Notes from our meetings in 2022

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

See also: Recent Notes from current year

December 2022

We met on 8. December Online on conf.fsfe.org.

Fani Partsafyllidou, Project Manager at FSFE, presented the

Upcycling Android initiative

Planned obsolecensce

• YT video from invidious instance giving the example of lamps

• Software lock-out

Fight for your Right

• Open letter and in Open Letter in German (gender neutral)

• Video from the Upcycling Android campaign and in German

• The Right to Repair campaign

We talked a lot about trust worthy phones

• Free Software initiatives for phones

• Interview with Plasma Mobile

• Interview with Librem 5

• NitroPhone

• Free Software app market

• MicroG - Development of a free software clone of Google’s proprietary core libraries and applications

• Dutch digital identity system crisis

Recycling

• https://computertruhe.de/

November 2022

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

• We talked about EZNEC Antenna Software by W7EL for which the author announced that Support is no longer available for any type or version of EZNEC program. Unfortunately he is not willing to publish the code..

• Being in the field of radio technology we had the idea that this an interesting topic perhaps for a meeting in the next year e.g. https://freifunk.net/

• One participant told about using https://mycroft.ai/ - "Privacy-Focused Voice-Enabled Ecosystem" for audio translation of BLOG entries. See the Docs for detailed instruction.

• Triggered by seeing a flag on the wall behind a participant we had an extensive talk about colors and print issues

  • https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/613t8-V0mIL._AC_SL1500_.jpg

  • https://i.etsystatic.com/27037654/r/il/9526fc/3276301135/il_fullxfull.3276301135_2ncf.jpg

  • https://www.freiefarbe.de/

  • https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantone_Matching_System

• At last we looked forward to December activities starting with a next meeting where Fani Partsafyllidou had offered to present the Upcycling Android initiative of the FSFE

• and brainstormed about joining the decentralized and independent alternative events of 37c3

  • https://events.ccc.de/2022/11/13/xrelog22-cfp/

  • https://events.haecksen.org/fireshonks/

• one more IT/computer women* centric group https://fuck-the.systems/

October 2022

We met on 21. October Online on conf.fsfe.org.

• Question: Which Calendar APP to use on a website?

  • Example for a germany hosted Calendar provider https://mailbox.org/en/your-personal-office#calendar

  • CalDAV on wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CalDAV

  • A selfhostable Calendar System https://www.davical.org/ which requires PHP version 5 says the 'Prerequisites' section on the start page.. very outdated if that's right..

  • WebCalendar Code Repository uses a current version of PHP (7.1)

• Next FLOSS conferences

  • https://www.sfscon.it/

  • FOSDEM 2023 https://fosdem.org/2023/

• Idea for a webgame to introduce members of the fsfe women group

• Prospects for 2023

Links which have accumulated on the chat.

• https://jmap.io/

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

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

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purism_(company)

• https://github.com/Lumieducation/Lumi

• https://code.appinventor.mit.edu/?locale=en

• https://www.code-your-life.org/turtlecoder/#/user/defaultUser/Vorlage%201%3A%20Quadrat%201

• https://nocodefounders.com/tools

• https://www.code-your-life.org/Praxis/Logo_Turtle/1349_Der_TurtleCoder.htm

• Lumi App https://app.lumi.education/#download

August 2022

We met at FrOSCon in Sankt Augustin, Germany and supported the FSFE at their booth there. Members of our group discussed the book "Pakete bauen mit Git-Buildpackage" by Mechtilde and Michael Stehmann: https://ddp-team.pages.debian.net/dpb/BuildWithGBP.pdf

Sources can be found here: https://salsa.debian.org/ddp-team/dpb

June 2022

• We welcomed guests from CMS Garden e.V. and talked about Content Management Systems (CMS) and their communities and how to get involved, and the activities of CMS Garden e.V.
  https://www.cms-garden.org/
  Every 1st Tuesday 5pm CET there is an All-CMS Meetup, if your interested, please contact CMS Garden e.V.

• Odoo is a suite of business management software tools. The Community version is free software:
  https://www.odoo.com/

• There is also the Odoo Community Association, or OCA, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to promote the widespread use of Odoo:
  https://odoo-community.org/

• We talked about Service-level agreements
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service-level_agreement

• The Kieler Open Source and Linux Tage are happening September 16./17th:
  https://kielux.de/programm

• Ponzi scheme
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponzi_scheme

• We checked out the carbon footprint of our personal websites, it looks pretty good!
  https://www.websitecarbon.com/

• Bits und Bäume are a network of people who care about sustainability in the digital world and environmental friendly IT, there is a conference happening soon!
  https://bits-und-baeume.org/konferenz/de

• About the ideology of cryptocurrency:
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ_xWvX1n9g

• About German climate activism (though in English):
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dh4G1Gjv7bA

• The psychology of how and why people justify inaction:
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZyIjBxxpTY

• An online conference about digital public administration and challenges like sustainability:
  https://piazza-konferenz.de/

