone would be interested in participating, let me know and we can try to set something up. This is a list of Open Hardware resources by Paul Sutton: https://personaljournal.ca/paulsutton/hfd Looks like archive.org has several resources (journals, videos, etc.) on Open Hardware. Another interesting link on Open Hardware: https://www.beagleboard.org/blog/category/open-hardware I've also done some research on personal assistants. I was mostly looking at software, but it would be nice to use Open Hardware for a project like that and there may be some projects out there doing that. Here's my list of CAD and 3D printing resources: https://lmemsm.dreamwidth.org/13927.html Some public libraries have 3D printers and some users' groups have members with 3D printers. There are groups online that share 3D printing designs using CC and other open licensing. Maybe creating a simple project using a 3D printer would be an entertaining way to celebrate Open Hardware Day. Anyone have other Open Hardware resources to share?

April 14, 2025

Re: Hardware Freedom Day

by Zack Fosdyck

Hiya! Thanks for the reminder. I was just researching what we could do here in Central Illinois for HFD. I was hoping to do something at the college I’m attending but it’s getting a bit late. Is anyone privy to any easy open hardware projects we could use that teach about the importance of open and free hardware? One I found was a flashlight made from an old lip balm/chap stick tube. Unfortunately, I’m late to the game, and would need to source parts. Not to mention I’d like to build it at least once before helping others. Thanks & Take Care Now, Zac On Sun, Apr 13, 2025 at 15:08 LM <lmemsm(a)gmail.com> wrote: > It's hard to believe that Hardware Freedom Day ( > https://digitalfreedoms.org/en/hfd ) is less than a week away on April > 19th, 2025. Will you be attending a Hardware Freedom Day event this > year, either in person or online? What are some of your favorite Open > Hardware projects? We'll be sharing some of our favorites on April > 19th, 2025. Please help us celebrate Hardware Freedom Day 2025 by > sharing posts and articles about Open Hardware and #HFD2025 via social > media, personal web sites and blogs. Thank you and have a wonderful > Hardware Freedom Day 2025. > _______________________________________________ > SFD-discuss mailing list -- sfd-discuss(a)mailman3.com > To unsubscribe send an email to sfd-discuss-leave(a)mailman3.com >

April 13, 2025

Hardware Freedom Day

by LM

It's hard to believe that Hardware Freedom Day ( https://digitalfreedoms.org/en/hfd ) is less than a week away on April 19th, 2025. Will you be attending a Hardware Freedom Day event this year, either in person or online? What are some of your favorite Open Hardware projects? We'll be sharing some of our favorites on April 19th, 2025. Please help us celebrate Hardware Freedom Day 2025 by sharing posts and articles about Open Hardware and #HFD2025 via social media, personal web sites and blogs. Thank you and have a wonderful Hardware Freedom Day 2025.

April 13, 2025

Document Freedom Day 2025

by LM

Hope you had a great Document Freedom Day 2025 wherever you are in the world. Here's a link to a post from The Document Foundation developers of LibreOffice on Celebrating Document Freedom Day: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/03/26/celebrating-document-fr… I'd love to hear how you celebrated Document Freedom Day today. Please share updates on any events you attended and what you thought of them. Next up is Hardware Freedom Day, April 19th. After that, it's time to start gearing up for Software Freedom Day in September. Who's planning an event this year? Thanks to everyone who participated in Document Freedom Day 2025.

March 26, 2025

Re: Firefox's changes and Document Freedom Day

by LM

I'm glad Marcos Marado is highlighting some of the issues with Free, Libre browsers. This is a great topic. Small distribution developers and many who like to build their own software from source have been uneasy about how difficult it is to build a web browser and how few choices there are for web browsers that can render modern web pages. I've been looking for lower dependency alternatives to the more popular browsers for several years. Seems like the situation just continues to get worse. Also, I feel the transfer of standardization from the W3C to the main web browser developers themselves was not a step in a positive direction for simplifying web protocols or making web browser development more accessible. If anything, they've made it harder for new and independent web browser projects to come up with anything that can compete with the major players. I put together some notes on web browser alternatives. If anyone's interested, I can share the link. I do have a list of web browsers that aren't based on the main web browser libraries. If anyone has suggestions to add to the list, feel free to let me know.

March 3, 2025

Re: Hiya!👋

by Marcos Marado

Hi! I collected these, last year, I hope they serve for your purpose: https://tilde.pt/~marado/dfd/ -- ~marado On Sun, Mar 2, 2025, 18:23 Zack Fosdyck <zfosdyck(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All! > > Just writing to inquire if anyone knows of any good printable > documentation to share for Document Freedom Day. > > Do yah? 🤪 > > Thanks & Take Care Now, > Zac > _______________________________________________ > SFD-discuss mailing list -- sfd-discuss(a)mailman3.com > To unsubscribe send an email to sfd-discuss-leave(a)mailman3.com >

March 2, 2025

Hiya!👋

by Zack Fosdyck

Hi All! Just writing to inquire if anyone knows of any good printable documentation to share for Document Freedom Day. Do yah? 🤪 Thanks & Take Care Now, Zac

March 2, 2025

Firefox's changes and Document Freedom Day

by Marcos Marado

It has been interesting to see so many reflecting at the same time about the current state and the possible future of web browsers - even if it was fired up by some bad news from Mozilla. Still, it is important to acknowledge what is and has been going on - how a web browser currently became a lot more than just a piece of software implementing a number of open standards, how they are all basically based over one of two existing browser agents (Gecko and Webkit) with the emergence of two upcoming ones (Servo and LibWeb); the difficulties of creating or maintaining a new web browser, or how dependent are all firefox forks (or older, harder derivatives like SeaMonkey) of Mozilla (both Firefox and Gecko). I'm not trying to get to any point with this text, but rather to highlight that now is the time to have a few conversations around open standards, and in particular web standards. And as it happens, the "annual day" to have discussions of that sort is around the corner: Document Freedom Day 2025 is already in the 26th of this month. So why aren't there more events on the map? How is your community, user group, etc. going to mark and celebrate this day? Organize something, and put it on the events map, right this way: https://digitalfreedoms.org/en/dfd -- Marcos Marado

March 2, 2025

Re: [SPAM Warning!]Have a favorite document format?

by LM

On Tue, Feb 25, 2025 at 1:19 PM Jorge P. de Morais Neto wrote: > I use Org Mode a lot for taking notes, planning TODO lists and agenda, > and authoring PDF and HTML. I export my Org agenda to ICAL so I access > it from my GrapheneOS smartphone. I also use ODT, CSV, FLAC and Opus. What tools or programs do you use to convert org mode style documents to ical format? That sounds really nice.

Feb. 25, 2025

Re: SFD-discuss Digest, Vol 148, Issue 3

by LM

On Sun, Feb 23, 2025 Maren wrote: > Doesn't look like the Kielux team is going to participate in DFD this > year, but I hope that those who do will succeed in raising awareness of > the problems of closed formats. I got the impression some of the LibreOffice group would be doing something virtually. So maybe that's something anyone on the mailing list could look into joining if they're not participating locally. Also, was wondering if some of us wanted to do something virtually together. Would anyone want to get on Jitsi or Google Meet and talk about Open Formats and our favorite FLOSS programs that work well with them? > Thanks for starting the discussion! Thanks for participating. Sincerely, Laura

Feb. 23, 2025