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FLOSS games

by LM

We're 6 days and counting down to Software Freedom Day, 2024. Today's list of links covers how to find FOSS games: https://libregamewiki.org/Main_Page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open-source_video_games https://osgameclones.com/ https://portableapps.com/apps/games https://f-droid.org/en/categories/games/ Here's a link to my personal list of FLOSS educational games: https://codeberg.org/lmemsm/delightful-educational-games Have a happy Software Freedom Day.

Sept. 15, 2024

FLOSS for Android

by LM

Eight days and counting to Software Freedom Day, 2024. To get us in the mood, I thought I'd try sharing lists of Free Software. Today's list is on FLOSS Android apps related to health and wellness. Here are some of my favorites: Medito - meditation app https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/meditofoundation.medito Mindfulness Meditation - meditation app https://f-droid.org/en/packages/biz.binarysolutions.mindfulnessmeditation/ Be Well - HRV and heart rate monitor https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/com.bewell.lite Red Moon - red shift screen filter app for night time phone use https://github.com/LibreShift/red-moon Fake Dawn - gentle alarm clock https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.balau.fakedawn/ Have other FLOSS recommendations or a list of your own favorite Free, Libre and Open Source Software to share? Please post them to this mailing list. Have a wonderful Software Freedom Day this year. Sincerely, Laura

Sept. 13, 2024

TUXEDO supports the SFD and sends gifts

by "Jurgen (DFF) <jurgen"＠digitalfreedomfoundation.org

/Hello Software Freedom Friends,/ /There is currently no event taking place at TUXEDO on site, but they are working to make sure that there will be a possibility. To shorten the waiting time and to draw attention to this special day and the important topic, they will send a TUXEDO-Linux-Fan-Package! / / Tell them why you love Software Freedom Day and have a look at their website, see if there's something that stands out in their products. Tell them something you like about it or tell about your personal TUXEO, when you have one. / / / /Send your email to getyourgift(a)tuxedocomputers.com and put your postal address in there so they can send you a personal Software Freedom Day gift. / /Greetz, Jurgen/ /P.S. Annika at TUXEDO promises your information will only be used to send you your gift. You won't land into any newsletter or subscription. But if you want to get informed for new TUXEDO devices or about interesting Linux news, you’re welcome to subscribe to their newsletter <https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/index.php?module=newsletter>. /

Sept. 13, 2024

Software Freedom Day 2024

by LM

It's hard to believe, but we're two weeks away from Software Freedom Day 2024. Find events in your local area at the Digital Freedoms web site: https://digitalfreedoms.org/en/sfd/events?view=map If there are no events in your area this year, you can celebrate virtually. Share lists of your favorite Free and Open Source software online or here on this list with other Free Software enthusiasts. Share links to some of your favorite FLOSS related videos, tutorials or web sites. If you code, write a program in honor of Software Freedom Day and share your code using a FLOSS license in honor of the occasion. Write an article or do something creative to share on Software Freedom Day. Plus, there's always next year. It's never too early or too late to start organizing an event.

Sept. 7, 2024

Small surprise

by Jurgen Gaeremyn

Heya all, Two more weeks and it's happening! Software Freedom Day 2024! Thanks to an anonymous sponsor, we were able to print a small batch of stickers... the first 25 teams that registered were offered a small batch. The stickers went on the mail about 12 hours ago... Do you also want to hand out stickers? Do you want more stickers? Do you want them bigger or smaller? Do you want localized stickers? Easy! Take our design, localize it in Inkscape and hand the result to a local print shop. They look great on transparent plastic. Share your results on the socials using #SoftwareFreedomDay <https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/softwarefreedomday?__eep__=6&__cft__[0]=AZ…> Get your design file here: https://digitalfreedoms.org/en/sfd/blog/sfd-stickers <https://digitalfreedoms.org/en/sfd/blog/sfd-stickers> Looking forward to see all your photo's, testimonials and videos in our inbox or socials! Greetings, Jurgen P.S. It rewards to sign up early! Too late for the surprise this year? Be sure to be on time next year!

