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DFF on Peertube

by LM

There is a DFF Peertube account: https://tube.spdns.org/a/digitalfreedoms/video-channels If anyone would like to share videos of this or previous years' Software Freedom Day events, contact us about adding them to the DFF Peertube channel. Also, if you come up with any fun videos to advertise this year's Software Freedom Day celebration, we'd love to share them there.

July 2, 2024

Open Source podcast

by LM

If anyone's interested in an Open Source podcast or possibly being a guest on a podcast, this was mentioned on the Teaching Open Source mailing list: https://medium.com/open-source-science-initiative/the-first-episode-of-anot… If anyone can help volunteer to get the word out about Software Freedom Day by offering to be a guest on a podcast and speaking about their SFD experiences, that would be greatly appreciated. If you have any other ideas on how to get the word out about Software Freedom Day, please let us know on the mailing list. Thank you.

July 2, 2024

Re: Join the Huion Challenge, Meet Halla Rempt, and Explore Creative Workshops on SFD!

by Maren Hachmann

That's pretty cool, Jurgen! Shared the contest info with the Inkscape contributors. Maren Am 28.06.24 um 23:13 schrieb Jurgen (Digital Freedom Foundation): > Dear Software Freedom Friends, > > We’re excited to share some thrilling updates and opportunities for the > upcoming Software Freedom day: > > *The Huion Competition: Art for Digital Freedom* > > Participate in the Huion Challenge 2024 and showcase your artistic > talent using FOSS tools! The competition celebrates creativity and > digital freedom, offering amazing Huion prizes. Learn more and enter the > competition > <https://digitalfreedoms.org/sfd/blog/art-for-digital-freedom-huion-challeng…>. The deadline for entering your artwork is October 10th, so you have a few more weeks after your event is over. > > *Exclusive Interview with Halla Rempt* > > Watch our insightful interview with Halla Rempt, the maintainer of > Krita. Gain valuable insights into the development and future of this > powerful digital painting tool. Watch the interview > <https://tube.spdns.org/w/d964T9BW67cDPdweTyjp5R>. > > *Host Workshops and Engage Your Community* > > Organize workshops using Krita or other FOSS graphics tools and invite > participants to submit their artwork to the Huion competition. This dual > approach will attract attendees to your local event and provide a fun > activity for Software Freedom Day (SFD). > > Join us in celebrating creativity and digital freedom. We look forward > to seeing your artistic contributions and vibrant community events! > Haven't registered your event yet? Now is a great time! > > Best regards, > The SFD Team > > > _______________________________________________ > SFD-discuss mailing list -- sfd-discuss(a)mailman3.com > To unsubscribe send an email to sfd-discuss-leave(a)mailman3.com

June 28, 2024

Join the Huion Challenge, Meet Halla Rempt, and Explore Creative Workshops on SFD!

by Jurgen (Digital Freedom Foundation)

Dear Software Freedom Friends, We’re excited to share some thrilling updates and opportunities for the upcoming Software Freedom day: *The Huion Competition: Art for Digital Freedom* Participate in the Huion Challenge 2024 and showcase your artistic talent using FOSS tools! The competition celebrates creativity and digital freedom, offering amazing Huion prizes. Learn more and enter the competition <https://digitalfreedoms.org/sfd/blog/art-for-digital-freedom-huion-challeng…>. The deadline for entering your artwork is October 10th, so you have a few more weeks after your event is over. *Exclusive Interview with Halla Rempt* Watch our insightful interview with Halla Rempt, the maintainer of Krita. Gain valuable insights into the development and future of this powerful digital painting tool. Watch the interview <https://tube.spdns.org/w/d964T9BW67cDPdweTyjp5R>. *Host Workshops and Engage Your Community* Organize workshops using Krita or other FOSS graphics tools and invite participants to submit their artwork to the Huion competition. This dual approach will attract attendees to your local event and provide a fun activity for Software Freedom Day (SFD). Join us in celebrating creativity and digital freedom. We look forward to seeing your artistic contributions and vibrant community events! Haven't registered your event yet? Now is a great time! Best regards, The SFD Team

