Notes from our meetings

On this page we collect the links which have been posted to the chat in our meetings.

See also:

• Notes from meetings in 2022

• Notes from meetings in 2021

April 2023

Topics, we talked about.

• Problems with the Coordinators maillist (Error 404).

• Using the FSFE Account to send email through the FSFE Mailserver: https://wiki.fsfe.org/TechDocs/SMTP .

• We talked about creating/using a github account for managing the web/wiki and the blog idea.

  • FSFE Account on github: https://github.com/fsfe

  • FSFE Website at github: https://github.com/fsfe/fsfe-website

• Some Links we encountered during discussions:

  • https://www.onearmy.earth/

  • https://projectkamp.com/

  • https://community.projectkamp.com/research

  • Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/

March 2023

Topics, we talked about.

• State of the sticker (the poll is going on at [https://nuudel.digitalcourage.de/hC4FGYpv6wlIO5VM Poll]). The variants have been posted to our maillist.

• We talked about starting about where we might place a blog.

  • FSFE Planet: https://planet.fsfe.org/

  • FSFE Docs: https://wiki.fsfe.org/TechDocs/Blogs

  • FSFE Blogs: https://blogs.fsfe.org/

  • Sample for offsite(FSFE) Blogs:

    • https://mina86.com/2023/monospace-considered-harmful/

  • About a FSFE Theme: https://git.fsfe.org/nico.rikken/fsfe-wordpress-theme

• We talked a bit about https://mina86.com/2023/monospace-considered-harmful/ (for code)

• We talked also a bit about Laura Kampf's (Anglophone German YouTuber) video blog ob youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@laurakampf .

February 2023

We talked about Wiki-Software

• gollum -- A git-based Wiki

• PmWiki is a wiki-based content-management system (CMS) for collaborative creation and maintenance of websites.

We talked about Anita Borg and Free Software Podcast as source for quotes for Women's Day.

We talked about creating a circular logo from Umbrella for circular stickers.

January 2023

We met on 20. January Online on conf.fsfe.org.

Elsi told us about a Python project she is involved with and so we spoke a while about Python and the tools that play a role in this context.

• Conda Package, dependency and environment management for any language

• Poetry (more for packaging and distribution, integrates very closely with PyPI/pip)

• mypy Python type annotation

As we had a participant in our meeting who has no programming skills yet, we talked about ways to learn programming.

• The Python class Elsie took back in 2013 or so: https://www.coursera.org/learn/learn-to-program (This course includes a lot of concepts that are less necessary for Python but useful for understanding other programming languages.)

• Turtle graphics

• The idea came up to start a collection of Kids programming software / websites to recommend

  • Update: Such a page Programming For Children is already existing here in the FSFE wiki. Please add stuff you would recommend there

One person told about her bad experience with using the Microsoft Windows PC in dark mode and that this works much better in the Linux environment.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window_manager

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_environment

A privacy-related topic for another time

• Mail-in-a-Box Take back control of your email with this easy-to-deploy mail server in a box