Sept. 5, 2024

Help us get the word out about Software Freedom Day

by LM

Are you hosting or involved in a local Software Freedom Day event? We're trying to reach people who aren't familiar with Free and Open Source software and encourage them to visit a local Software Freedom Day event. With that in mind, we're putting together some short articles on FLOSS that we hope will be of interest to the general public. If you're going to be discussing a particular aspect of FLOSS at your SFD event such as your favorite office suites or graphics editors or games, etc, let us know. We'd like to plug some of the Software Freedom Day events that will be discussing topics related to the articles. Also, if you want to put together a short article talking about topics at your event or your event or Free Software in general, feel free to send it to me and I'll see that it's added to the DFF social media pages. If you think of other information you'd like us to share on the DFF site or the DFF social media pages, please let me know. Thanks. Have a wonderful Software Freedom Day 2024.

Aug. 6, 2024

Upcoming meeting + Jitsi test 2024-08-06 14:30 UTC

by Jurgen Gaeremyn

Hello Digital Freedom Friends, For the next board meeting, we will be trying out some things. 1. We'll start with a video call using call.trom.tf to see how well this works. We'll invite the mailing list community and the Matrix community too. Let's see how this will work if we have 10 or more participants. 2. We'll see if a mild form of collaborative editing is now possible on the NextCloud instance (meeting notes maintained by members not talking) So if you're curious to join this meeting - be it for the short test or for the whole meeting - please come over to https://call.trom.tf/DigitalFreedomFoundation (user/pass = tromcall) at 16:30 CET on Tuesday August 6th. If I'm not mistaken, that's the same as 14:30 UTC Always welcome to also join our Matrix channel: https://matrix.to/#/%23digitalfreedoms:matrix.org Greetings, Jurgen

Aug. 4, 2024

Software Freedom Day update

by Jurgen Gaeremyn

Heya all, Last year this time, we had 8 events on the map. This year, we already have 18 events! Brazil is taking a flying start with 3 events right away! (see the map on the website for the most recent version, below is a screenshot) We have a very inspiring testimony <https://digitalfreedoms.org/en/sfd/blog/love-learning-and-libre-a-decade-of…> from Angélica M. Diaz Burgos from the SFD team at Bogota, Colombia. If you'd like to write about your SFD history... feel free to send me a message and we'll add it to the site. How's your preparations going? Are you trying out new things? I'm really curious, what things worked really great during previous events? System 76 is going an event in their factory, and they'll have things like a Software Freedom Bingo and a FOSS trivia quiz. Sounds like a lot of fun. Any tips or suggestions for new teams for what they really SHOULD do? If you have photographs to accompany it, that would even be cooler! Greetings, Jurgen

July 30, 2024

SFD Challenge from Huion

by Jurgen (Digital Freedom Foundation)

Heya all, Graphics tablet manufacturer Huion is awarding a screen tablet (Kamvas Pro 12) and two runner up prizes for SFD-participants (visitors and organizers) in an artistic challenge <https://digitalfreedoms.org/en/sfd/blog/art-for-digital-freedom-huion-chall…>. This can be a cool opportunity to organize a Krita, Blender or Inkscape workshop when you're having an event. Planning to organize an event, but don't know the details of what you're exactly going to do? Register your event soon and edit the content later. Go to our new website digitalfreedoms.org/sfd for more details. The blog has some crazy ideas <https://digitalfreedoms.org/en/sfd/blog/ten-ways-to-make-your-software-free…> for what you could do, there's a nice article by Angélica M. Díaz Burgos <https://digitalfreedoms.org/en/sfd/blog/love-learning-and-libre-a-decade-of…> (Bogota, Colombia). Would you like to see more of the website in your own language? Get in touch to proof-read and help translate. Current translations are limited by the language of the board team. Grtz, Jurgen P.S. Last year we had 49 events. Let's try to reach 100 events this year! There is no excuse for not organizing <https://digitalfreedoms.org/en/sfd/blog/what-is-stopping-you> it, it's easy to get started <https://digitalfreedoms.org/en/sfd/blog/sfd-is-easy>.

