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Suggestions on how to conduct SFD 2020
by Tawishi Sharma Aug. 25, 2020

Aug. 25, 2020

I recently attended few events on Hopin and they were really good. But hopin is not an Open source platform. Found this article while looking for os replacement for Hopin. Hope it helps. https://www.reddit.com/r/opensource/comments/gldyc2/whats_an_alternative_to… ~Tawishi

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Re: [SFD-discuss] SFD 2020
by LM Aug. 20, 2020

Aug. 20, 2020

On Thu, Frederic Muller wrote: > therefore the map. Not sure how to display "online events" on a map > though. Suggestion very welcome! My preference would be to put the location of the group running the online event on the map. That way, you can connect with people in your area and possibly meet some time in the future when things are safer. It would be great if anyone doing a virtual online event mentioned that people from other areas of the world are welcome. If someone does not have an event in their area, they could check out one of those virtual events. > To LM: the date is really flexible as it is impossible to find a date > which will work every year in every country. So it's really what works > best in your area. Just make sure the date of your liking is specified > on all your communication, wiki, etc... Thank you. Good to know. In that case, I'll definitely try to do something virtually this year even if it's still a small core turn out like last year. I've been contacting tech groups in my area and so far, haven't found anyone interested in attending or getting involved. I've also been mentioning it on some social media sites and tech forums to see if we can get more new groups involved with Software Freedom Day.

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SFD 2020
by LM Aug. 20, 2020

Aug. 20, 2020

Was just wondering when the SFD wiki would be updated for 2020. Seems like a good time to discuss SFD 2020 since it was just mentioned in the Document Freedom Day thread. Just attended a couple of Linux, FLOSS related meetings using Jitsi. I think it would be great this year to host SFD 2020 virtually instead of at our local library. We might even get a bigger turn out. I wasn't impressed with the ability to share slides over Jitsi especially if someone's running it from a mobile device with low bandwidth. However, I have some info/slides I put together on the web for a local tech conference. Could supply the web links for viewing information and slides and have the meeting for SFD via Jitsi. Think it would be fun. With World Tai Chi Day, everyone did Tai Chi from home at 10 AM in there particular time zone. Think it could be really great if any groups doing SFD this year virtually could schedule their sessions at different times (especially if they're already in different time zones) so that people could attend and participate in multiple virtual events. Would also be wonderful to have one page on the SFD wiki that gives times and virtual locations for all the virtual events. I'd also like to come up with some ideas for reaching out to people who may not have the latest and greatest hardware or who have low resource or older computers or maybe just mobile devices. Any ideas on that front would be greatly appreciated. Think now would be a great time to start planning for SFD 2020.

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Re: [SFD-discuss] SFD 2020
by LM Aug. 11, 2020

Aug. 11, 2020

On Sun, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > I made notes on virtual meeting softwares here > http://www.berklix.org/meet/ > Lot of links. More welcome. Here are the FSF links to remote communications: https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/better-than-zoom-try-these-free-softwar… https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Remote_Communication My links on Internet communications and distance learning: https://lmemsm.dreamwidth.org/14124.html It would be nice to see the event list for 2020 available and a mention of what events are online so people in other areas could join in on those events as well. My biggest problem this year is that I have another engagement on the same day and it can't be moved. I'm wondering if I could celebrate SFD on another date in September or if I'll just have to wait until next year.

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SFD 2020
by LM May 12, 2020

May 12, 2020

On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 11:30 AM <sfd-discuss-request(a)sf-day.org> wrote: > Being a grass root event we probably need to let each team decide what > they want to present (topic - time - language). That could mean more > than 1 streaming channel necessary if we offer the streaming capabilities. Would be nice to let each group choose the software they use to communicate (hopefully a FLOSS one). Depending on what devices/computers people have available in their area, some software solutions will work for some people, some may not. Some people may not have access to high Internet speed or bandwidth. Maybe an IRC chat in some areas as opposed to Jitsi or BigBlueButton would be good for some groups. I'm hoping we can be as inclusive as possible for people to join in, so using different software/mediums should let us reach more people. So many of the virtual events going on now are leaving people out if they don't have the latest hardware/software/best Internet speeds. The SFD organization as a whole could attempt to help schedule the groups so there's as little overlap as possible and people can attend multiple events if they want. The SFD can also be a central place to let people know the schedule of events and where/how to access them. That would put most of the effort on the individual groups and the SFD could concentrate on organization, coordination and helping get the word out via their web site/wiki. > Also I feel there are basic topics which should roll all over the day > such as introduction to FOSS, How to start, communities nearby, etc but > this is only one opinion. For topics that are very general and introductory, it might be nice to have a web, blog or wiki post that we could refer attendees to. Even if some of the groups plan to cover the topics again, it could be useful to have something at the SFD site that points to written or pre-recorded videos of that information that could be called up at any time. Also, would be nice in some cases to provide transcripts if possible especially if someone's hearing impaired. It might be interesting to go through the Linux and Free Software groups listed at https://gettogether.community/ and see if any of them want to participate virtually this year in SFD. We could invite them. > We could do bi-weekly (as in twice a month) IRC meetings with people > interested to organize something and see if anything comes out of it. If you get something up on IRC, please share the meeting info. My main laptop died and I'm using an older laptop. It's taking forever for the new computer I ordered to arrive by mail order. It's very hit and miss for me as to what software will work and what won't. I can get Jitsi working but that's via an Android tablet. Zoom which everyone else seems to be using just crashes. Haven't used IRC on my laptop in ages. Will have to see if the software is even working. I know there were some changes with freenode and some of the other servers to add authentication that made some of my FLOSS IRC software clients unusable with certain servers. Look forward to SFD 2020.

