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| == Notes from November == * Nuudel is a nice tool to schedule dates or conduct a small survey provided by Digitalcourage <<BR>> https://nuudel.digitalcourage.de/ * Technixen are a group of women who build and use linux, computers, networks and web technologies <<BR>> http://lists.answergirl.de <<BR>> https://web.archive.org/web/20160816132930/http://technixen.net/mailinglisten/shelley * The event blog of the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) <<BR>> 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. |
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| See also: * [[Teams/Women/Notes2022|Notes from meetings in 2022]] * [[Teams/Women/Notes2021|Notes from meetings in 2021]] |
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| == Notes from October == | == June 2023 == |
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| * Freeyoursoftware.fyi is a website about the importance of free software and data security <<BR>> https://www.freeyoursoftware.fyi |
Garden planning |
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| * FSFE's Legal Education Day is happening on Nov 6th <<BR>> https://fsfe.org/news/2021/news-20211008-01.en.html |
* 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.) |
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| * The Women's Coding Circle is a club for women in programming based in Ashburn, VA, USA and has a nice and simple logo <<BR>> https://github.com/WomensCodingCircle |
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 |
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| * Our mailing list and team site <<BR>> https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-women <<BR>> https://wiki.fsfe.org/Teams/Women |
Containers * https://kalikiana.gitlab.io/post/2023-02-01-developing-in-distrobox-containers/ * https://podman.io/ * https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox |
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| 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 |
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| == Notes from September == | == April 2023 == |
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| * Youth Hacking 4 Freedom (YH4F) is a coding competition for teenagers <<BR>> https://fsfe.org/activities/yh4f/ https://fsfe.org/activities/yh4f/media.en.html |
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/ |
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| * ntjes blog articles about gender aspects of learning to code and women in computing <<BR>> | == March 2023 == |
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| * About a study which compares Scratch programs created by girls and boys <<BR>> https://ntj.github.io/posts/2021-09-15-gender/ |
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 . |
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| * About a women-only computer science and economy degree program located in Berlin <<BR>> https://ntj.github.io/posts/2021-09-24-gender2/ |
== February 2023 == |
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| * Women in computer science, strategies to increase their number, and effects: <<BR>> https://ntj.github.io/posts/2021-09-27-gender3/ |
We talked about Wiki-Software * [[https://github.com/gollum/gollum|gollum]] -- A git-based Wiki * [[https://www.pmwiki.org/|PmWiki]] is a [[https://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/PmWiki|wiki-based]] content-management system (CMS) for collaborative creation and maintenance of websites. |
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| * Anita Sarkeesian founded Feminist Frequency in 2009 and publishes videos about women representation in computer games and movies, recommendations for media, and more: <<BR>> https://feministfrequency.com/ |
We talked about [[https://anitab.org/about/|Anita Borg]] and [[https://fsfe.org/news/podcast.en.html|Free Software Podcast]] as source for quotes for Women's Day. |
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| * The Bechdel test can be applied to games as well<<BR>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bechdel_test#Application |
We talked about creating a circular logo from [[https://wiki.fsfe.org/Teams/Women/Logo?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=fsfe_women_logo2.svg|Umbrella]] for circular stickers. |
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| * Jessie Gender's youtube channel <<BR>> https://www.youtube.com/user/lostrekkie |
== January 2023 == |
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| * Bits und Bäume, a movement for digitization and sustainability <<BR>> https://bits-und-baeume.org/en |
We met on 20. January Online on conf.fsfe.org. |
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| * Then we talked about card games like Bridge, Spades and Euchre. To organize a local group, one could use<<BR>> https://www.meetup.com <<BR>> but organizers have to pay for their group, or (in Germany) <<BR>> https://nebenan.de/ |
Elsi told us about a [[https://github.com/mediawiki-client-tools|Python project]] she is involved with and so we spoke a while about Python and the tools that play a role in this context. |
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| * Heart of Code is a hackerspace for women* in Berlin<<BR>> http://heartofcode.org/ |
