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Re: [SFD-discuss] SFD 2020

by Stuart J Mackintosh

> Just attended a couple of Linux, FLOSS related meetings using Jitsi. Yes - Jitsi works well for video conferencing and screen-sharing. For a virtual event, BigBlueButton (http://docs.bigbluebutton.org/) might be more appropriate. There are various FOSS options for broadcasting when a larger audience of watchers is needed, opposed to participants. SJM -- Stuart J Mackintosh CEO / Founder OpusVL Logo Business management software - Joined-up, flexible & open • Open Source Specialists Drury House Drury Lane Rugby CV21 3DE T: 01788 298 450 DDI: 01788 298 457 E: sjm(a)opusvl.com <mailto:sjm@opusvl.com> W: http://opusvl.com IM: xmpp:stuart.j.mackintosh@project.im

May 11, 2020

SFD 2020

by LM

Was just wondering when the SFD wiki would be updated for 2020. Seems like a good time to discuss SFD 2020 since it was just mentioned in the Document Freedom Day thread. Just attended a couple of Linux, FLOSS related meetings using Jitsi. I think it would be great this year to host SFD 2020 virtually instead of at our local library. We might even get a bigger turn out. I wasn't impressed with the ability to share slides over Jitsi especially if someone's running it from a mobile device with low bandwidth. However, I have some info/slides I put together on the web for a local tech conference. Could supply the web links for viewing information and slides and have the meeting for SFD via Jitsi. Think it would be fun. With World Tai Chi Day, everyone did Tai Chi from home at 10 AM in there particular time zone. Think it could be really great if any groups doing SFD this year virtually could schedule their sessions at different times (especially if they're already in different time zones) so that people could attend and participate in multiple virtual events. Would also be wonderful to have one page on the SFD wiki that gives times and virtual locations for all the virtual events. I'd also like to come up with some ideas for reaching out to people who may not have the latest and greatest hardware or who have low resource or older computers or maybe just mobile devices. Any ideas on that front would be greatly appreciated. Think now would be a great time to start planning for SFD 2020.

May 11, 2020

Re: [SFD-discuss] Document Freedom Day

by Marcos Marado

I can confirm that the Portuguese plans for SFD 2020 have been postponed to 2021. On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 10:33 AM Frederic Muller - DFF <fred(a)digitalfreedomfoundation.org> wrote: > > On 5/11/20 4:23 PM, সাজেদুর রহিম জোয়ারদার wrote: > > We the FOSS Bangladesh team take part in SFD, DFD, EFD since 2011 and > > try our level best to held a seminar in our local university or college > > campus on the event day. > > > > Please let me know how may FOSS Bangladesh team help in this current > > scenario. > > Well I believe most of us have big issues than DFD 2021 at the current > time. So let give it a few months to rest and see how the situation > evolves on both fronts. > > Maybe disucssing SFD in a different thread would make sense but it > really doesn't sound like it would make sense to encourage poeple > organizing events when big parts of the world are in lockdown or hardly > getting out of it without any certainty of what the future may be. > > Thank you too for your support. > > Fred > > > _______________________________________________ > SFD-discuss mailing list > SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss

May 11, 2020

Re: [SFD-discuss] Document Freedom Day

by Frederic Muller - DFF

On 5/11/20 4:23 PM, সাজেদুর রহিম জোয়ারদার wrote: > We the FOSS Bangladesh team take part in SFD, DFD, EFD since 2011 and > try our level best to held a seminar in our local university or college > campus on the event day. > > Please let me know how may FOSS Bangladesh team help in this current > scenario. Well I believe most of us have big issues than DFD 2021 at the current time. So let give it a few months to rest and see how the situation evolves on both fronts. Maybe disucssing SFD in a different thread would make sense but it really doesn't sound like it would make sense to encourage poeple organizing events when big parts of the world are in lockdown or hardly getting out of it without any certainty of what the future may be. Thank you too for your support. Fred

