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Re: 💪 Software Freedom Day is growing, and so should our team!

by Anselme Mballa biloa

On peut envoyer ce message au grand public ? Mballa Biloa Anselme Directeur technique mballabiloa(a)gmail.com +237 695510728 <+237695510728> +237 674028835 <+237674028835> Douala,Cameroun cathywelly.com <http://www.cathywelly.com/> <http://www.cathywelly.com/> <https://www.facebook.com/cathywelly8> Le contenu de cet e-mail est confidentiel et destiné au destinataire spécifié dans le message uniquement. Il est strictement interdit de partager toute partie de ce message avec un tiers, sans le consentement écrit de l'expéditeur. Si vous avez reçu ce message par erreur, veuillez répondre à ce message et suivre sa suppression, afin que nous puissions nous assurer qu'une telle erreur ne se reproduise plus à l'avenir. Le sam. 7 mars 2026, 12:16, Jurgen Gaeremyn (Digital Freedom Foundation) < jurgen(a)digitalfreedomfoundation.org> a écrit : > Hi Friends of Digital Freedoms, > > Software Freedom Day has grown significantly over the past few years: from > 23 registered events in 2023 to over 100 locations last year. We've been > building relationships with bloggers and sponsors across the FOSS > ecosystem, and we're excited to be sending even more swag this year. > > From the beginning, we've agreed that active board members don't need to > commit indefinitely. With that in mind, we're now looking for fresh > volunteers to help us take Software Freedom Day even further in the coming > years. We're looking for new board members willing to commit for at least > one year, and also volunteers for specific tasks. > > *Want to join the board? Core responsibilities include:* > > - > > Taking collective decisions on how to shape Software Freedom Day and > the other DFF events in the upcoming years > - > > Attending our monthly online board meeting (typically around one hour, > occasionally up to 90 minutes) > - > > Being present in the DFF Matrix channel throughout the year > - > > Helping prepare meeting agendas and taking notes > - > > Managing our budget, handling sponsor invoicing, and ensuring > financial transparency > - > > Helping determine and establish the long-term legal structure and home > of the foundation > - > > Setting the annual SFD date, coordinating swag logistics, and keeping > the event registration platform running for local organizers > - > > Upholding and enforcing our code of conduct > > The board is not something for you? But you still *want to help?* We'd > love additional help with any of the following. If you have something else > to offer, don't hesitate to share your ideas! > > - > > Finding and approaching global sponsors > - > > Reaching out to local teams and encouraging early registration > - > > Writing blog posts on the website > - > > Participating in social media > - > > Maintaining our online infrastructure (Nextcloud, mail, Joomla site, > VPS) > - > > Helping with press outreach and partner organization relationships > > We work in English as our common language, though most of us are not > native speakers. So no need to worry about that. If you're interested or > know someone who might be, please get in touch. > > We'd love to hear from you! Mail us at board(a)digitalfreedomfoundation.org > before April 4th. > > Warm regards, > Laura, Chris, Joe, Ruwan, Jurgen > _______________________________________________ > SFD-discuss mailing list -- sfd-discuss(a)mailman3.com > To unsubscribe send an email to sfd-discuss-leave(a)mailman3.com >

March 8, 2026

💪 Software Freedom Day is growing, and so should our team!

by Jurgen Gaeremyn

Hi Friends of Digital Freedoms, Software Freedom Day has grown significantly over the past few years: from 23 registered events in 2023 to over 100 locations last year. We've been building relationships with bloggers and sponsors across the FOSS ecosystem, and we're excited to be sending even more swag this year. From the beginning, we've agreed that active board members don't need to commit indefinitely. With that in mind, we're now looking for fresh volunteers to help us take Software Freedom Day even further in the coming years. We're looking for new board members willing to commit for at least one year, and also volunteers for specific tasks. *Want to join the board? Core responsibilities include:* * Taking collective decisions on how to shape Software Freedom Day and the other DFF events in the upcoming years * Attending our monthly online board meeting (typically around one hour, occasionally up to 90 minutes) * Being present in the DFF Matrix channel throughout the year * Helping prepare meeting agendas and taking notes * Managing our budget, handling sponsor invoicing, and ensuring financial transparency * Helping determine and establish the long-term legal structure and home of the foundation * Setting the annual SFD date, coordinating swag logistics, and keeping the event registration platform running for local organizers * Upholding and enforcing our code of conduct The board is not something for you? But you still *want to help?* We'd love additional help with any of the following. If you have something else to offer, don't hesitate to share your ideas! * Finding and approaching global sponsors * Reaching out to local teams and encouraging early registration * Writing blog posts on the website * Participating in social media * Maintaining our online infrastructure (Nextcloud, mail, Joomla site, VPS) * Helping with press outreach and partner organization relationships We work in English as our common language, though most of us are not native speakers. So no need to worry about that. If you're interested or know someone who might be, please get in touch. We'd love to hear from you! Mail us at board(a)digitalfreedomfoundation.org before April 4th. Warm regards, Laura, Chris, Joe, Ruwan, Jurgen

March 7, 2026

Please register your DFD events

by LM

A quick reminder, #DocumentFreedomDay2026 is March 25th. Please be sure to add your local event to the official event list: https://digitalfreedoms.org/en/dfd/archive?view=list You can also check for events in your area to attend or virtual events to join. Please join us in celebrating #DFD2026.