* [[https://conda.io/|Conda]] ''Package, dependency and environment management for any language'' * [[https://python-poetry.org/|Poetry]] (more for packaging and distribution, integrates very closely with [[https://pypi.org/|PyPI/pip]]) * [[https://www.mypy-lang.org/|mypy]] Python type annotation |
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| == Notes from July == | * 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.) * [[https://docs.python.org/3/library/turtle.html|Turtle graphics]] * The idea came up to start a collection of Kids programming software / websites to recommend * Update: Such a page [[https://wiki.fsfe.org/action/edit/Activities/ProgrammingForChildren|Programming For Children]] is already existing here in the FSFE wiki. Please add stuff you would recommend there :-) |
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| * The Public Money? Public Code campaing and how to participate:<<BR>> https://wiki.fsfe.org/Activities/ContactingAdministrationsForPMPC <<BR>> https://wiki.fsfe.org/Activities/Bundestagswahl_DE * PMPC material<<BR>> https://download.fsfe.org/campaigns/pmpc/PMPC-Modernising-with-Free-Software.pdf <<BR>> https://download.fsfe.org/campaigns/pmpc/PMPC-Modernising-with-Free-Software.de.pdf |
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. |
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| * PMPC should also consider that software es being purchased in shops and portals provided by the public administration like "Kaufhaus des Bundes" in Germany<<BR>> https://e-beschaffung.bund.de/DE/Wissenswertes/KDB/kdb_node.html |
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window_manager * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_environment |
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| * data.gouv.fr is a French Open Data Platform<<BR>> https://www.data.gouv.fr/en/datasets/ |
A privacy-related topic for another time |
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| * France also has a platform to search for public sector source code<<BR>> 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<<BR>> 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<<BR>> https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/BerliOS * The Open Source Observatory (OSOR) publishes FOSS news and events:<<BR>> https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/collection/open-source-observatory-osor * !OpenWrt is a Linux operating system targeting embedded devices<<BR>> https://openwrt.org/ * DD-WRT is a Linux based alternative firmware suitable for a lot of WLAN routers and embedded systems<<BR>> https://dd-wrt.com/ == Notes from June == * GDPR: General Data Protection Regulation<<BR>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation * BBB: !BigBlueButton <<BR>> https://bigbluebutton.org/ * We suggest to reach out to Prototype Fund to get financial support:<<BR>> https://prototypefund.de/en/ * The FSFE is also sponsoring projects:<<BR>> https://fsfe.org/community/projects-call/projects-call.html * One can also share idea within the community of the FSFE via the blog<<BR>> https://planet.fsfe.org/ * Greenlight is a very common GUI for !BigBlueButton, but others may exist:<<BR>> https://bigbluebutton.org/2018/07/09/greenlight-2-0/ * To get support and reach out to Matrix developers one could use their freenode channel:<<BR>> https://www.matrix.org/faq/#where-can-i-get-support%3F * The FSFE switched from IRC to Libera Chat recently:<<BR>> https://fsfe.org/news/2021/news-20210525-01.en.html * Hackint is a communication network for the hacker community:<<BR>> https://hackint.org/ * A page which describes WebRTC architecture<<BR>> https://www.callstats.io/blog/webrtc-architectures-explained-in-5-minutes-or-less * One of the oldest IRC networks is the IRCnet<<BR>> 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<<BR>> 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<<BR>> 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:<<BR>> 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:<<BR>> https://github.com/google/blockly * There is blockly fork from !OpenRoberta<<BR>> https://github.com/OpenRoberta/blockly * Another approach to learn programming is turtle and the language Logo<<BR>> 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<<BR>> https://tdrm.fiff.de/index.php * The Women of Security<<BR>> https://twitter.com/WoSECtweets * Britta Schinzel published papers about women in computing and gender-sensitive CS education<<BR>> 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<<BR>> 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<<BR>> https://twitter.com/tobybaier/status/1393851194938961922 <<BR>> https://www.pearl.de/mtrkw-10899-steckdosen-mit-ueberspannungsschutz-telefon-und-lan-anschluss.shtml |
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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.
See also:
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
Containers
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:
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:
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.)
- 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.
A privacy-related topic for another time
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