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Help requested with caff / signing keys
by Jimmy PIERRE Feb. 10, 2017

Feb. 10, 2017

Greetings, Any of you guys know caff quite well please? I have attended a keysigning party last week end in Belgium (FOSDEM) and I have been advised to use caff to sign the public keys. I do not want to spam the group with my .caffrc file, so if you want to help me, please contact me via PM if at all possible. I have not launched caff yet, but I need someone to check my .caffrc file and tell me what they think, for instance, I use smtp1.servage.net as smtp server. Will that work on your opinion? In a nutshell, this is an opportunity to couple keysigning with SFD this year and years to come :) Many thanks in anticipation, Sincerely; Jimmy -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- pub 2048R/48AE8D53 2017-01-25 Key fingerprint = BD91 56F6 44B5 E7C6 20EE 4F71 C85E 9EF3 48AE 8D53 uid Jimmy Pierre (NUI) <jpierre(a)nui.fr> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- pub 2048R/BE20D27A 2017-01-25 Key fingerprint = 6233 2383 C9A2 D315 CA6B E20B 8518 7E4C BE20 D27A uid Jimmy Pierre (cisware) <jpierre(a)cisware.com> --------------

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Education Freedom Day
by Rutger van Sleen Nov. 9, 2016

Nov. 9, 2016

Hi, I was visiting http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/ (what, no SSL?) and I got startled by the date mentioning Education Freedom Day. It's stated on the site that it would be on 17 March. However, that's a friday. It should be 18 March. ;) Greetings, Rutger

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TTCS OSSWIN v1.60, compilation of Free and Open Source Software for Windows
by Dev Anand Teelucksingh Oct. 13, 2016

Oct. 13, 2016

As a FYI, The Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society is pleased to announce the release of the TTCS OSSWIN v1.60, a collection of the latest version of Free and Open Source Software for Microsoft Windows (10/8/7/Vista/XP) for download. The name change from TTCS OSSWIN DVD to TTCS OSSWIN was done to reflect that whilst the collection can (for now) be burned on a DVD, DVDs are becoming less prevalent on many modern Windows computers and that TTCS OSSWIN can be extracted to the hard drive or to USB flash drives. The TTCS OSSWIN collection features a web based interface for browsing programs organised into several categories: Desktop Applications, Educational, Games, Graphics, Internet, Server, Sound and Video and Utilities. Lots of software updates for TTCS OSSWIN v1.60, including LibreOffice 5.2.1, Mozilla Firefox 48.0.2, Virtualbox 5.1.6 and more. See the changelog for more details. Visit the TTCS OSSWIN page at http://www.cs.tt/osswin for more details and to download the collection as an ISO file for burning onto a DVD or extracting to your harddrive or USB storage device. Dev Anand

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SFD reports or summaries
by Frederic Muller - DFF Oct. 12, 2016

Oct. 12, 2016

Dear all, We're seeing a few organizing teams uploading reports of their events on the wiki. Maybe we could actually publish them under blog post format on DFF website. We would need for that just text, a few photos (like 1-2 I'd say) and eventually links to partners or news reports if any. Please send those preferably off the list to me, or if you prefer in the list. We will publish those over the coming few weeks not all at once in mo specific order. Thank you very much. Fred ps: and yes, the reports should be in English.

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Software Freedom Day: The importance of free and open source software
by Kevin Cole Sept. 21, 2016

Sept. 21, 2016

Seen in the news: http://www.dnaindia.com/scitech/column-software-freedom-day-the-importance-…

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"Spotlight on FOSS 2016" DVD for Mac OS X Released for Software Freedom Day
by Nicholas Pyers - AppleUsers.org Aug. 29, 2016

