Hi everyone, Happy Software Freedom Day again I am pleased to inform the world community that we in Iran managed to conduct 5 online events. The first one was organized by people in Mashhad city and funded and supported by some companies and organizations. Next was Gnu Meetup special event for SFD with 6 non technical talks addressing different issues related to significance of Software Freedom in today Iran. Organizers of this even, released a statement addressing people, free software community and government. There were two other events organized by Blender House in Iran and also a telegram based community of front-end developers called Front Chapter in which people discussed the impact of free software in shaping the web. And finally, the last event was organized yesterday by Azad-on focusing on contribution. Like last year, Azad-on tried to inform people that having share in a freer future in computation doens't necessarily require programming knowledge. The event encouraged people to provide non-technical contribution to OpenStreetMap, Mozilla Common Voices and software/documentation translations. After long time, we could achieve daily goal on Common Voice project for Persian language (1200 voice record and 2400 verification). I am happy that this year, we had multiple groups organizing small but independent events for SFD rather waiting for a big and grand event, addressing small number of geeks. I hope this experience could have some share in breaking the malformed imagination of so called Free Software Community in Iran around the way of celebrating Software Freedom Day. -- Regards, Mostafa Ahangarha
Hi. I am new on this mailing list. I reply below: Em [2021-09-26 dom 10:09:00+0330], Mostafa Ahangarha escreveu:
I am pleased to inform the world community that we in Iran managed to conduct 5 online events.
Congratulations and thank you!
There were two other events organized by Blender House in Iran and also a telegram based community of front-end developers called Front Chapter in which people discussed the impact of free software in shaping the web.
By "telegram", do you mean the Telegram instant messenger? Have you considered switching to an actually free, decentralized and secure instant messaging network like (ideally) XMPP, or, failing that, Matrix? Telegram has a centralized, proprietary server and does not even feature usable end-to-end encryption by default. Kind regards, Jorge -- - Many people hate injustice but few check the facts. This provokes misinformation. Ask me about <https://stallmansupport.org> - I am Brazilian. I hope my English is correct and I welcome feedback. - Free Software Supporter: https://www.fsf.org/free-software-supporter - If an email of mine arrives at your spam box, please notify me.
On 9/26/21 6:39 PM, Jorge P. de Morais Neto wrote:
By "telegram", do you mean the Telegram instant messenger? Have you considered switching to an actually free, decentralized and secure instant messaging network like (ideally) XMPP, or, failing that, Matrix?
Telegram has a centralized, proprietary server and does not even feature usable end-to-end encryption by default.
If you ask me, yes. my first IM is Matrix. Even for two of the events in which I was involved, whole communication took place in Matrix. Those other programs which were conducted in telegram were organized by others yet one of them made it possible to be in the program through Jitsi. Maybe not a bad idea to share that Gnu Meetup even was streamed to 4 different platform: Peertube, Twitch, Youtube and Aparat (an Iranian video sharing platform) and surprisingly peertube performed the best! Long story short, where ever I was involved, the event was made fully based on Free Software solutions. Videos are also shared on peertube. -- Regards, Mostafa Ahangarha
Hi. Em [2021-09-26 dom 23:36:54+0330], Mostafa Ahangarha escreveu:
Long story short, where ever I was involved, the event was made fully based on Free Software solutions. Videos are also shared on peertube.
Thank you and congratulations again! Regards, Jorge -- - Many people hate injustice but few check the facts. This provokes misinformation. Ask me about <https://stallmansupport.org> - Please adopt free/libre formats like PDF, ODF, Org, LaTeX, Opus, WebM and 7z. - Libre apps for AOSP (Replicant, LineageOS, etc.) and Android: F-Droid - https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html "What is free software?"
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