Netherlands online get-together
- Start
- 2024-08-21 20:00 CEST
- End
- 22:00 CEST
- Location
- 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.
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, ...