Notes from our meetings in 2021
On this page we collect the links which have been posted to the chat in our meetings.
December 2021
mayuko's early videos are about computer science and being a (female) software engineer
https://www.youtube.com/c/hellomayukoUnauthorized Bread is a book by Cory Doctorow
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41085118-unauthorized-breadAda & Zangemann - A tale of software, skateboards, and raspberry ice cream
https://fsfe.org/activities/childrensbook/- humanoid objects that imperfectly resemble actual human beings provoke uncanny feelings
uncanny valley is also a music label from Dresden, Germany
https://www.uncannyvalley.de/Art from Man Ray
https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/cadeau-serie-ii-15597
The rC3 congress has a public rocket chat
https://chat.rc3.world/channel/generalThere is also remote testing world to try out workadventu.re
https://play.staging.workadventu.re/@/tcm/workadventure/wa-villageTiled is a tool to create maps for remote worlds
https://www.mapeditor.org/We have created an assembly for the FSFE Women at
https://maschinenraum.rc3.world
November 2021
Nuudel is a nice tool to schedule dates or conduct a small survey provided by Digitalcourage
https://nuudel.digitalcourage.de/Technixen are a group of women who build and use linux, computers, networks and web technologies
http://lists.answergirl.de
https://web.archive.org/web/20160816132930/http://technixen.net/mailinglisten/shelleyThe event blog of the Chaos Computer Club (CCC)
https://events.ccc.de/- c3d2 is the Erfa-Kreis (= local chapter) of the CCC based in Dresden, Germany. The motto of their annual conference was "Log down" this year.
October 2021
Freeyoursoftware.fyi is a website about the importance of free software and data security
https://www.freeyoursoftware.fyiFSFE's Legal Education Day is happening on Nov 6th
https://fsfe.org/news/2021/news-20211008-01.en.htmlThe Women's Coding Circle is a club for women in programming based in Ashburn, VA, USA and has a nice and simple logo
https://github.com/WomensCodingCircleOur mailing list and team site
https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-women
https://wiki.fsfe.org/Teams/Women
September 2021
Youth Hacking 4 Freedom (YH4F) is a coding competition for teenagers
https://fsfe.org/activities/yh4f/ https://fsfe.org/activities/yh4f/media.en.htmlntjes blog articles about gender aspects of learning to code and women in computing
About a study which compares Scratch programs created by girls and boys
https://ntj.github.io/posts/2021-09-15-gender/About a women-only computer science and economy degree program located in Berlin
https://ntj.github.io/posts/2021-09-24-gender2/Women in computer science, strategies to increase their number, and effects:
https://ntj.github.io/posts/2021-09-27-gender3/
Anita Sarkeesian founded Feminist Frequency in 2009 and publishes videos about women representation in computer games and movies, recommendations for media, and more:
https://feministfrequency.com/The Bechdel test can be applied to games as well
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bechdel_test#ApplicationJessie Gender's youtube channel
https://www.youtube.com/user/lostrekkieBits und Bäume, a movement for digitization and sustainability
https://bits-und-baeume.org/enThen we talked about card games like Bridge, Spades and Euchre. To organize a local group, one could use
https://www.meetup.com
but organizers have to pay for their group, or (in Germany)
https://nebenan.de/Heart of Code is a hackerspace for women* in Berlin
http://heartofcode.org/
July 2021
The Public Money? Public Code campaing and how to participate:
https://wiki.fsfe.org/Activities/ContactingAdministrationsForPMPC
https://wiki.fsfe.org/Activities/Bundestagswahl_DEPMPC material
https://download.fsfe.org/campaigns/pmpc/PMPC-Modernising-with-Free-Software.pdf
https://download.fsfe.org/campaigns/pmpc/PMPC-Modernising-with-Free-Software.de.pdfPMPC should also consider that software es being purchased in shops and portals provided by the public administration like "Kaufhaus des Bundes" in Germany
https://e-beschaffung.bund.de/DE/Wissenswertes/KDB/kdb_node.htmldata.gouv.fr is a French Open Data Platform
https://www.data.gouv.fr/en/datasets/France also has a platform to search for public sector source code
https://code.etalab.gouv.fr/en/groupsWe talked about the difference between Open Source and Free Software. What you are allowed to do with the code published in the repository matters in that regard, please see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software#Definition_and_the_Four_Essential_Freedoms_of_Free_SoftwareBerliOS was a project located in Berlin to coordinate different interest groups in FOSS
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/BerliOSThe Open Source Observatory (OSOR) publishes FOSS news and events:
https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/collection/open-source-observatory-osorOpenWrt is a Linux operating system targeting embedded devices
https://openwrt.org/DD-WRT is a Linux based alternative firmware suitable for a lot of WLAN routers and embedded systems
https://dd-wrt.com/
June 2021
GDPR: General Data Protection Regulation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_RegulationBBB: BigBlueButton
https://bigbluebutton.org/We suggest to reach out to Prototype Fund to get financial support:
https://prototypefund.de/en/The FSFE is also sponsoring projects:
https://fsfe.org/community/projects-call/projects-call.htmlOne can also share idea within the community of the FSFE via the blog
https://planet.fsfe.org/Greenlight is a very common GUI for BigBlueButton, but others may exist:
https://bigbluebutton.org/2018/07/09/greenlight-2-0/To get support and reach out to Matrix developers one could use their freenode channel:
https://www.matrix.org/faq/#where-can-i-get-support%3FThe FSFE switched from IRC to Libera Chat recently:
https://fsfe.org/news/2021/news-20210525-01.en.htmlHackint is a communication network for the hacker community:
https://hackint.org/A page which describes WebRTC architecture
https://www.callstats.io/blog/webrtc-architectures-explained-in-5-minutes-or-lessOne of the oldest IRC networks is the IRCnet
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRCnet https://www.ircnet.com/
May 2021
The MIT App Inventor is an online platform to build apps for mobile devices with a block based language
http://code.appinventor.mit.edu/We talked about the App Inventor Look Extension and whether recordings of your camera picture will end up at Google and be analyzed
https://github.com/mit-cml/appinventor-extensions/blob/extension/look/appinventor/components/src/edu/mit/appinventor/ai/look/Look.javaThe source code is open:
https://github.com/mit-cml/appinventor-sourcesSo it's possible to install App Inventor locally on a RaspberryPi.
Scratch und AppInventor are based on the blockly JavaScript library:
https://github.com/google/blocklyThere is blockly fork from OpenRoberta
https://github.com/OpenRoberta/blocklyAnother approach to learn programming is turtle and the language Logo
https://www.code-your-life.org/Praxis/Logo_Turtle/1301_Turtle.htmTDRM is a project to measure radioactivity around the nuclear power plants Tihange und Doel
https://tdrm.fiff.de/index.phpThe Women of Security
https://twitter.com/WoSECtweetsBritta Schinzel published papers about women in computing and gender-sensitive CS education
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britta_Schinzel https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=de&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=Britta+Schinzel&btnG=Maria Klawe is developing methods to create an inclusive culture at Harvey Mudd
https://pdawg.blog/2019/11/16/the-harvey-mudd-story-from-10-to-40-female-in-cs-in-three-years/How to protect your router in case of a thunderstorm
https://twitter.com/tobybaier/status/1393851194938961922
https://www.pearl.de/mtrkw-10899-steckdosen-mit-ueberspannungsschutz-telefon-und-lan-anschluss.shtml