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Document Freedom Day
by Frederic Muller - DFF May 11, 2020

May 11, 2020

Hi! We hope you are all doing ok despite the current problem(s). We received an email from the 'Document Foundation' (Italo Vignoli to be precise). It turned out that way: "The new board at The Document Foundation, the home of LibreOffice, is interested in getting the documentfreedom.org domain from FSFE, as the community is willing to manage the website and the Document Freedom Day activities starting from 2021. The current documentfreedom.org website is still pointing at DFD 2018, so it has not been updated for the last two years, and this is not good for the open source ecosystem and for the Open Document Format, which in the meantime has reached version 1.3. Please let me know your thoughts on the above. Of course, if we get the domain and website, we will be more than happy to see contributions from other projects." We nicely told them the project was active and when contacting LO over 2 years ago they said they had no interest in DFD (I have the message if anyone is interested). And while we would definitely welcome any help, we felt the message was not really nice (or really not nice?) and replied accordingly. Within 2 messages more I was called a liar and told "all the LO people are on the DFD mailing list and haven't seen any communication for 2 years. So here it is. LO will go with a different domain and a same or different event because apparently Italo thinks that if he decides something people should just go along. Just wanted to let everyone know. Kind regards, Fred

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Other projects while SFD & DFD etc on hold
by Julian H. Stacey April 12, 2020

April 12, 2020

Hi All, While SFD & DFD etc are disrupted by Covid-19, there's other public source & data projects looking for help to fight Corona: https://www.3dcrowd.uk/ share data for 3D printing Face Shields http://scrubhub.org.uk published templates for volunteer sewing machiners to make extra scrubs aka surgeons & nurses gowns. https://foldingathome.org/ donate CPU time to search for a vacine https://www.pepp-pt.org/ Pan-European Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing smart phone app[s] http://www.berklix.eu/corona/#help My page with more details. More projects URLs welcome. Cheers -- Julian Stacey, Consultant Systems Engineer, BSD Linux http://berklix.com/jhs/ http://berklix.org/corona/ Real Brexit 31 Dec 2020 will further damage UK & EU

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DFD: to meet or not to meet
by LM March 11, 2020

March 11, 2020

> Now 2 weeks to organize something online is a bit short, and I > personally don't feel comfortable talking online. FSF is running LibrePlanet 2020 online ( https://libreplanet.org/2020/ ). It's not the same day as DFD, but maybe you can combine with them or at least maybe get some ideas and help organizing for the future?

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DFD: to meet or not to meet
by Frederic Muller - DFF March 11, 2020

March 11, 2020

Hi! Rather concerned not to make matter worse we are wondering what to do for Document Freedom Day. At the end of the day each individual is free to meet with others or not, still we are wondering what would be the proper way to address the issue towards ourselves and towards people we would like to reach. Any suggestion or idea? Thank you. Fred

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moving away from moinmoin
by Frederic Muller - DFF Nov. 30, 2019

Nov. 30, 2019

Hi! As you may know Python 2.7 will reach end of life at the end of the year. Moinmoin wiki will not work before some times under Python 3 and therefore we have to chose between keeping outdated code or leaving Moinmoin. A lot of our infrastructure and scripts rely on Moinmoin and will need to be rewritten if moving away, but maybe it's not that much work. Now what should we replace it with? I was inclined to use Dokuwiki as it is lightweight and very supported. We also used it in other projects making me more or less familiar with it. I know a few member of our community are also using moinmoin. What will you be doing? What do you suggest? How do you easily convert old moinmoin pages into plain html? Do you import all the users or let people create new accounts when they need? We would be happy to hear from you. Thank you. Fred

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