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Notes from our meetings

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

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/

• 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/

Mar 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!

Feb 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

Jan 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/

Dec 2021

• mayuko's early videos are about computer science and being a (female) software engineer
  https://www.youtube.com/c/hellomayuko

• Unauthorized Bread is a book by Cory Doctorow
  https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41085118-unauthorized-bread

• Ada & 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/general

• There is also remote testing world to try out workadventu.re
  https://play.staging.workadventu.re/@/tcm/workadventure/wa-village

• Tiled 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

Nov 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/shelley

• The 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.

Oct 2021

• Freeyoursoftware.fyi is a website about the importance of free software and data security
  https://www.freeyoursoftware.fyi

• FSFE's Legal Education Day is happening on Nov 6th
  https://fsfe.org/news/2021/news-20211008-01.en.html

• The 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/WomensCodingCircle

• Our mailing list and team site
  https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-women
  https://wiki.fsfe.org/Teams/Women

Notes from September

• Youth Hacking 4 Freedom (YH4F) is a coding competition for teenagers
  https://fsfe.org/activities/yh4f/ https://fsfe.org/activities/yh4f/media.en.html

• ntjes 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#Application

• Jessie Gender's youtube channel
  https://www.youtube.com/user/lostrekkie

• Bits und Bäume, a movement for digitization and sustainability
  https://bits-und-baeume.org/en

• Then 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/

Notes from July

• The Public Money? Public Code campaing and how to participate:
  https://wiki.fsfe.org/Activities/ContactingAdministrationsForPMPC
  https://wiki.fsfe.org/Activities/Bundestagswahl_DE

• PMPC 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.pdf

• PMPC 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.html

• data.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/groups

• We 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_Software

• BerliOS was a project located in Berlin to coordinate different interest groups in FOSS
  https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/BerliOS

• The Open Source Observatory (OSOR) publishes FOSS news and events:
  https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/collection/open-source-observatory-osor

• OpenWrt 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/

Notes from June

• GDPR: General Data Protection Regulation
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation

• BBB: 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.html

• One 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%3F

• The FSFE switched from IRC to Libera Chat recently:
  https://fsfe.org/news/2021/news-20210525-01.en.html

• Hackint 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-less

• One of the oldest IRC networks is the IRCnet
  https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRCnet https://www.ircnet.com/

Notes from May

• 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.java

• The source code is open:
  https://github.com/mit-cml/appinventor-sources

  So 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/blockly

• There is blockly fork from OpenRoberta
  https://github.com/OpenRoberta/blockly

• Another approach to learn programming is turtle and the language Logo
  https://www.code-your-life.org/Praxis/Logo_Turtle/1301_Turtle.htm

• TDRM is a project to measure radioactivity around the nuclear power plants Tihange und Doel
  https://tdrm.fiff.de/index.php

• The Women of Security
  https://twitter.com/WoSECtweets

• Britta 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