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Software Freedom Day - virtual event options

by LM

We're at 16 days and counting until Software Freedom Day, the 20th edition. We're up to 24 teams! Unfortunately, there are a couple of continents we haven't covered this year and I do know of people in those areas who would love to attend an event. If there's a virtual part to your Software Freedom Day celebration or you're hosting any hybrid events, please let me know. I'd like to pass the information on to people who can't attend a local SFD event. I'd need time and time zone, how to join and language of choice (human not programming). Would appreciate your help in finding events for those not fortunate enough to have one in their area. Also, would appreciate hearing if you or anyone you know is in North America and might want to get together either to attend or volunteer or help organize an event in that time zone. If you're having trouble finding a local SFD event, please post to this list as well and let us know. If you're considering a virtual or hybrid event, you can find some resources and software links on the Software Freedom Day's video conferencing page: https://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/VideoConferencing Thanks to everyone involved with Software Freedom Day this year.

Sept. 1, 2023

Re: Software Freedom Day contests

by Maren Hachmann

Thanks for the info! Published on our Kielux Social Media Channels :) https://mastodon.social/@kielux/110985686519924678 Maren Am 31.08.23 um 18:00 schrieb LM: > Just to update list members on some of the actions going on, the new > DFF board is working getting a few prizes for Software Freedom Day > contests. The contests are open to anyone. Feel free to promote them > at your local SFD event if you'd like. > > There's a SFD song contest with a prize from MuseScore. More details here: > https://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/SFDSongContest > > The Free Software Foundation has also donated some prizes. Contest > rules will be forthcoming. > > If anyone's interested in getting more involved or becoming part of > the new DFF board, feel free to join us on matrix: > https://matrix.to/#/#SoftwareFreedomDay:matrix.org > _______________________________________________ > SFD-discuss mailing list -- sfd-discuss(a)mailman3.com > To unsubscribe send an email to sfd-discuss-leave(a)mailman3.com

Aug. 31, 2023

Software Freedom Day - Let's get the word out

by LM

We're at 17 days and counting down to Software Freedom Day. If you need any help organizing a local event, registering your event on the wiki or publicizing, please let us know. If you'd like to share information about a local event to the Digital Freedom Foundation's Mastodon account or other social media accounts, send us a post about it. There are some sample outreach communications on the Software Freedom Day wiki at: https://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/CommunityOutreach You're welcome to remix and reuse them. Thanks to all of you who have participated in Software Freedom Day over the years. Let's make this 20th edition a year to remember.

Aug. 31, 2023

Software Freedom Day contests

by LM

Just to update list members on some of the actions going on, the new DFF board is working getting a few prizes for Software Freedom Day contests. The contests are open to anyone. Feel free to promote them at your local SFD event if you'd like. There's a SFD song contest with a prize from MuseScore. More details here: https://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/SFDSongContest The Free Software Foundation has also donated some prizes. Contest rules will be forthcoming. If anyone's interested in getting more involved or becoming part of the new DFF board, feel free to join us on matrix: https://matrix.to/#/#SoftwareFreedomDay:matrix.org

Aug. 31, 2023

Next Steps for Software Freedom Day 2023

by Jurgen Gaeremyn

Hey all, for the next edition of Software Freedom Day, the artist /*RoadArchie*/ created some really nice artwork - including a celebration edition of the logo for the 20th edition of SFD. You can find the artwork here: https://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2023/Artwork So customize the countdown banner, we'd need your help translating 4 short strings into as many languages as possible. You can add/edit the strings to your language in this Collabora Office spreadsheet: https://jurgeng.ocloud.de/index.php/s/pXf9H7kpk4aMANA Here's already a preview of the countdown banner: SFD Countdown banner Also, if you would like to write a Software Freedom Day Song (or you already did in the past), would you like to share it? (a recording, or maybe even a MuseScore <https://musescore.org> file?) Just imagine your SFD song being sung al over the world, in a happy creative commons tune ... So don't forget to keep Saturday 16th of September on your agenda! Really looking forward to be rocking to the Software Freedom Day beat this year! Jurgen