Aug. 29, 2016

As part of the celebrations of Software Freedom Day 2016, AppleUsers.org has compiled a selection of some of the best, yet totally free, software that’s available for the Mac, collected together on a single DVD, called “Spotlight on FOSS 2016” plus a bonus video and a copy of The AppleUsers Spotlight “Software Freedom Day 2016” Special Edition are included. Organisers of Software Freedom Day events and Apple User Group Leaders can download the Golden Master (and support files including a DVD Label and Promo Flyer) free of charge from AppleUsers.org. Copies of the DVD can then be burnt and distributed to attendees of Software Freedom Day 2016 events or to Apple User Group members — again free of charge. A five page flyer, supplied as a PDF, which details the DVDs content is also available for printing out and displaying at SFD Events and Apple User Group Meetings. Feel free to expand it to A3 and use it as posters to promote the DVD contents. The “Spotlight on FOSS 2016” DVD contains; Audio: Audacity eBooks: Calibre, Jomic Education: Celestia, Moodle, Stellarium Games: Aleph One – Marathon, Armagetron Advanced, BZFlag, Cube 2: Sauerbraten, PrBoom, PySol Fan Club Edition, Scorched 3D, Wesnoth Graphics: Blender, GIMP, Seashore Internet: Adium, Cyberduck, Firefox, Kompozer, RSS Owl, SeaMonkey, Thunderbird, Transmission, Vienna Office Productivity: Apache OpenOffice, FormulatePro, FreeMind, LibreOffice, Skim Utilities: Burn, MAMP (Macintosh, Apache, Mysql and PHP), Quicksilver, SheepShaver, The Unarchiver, VirtualBox Video: HandBrake, Miro Video Converter, Miro, Plex, Video Lan Client (VLC) Bonus Video: Happy Birthday to GNU, by Stephen Fry The applications and files supplied on this Disc are supplied as is and we make no representations regarding the applications nor any information related thereto. Any questions, complaints or claims regarding the applications must be directed to the appropriate software vendor. — Downloading “Spotlight on FOSS 2016” — The DVD Golden Master, plus a DVD Label and Promotional Flyer, can be downloaded from; http://www.appleusers.org/dotm/spotlight-on-foss-2016-dvd-released/ If you’d like to download the Spotlight FOSS Sampler Edition 2016 as a standalone file, you can download it, free of charge, from http://www.appleusers.org/magazine/spotlight-foss-sampler-edition-2016-rele… [ps: to the admin(s) of the SFD.org wiki, you may wish to update the section under http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/Resources#FOSS_stuff_on_DVDs ;) ] -- Nicholas Pyers (nicholas(a)appleusers.org) Founder & Publisher, AppleUsers.org http://www.appleusers.org/

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German countdown
by Frederic Muller - DFF Aug. 29, 2016

Aug. 29, 2016

Hi! I've noticed Edgar from the FSFE has edited the text for the German countdown but the graphics haven't been modified since 2013. We have actually slightly updated the design this year but to get it working you can either update: 01.png, 00.png and 00here.png which have the date of the event of this year and the coming year. You can find the original SVG file here http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/CountDown/de?action=AttachFile&do=get&ta… and then you'll have to upload them there: http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/CountDown/de?action=AttachFile Else you would need to take the English countdown and do at least 23 images (as SFD is in 21 days roughly). The English image file is here: http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/CountDown/en?action=AttachFile&do=get&ta… I can activate it now as it will only show the wrong images the day before SFD but I would just like to be sure it is happening ;-) If you go for the new design of course generating the 99 files will be nice for next year. We will also have to remove the old ones before you can upload the new ones. Just let us know. Thank you. Fred

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Other languages for SFD Countdown
by Frederic Muller - DFF Aug. 28, 2016

Aug. 28, 2016

Hi! As you have read over the past few days we have localized the countdown in 3 additional languages, namely Chinese, French and German. I have just emailed the Spanish, Portuguese and Russian SFD mailing list to gather some volunteers for those languages. We have had other languages translated in the past and I was wondering if we still had someone willing to help us out on those. The languages I have on the wiki are: - Catalan - Serbian Cyrillic - Serbian Latin - Ukrainian - Estonian - Persian - Arabic - Greek If anyone has a bit of free time on their hands, it would be nice to help out. Just let us know whether you decide to just modify the last 3 png(s) or the whole countdown based on the new design (or your wiki name so we can add you to the list of people who can delete files in the countdown section). Full documentation for CountDown translation is available here: http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/CountDown Thank you very much. Fred

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Call for Help on SVG Counter
by Alexandro Colorado Aug. 27, 2016

Aug. 27, 2016

Hello I put a Call for help on the FB group and page of the SFD, would be nice if I can get it reposted as SFD on FB, twitter and Identi.ca. I am sure much more people will pay attention to the call, if it comes from the official SFD account. Here is the link: https://www.facebook.com/jzarecta/posts/10152100110451978 http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/CountDown Regards. -- Alexandro Colorado Apache OpenOffice Contributor http://www.openoffice.org

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SFD wiki is live
by Frederic Muller - DFF Aug. 26, 2016

Aug. 26, 2016

Hi! The wiki is finally live and ready to add your teams in any language (already supported). The Artwork page, the localization of fixed pages and a few other things are still being updated. Of course for languages we do not speak, if you think you can make those minor modifications that would be great. Those are in no particular order: - Spanish - Portuguese - Russian - Sinhala Then there are some random pages including the FrontPage which seems to have some translation in Hindi and Korean. And registration should also follow shortly. Thank you all for your patience. Fred

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