June 28, 2024

Software Freedom Day Event registration

by LM

Some tips on registering your event for Software Freedom Day, 2024... If you don't already have an account on the digitalfreedoms.org site (not the same as the SFD site), register here: https://digitalfreedoms.org/log-in?view=registration Once registered and logged in, look at the Software Freedom Day menu near the top left of this page: https://digitalfreedoms.org/ The menu appears when you mouse over the first instance of the words Software Freedom Day. If you're holding your event at a new location, be sure to use the Add Location option. Click on Add Event in the menu to add the information to let people know about your event. If you have any questions, feel free to ask on this list. Thanks for your help in putting together a successful Software Freedom Day 2024.

June 10, 2024

Software Freedom Day 2024

by LM

Let's Gear Up for Software Freedom Day 2024! The time has come to start teaming up for the next edition of Software Freedom Day (SFD)! We’re aiming to make 2024 even bigger and surpass 100 events worldwide. Last year, we grew from around 30 to 50 events and we know we can do even better with your help! Promotion Packs We're gathering funds to create awesome promotion packs to make your events even more special! The number and content of these packs will depend on the funds we raise, so it’s first come, first served. Make sure to register your event soon to secure your pack! Perfect Venues Remember, SFD events can happen anywhere - in schools, universities, libraries, public spaces or even your local coffee shop. These are fantastic places to engage with the community and spread the message of software freedom. How You Can Help Interested in supporting us? Check out how to contribute. Every bit helps and makes a huge difference in spreading the word about digital freedom. Earn PDUs Reminder for LPI certification holders: You can earn PDUs by participating in SFD events. It’s a win-win: promote digital freedoms and earn credits. More details on PDUs at https://www.lpi.org/member/pdu-procedures-and-policies/#earning-pdus Ready to get started? Visit our website ( https://digitalfreedoms.org/sfd/blog/sfd-is-easy ) for all the details on how to register and organize your event. Together, we can make a difference and promote software freedom globally! Let’s rally together for a Free and Open Software future! More information is available at: https://digitalfreedoms.org/sfd/blog You can also join the discussion on Matrix in the #SoftwareFreedomDay channel.

June 7, 2024

Re: Makefile macros for converting between text formats

by Julian H. Stacey

> My notes on creating pdf from html via the command line: > https://www.distasis.com/cpp/books.htm etc ... Thanks for all this, I'll look through it. > If you ever want to > discuss it further or want more ideas for interesting command line > programs, feel free to email me. Thanks. PS I receive from but can not reply to @gmail.com Cheers, -- Julian Stacey. Gmail & Googlemail Fail http://berklix.org/jhs/mail/#bad Brits abroad reclaim your http://StolenVotes.UK www.gov.uk/register-to-vote Arm Ukraine. Contraception to reduce global warming & resource wars.

March 30, 2024

Re: Makefile macros for converting between text formats

by Julian H. Stacey

Hi, Reference: > Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 12:27:01 +1100 DiffieHellman wrote: > Hi Julian, > > I would suggest Pandoc (free software licensed under the GPLv2+); https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandoc?useskin=monobook > > Pandoc can convert between almost all document formats, although the conversion > between some formats leaves much to be desired. > > -- > Kind Regards, DiffieHellman Thanks1 That looks promising, I've noted https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandoc?useskin=monobook https://ports.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=pandoc&stype=all&sektion=all https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/tree/textproc/hs-pandoc/pkg-descr to http://berklix.org/~jhs/src/bsd/fixes/FreeBSD/src/jhs/share/mk/berklix2.mk & I will try again later (as compile breaks now, I need to upgrade OS first) Cheers, -- Julian Stacey. Gmail & Googlemail Fail http://berklix.org/jhs/mail/#bad Brits abroad reclaim your http://StolenVotes.UK www.gov.uk/register-to-vote Arm Ukraine. Contraception to reduce global warming & resource wars.

