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Help us get the word out about Software Freedom Day
by LM Aug. 6, 2024

Aug. 6, 2024

Are you hosting or involved in a local Software Freedom Day event? We're trying to reach people who aren't familiar with Free and Open Source software and encourage them to visit a local Software Freedom Day event. With that in mind, we're putting together some short articles on FLOSS that we hope will be of interest to the general public. If you're going to be discussing a particular aspect of FLOSS at your SFD event such as your favorite office suites or graphics editors or games, etc, let us know. We'd like to plug some of the Software Freedom Day events that will be discussing topics related to the articles. Also, if you want to put together a short article talking about topics at your event or your event or Free Software in general, feel free to send it to me and I'll see that it's added to the DFF social media pages. If you think of other information you'd like us to share on the DFF site or the DFF social media pages, please let me know. Thanks. Have a wonderful Software Freedom Day 2024.

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Upcoming meeting + Jitsi test 2024-08-06 14:30 UTC
by Jurgen Gaeremyn Aug. 4, 2024

Aug. 4, 2024

Hello Digital Freedom Friends, For the next board meeting, we will be trying out some things. 1. We'll start with a video call using call.trom.tf to see how well this works. We'll invite the mailing list community and the Matrix community too. Let's see how this will work if we have 10 or more participants. 2. We'll see if a mild form of collaborative editing is now possible on the NextCloud instance (meeting notes maintained by members not talking) So if you're curious to join this meeting - be it for the short test or for the whole meeting - please come over to https://call.trom.tf/DigitalFreedomFoundation (user/pass = tromcall) at 16:30 CET on Tuesday August 6th. If I'm not mistaken, that's the same as 14:30 UTC Always welcome to also join our Matrix channel: https://matrix.to/#/%23digitalfreedoms:matrix.org Greetings, Jurgen

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Software Freedom Day update
by Jurgen Gaeremyn July 30, 2024

July 30, 2024

Heya all, Last year this time, we had 8 events on the map. This year, we already have 18 events! Brazil is taking a flying start with 3 events right away! (see the map on the website for the most recent version, below is a screenshot) We have a very inspiring testimony <https://digitalfreedoms.org/en/sfd/blog/love-learning-and-libre-a-decade-of…> from Angélica M. Diaz Burgos from the SFD team at Bogota, Colombia. If you'd like to write about your SFD history... feel free to send me a message and we'll add it to the site. How's your preparations going? Are you trying out new things? I'm really curious, what things worked really great during previous events? System 76 is going an event in their factory, and they'll have things like a Software Freedom Bingo and a FOSS trivia quiz. Sounds like a lot of fun. Any tips or suggestions for new teams for what they really SHOULD do? If you have photographs to accompany it, that would even be cooler! Greetings, Jurgen

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SFD Challenge from Huion
by Jurgen (Digital Freedom Foundation) July 13, 2024

July 13, 2024

Heya all, Graphics tablet manufacturer Huion is awarding a screen tablet (Kamvas Pro 12) and two runner up prizes for SFD-participants (visitors and organizers) in an artistic challenge <https://digitalfreedoms.org/en/sfd/blog/art-for-digital-freedom-huion-chall…>. This can be a cool opportunity to organize a Krita, Blender or Inkscape workshop when you're having an event. Planning to organize an event, but don't know the details of what you're exactly going to do? Register your event soon and edit the content later. Go to our new website digitalfreedoms.org/sfd for more details. The blog has some crazy ideas <https://digitalfreedoms.org/en/sfd/blog/ten-ways-to-make-your-software-free…> for what you could do, there's a nice article by Angélica M. Díaz Burgos <https://digitalfreedoms.org/en/sfd/blog/love-learning-and-libre-a-decade-of…> (Bogota, Colombia). Would you like to see more of the website in your own language? Get in touch to proof-read and help translate. Current translations are limited by the language of the board team. Grtz, Jurgen P.S. Last year we had 49 events. Let's try to reach 100 events this year! There is no excuse for not organizing <https://digitalfreedoms.org/en/sfd/blog/what-is-stopping-you> it, it's easy to get started <https://digitalfreedoms.org/en/sfd/blog/sfd-is-easy>.

