Notes from our meetings in 2022
On this page we collect the links which have been posted to the chat in our meetings.
See also: Recent Notes from current year
December 2022
We met on 8. December Online on conf.fsfe.org.
Fani Partsafyllidou, Project Manager at FSFE, presented the
Upcycling Android initiative
Planned obsolecensce
YT video from invidious instance giving the example of lamps
Fight for your Right
Open letter and in Open Letter in German (gender neutral)
We talked a lot about trust worthy phones
MicroG - Development of a free software clone of Google’s proprietary core libraries and applications
Recycling
November 2022
We met on 20. November Online on conf.fsfe.org.
We talked about EZNEC Antenna Software by W7EL for which the author announced that Support is no longer available for any type or version of EZNEC program. Unfortunately he is not willing to publish the code..
Being in the field of radio technology we had the idea that this an interesting topic perhaps for a meeting in the next year e.g. https://freifunk.net/
One participant told about using https://mycroft.ai/ - "Privacy-Focused Voice-Enabled Ecosystem" for audio translation of BLOG entries. See the Docs for detailed instruction.
- Triggered by seeing a flag on the wall behind a participant we had an extensive talk about colors and print issues
At last we looked forward to December activities starting with a next meeting where Fani Partsafyllidou had offered to present the Upcycling Android initiative of the FSFE
and brainstormed about joining the decentralized and independent alternative events of 37c3
one more IT/computer women* centric group https://fuck-the.systems/
October 2022
We met on 21. October Online on conf.fsfe.org.
- Question: Which Calendar APP to use on a website?
Example for a germany hosted Calendar provider https://mailbox.org/en/your-personal-office#calendar
CalDAV on wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CalDAV
A selfhostable Calendar System https://www.davical.org/ which requires PHP version 5 says the 'Prerequisites' section on the start page.. very outdated if that's right..
WebCalendar Code Repository uses a current version of PHP (7.1)
- Next FLOSS conferences
FOSDEM 2023 https://fosdem.org/2023/
Idea for a webgame to introduce members of the fsfe women group
- Prospects for 2023
Links which have accumulated on the chat.
https://www.code-your-life.org/turtlecoder/#/user/defaultUser/Vorlage%201%3A%20Quadrat%201
https://www.code-your-life.org/Praxis/Logo_Turtle/1349_Der_TurtleCoder.htm
Lumi App https://app.lumi.education/#download
August 2022
We met at FrOSCon in Sankt Augustin, Germany and supported the FSFE at their booth there. Members of our group discussed the book "Pakete bauen mit Git-Buildpackage" by Mechtilde and Michael Stehmann: https://ddp-team.pages.debian.net/dpb/BuildWithGBP.pdf
Sources can be found here: https://salsa.debian.org/ddp-team/dpb
June 2022
We welcomed guests from CMS Garden e.V. and talked about Content Management Systems (CMS) and their communities and how to get involved, and the activities of CMS Garden e.V.
https://www.cms-garden.org/
Every 1st Tuesday 5pm CET there is an All-CMS Meetup, if your interested, please contact CMS Garden e.V.Odoo is a suite of business management software tools. The Community version is free software:
https://www.odoo.com/There is also the Odoo Community Association, or OCA, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to promote the widespread use of Odoo:
https://odoo-community.org/We talked about Service-level agreements
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service-level_agreementThe Kieler Open Source and Linux Tage are happening September 16./17th:
https://kielux.de/programmPonzi scheme
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponzi_schemeWe checked out the carbon footprint of our personal websites, it looks pretty good!
https://www.websitecarbon.com/Bits und Bäume are a network of people who care about sustainability in the digital world and environmental friendly IT, there is a conference happening soon!