• More interesting reads towards the end of the evening:
  https://locusmag.com/2022/01/cory-doctorow-science-fiction-is-a-luddite-literature/
  https://librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com/2022/04/29/technology-in-the-present-tense-notes-from-a-weary-luddite/
  https://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/californian-ideology
  https://evgenymorozov.com/

May 2022 (1st in-person meeting, in Berlin)

• Threema is a paid end-to-end encrypted instant messaging application, client apps are open source, server-side software is proprietary
  https://threema.ch/en
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threema
  

• MetaGer is a metasearch engine focused on protecting users' privacy
  https://metager.de/
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MetaGer
  

• Bitwarden is an open-source password manager
  https://bitwarden.com/

• We talked about the FSFE campaigns Router Freedom
  https://fsfe.org/news/2022/news-20220510-01.de.html

• and Upcycling Android
  https://fsfe.org/activities/upcyclingandroid/howtoupcycle.en.html

• We talked about note taking apps, there are many options:
  

  • - Rednotebook is a dektop journal
    https://rednotebook.sourceforge.io/
    - Nixnote
    http://nixnote.org/NixNote-Home/
    - Zim, a desktop wiki
    https://zim-wiki.org/
    

• We collected points interesting for us with respect to open source content mangement systems (CMS)
  

  • - How would you start using a CMS?
    - How to decide best, which CMS (Joomla, Wordpress, Drupal, Typo3 etc.) to use?
    - What's the cost?
    - Is there a good option for note taking, any restrictions using it on different devices?
    

• Passbolt is an open-source password manager for teams
  https://www.passbolt.com/

April 2022

• FrOSCon will take place IRL this year again, yay! :)
  https://twitter.com/froscon/status/1513996423343312898

• The FSFE Core Team and General Assembly
  https://fsfe.org/about/team.en.html

• We were interested in the legal structure of the FSFE and the minutes of the annual meetings of the General Assembly
  https://fsfe.org/about/legal/legal.en.html
  https://fsfe.org/about/legal/minutes/minutes-2021-11-27.en.pdf
  

• Also financial reports can be accessed online
  https://fsfe.org/about/funds/funds.en.html
  

• tusky.app is a mastodon client for android (ntj hasn't tested it yet)
  https://tusky.app/

• EDRi is a network of organisations defending rights and freedom online
  https://edri.org/

• April is a French organization advocating for Free Software
  https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_(association)

• We're looking at the blogging network and will ask if it's still activily in use
  https://blogs.fsfe.org/
  https://wiki.fsfe.org/TechDocs/Blogs
  https://planet.fsfe.org/

March 2022

• First we talked about radon therapy
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZkusjDFlS0

• and homeopathy
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeopathy

• Marina Weisband, a former member of the senior leadership of Pirate Party Germany suffers from chronic fatigue syndrome
  https://www.watson.de/leben/exklusiv/877332344-marina-weisband-ueber-ihre-krankheit-me-cfs-die-viele-menschen-mit-long-covid-trifft

• Transgender broken arm syndrom
  https://thebristolcable.org/2020/11/trans-broken-arm-syndrome-healthcare-nightmare-for-trans-people-is-about-more-than-hormones/

• feminist / transgender comedians
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtj7LDYaufM
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolin_Kebekus

• Ferdi is a client to run multiple messenger services on a desktop (element, rocket chat etc.)
  https://getferdi.com/

• Beeper is for similar purposes, but for mobile devices?
  https://www.beeper.com/

• SchildiChat is a matrix client for android
  https://github.com/SchildiChat/SchildiChat-android

• Then we talked about hardware, like a sophisticated camera for home video conferencing
  https://www.amazon.com/ROCWARE-Optical-Streaming-Broadcast-Conference/dp/B09M3T8GWT

• The GTK+ UVC Viewer
  http://guvcview.sourceforge.net/

• The USB Video device class
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_video_device_class

• We had some trouble getting the FSFE matrix running on a mobile client, but were able to figure it out eventually. Anyone needs help with this, let us know!

February 2022

• Selenium user group
  https://groups.google.com/g/selenium-users

• Free Software ERP
  http://www.kivitendo.de/

• Purism
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purism_(company)

• Chemnitzer Linuxtage
  https://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2022/en

January 2022

• FOSDEM 2022 is happening soon
  https://fosdem.org/2022/

• OpenPOWER devroom at FOSDEM
  https://fosdem.org/2022/schedule/track/openpower/

• Upcycling Android is a very active campaign of the FSFE
  https://UpcyclingAndroid.org

• I love Free Software Day is happening soon, too
  https://ilovefs.org
  

• Registration for the Game Event
  https://registration.fsfe.org/ilovefs

• Vosk is a speech recognition toolkit
  https://alphacephei.com/vosk/

• VoiceGym - a Spectograph recorder
  https://voicegym.github.io

• Our new logo
  https://wiki.fsfe.org/Teams/Women/Logo

• How to use graphics from the FSFE
  https://fsfe.org/about/graphics/graphics.en.html

• Chemnitzer Linux-Tage
  https://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2022/en/programm

• The Chaos Communication Congress
  https://media.ccc.de/c/rc3-2021
  https://events.ccc.de/