Notes from our meetings in 2023

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

See also: Recent Notes from current year

November

Fedigov / Fediverse

• https://fsfe.org/news/2023/news-20230109-01.en.html

• https://fedigov.eu/

• https://fedigov.eu/images/illustrations/fediverse.png

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

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastodon_(social_network)

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

• https://writefreely.org/ We were in doubt that this tool is worth to get mentioned in the campaign

• https://people.kernel.org/read

• https://gnusocial.network/

IT-Security in Public Administrations

• https://www1.wdr.de/nachrichten/westfalen-lippe/cyber-angriff-suedwestfalen-kommunen-100.html

Date And Topic For Our Next Meeting

Combine with 37th Chaos Communication Congress which takes place on site in Hamburg this year 27.-30.12.2023

Create / Maintain A List Of Prominent IT-Women?

• https://wiki.fsfe.org/Activities/Free-Software-Women

September

Internet Provider

• https://www.hostsharing.net/

• https://www.manitu.de/

Email and encryption

• Public Keys available on Web Key Directory

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

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

• https://matrix.org/blog/2020/01/02/on-privacy-versus-freedom/

• https://swift.im/ <- XMPP client in c++

• Scroll down to "how it works" for the cryptocurrency dogwhistles: https://web.archive.org/web/20200219074233/https://matrix.org/

• https://mailinabox.email.mailinabox.email/

  • https://joshdata.me/

Game

• https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/147892/councils-contracts

August

• https://media.ccc.de/v/camp2023-57243-xfilesgdpr

• Usage of Free Software in several regional protestant churches in Germany

How to make email anonymous?

• anonbox (CCC)
• Spamgourmet (Spende wird erbeten)

• Trashmail https://www.trashmail.org/

• Aus dem Privacy-Handbuch
  • spambog.com (weitere E-Mail Domains auf der Webseite, Account kann mit Passwort gesichert werden, Löschen der Mails ist möglich, Session-Cookies erforderlich)

  • OneWayMail.com (weitere E-Mail Domains auf der Webseite, keine Cookies oder Javascript nötig, E-Mails können gelöscht werden, 5 weitere Domains)

  • trash-mail.com (keine Cookies oder Javascript nötig, E-Mails können gelöscht werden)
  • mailcatch.com (keine Cookies oder Javascript nötig, E-Mails können gelöscht werden)
  • mailinator.com (bietet 5 weitere Domains, keine Cookies oder Javascript nötig, E-Mails können gelöscht werden, POP3-Abruf möglich)
  • weg-werf-email.de (Session-Cookies erforderlich, Passwortschutz möglich)

  • GuerrillaMail (HTTPS, Session-Cookies erforderlich, E-Mails können gelöscht werden)

  • https://github.com/jrselzer/Andere_Linklisten/blob/main/digitale-selbstverteidigung.md

enterprise device management

• The Apple version: https://support.apple.com/guide/deployment

• The Android version: https://www.android.com/enterprise/management/

• The Windows version (it's not clear exactly which brand is the cloud platform and which is the client OS feature): https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/mem/configmgr/

• Regarding SEC fines: https://www.evernote.com/shard/s19/sh/bb9afaf7-20ef-49d1-98fa-f4a6d2256178/SNIMewsqy4fU8lMoTmLIoQcvv1EMFlb7gqScuOAqmoaeG1sC-D5hpIS5QA

Advertisement for our group

• https://github.com/fsfe-women to get a badge with our umbrella icon - be sure to make it publically visible

July

FroSCON https://froscon.org/

• Location: St.Augustin (~Bonn)
• Fr 19.00 Cafe Especial
• Samstag Social Event w/ FSFE folks at booth from 18.00
• Booth Sa/Su We have 5 people so far, anyone who'd like is welcome to help out, prior registration optional, feel free to show up and help out as you can
• Let's organize a (FSFE) Women* lunch open to new people, maybe a sign in the hallway, reach out to orga for advice

Slightly off-topic

• Can big cats use free software?