July 13, 2024

Fwd: Help the FSF at upcoming conference - Portland, OR; August 1–4, 2024 - Please Reply by July 18

by Jurgen (Digital Freedom Foundation)

Heya all, reaching out to our supporters living on the East-coast of the US or Canada (or maybe elsewhere in the world, but loving to travel) ... the FSF is having a booth at FOSSY in Portland, Oregon, Agust 1st till 4th and are looking for volunteers to man their booth. Anyone willing and interested to help our friends out there? Grtz, Jurgen -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Help the FSF at upcoming conference - Portland, OR; August 1–4, 2024 - Please Reply by July 18 Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2024 16:46:02 -0400 Free Software Foundation /Please consider adding info(a)fsf.org to your address book, which will ensure that our messages reach you and not your spam box./ Dear Free Software Supporter, The Free Software Foundation (FSF) will have a booth at FOSSY <https://2024.fossy.us/> (August 1–4, 2024) in Portland, OR, this year. Would you or someone you know be interested in helping us run the FSF booth at Portland State University? Doing so would involve face-to-face advocacy on behalf of free software, soliciting and accepting donations for the FSF, and selling FSF merchandise -- all to raise awareness and funds that power our campaigns. If you or a friend could help us, please let us know by replying to this email by Thursday, July 18. The shifts we need covered are: * *Day 1:* August 1, Thursday o 09:00 - 10:00 -- Setup o 10:00 - 15:00 -- Exhibit o 15:00 - 19:00 -- Exhibit * *Day 2:* August 2, Friday o 09:00 - 14:30 -- Exhibit o 14:30 - 18:15 -- Exhibit * *Day 3:* August 3, Saturday o 09:00 - 14:30 -- Exhibit o 14:30 - 18:15 -- Exhibit * *Day 4:* August 4, Sunday o 09:00 - 14:30 -- Exhibit o 14:30 - 18:15 -- Exhibit o 18:15 - 19:00 -- Pack up If you can help, please reply with answers to the following questions: * What is the best phone number to reach you? * Is it OK to share your contact information with the other volunteers or, possibly, the organizers? * Do you have access to a vehicle, and, if so, would you be willing to either bring merchandise to the venue and/or ship it back after the event? * Which of the shifts above would you be willing and able to take? * Will you need the FSF to get you an exhibit-hall pass, or will you already have a conference pass from some other source? Please let us know if you would be able and willing to volunteer your time. Conference booths are one of the most important ways we introduce new people to free software, GNU, and the FSF! They also raise funds that help fuel our work for the rest of the year and beyond. Thank you for supporting the FSF! Sincerely, Jeanne Rasata Membership Coordinator *Interested in helping us expand our reach?* Follow us on: Mastodon <https://hostux.social/@fsf> and PeerTube <https://framatube.org/accounts/fsf/video-channels>, showing your support for free, federated social networks. Get active on the LibrePlanet wiki: https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Main_Page Share on your blog or social network <https://www.fsf.org/share> that you support us, and why you do so. Join us as an associate member: https://www.fsf.org/jf; and display your membership button <https://my.fsf.org> on your website, to show how long you've been an FSF member. Subscribe to our blog via RSS <https://fsf.org/blogs/RSS> *Privacy Policy* Read the Free Software Foundation Privacy Policy <https://www.fsf.org/about/free-software-foundation-privacy-policy> Sent from the Free Software Foundation, 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor Boston, Massachusetts 02110-1335 United States You can unsubscribe from this mailing list by visiting the following link: https://my.fsf.org/civicrm/mailing/unsubscribe?reset=1&jid=168600&qid=89526… <https://my.fsf.org/civicrm/mailing/unsubscribe?reset=1&jid=168600&qid=89526…> To stop all email from the Free Software Foundation, including Defective by Design and the Free Software Supporter newsletter, click this link: https://my.fsf.org/civicrm/mailing/optout?reset=1&jid=168600&qid=89526470&h… <https://my.fsf.org/civicrm/mailing/optout?reset=1&jid=168600&qid=89526470&h…>

July 12, 2024