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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.

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 very outdated if that's right..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/

December 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

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/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.

October 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

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.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/

July 2021

• 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/

June 2021

• 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/

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.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