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Join the Huion Challenge, Meet Halla Rempt, and Explore Creative Workshops on SFD!
by Jurgen (Digital Freedom Foundation) 28 Jun '24

28 Jun '24

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

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Software Freedom Day Event registration
by LM 10 Jun '24

10 Jun '24

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.

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Software Freedom Day 2024
by LM 07 Jun '24

07 Jun '24

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.

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Re: Makefile macros for converting between text formats
by LM 30 Mar '24

30 Mar '24

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

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Makefile macros for converting between text formats
by Julian H. Stacey 29 Mar '24

29 Mar '24

Hi all, 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 ? 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… I made some notes on .epub a while back, http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/epub/ but so far only noticed manual driven GUI (grapical user interface tools), not seen any CLI to .epub yet. 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.

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Happy Document Freedom Day
by LM 27 Mar '24

27 Mar '24

Hope you have a productive and fruitful Document Freedom Day, today, March 27th, 2024. How are you celebrating Document Freedom Day? Here are some ideas on ways to get involved. Please share some of your own. 1, Check the Document Freedom Day web site for events in your area: https://digitalfreedoms.org/dfd 2, Use a word processor or office application that emphasizes Open Document formats and Free Software. Some examples: a. Libreoffice (ODT format) b. Calligra c. Lyx (LaTex) d. Scribus ( http://justsolve.archiveteam.org/wiki/Scribus ) e. Abiword f. Focuswriter (ODT format) g. FlWriter ( https://sourceforge.net/p/nanolinux/wiki/Home/ ) h. Sigil (EPUB format) i. Calibre (EPUB format) 3. Take a look at some of the Open Document platforms and Open Education Resources available: a. Open science and education platforms - https://lmemsm.dreamwidth.org/29187.html b. OER - https://lmemsm.dreamwidth.org/14440.html 4. Check out and make use of some of the utilities and libraries that support Open Document formats: a. CSV - https://lmemsm.dreamwidth.org/28870.html b. ical - https://github.com/libical/libical c. ical - https://github.com/stephaneagg/iCalendar-ics-filter d. tinyxml2 - https://github.com/leethomason/tinyxml2 e. XMLStarlet - https://xmlstar.sourceforge.net/ 5. Check out plain text options such as: a. https://plaintextaccounting.org/ b. https://furius.ca/beancount/ c. https://github.com/todotxt/todo.txt d. https://plaintextproject.online/articles/2021/07/07/todo.html e. https://github.com/mattheyan/time.txt f. https://alistapart.com/article/boom/ g. https://orgmode.org/ h. https://plaintext-productivity.net/ i. https://plaintextworld.com/ k. https://danlucraft.com/blog/2008/04/plain-text-organizer/ l. https://zapier.com/blog/plain-text-files-for-productivity/ m. https://journaltxt.github.io/ n. https://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/ o. https://johnhenrymuller.com/today 6. Let others know about the Free, Libre, Open Source Software you use that supports Open Document formats. Help out by advocating and informing people you know of the importance of using accessible formats and software with source code you can see. If you have a web site, social media account or some friends in need of useful software, please spread the word about Document Freedom Day, Open and accessible formats and the wonderful FLOSS tools that work with them. Enjoy exploring some of the wonderful Free and Open Document formats out there and the FLOSS applications that work well with them. Have a great Document Freedom Day. Sincerely, Laura

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Document Freedom Day events
by LM 09 Mar '24

09 Mar '24

If you're involved with a Document Freedom Day event, please register it at the DFF web site: https://digitalfreedoms.org/ There's more information on Document Freedom day available here: https://digitalfreedoms.org/dfd Also, please let us know about your Document Freedom Day events on this mailing list.

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Document Freedom Day
by LM 02 Mar '24

02 Mar '24

Twenty-five days and counting down to Document Freedom Day on March 27, 2024. Want to know how you can get involved? Help organize a local or virtual event on topics related to the theme of Document Freedom. Invite people to attend. You can post about it here and on other social media platforms. Check out our list of Free Social Media platforms if you need a few ideas for reaching out to people: https://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/SFDMarketingSites Want to attend a Document Freedom Day event? A new web site and event map are coming soon. In the meantime, you can ask on this list if anyone's running an event in your area or hosting a virtual event.

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Re: Software Freedom Day 2023
by Frederic Muller - DFF 17 Feb '24

17 Feb '24

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 >

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Document Freedom Day 2024 - Save The Date!
by Marcos Marado 22 Jan '24

22 Jan '24

Hello! Time flies, and we're well into 2024 by now, time to start planning the events of the year! As you may know, "Document Freedom Day" is celebrated every year on the last Wednesday of March each year, and in 2024 it will be no different: Save the date, 27 March 2024! Document Freedom Day is an annual event to "celebrate and raise awareness of Open Standards". It has been celebrated since 2008, and, like with Software Freedom Day, we are looking forward to learning about your teams and planned events and filling up the map! We are still finalizing a new website where each of those events will be listed, but we hope you can start planning how you wish to celebrate the date in the meantime! In Freedom, -- Marcos Marado, Digital Freedom Foundation DFF: https://www.digitalfreedomfoundation.org DFD: https://documentfreedom.org

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