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FOSDEM 2024: Call for Participation - Translations Devroom 2024
by Paulo Henrique de Lima Santana 19 Nov '23

19 Nov '23

Hi all, Web version available here: https://gitlab.com/translations-devroom/cfp # FOSDEM 2024 In Person -- Translations DevRoom Call for Participation! FOSDEM 2024 [1] will take place on Saturday 3rd and Sunday 4th February 2024 in Brussels, Belgium. ## Key dates / New updates * Conference dates: 3-4 February, 2024 In person. * Translations DevRoom [2] date: Sunday 4th February (half a day in the morning). * Submission deadline: Sunday 10th December. * Announcement of selected talks: Friday 15th December. * You must be available in person to present your talk. * Talk submissions should be 30 mins and this should include Q&A time. ## TALK TOPICS For the second year in a row, FOSDEM will hold a devroom on all things related to translating FLOSS projects. * Recruiting new people to translate your project. * How it works in your project to translate softwares, websites, packages, manuals, tools, and so on. * Which tools are used by translators. * Exchange experiences between FLOSS projects. * Rewarding volunteer contributors and keeping volunteers motivated. * Showing which languages your project has been translated to. Again, these are just suggestions. We welcome proposals on any aspect of translations! ## HOW TO SUBMIT A TALK * Visit the FOSDEM 2024 pretalx [3] website. This has replaced Pentabarf! * Follow the instructions to create an account. * Once logged in, select “submit a CFP”. * Your submission must include the following information: - Proposal title - Track - Select **Translations** from the drop down list - Abstract - Description - Add any other details as needed to the Submission notes. - Additional speaker - _Click Continue or you can save and come back to it_ - About your proposal: Which open source license do you use? - FOSDEM is an open-source software conference, please specify which OSI approved license [4] your proposal uses. - Extra review material, only shown to reviewers (not published when scheduled) - Extra Contact details (optional) - _Click Continue or you can save and come back to it_ - Finally tell us your name - Biography - Availability If you need to get in touch with the organiser of the Translations DevRoom, email us at <translations-devroom-manager(a)fosdem.org> FOSDEM code of conduct [5]. Paulo Henrique de Lima Santana - Translations DevRoom Organiser [1] https://fosdem.org/2024 [2] https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/track/translations [3] https://pretalx.fosdem.org/fosdem-2024/cfp [4] https://opensource.org/licenses [5] https://fosdem.org/2024/practical/conduct -- Paulo Henrique de Lima Santana (phls) Belo Horizonte - Brasil Debian Developer Site: http://phls.com.br GPG ID: 0443C450

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Software Freedom Day - call for volunteers
by Jurgen Gaeremyn 19 Nov '23

19 Nov '23

Hello Friends, Software Freedom Day was a great event this year. We landed with 49 events on the map (and 18 more that were on the wiki but didn’t make it to the map)! In 2022 we had 33 events. For the first time since long, we had a growth again. As you all know, in July a new board started at the Digital Freedom Foundation. Fred and Pockey did a huge job keeping all existing systems updated and secure and responding to every single request that was sent towards the foundation. We’re currently still handing over the last technical aspects. The new board has found a shelter inside the Earth Cause Charity (earthcause.org <http://earthcause.org>), which gives us some legal foundation. We started the board with a team of 5 people: Laura Michaels (USA), Ruwan Ranganath (Germany), Mostafa Ahangarha (Iran), Marcos Marado (Portugal), Jan Husar (Slowakia) and myself, Jurgen Gaeremyn (Belgium). We also had a lot of great help from Roadarchie, a freelance graphics artist who is dedicating a lot of his time and skills to the project. None of us knew each other prior to joining the board but we all have a firm conviction that our digital freedoms (Software Freedom, Hardware Freedom, Document Freedom, …) need to be celebrated worldwide and that today this is more important than ever. The current websites were built in 2004 and gradually updated and upgraded. The workflow also dates from then - with a Joomla site as the public window to the event, including the world map, and a wiki as main documentation and event platform, with some custom integrations to merge the Joomla sites with Wiki pages. Entering an event was pretty complex and the wiki was the only part that couldn’t get nicely updated. Currently we’re working on building a new platform, ready for the next decade of celebrating digital freedoms. This is a big task, and there’s only so much a pair of hands can do. That’s why we need your help to get things going. These are things you can do: 1. *Beta testers* for a new and unified events platform. Are you planning to organize Hardware Freedom Day or Document Freedom Day? Or just an early bird who did Software Freedom Day? We’re looking for a group of people who can testdrive the new platform while the layout isn’t all there yet. 2. Volunteers to *transfer and update documentation* from the SFD wiki to the new website. This is basically copy/pasting and slight editing. No technical skills required. 3. *Translators* who are interested in setting up the website main content (menu items, main pages) to show up well in your native language. 4. Looking for a *frontend-developer* with an understanding of Joomla to work together with RoadArchie and the board to help create a nice template for the site 5. Help organize *Hardware Freedom Day 2024* in your area: If we want this event to grow, we’ll need events going on all over the world. 6. Help organize *Document Freedom Day 2024* in your area: If we want this event to grow, we’ll need events going on all over the world. If you feel like helping or have more questions, feel free to reply on the list or join us on the matrix channel <https://matrix.to/#/#digitalfreedoms:matrix.org>. The board and a bunch of active members are always lurking on this channel… Happy Freedoms! And hopefully we meet on Hardware Freedom Day, Document Freedom Day... or upcoming Software Freedom Day! Jurgen