July 11, 2023

Re: Software Freedom Day 2023

by Luna Jernberg

Did pre register to attend now :) Den tis 30 maj 2023 kl 12:15 skrev Frederic Muller - DFF <fred(a)digitalfreedomfoundation.org>: > > Dear all, > > It seems my message didn't go out very well. So I am resending it. > > Mailing lists have moved to mailman3.com domain and is now: > sfd-discuss(a)mailman3.com > > The current board is also resigning. I'll stay around to help out and > ensure SFD runs again this year. > > If anyone wants to take over please let us know. > > Thank you. > > Fred > > On 05/05/2023 14:16, Jurgen Gaeremyn wrote: > > Hello, > > > > We're planning for Software Freedom Day 2023 in Hackerspace Brussels > > (hey... it's our 20th edition, we should celebrate!) We picked the topic > > "Freedom in education" > > > > Is anyone else doing SFD this year? I haven't seen a lot of activity on > > the mailinglist. Maybe we could meet in a Matrix channel? I created > > #SoftwareFreedomDay:matrix.org where we could coordinate and exchange > > ideas) > > > > Grtz, > > Jurgen > > > _______________________________________________ > SFD-discuss mailing list -- sfd-discuss(a)mailman3.com > To unsubscribe send an email to sfd-discuss-leave(a)mailman3.com

July 6, 2023

SFD 2023 Registration soft launch

by Frederic Muller - DFF

Dear all, SFD registration has been opened for a few hours. Please try registering your event if you have already created a wiki page please go ahead and register, if you are planning on organizing SFD this year (it's SFD's 20th anniversary!) then create your wiki page on the SFD wiki and go to register your event. Let us know if you're experiencing any issue. Thank you very much. Happy SFD! Fred

July 5, 2023

online meeting July 6 14:00 UTC - Brainstorming about the future of Software Freedom Day

by Jurgen Gaeremyn

Hey all, Recently I shot out a poll for an online brainstorm session on the future of Software Freedom Day and the other events organized by the Digital Freedom Foundation. The poll showed a clear winner. The 7 persons who entered the poll, were all available (if needed) on next Thursday, July 6th at 14:00 UTC The meeting will take at most 90 minutes (capped). Chat will happen on Element (https://matrix.to/#/#SoftwareFreedomDay:matrix.org) and on there we will supply a Jitsi link for the participants. Thank you Ring for your inspiring testimonial from Bangladesh! Looking forward to be meeting you upcoming Thursday together with the other volunteers. As your life story also testifies... we are but humans and our commitments often depend on health and other circumstances. The current board also was confronted with this very harshly with the tragic accident of Patrick Sinz. Cordially, Jurgen