May 11, 2020

Re: [SFD-discuss] Document Freedom Day

by সাজেদুর রহিম জোয়ারদ ার

Hi Fred Peace be upon you and Thanks for your mail. বুধ, ৬ মে, ২০২০ তারিখে ৯:০৩ PM টায় এ Frederic Muller - DFF < fred(a)digitalfreedomfoundation.org> লিখেছেন: > Hi! > We hope you are all doing ok despite the current problem(s). We received > an email from the 'Document Foundation' (Italo Vignoli to be precise). > > It turned out that way: > "The new board at The Document Foundation, the home of LibreOffice, is > interested in getting the documentfreedom.org domain from FSFE, as the > community is willing to manage the website and the Document Freedom Day > activities starting from 2021. > > The current documentfreedom.org website is still pointing at DFD 2018, > so it has not been updated for the last two years, and this is not good > for the open source ecosystem and for the Open Document Format, which in > the meantime has reached version 1.3. > > Please let me know your thoughts on the above. Of course, if we get the > domain and website, we will be more than happy to see contributions from > other projects." > > We nicely told them the project was active and when contacting LO over 2 > years ago they said they had no interest in DFD (I have the message if > anyone is interested). > > And while we would definitely welcome any help, we felt the message was > not really nice (or really not nice?) and replied accordingly. Within 2 > messages more I was called a liar and told "all the LO people are on the > DFD mailing list and haven't seen any communication for 2 years. > > So here it is. LO will go with a different domain and a same or > different event because apparently Italo thinks that if he decides > something people should just go along. > > Just wanted to let everyone know. > We the FOSS Bangladesh team take part in SFD, DFD, EFD since 2011 and try our level best to held a seminar in our local university or college campus on the event day. Please let me know how may FOSS Bangladesh team help in this current scenario. -- রিং/ring মহাসচিব/General Secretary এফওএসএস বাংলাদেশ/FOSS Bangladesh

May 11, 2020

Re: [SFD-discuss] Document Freedom Day

by Frederic Muller - DFF

Yes I was also thinking the same. It sounded like a 0 or 1, with nothing in the middle from an organization which has told me (a board member) that they had no interest in DFD. And when they change their mind we can only say yes? ... Thank you for the response and support and hopefully next year will be more prone to organize events. Fred On 5/11/20 3:09 PM, Bob Jonkman wrote: > If they were really interested in helping Document Freedom Day they > would have offered some alternatives other than taking over the domain. > Like, maybe, sponsorship, or assistance in updating the website, or > offering a venue for a DFD conference.... > > I have every intention of participating in future Digital Freedom > Foundation activities. But life gets in the way of getting things done, > sometimes. > > Keep up the good work, Frederic! > > --Bob. > > > On 2020-05-06 11:01 a.m., Frederic Muller - DFF wrote: >> Hi! >> >> We hope you are all doing ok despite the current problem(s). We received >> an email from the 'Document Foundation' (Italo Vignoli to be precise). >> >> It turned out that way: >> "The new board at The Document Foundation, the home of LibreOffice, is >> interested in getting the documentfreedom.org domain from FSFE, as the >> community is willing to manage the website and the Document Freedom Day >> activities starting from 2021. >> >> The current documentfreedom.org website is still pointing at DFD 2018, >> so it has not been updated for the last two years, and this is not good >> for the open source ecosystem and for the Open Document Format, which in >> the meantime has reached version 1.3. >> >> Please let me know your thoughts on the above. Of course, if we get the >> domain and website, we will be more than happy to see contributions from >> other projects." >> >> We nicely told them the project was active and when contacting LO over 2 >> years ago they said they had no interest in DFD (I have the message if >> anyone is interested). >> >> And while we would definitely welcome any help, we felt the message was >> not really nice (or really not nice?) and replied accordingly. Within 2 >> messages more I was called a liar and told "all the LO people are on the >> DFD mailing list and haven't seen any communication for 2 years. >> >> So here it is. LO will go with a different domain and a same or >> different event because apparently Italo thinks that if he decides >> something people should just go along. >> >> Just wanted to let everyone know. >> >> Kind regards, >> >> Fred >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> SFD-discuss mailing list >> SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org >> http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss >> >

