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Open Food Facts
by LM Feb. 3, 2025

Feb. 3, 2025

If anyone's planning a Document Freedom Day or Software Freedom Day event in Europe and especially if you're in France and you need some guest speakers, I believe the Open Foods Facts project ( https://world.openfoodfacts.org/ ) could be a great resource. They're working with an Open database and have Free software including an app. They're project is about transparency with food and cosmetic products throughout the world. If you're in an area where there are Open Food Facts volunteers, they can give a talk about their project at a DFD or SFD event. Some of the Open Foods Facts volunteers organize events as well, so a joint DFD or SFD event with an Open Food Facts event might be a possibility. If you're interested, you can connect with someone at the Open Food Facts project at support(a)openfoodfacts.org or let me know and I can make some introductions. I can't believe Document Freedom Day will be next month. It's coming up very soon. Have a great Document Freedom Day.

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Document Freedom Day registration
by LM Jan. 7, 2025

Jan. 7, 2025

Want to register a local event for Document Freedom Day 2025? Here are some tips: 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 Document 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 Document 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. More details on registering are available here: https://digitalfreedoms.org/en/documentation/how-to-register If you have any questions, feel free to ask on this list. I'll be posting more about Document Freedom Day in the weeks counting down to the event. Hope you'll participate this year.

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Counting down to Document Freedom Day
by LM Jan. 6, 2025

Jan. 6, 2025

Hope you had a great holiday season. Now that it's 2025, we're counting down to our next event, Document Freedom Day, on March 26th. To spark some interest for Document Freedom Day, I would like to put together some articles and posts about various topics related to the Free interchange of documents and other media formats. Please share your thoughts. What topics of interest regarding Free formats or Free content would you like to see discussed? On a related note, Public Domain Day was January 1st. archive.org is having a free virtual event to celebrate: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/singin-in-the-public-domain-public-domain-day-… It's vital to have Free methods of sharing documents and media, but it helps to have entertaining Free content as well. Thank you.

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Re: November Writing Month
by LM Nov. 13, 2024

Nov. 13, 2024

On Tue, Nov 12, 2024 at 5:00 PM Zack wrote: > Please let me know how I can get involved. Thanks for volunteering. The first step is to go to https://writingmonth.org/ and sign up for Writing Month. You can choose your goal for the month. For instance, write 1 blog post in November. There's a section which says you can choose a buddy. Haven't tried it out, but I signed in as lmemsm. So, please let me know if you can add me as a buddy in that field or let me know your username at sign up and I'll see if I can add you. Thanks again for offering to participate and hope you have fun with your writing projects. I believe the Digital Freedom Foundation is also accepting guest blog posts on DFD, SFD and HFD related topics. If anyone needs a place to share their writing that may be a viable option.

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November Writing Month
by LM Nov. 12, 2024

Nov. 12, 2024

If you're familiar with NaNoWriMo, someone's started a FLOSS alternative to it called Writing Month. You can sign up for it here: https://writingmonth.org/ There is an option to write with buddies. I thought it might be fun to do a writing project with blog posts for Document Freedom Day. If anyone else would like to join in and help get the word out for Document Freedom Day or Hardware or Software Freedom Day, this provides a fun and novel way to do it. If you would like to do some blog posts, articles, etc. as a team, let me know and we can coordinate a project through the Writing Month challenge. Hope to hear from you.

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Re: Hardware Freedom Day 2025
by LM Oct. 20, 2024

Oct. 20, 2024

On Thu, Oct 17, 2024 Julian H. Stacey wrote: > I suggest add: > http://www.networkupstools.org ... > If Linux people want to adopt CTM code too, welcome its public. Thanks for the links and suggestions. Enjoyed browsing the berklix.org site. It has some great resources. I've always liked the idea behind CTM and enjoyed reading your information on BSD. It's a great operating system. Sincerely, Laura

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Hardware Freedom Day 2025
by LM Oct. 17, 2024

Oct. 17, 2024

I know it's a bit early but Hardware Freedom Day 2025 ( https://digitalfreedoms.org/en/hfd/blog ) is in April (about 6 months away). With all the recent hurricanes and power outages in the US, I thought it would be interesting to investigate Open Hardware options for dealing with off-the-grid emergency situations. So, I've started a list of Open Hardware and Free Software resources for emergency situations: https://codeberg.org/lmemsm/delightful-off-grid-open-tech Also have some discussion going on about it on Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@lmemsm/113306000552570651 If you have any suggestions to add to the list, please let me know. Thanks.

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Huion Challenge
by LM Oct. 8, 2024

Oct. 8, 2024

There's still time to celebrate the use of Free Software and win a prize in the Huion Challenge. More details available here: https://digitalfreedoms.org/en/sfd/blog/art-for-digital-freedom-huion-chall… To participate, create original artwork using FOSS software. Use the submission form at the DFF site or send it via email to challenge(a)digitalfreedomfoundation.org We look forward to seeing your submissions and your creativity.

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digitalfreedoms.org website - photo upload
by Jurgen (Digital Freedom Foundation) Oct. 1, 2024

Oct. 1, 2024

Hi all, There have been some nice improvements on the website (and some important fixes) that I would like to share with all of you, now that Software Freedom Day is over. *1. Huion Art challenge* The submission form to enter the Huion competition <https://digitalfreedoms.org/en/sfd/blog/art-for-digital-freedom-huion-chall…> seemed to be broken. I looked into it, and have it fixed. Please ask your local artists (of all ages!!) to submit their entries on this page: * https://digitalfreedoms.org/2024-huion-challenge *2. Upload your images to the website* You can upload images to the website - so appear on the front page slideshow (square form factor please) - or to have a gallery on your event page. * https://digitalfreedoms.org/en/documentation/uploading-photos-to-the-website *3. We added a Spanish translation of the basic pages* There were some requests for a Spanish translation of the website. We don't have Spanish speaking board members (currently, the pages are AI translated), so feedback on language errors is welcome! (you can send me). There is still an issue with the landing page, but still researching it (couldn't solve it yet though) https://digitalfreedoms.org/es/sfd/blog Do you want the site in another language? If you volunteer to help proof-reading, we can set up other translations. Reach out to me personally. *4. Small events...* I heard a few people say something like:/"Yeah, we organized Software Freedom Day too... but it was only a small event. I didn't want to put it on the map."/ If you did... please put it on the map! Currently, it's important to have a map showing a lot of events, and basically SFD is about reaching local people. So even if you only celebrated the event with 3 other people... it still counts as SFD for me. *5. Sponsorship* In the next month, we'll be reaching out to companies who might be open to support Software Freedom Day and help pay for swag. Do you know people in companies that might be interested in supporting our cause? Please get in touch with me so you can connect me with this/these person(s). (for US based companies, donations can be tax deductible (503(c)1). Greetings, Jurgen

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Thank you
by LM Sept. 22, 2024

Sept. 22, 2024

Thank you to everyone who helped make this year's Software Freedom Day, 2024 special. Good luck to those who are running later events this year. The official 2024 highlights page is up: https://digitalfreedoms.org/en/sfd/blog/software-freedom-day-2024-highlights If you have videos, pictures, recordings, articles or other resources you'd like to see added, please let us know. Again, thanks to everyone who participated. Is it too early to start brainstorming for 2025? What would you like to do differently for next year?

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