Netherlands online get-together

Start

2025-02-19 20:00 CET

End

22:00 CET

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/

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

Get-together 29 January 2025

Attendance

• Nico
• André
• Geert-Jan
• Sam

Agenda + minutes

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

  • ⭐ FOSDEM

    • Presentation by Geert-Jan https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-6042-public-values-and-foss-for-education/

      • Followup: Big Blue Button, Hedy programming language https://www.hedy.org/

    • https://fsfe.org/news/2025/news-20250127-01.html

  • ⭐ 14 February I Love FS Day https://wiki.fsfe.org/Events/Netherlands/2025-02-14

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

  • ⭐ 15 March NLLGG

  • ⭐ 22 Mei https://nluug.nl/evenementen/nluug/voorjaarsconferentie-2025/

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

• I Love FS Day meetup at Hackerspace Nijmegen
  • Great turnout

    • Including Paolo Vecchi https://www.documentfoundation.org/board/

  • Social media posts

    • Process: https://mastodon.nl/@nicorikken/114004671024629774

    • Received message: https://tech.lgbt/@monster/114026341483818610

• Ada Zangemann
  • Nico participating in process of publishing Danish book. Very insightful.
  • Many languages in development (Dutch, Korean, Polish, Czech Japanese, Hebrew, Hindi) Spanish, Italian, French already done 😀, Greek to the printer )

  • French version: https://ada-lelivre.fr/

  • Tooling:

    • David Revoy multilingual Pepper & Carrot. https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/webcomic/ep01_Potion-of-Flight.html Translation via SVG https://www.peppercarrot.com/sv/documentation/010_Translate_the_comic.html#editsvg

  • International chat channel: https://matrix.to/#/#ada-zangemann:fsfe.org

  • Looking into supporting Weblate.
  • Idea to distribute NL books at WHY

  • Current NL translation: https://git.fsfe.org/FSFE/ada-zangemann/src/branch/main/Ada_Zangemann-nl.txt

• Cedo (education)
  • More interest
• WHY hackercamp
  • Vrije software dorp beginnen? Als er nog een paar mensen mee gaan.
• Cloud strategy

  • Today briefing in parliament: https://debatdirect.tweedekamer.nl/2025-02-19/digitale-zaken/suze-groenewegzaal/digitale-soevereiniteit-rijksoverheid-en-besluitvorming-bij-migraties-naar-buitenlandse-it-diensten-14-00/video

    • Documents and email stays in NL at governmental data centers.
  • Enough concern to correct the course. Part of the public debate.
  • Concern of wanting to create a 1:1 European copy big tech player.

  • In Flanders rollout MS CoPilot

    • which is a bad idea: https://eerlijkdigitaalonderwijs.nl/elf-redenen-om-verre-te-blijven-van-openai/

    • CCC talk about AI and infinite exponential growth on a limited planet: https://waag.social/@douwe/113992686902542413

• NL initiative https://gpt-nl.nl/

• FSFE Wordpress theme work in progress https://git.fsfe.org/nico.rikken/fsfe-wordpress-theme

  • Might be interesting to revive.

• Cory Doctorow last book about breaking up Big Tech. Do a bit less, regulate, decentralize. title: Chokepoint Capitalism: https://changelog.com/podcast/535

• Carole Cadwalladr: https://broligarchy.substack.com/p/us-coup-gains-speed

• https://berthub.eu/tkconv/ website to track parliament developments

Other meetings on the wiki overview page: Events/Netherlands

Category/FellowshipEvents Category/Netherlands