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Thank you
by LM 01 Oct '23

01 Oct '23

Thanks to all who participated in Software Freedom Day this year. We appreciate your efforts no matter how big or small. We still have a few more groups participating over this weekend and scheduled for Sunday. Overall, I think we all were very successful in bringing together a global celebration just in the nick of time to commemorate the 20th year of Software Freedom Day. Don't you love it when a plan comes together? If you have a 30 second or less video clip about Software Freedom Day or from your event or want to create a short video, please send it to us. We'll put the clips together for an official SFD 2023 video. You can send a link to your video via the SFD discussion mailing list or via Mastodon (@dff@fosstodon.org) or upload it to: https://cloud.hsbxl.be/index.php/s/sTrSS7kqaYtKqeR If you have videos of talks or other SFD related multimedia you've created with CC licensing, we started a wiki page to share them: https://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/SFDtalks Feel free to add your own links there or send them to us as well. Thanks again to everyone. You've all done a wonderful job.

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SFD Contests
by LM 16 Sep '23

16 Sep '23

We still have Software Freedom Day contests going on, so if you haven't entered and wanted to, now's your chance. More information on the contests are available here: https://www.digitalfreedomfoundation.org/index.php/173-fsf-freedom-challenge https://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/SFDSongContest Unfortunately, the submission form wasn't working until recently. It has just been fixed. So, if you submitted something earlier, please resubmit it or check with us on the Software Freedom Day discussion mailing list to see if your submission was received. Thank you.

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Volunteer needed
by LM 16 Sep '23

16 Sep '23

Want to help the Digital Freedom Foundation? We need volunteers. If you have experience with live streaming to a Peertube instance from inside OBS Studio, please let us know. Thank you.

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One day and counting until Software Freedom Day
by LM 16 Sep '23

16 Sep '23

I cannot believe Software Freedom Day is almost upon us. If you haven't been able to spark, ignite or find a local event, I started this list of virtual events: https://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/onlineevents Here's hoping that anyone who wants to participate in Software Freedom Day this year can do so. If your group is running a virtual or hybrid event, streaming part of your program or recording it for later, please feel free to add your information to the list. You can post about it to this mailing list or email me and I'll add it to the wiki. If you're looking for some Free Software to demonstrate that doesn't require installation, here's a list of web based FLOSS anyone can try out: https://lmemsm.dreamwidth.org/28233.html I try to keep a list of FLOSS projects in honor of Software Freedom Day. The list is a bit old and I'm hoping I'll still be able to update it before tomorrow, but I wanted to share it in hopes others will find some interesting programs and resources they may not be familiar with: http://www.distasis.com/cpp/pbtc.htm Lawrence Lessig's free ebook on Free Culture is a pretty good read. If you have a list of resources or software recommendations for your celebrations, feel free to share them here. I can add them to the wiki as well. If you want to give away prizes this year, don't forget the following contests: https://www.digitalfreedomfoundation.org/index.php/173-fsf-freedom-challenge https://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/SFDSongContest Plus, there are plenty of great virtual prizes you can share such as links to your favorite FLOSS programs and Creative Commons and public domain multimedia (such as ebooks, audio books, music, games, etc.). Hope everyone has a very enjoyable Software Freedom Day, 2023. Happy 20th edition!