March 7, 2026

Document Freedom Day - Free Document Format countdown - EPUB

by LM

Welcome to today's #DFD2026 countdown. The Free format for this week is EPUB, the Open Standard for ebooks. It's very easy to create your own ebooks. All it takes is a text editor to produce HTML and XML files and a zip tool to store them. If you don't want to learn HTML and XML coding, you can use Free Software like Scribus to design and generate EPUB formats for you. Calibre can organize your ebook library. Bard incorporates FLite Text-To-Speech to read ebooks aloud to you.

March 7, 2026

💪 Software Freedom Day is growing, and so should our team!

by Jurgen Gaeremyn (Digital Freedom Foundation)

Hi Friends of Digital Freedoms, Software Freedom Day has grown significantly over the past few years: from 23 registered events in 2023 to over 100 locations last year. We've been building relationships with bloggers and sponsors across the FOSS ecosystem, and we're excited to be sending even more swag this year. From the beginning, we've agreed that active board members don't need to commit indefinitely. With that in mind, we're now looking for fresh volunteers to help us take Software Freedom Day even further in the coming years. We're looking for new board members willing to commit for at least one year, and also volunteers for specific tasks. *Want to join the board? Core responsibilities include:* * Taking collective decisions on how to shape Software Freedom Day and the other DFF events in the upcoming years * Attending our monthly online board meeting (typically around one hour, occasionally up to 90 minutes) * Being present in the DFF Matrix channel throughout the year * Helping prepare meeting agendas and taking notes * Managing our budget, handling sponsor invoicing, and ensuring financial transparency * Helping determine and establish the long-term legal structure and home of the foundation * Setting the annual SFD date, coordinating swag logistics, and keeping the event registration platform running for local organizers * Upholding and enforcing our code of conduct The board is not something for you? But you still *want to help?* We'd love additional help with any of the following. If you have something else to offer, don't hesitate to share your ideas! * Finding and approaching global sponsors * Reaching out to local teams and encouraging early registration * Writing blog posts on the website * Participating in social media * Maintaining our online infrastructure (Nextcloud, mail, Joomla site, VPS) * Helping with press outreach and partner organization relationships We work in English as our common language, though most of us are not native speakers. So no need to worry about that. If you're interested or know someone who might be, please get in touch. We'd love to hear from you! Mail us at board(a)digitalfreedomfoundation.org before April 4th. Warm regards, Laura, Chris, Joe, Ruwan, Jurgen

March 7, 2026

Document Freedom Day - Free Document Format countdown - gettext

by LM

We're officially counting down to #DocumentFreedomDay2026 on March 25th. One Free format I've been investigating is the mo file used by gettext. This format is a great way to provide #internationalization in a standardized manner to programs. Projects don't have to reinvent the wheel to provide language support. A msgfmt program converts po files (human readable) to mo format for use with libintl which is part of GNU gettext. There are other compatible implementations too. BSD offers libcitrus. musl C library includes support and gettext-tiny makes use of musl to provide a lightweight alternative for embedded systems. There are C, Perl and Python versions of msgfmt. I'm learning more about the format by writing my own msgfmt utility. Have favorite Free formats of your own? Please share them with the list as we count down to #DFD2026.

March 1, 2026

Document Freedom Day 2026

by LM

I can't believe how fast we're approaching Document Freedom Day, March 25th, 2026. If you'd like to host an event, please be sure to register so others can find it and join you. Here's an introductory page on where to find links related to Document Freedom Day: https://digitalfreedoms.org/en/dfd/blog/join-us-for-document-freedom-day-20… If you think of any other useful resources or information we can add to the page, please let me know. Also, I'm hoping to host a virtual get together to celebrate Document Freedom Day on the last weekend in March: https://gath.io/lV9mfDbSEVUA_epsmHq9t If anyone would like to volunteer to talk on a Free/Open format related topic, please contact me.

Feb. 3, 2026

Public Domain Day and Document Freedom Day

by LM

Beyond 40 is having a virtual meeting today to celebrate Public Domain Day. Thought it might also be a good time to brainstorm ideas for Document Freedom Day. Feel free to join in: https://gath.io/XDKJ66FYl2ABCs2B1FktE

Jan. 4, 2026

Happy New Years

by LM

Wishing everyone a Happy New Year. May it be safe, healthy and prosperous. Happy Public Domain Day. We're gearing up for Document Freedom Day in March. Is anyone in the process of brainstorming ideas for a local or virtual event for Document Freedom Day? There is a discussion of some possible Document Freedom Day themes in the #DocumentFreedomDay channel on Matrix. Some hot topics that might be of interest include digital ids and formats useful for indie web development. I enjoyed our previous countdown to Document Freedom Day where we shared FLOSS programs that use Open/Free formats and discussed topics like emacs org mode and text todo files. Public domain and Creative Commons resources using Free document formats are a powerful combination. Let's get the word out to the world and help promote these and similar important resources on Document Freedom Day. Hope you enjoy Public Domain Day. Please share your favorite public domain and Document Freedom Day software or resources. Check out sites like Open Culture and Internet Archive to find some great multimedia. I also have a list of public domain source code projects: https://lmemsm.dreamwidth.org/10325.html Best wishes.

Jan. 1, 2026

Re: Hi all

by Jurgen Gaeremyn

Hi Tom, welcome to the SFD community! What brought you here? Jurgen Op 24-12-2025 om 05:02 schreef tom0854007838(a)gmail.com: > I am a new user ^^ > _______________________________________________ > SFD-discuss mailing list --sfd-discuss(a)mailman3.com > To unsubscribe send an email tosfd-discuss-leave(a)mailman3.com

Dec. 24, 2025