https://bits-und-baeume.org/konferenz/deAbout the ideology of cryptocurrency:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ_xWvX1n9gAbout German climate activism (though in English):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dh4G1Gjv7bAThe psychology of how and why people justify inaction:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZyIjBxxpTYAn online conference about digital public administration and challenges like sustainability:
https://piazza-konferenz.de/More interesting reads towards the end of the evening:
https://locusmag.com/2022/01/cory-doctorow-science-fiction-is-a-luddite-literature/
https://librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com/2022/04/29/technology-in-the-present-tense-notes-from-a-weary-luddite/
https://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/californian-ideology
https://evgenymorozov.com/
May 2022 (1st in-person meeting, in Berlin)
Threema is a paid end-to-end encrypted instant messaging application, client apps are open source, server-side software is proprietary
https://threema.ch/en
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threema
MetaGer is a metasearch engine focused on protecting users' privacy
https://metager.de/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MetaGer
Bitwarden is an open-source password manager
https://bitwarden.com/We talked about the FSFE campaigns Router Freedom
https://fsfe.org/news/2022/news-20220510-01.de.htmland Upcycling Android
https://fsfe.org/activities/upcyclingandroid/howtoupcycle.en.htmlWe talked about note taking apps, there are many options:
- Rednotebook is a dektop journal
https://rednotebook.sourceforge.io/
- Nixnote
http://nixnote.org/NixNote-Home/
- Zim, a desktop wiki
https://zim-wiki.org/
We collected points interesting for us with respect to open source content mangement systems (CMS)
- How would you start using a CMS?
- How to decide best, which CMS (Joomla, Wordpress, Drupal, Typo3 etc.) to use?
- What's the cost?
- Is there a good option for note taking, any restrictions using it on different devices?
Passbolt is an open-source password manager for teams
https://www.passbolt.com/
April 2022
FrOSCon will take place IRL this year again, yay! :)
https://twitter.com/froscon/status/1513996423343312898The FSFE Core Team and General Assembly
https://fsfe.org/about/team.en.htmlWe were interested in the legal structure of the FSFE and the minutes of the annual meetings of the General Assembly
https://fsfe.org/about/legal/legal.en.html
https://fsfe.org/about/legal/minutes/minutes-2021-11-27.en.pdf
Also financial reports can be accessed online
https://fsfe.org/about/funds/funds.en.html
tusky.app is a mastodon client for android (ntj hasn't tested it yet)
https://tusky.app/EDRi is a network of organisations defending rights and freedom online
https://edri.org/April is a French organization advocating for Free Software
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_(association)We're looking at the blogging network and will ask if it's still activily in use
https://blogs.fsfe.org/
https://wiki.fsfe.org/TechDocs/Blogs
https://planet.fsfe.org/
March 2022
First we talked about radon therapy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZkusjDFlS0and homeopathy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HomeopathyMarina Weisband, a former member of the senior leadership of Pirate Party Germany suffers from chronic fatigue syndrome
https://www.watson.de/leben/exklusiv/877332344-marina-weisband-ueber-ihre-krankheit-me-cfs-die-viele-menschen-mit-long-covid-trifftTransgender broken arm syndrom
https://thebristolcable.org/2020/11/trans-broken-arm-syndrome-healthcare-nightmare-for-trans-people-is-about-more-than-hormones/feminist / transgender comedians
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtj7LDYaufM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolin_KebekusFerdi is a client to run multiple messenger services on a desktop (element, rocket chat etc.)
https://getferdi.com/Beeper is for similar purposes, but for mobile devices?
https://www.beeper.com/SchildiChat is a matrix client for android
https://github.com/SchildiChat/SchildiChat-androidThen we talked about hardware, like a sophisticated camera for home video conferencing
https://www.amazon.com/ROCWARE-Optical-Streaming-Broadcast-Conference/dp/B09M3T8GWTThe GTK+ UVC Viewer
http://guvcview.sourceforge.net/The USB Video device class
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_video_device_class- We had some trouble getting the FSFE matrix running on a mobile client, but were able to figure it out eventually. Anyone needs help with this, let us know!
February 2022
Selenium user group
https://groups.google.com/g/selenium-usersFree Software ERP
http://www.kivitendo.de/Chemnitzer Linuxtage
https://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2022/en
January 2022
FOSDEM 2022 is happening soon
https://fosdem.org/2022/OpenPOWER devroom at FOSDEM
https://fosdem.org/2022/schedule/track/openpower/Upcycling Android is a very active campaign of the FSFE
https://UpcyclingAndroid.orgI love Free Software Day is happening soon, too
https://ilovefs.org
Registration for the Game Event
https://registration.fsfe.org/ilovefsVosk is a speech recognition toolkit
https://alphacephei.com/vosk/VoiceGym - a Spectograph recorder
https://voicegym.github.ioOur new logo
https://wiki.fsfe.org/Teams/Women/LogoHow to use graphics from the FSFE
https://fsfe.org/about/graphics/graphics.en.htmlChemnitzer Linux-Tage
https://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2022/en/programmThe Chaos Communication Congress
https://media.ccc.de/c/rc3-2021
https://events.ccc.de/