• https://twitter.com/lqzze1/status/1681819428256620545

• https://www.hanseyachtsag.com/dehler/de/modelle/varianta-65/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_boar https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/07/17/1076392/this-company-plans-to-transplant-pig-hearts-into-babies-next-year/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/why-exactly-did-the-first-human-patient-to-receive-a-pig-heart-die-180980361/

• https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/9/22968956/pig-heart-transplant-patinet-dies-xenotransplantation

• Hugh Ferriss: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/bb/97/89/bb9789afd857aa4439422db4f59e71e7.jpg

• https://i.pinimg.com/originals/73/b3/06/73b306403ab7059e32fc7473e55b554b.jpg

• https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berliner_Traufh%C3%B6he

FSFE Summer meet

• Misc
  • FSFE/Women group/badge
  • Keep in mind that everyone should have a chance to talk

Upcoming conferences

• Oscal conference in Albania https://oscal.openlabs.cc/ is said to be run by women and very women-friendly

• FSFCon in Bolsano, Italy

Diversity

• word checker https://gitlab.com/nicorikken/woke-config-builder/-/tree/main/

• guide from uni of washington https://itconnect.uw.edu/guides-by-topic/identity-diversity-inclusion/inclusive-language-guide/

• I (Liv) gave a talk with exercises on inclusive language
• Dario and Francesca to contribute Italian resources
• Liv looking into publishing a book on diversity
  • ebook/printed/stickers
  • idea: include an appendix with "game" cards for exercises like, use the ideas explained in the book

- The International Cooperative Alliance (based out of lovely Brussels 🧇) is the organisation of which I forgot the name. - Link with the seven principles, explaining what cooperatives are: https://www.ica.coop/en/whats-co-op/co-operative-identity-values-principles - denic is a cooperitve i.e. the ".de" domain registry - Housing cooperatives where residents are shareholders (vs condos which are owned by individuals)

FSFE Women

• Presented our group
• Local Belgian Women Group
• Ask other groups to recommend us
• Stickers!!!

Organization of groups especially in Germany

• Many organizers inactive
• FSFE offers help with travel, food etc for conferences
• Need new people
• Johannes/ Liv to coordinate for now
• new Germany coordinator needs to be found

Talk highlights

• Ada & Zangemann

  • needs more promotation to make it to stores

  • we need follow-up resources so kids can start hacking i.e. extend https://fsfe.org/activities/ada-zangemann/index.html

    • maybe there could be a survey to give some feedback on the book

    • https://teckids.org/

• AI licensing
  • osi defines standards for AI
  • we need to ensure that models are free, and weights can be changed
• Router freedom is making good progress in several countries
• Email is powerful but nobody funds development
• Nicole talked about liberating GPL code, devices from china, need more people but no guarantees

June 2023

Garden planning

• https://www.plantura.garden/gartenpraxis/mischkultur/mischkultur plants that go together

• Euro+Med PlantBase: https://www.europlusmed.org/

(EU-Mediterranean plant database aggregating taxonomic data from Linnaeus onwards)

• Not FOSS, but a possible research starting point for parametric space planning: https://www.grasshopper3d.com/

(Grasshopper is widely used for this purpose, so there is a decade-plus of literature on FOSS scripting using it for various design purposes.)

Terminal multiplexing

• https://kalikiana.gitlab.io/post/2023-02-08-multiplexing-your-terminal-with-zellij/

• https://zellij.dev/screencasts/

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

• https://github.com/zellij-org/zellij

Containers

• https://kalikiana.gitlab.io/post/2023-02-01-developing-in-distrobox-containers/

• https://podman.io/

• https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox

Spatial planning

• Parametric CAD modeling for open source scientific hardware: Comparing OpenSCAD and FreeCAD Python scripts https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0225795

(This paper is probably a bit more practical than theoretical.) Spatial DBMS Architecture for a Free and Open Source BIM https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/2e71/f8f0a306871eebf44fb3f5b74ef8f9aab763.pdf (This paper is probably a bit more theoretical than practical.)

• https://99percentinvisible.org/app/uploads/2016/10/cybersyn-room-728x490.jpg

• Manuel Delanda's lecture on the subject https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50-d_J0hKz0

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