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SFD video - Please join in
by LM 14 Sep '23

14 Sep '23

Whether you celebrate Software Freedom Day 2023 in a group or individually, you can still join in on the worldwide celebration. Be part of the official Software Freedom Day 2023 video. Claim your seconds in the collective celebration of Software Freedom Day clip by recording a 5 to 30 second video. Express your feelings or share some of the fun from your local event. Rules: - Keep it short and simple. No more than 30 seconds. When filming, landscape format is preferred over portrait. - Create a caption for it describing what the video is about. It could be part of the video or in a separate ASCII text file or your words sent along with the link. - Mention your name, country and city (both in the video and in the caption). - No editing is needed. - You can share it on the Fediverse (using #SoftwareFreedomDay2023) and share the link with us (@dff@fosstodon.org) or upload it to https://cloud.hsbxl.be/index.php/s/sTrSS7kqaYtKqeR - Submission must be licensed under one of these Creative Commons 4.0 licenses: CC-BY, CC-BY-SA, CC0 - We'd love for you to share the video using your native language. However, please be sure to send the caption with both your native language and, if that's not English, please send an English translation as well. (We're short on translation resources at this time.) - Please try to include your name or the name of your club, group or organization in the name of the video file and the ASCII text file. Thank you. Happy Software Freedom Day 2023.

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Software Freedom Day
by Julian H. Stacey 11 Sep '23

11 Sep '23

Hi FreeBSD Hackers <hackers(a)freebsd.org> cc sfd-discuss(a)mailman3.com The 20th annual Software Freedom Day globaly is Sat. 16 Sept. 2023 https://www.softwarefreedomday.org/ It's fun to attend &/or organise a local event. eg a 2011 example from Munich Germany http://www.berklix.org/sfd/ Forwarded from: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs(a)berklix.com> http://berklix.eu/~jhs/ ------- Forwarded Message From: LM <lmemsm(a)gmail.com> Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2023 09:39:30 -0400 To: sfd-discuss(a)mailman3.com Precedence: list Reply-To: Open discussions about SFD <sfd-discuss(a)mailman3.com> Subject: [SFD-discuss]Software Freedom Day - virtual event options List-Id: Open discussions about SFD <sfd-discuss.mailman3.com> Archived-At: <https://lists.mailman3.com/hyperkitty/list/sfd-discuss@mailman3.com/message…> Archived-At: <https://www.mail-archive.com/3Z3FGR7QAJTVHYSC275ZQLGEYTBXJMFX> List-Archive: <https://lists.mailman3.com/hyperkitty/list/sfd-discuss@mailman3.com/> List-Archive: <https://www.mail-archive.com/sfd-discuss%40mailman3.com> List-Help: <mailto:sfd-discuss-request@mailman3.com?subject=help> List-Owner: <mailto:sfd-discuss-owner@mailman3.com> List-Post: <mailto:sfd-discuss@mailman3.com> List-Subscribe: <mailto:sfd-discuss-join@mailman3.com> 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. _______________________________________________ SFD-discuss mailing list -- sfd-discuss(a)mailman3.com To unsubscribe send an email to sfd-discuss-leave(a)mailman3.com ------- End of Forwarded Message

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Software Freedom Day countdown
by LM 09 Sep '23

09 Sep '23

We're just one week away from Software Freedom Day and we now have 34 events on the map. If you have a hybrid or virtual option for SFD you'd like to share with the world, please let me know. Was looking through the SFD wiki and saw this idea for a really fun event from the Berliner LUG: https://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2023/Germany/Berlin/Berlin They mentioned having lightning talks for naming and sharing your favorite Free Software. Sounds like a great idea for a Software Freedom Day event and a fabulous way to share your favorite Free, Libre, Open Source software with the others. Hope you all enjoy Software Freedom Day 2023 in your own way.

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More prizes, another Software Freedom Day contest
by LM 08 Sep '23

08 Sep '23

We're 8 days away from Software Freedom Day, the 20th edition and counting. There are 31 events listed on the official map and a few more than that on the Software Freedom Day wiki. We have another Software Freedom Day contest: https://www.digitalfreedomfoundation.org/index.php/173-fsf-freedom-challenge This time the prizes are donated by the Free Software Foundation. Feel free to participate and promote the contest at your Software Freedom Day events. Spread the word if you know anyone who would like to enter. Thank you. Have a great Software Freedom Day, 2023.

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