July 2, 2023

Re: 20 years Software Freedom Day - and the future

by সাজেদুর রহিম জোয়ারদ ার

Dear Comrades for Digital Free Society Peace be upon you all. Myself Shazedur Rahim Joardar, nickname Ring (in Bengali- রিং). I am from Bangladesh located in South East Asia. I am volunteering with Software Freedom advocacy since 2002. Got to know about this "Software Freedom, GNU and more" while started running GNU/Linux on my system in 2001. In 2006 I got Cerebrovascular Disease, right side of my body got paralyzed, speech impaired. By the blessings of my parents and the Creator I have got 80%-85% recovered by 2008 and got back to daily life. In 2011 with a team of 21 volunteers founded FOSS Bangladesh and started the advocacy to spread out more and more in organized way. Till 2016, FOSS Bangladesh had organized each SFD, HFD, EFD and CFD along with DADRM, LinuxDay, GNU/Linux installation Fest and 83 local events in various schools and universities here in Bangladesh to spread out about "Digital Freedom" and it's urgency among the next generation people. In 2014 on my invitation Mr. Stallman (RMS, Founder of FSF) visited in Bangladesh. In 2014-2016 I was an Adjunct Faculty member in the software engineering department of a reputed university in Bangladesh. In December 2016 my health condition got worse again and I had just got home bounded. Later on survived from CoVid-19 in 2021 and Pancreatitis in 2022. But as I am alive and active again, I believe that, I have many more left to do for the society with my software and hardware knowledge and activities to achieve the true "Free Digital Society". In 2022 after the Corona pandemic FOSS Bangladesh had organized a public event in an university and me restarted with my public speeches. FOSS Bangladesh also getting strengthened with it's 88+ volunteers and planning for public events like SFD in 2023. I am freelancer for my living with a little knowledge in C, C++ and Python. I am very much fond of Open or Free software and not in just any Freeware or just the Open Source codes. To ensure my digital freedom, I demand for proper commented code, proper documentation to make use of the code along with the freedom to modify and distribute the modified copy to all. While in freelancing I also deliver the same to my clients with the same digital freedom philosophy. Me also volunteer with Mozilla and LibreOffice and few others local communities and groups and on online forum sites as I love to provide User Support/Help on using GNU/Linux distros and Free Software. বুধ, ২৮ জুন, ২০২৩ তারিখে ২:১৮ AM টায় তারিখে Jurgen Gaeremyn < jurgen(a)gaeremyn.be> লিখেছেন: > Dear Friends of Digital Freedoms, > With the 20th edition of SFD up the horizon, we need to look who is > willing to step up and put in a helping hand for the Digital Freedom > Foundation (DFF), who is willing to put their shoulders under respectively > SFD, DFD, HFD and EFD? > I will try my best to work with you people. > Are you willing and able to help think about shaping the Digital Freedom > Foundation and help organize their events? Please fill out this Framadate > page <https://framadate.org/OJEn7rqio6NX37LN> so we can pick a time slot > for an online meeting. > I suggest to do this meeting in a [https://meet.jit.si/] session. My 2nd preference is [Telegram Group Voice/Video Chat]. In Telegram you can find me -- [https://t.me/toshazed] with regards -- রিং/ring মহাসচিব/General Secretary এফওএসএস বাংলাদেশ/FOSS Bangladesh মোজিলিয়ান/Mozillian সদস্য, লিনাক্স মিন্ট বাংলাদেশ/Member, LinuxMint Bangladesh

July 2, 2023

20 years Software Freedom Day - and the future

by Jurgen Gaeremyn

Dear Friends of Digital Freedoms, (if nothing else, please read the last paragraph with a practical question) Over the last 20 years, many people have stepped up to make Software Freedom Day big. Under the leadership of Frederic Muller, Patrick Sinz, Pockey Lam and Julien Forgeat - the celebration of Software Freedom Day grew further to an international event with celebrations in every continent, gathering thousands of people. Read more about the history on https://www.digitalfreedomfoundation.org/index.php/about On May 27th 2019, Patrick died in a traffic accident. He contributed very much to the French speaking Open Source community, was a friend to many and was also a loving father and spouse. The other board members were struck hard by this blow. This loss, with consequently the COVID pandemic and personal health issues, have lead the board into being less and less active the last few years. Recently it was announced on the mailing list that the complete board of the Digital Freedom Foundation have resigned and are looking for people to take over the task. Despite multinational companies growing into bigger and bigger closed source eco systems, great projects like Linux, LibreOffice, NextCloud, Inkscape and Moodle succeed in setting an example in an economical viable way, while still setting new standards for Open Source Software. It is more important than ever to give voice to the many great projects out there that choose to be available to every person on the globe, giving them the freedom to use, study, modify and pass on this software. Putting Free and Libre software front and center, is a core challenge of the Digital Freedom Foundation. Over the years, we gradually grew bigger and next to Software Freedom Day (SFD, since 2004) also added the Document Freedom Day (DFD, since 2008), the Hardware Freedom Day (HFD, since 2013) and the Education Freedom Day (EFD, since 2013) to their calendar. With the 20^th edition of SFD up the horizon, we need to look who is willing to step up and put in a helping hand for the Digital Freedom Foundation (DFF), who is willing to put their shoulders under respectively SFD, DFD, HFD and EFD? Are you willing and able to help think about shaping the Digital Freedom Foundation and help organize their events? Please fill out this Framadate page <https://framadate.org/OJEn7rqio6NX37LN> so we can pick a time slot for an online meeting. Greetings, Jurgen

June 27, 2023