March 29, 2024

Re: Makefile macros for converting between text formats

by LM

On Thu, Mar 28, 2024 at 6:00 PM Julian H. Stacey wrote: > Thanks to Laura for mentioning various interesting tools. > Anyone know of syntax suggestions for CLI (command line interpreters) > for .groff .html .pdf to [various] .epub ? My notes on creating pdf from html via the command line: https://www.distasis.com/cpp/books.htm I also have some information on this page about converting PDF or HTML that's been converted to PDF to a series of graphics files with imagemagick: https://www.distasis.com/recipes/portp.htm Some older hand held devices could handle graphics but not PDF formats, so I converted stories to multiple graphics files to view and read them on the device. I have some tips for using SciTE: https://www.distasis.com/cpp/scitetip.htm It's a cross-platform programming editor. It's a GUI not a command line or console tool, but it's highly customizable. So, I use a lot of command line utilities in conjunction with it and it will shell out and execute them. The information may give you some useful ideas for command line tools that work with documents. I haven't needed to use groff for anything. I use this program to view man pages. https://github.com/ghaerr/elks/blob/1b6110b73fbb123021a5a29b05d8fa9caef3323… This has some useful utilities including one to convert BSD style man pages to the more standard, older format: https://mandoc.bsd.lv/ There's a Windows port of an older version of the program for people who need Windows support at work or elsewhere: https://embedeo.org/ws/doc/man_windows/ mupdf has command line tools for pdf and ebook formats. I haven't really done much with them, but that may be your best bet on where to start for epub and pdf utilities. Some ultra-lightweight command line pdf tools: pdftxt - https://litcave.rudi.ir/ https://github.com/pts/pdfconcat Here's my list of PDF and Postscript utilities: https://lmemsm.dreamwidth.org/3702.html They're not all command line but many of them are. I have created an ebook from the command line. I did it a while ago and I never had a chance to document the steps. It involved creating some XML files to use with HTML pages and then using zip to package them. There was a specific argument I had to use with zip to get it into the proper format for an epub archive. I'd have to look at my notes. It's been too long since I was working on it. Creating an ebook from the command line once you have the HTML pages and the needed XML files can be done though and it's not a difficult process. I typically create the HTML and XML files directly in a programming editor by hand. > I would add rules to my Makefile macros to convert between various formats: > http://www.berklix.org/~jhs/src/bsd/fixes/FreeBSD/src/jhs/share/mk/berklix2… Interesting. Look forward to reading through it in more detail. By the way, this is a great topic for a discussion. I love comparing notes on the wonderful FLOSS utilities that are out there. > I made some notes on .epub a while back, http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/epub/ > but so far only noticed manual driven GUI (graphical user interface tools), > not seen any CLI to .epub yet. I thought I made a list of command line and conversion tools, but I can't find it. I do mention command line tools including conversion tools on my Converting to Open Source web page, but they're mixed in with GUI tools. I remember looking for command line tools for epub several years ago. As you mentioned, most are GUI based. I found one command line epub validator program. It was licensed as Open Source but the group working on it weren't very into the whole Free Software philosophy. I probably still have the code someplace, but it's not really that useful. I could keep going about interesting FLOSS command line utilities and conversion programs, so I'll just stop now. If you ever want to discuss it further or want more ideas for interesting command line programs, feel free to email me. Best wishes. Laura

March 29, 2024

Re: Makefile macros for converting between text formats

by DiffieHellman

Hi Julian, I would suggest Pandoc (free software licensed under the GPLv2+); https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandoc?useskin=monobook Pandoc can convert between almost all document formats, although the conversion between some formats leaves much to be desired. -- Kind Regards, DiffieHellman

March 28, 2024