May 11, 2020

Re: [SFD-discuss] Document Freedom Day

by Bob Jonkman

If they were really interested in helping Document Freedom Day they would have offered some alternatives other than taking over the domain. Like, maybe, sponsorship, or assistance in updating the website, or offering a venue for a DFD conference.... I have every intention of participating in future Digital Freedom Foundation activities. But life gets in the way of getting things done, sometimes. Keep up the good work, Frederic! --Bob. On 2020-05-06 11:01 a.m., Frederic Muller - DFF wrote: > Hi! > > We hope you are all doing ok despite the current problem(s). We received > an email from the 'Document Foundation' (Italo Vignoli to be precise). > > It turned out that way: > "The new board at The Document Foundation, the home of LibreOffice, is > interested in getting the documentfreedom.org domain from FSFE, as the > community is willing to manage the website and the Document Freedom Day > activities starting from 2021. > > The current documentfreedom.org website is still pointing at DFD 2018, > so it has not been updated for the last two years, and this is not good > for the open source ecosystem and for the Open Document Format, which in > the meantime has reached version 1.3. > > Please let me know your thoughts on the above. Of course, if we get the > domain and website, we will be more than happy to see contributions from > other projects." > > We nicely told them the project was active and when contacting LO over 2 > years ago they said they had no interest in DFD (I have the message if > anyone is interested). > > And while we would definitely welcome any help, we felt the message was > not really nice (or really not nice?) and replied accordingly. Within 2 > messages more I was called a liar and told "all the LO people are on the > DFD mailing list and haven't seen any communication for 2 years. > > So here it is. LO will go with a different domain and a same or > different event because apparently Italo thinks that if he decides > something people should just go along. > > Just wanted to let everyone know. > > Kind regards, > > Fred > > > _______________________________________________ > SFD-discuss mailing list > SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss > -- Bob Jonkman <bjonkman(a)sobac.com> Phone: +1-519-635-9413 SOBAC Microcomputer Services http://sobac.com/sobac/ Software --- Office & Business Automation --- Consulting GnuPG Fngrprnt:04F7 742B 8F54 C40A E115 26C2 B912 89B0 D2CC E5EA

May 11, 2020

Document Freedom Day

by Frederic Muller - DFF

Hi! We hope you are all doing ok despite the current problem(s). We received an email from the 'Document Foundation' (Italo Vignoli to be precise). It turned out that way: "The new board at The Document Foundation, the home of LibreOffice, is interested in getting the documentfreedom.org domain from FSFE, as the community is willing to manage the website and the Document Freedom Day activities starting from 2021. The current documentfreedom.org website is still pointing at DFD 2018, so it has not been updated for the last two years, and this is not good for the open source ecosystem and for the Open Document Format, which in the meantime has reached version 1.3. Please let me know your thoughts on the above. Of course, if we get the domain and website, we will be more than happy to see contributions from other projects." We nicely told them the project was active and when contacting LO over 2 years ago they said they had no interest in DFD (I have the message if anyone is interested). And while we would definitely welcome any help, we felt the message was not really nice (or really not nice?) and replied accordingly. Within 2 messages more I was called a liar and told "all the LO people are on the DFD mailing list and haven't seen any communication for 2 years. So here it is. LO will go with a different domain and a same or different event because apparently Italo thinks that if he decides something people should just go along. Just wanted to let everyone know. Kind regards, Fred

May 6, 2020

Re: [SFD-discuss] Other projects while SFD & DFD etc on hold

by chinmay gupta

unsubscribe On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 10:45 PM Julian H. Stacey <jhs(a)berklix.com> wrote: > Hi All, > While SFD & DFD etc are disrupted by Covid-19, > there's other public source & data projects looking for help to fight > Corona: > > https://www.3dcrowd.uk/ > share data for 3D printing Face Shields > http://scrubhub.org.uk > published templates for volunteer sewing machiners to make extra > scrubs aka surgeons & nurses gowns. > https://foldingathome.org/ > donate CPU time to search for a vacine > https://www.pepp-pt.org/ > Pan-European Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing smart phone > app[s] > http://www.berklix.eu/corona/#help > My page with more details. More projects URLs welcome. > > Cheers > -- > Julian Stacey, Consultant Systems Engineer, BSD Linux > http://berklix.com/jhs/ > http://berklix.org/corona/ Real Brexit 31 Dec 2020 will further damage > UK & EU > > > _______________________________________________ > SFD-discuss mailing list > SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss >

April 12, 2020

Other projects while SFD & DFD etc on hold

by Julian H. Stacey

Hi All, While SFD & DFD etc are disrupted by Covid-19, there's other public source & data projects looking for help to fight Corona: https://www.3dcrowd.uk/ share data for 3D printing Face Shields http://scrubhub.org.uk published templates for volunteer sewing machiners to make extra scrubs aka surgeons & nurses gowns. https://foldingathome.org/ donate CPU time to search for a vacine https://www.pepp-pt.org/ Pan-European Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing smart phone app[s] http://www.berklix.eu/corona/#help My page with more details. More projects URLs welcome. Cheers -- Julian Stacey, Consultant Systems Engineer, BSD Linux http://berklix.com/jhs/ http://berklix.org/corona/ Real Brexit 31 Dec 2020 will further damage UK & EU

April 12, 2020