Netherlands online get-together

Start

2024-08-21 20:00 CEST

End

22:00 CEST

Location

On Netherlands room on FSFE conference server

Description

Online get-together of Netherlands

NL: Onze online localgroup bijeenkomst. Deze is open voor iedereen en we schakelen naar het Engels als niet iedereen Nederlands begrijpt.
EN: Our online localgroup meeting. It is open for everybody, and we'll switch to English if not everybody understands Dutch.

Create a Markdown document on the Nextcloud server and share it here for similar functionality as an Etherpad.

Contribute to the agenda in advance or during the meeting on the dedicated notes document: https://share.fsfe.org/s/qzFf2tj5WEDeK79

This page will be updated with a link to the collaborative agenda.

Other meetings on the wiki overview page: Events/Netherlands

Get-together 21 August 2024

Attendance

• Geert-Jan
• Sam
• Nico

Agenda + minutes

• Recent events https://fsfe.org/events/events.html

• Upcoming events https://fsfe.org/events/events.html

  • 21 September NLLGG https://nllgg.nl/bijeenkomst/20240921

• FSFE updates https://fsfe.org/news/news.nl.html

• Banking apps (bank contact, wiki)
  • Email sent to Volksbank (ASN). Will reach out to ethics officer.
  • To discuss our main arguments, including that they shouldn't become dependent on other parties for mobile payments.
    • Short-term goal is not to become mobile-first and not have third-party trackers.
• Cooperative initiatives
  • Energy cooperations

  • Hosting https://nubo.coop/

  • Mobile telephony https://neibo.be/

• Refining Banking apps wiki idea

  • Updated wiki, still work in progress: https://share.fsfe.org/s/mBk8gznTTbFDiiY

    • Scoring can be done at a later stage. Priority are the demands/criteria and the evaluation for banks across Europe.

    • Inspiration for Router Freedom at the time https://wiki.fsfe.org/Activities/CompulsoryRouters/Implementation/Germany

  • Idee for 'fair software banking' guide, like https://www.fairfin.be/bankwijzer

    • Background for scoring: Fair Finance Guide Methodology 2023 https://www.fairfinanceinternational.org/media/5mtp5o2s/ffgi-policy-assessment-methodology-2023-1.pdf

  • Ask for Free Software apps. Prevent tivoization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivoization

• Letter to Ursula von der Leyen and others about continuing to support Free Software https://fsfe.org/news/2024/news-20240808-01.nl.html

  • Inspiration can be drawn from open letter by Petites Singularités https://ps.zoethical.org/pub/lettre-publique-aux-ncp-au-sujet-de-ngi/ co-signed by Igalia, Matrix and others: https://www.igalia.com/2024/08/05/The-European-Union-must-keep-funding-free-software.html https://www.matrix.org/blog/2024/07/17/ngi-open-letter/ Overview here: https://pad.public.cat/lettre-NCP-NGI#

  • Let's share setups for letters.
  • Draft to be refined:
    • Dear Ms. Von der Leyen, I'd like to ask you to continue and guarantee the financial support for Free Software projects in Europe. I have experienced first hand the importance of control over technology. It made me use and most importantly support and contribute to Free Software. Free Software is equally important to the digital souverignty of Europe and the European economy as it is important to me as an individual. Europe's approach of supporting the common building blocks for our digital future through NGI projects has always been a lighthouse to attract engineers, foster ideas and in doing so drive innovation. Please guarantee the support to the building blocks of the future, our future, our European future. Kind regards, ...

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