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Fwd: Help the FSF at upcoming conference - Portland, OR; August 1–4, 2024 - Please Reply by July 18
by Jurgen (Digital Freedom Foundation) July 12, 2024

July 12, 2024

Heya all, reaching out to our supporters living on the East-coast of the US or Canada (or maybe elsewhere in the world, but loving to travel) ... the FSF is having a booth at FOSSY in Portland, Oregon, Agust 1st till 4th and are looking for volunteers to man their booth. Anyone willing and interested to help our friends out there? Grtz, Jurgen -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Help the FSF at upcoming conference - Portland, OR; August 1–4, 2024 - Please Reply by July 18 Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2024 16:46:02 -0400 Free Software Foundation /Please consider adding info(a)fsf.org to your address book, which will ensure that our messages reach you and not your spam box./ Dear Free Software Supporter, The Free Software Foundation (FSF) will have a booth at FOSSY <https://2024.fossy.us/> (August 1–4, 2024) in Portland, OR, this year. Would you or someone you know be interested in helping us run the FSF booth at Portland State University? Doing so would involve face-to-face advocacy on behalf of free software, soliciting and accepting donations for the FSF, and selling FSF merchandise -- all to raise awareness and funds that power our campaigns. If you or a friend could help us, please let us know by replying to this email by Thursday, July 18. The shifts we need covered are: * *Day 1:* August 1, Thursday o 09:00 - 10:00 -- Setup o 10:00 - 15:00 -- Exhibit o 15:00 - 19:00 -- Exhibit * *Day 2:* August 2, Friday o 09:00 - 14:30 -- Exhibit o 14:30 - 18:15 -- Exhibit * *Day 3:* August 3, Saturday o 09:00 - 14:30 -- Exhibit o 14:30 - 18:15 -- Exhibit * *Day 4:* August 4, Sunday o 09:00 - 14:30 -- Exhibit o 14:30 - 18:15 -- Exhibit o 18:15 - 19:00 -- Pack up If you can help, please reply with answers to the following questions: * What is the best phone number to reach you? * Is it OK to share your contact information with the other volunteers or, possibly, the organizers? * Do you have access to a vehicle, and, if so, would you be willing to either bring merchandise to the venue and/or ship it back after the event? * Which of the shifts above would you be willing and able to take? * Will you need the FSF to get you an exhibit-hall pass, or will you already have a conference pass from some other source? Please let us know if you would be able and willing to volunteer your time. Conference booths are one of the most important ways we introduce new people to free software, GNU, and the FSF! They also raise funds that help fuel our work for the rest of the year and beyond. Thank you for supporting the FSF! Sincerely, Jeanne Rasata Membership Coordinator *Interested in helping us expand our reach?* Follow us on: Mastodon <https://hostux.social/@fsf> and PeerTube <https://framatube.org/accounts/fsf/video-channels>, showing your support for free, federated social networks. Get active on the LibrePlanet wiki: https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Main_Page Share on your blog or social network <https://www.fsf.org/share> that you support us, and why you do so. Join us as an associate member: https://www.fsf.org/jf; and display your membership button <https://my.fsf.org> on your website, to show how long you've been an FSF member. Subscribe to our blog via RSS <https://fsf.org/blogs/RSS> *Privacy Policy* Read the Free Software Foundation Privacy Policy <https://www.fsf.org/about/free-software-foundation-privacy-policy> Sent from the Free Software Foundation, 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor Boston, Massachusetts 02110-1335 United States You can unsubscribe from this mailing list by visiting the following link: https://my.fsf.org/civicrm/mailing/unsubscribe?reset=1&jid=168600&qid=89526… <https://my.fsf.org/civicrm/mailing/unsubscribe?reset=1&jid=168600&qid=89526…> To stop all email from the Free Software Foundation, including Defective by Design and the Free Software Supporter newsletter, click this link: https://my.fsf.org/civicrm/mailing/optout?reset=1&jid=168600&qid=89526470&h… <https://my.fsf.org/civicrm/mailing/optout?reset=1&jid=168600&qid=89526470&h…>

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Open Source podcast
by LM July 2, 2024

July 2, 2024

If anyone's interested in an Open Source podcast or possibly being a guest on a podcast, this was mentioned on the Teaching Open Source mailing list: https://medium.com/open-source-science-initiative/the-first-episode-of-anot… If anyone can help volunteer to get the word out about Software Freedom Day by offering to be a guest on a podcast and speaking about their SFD experiences, that would be greatly appreciated. If you have any other ideas on how to get the word out about Software Freedom Day, please let us know on the mailing list. Thank you.

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Join the Huion Challenge, Meet Halla Rempt, and Explore Creative Workshops on SFD!
by Jurgen (Digital Freedom Foundation) June 28, 2024

June 28, 2024

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 June 10, 2024

June 10, 2024

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 June 7, 2024

June 7, 2024

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 March 30, 2024

March 30, 2024

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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