Diff for "Teams/Women/Notes"

Differences between revisions 28 and 52 (spanning 24 versions)
⇤ ← Revision 28 as of 2022-04-03 08:56:58 →
Size: 11763
Editor: ntj
Comment:
← Revision 52 as of 2023-01-21 16:27:39 → ⇥
Size: 14541
Editor: dipohl
Comment: Notes from January 2023 meeting
Deletions are marked like this. Additions are marked like this.
Line 5: Line 5:
== Mar 2022 == See also: [[Teams/Women/Notes2021|Notes from meetings in 2021]]

== January 2023 ==

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

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.

  * [[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

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.)
  * [[https://docs.python.org/3/library/turtle.html|Turtle graphics]]
  * The idea came up to start a collection of Kids programming software / websites to recomend

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

  * [[https://mailinabox.email/|Mail-in-a-Box]] ''Take back control of your email with this easy-to-deploy mail server in a box''

== 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 [[https://yt.artemislena.eu/watch?v=j5v8D-alAKE|example of lamps]]
  * [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence#Software_lock-out|Software lock-out]]

==== Fight for your Right ====

  * [[https://fsfe.org/activities/upcyclingandroid/openletter.html|Open letter]] and in [[https://fsfe.org/activities/upcyclingandroid/openletter.de.html|Open Letter in German]] (gender neutral)
  * [[https://media.fsfe.org/w/p/2Z9j7s8VkzuqWqXcx2yV56?playlistPosition=6&resume=true|Video from the Upcycling Android campaign]] and in [[https://media.fsfe.org/w/p/2Z9j7s8VkzuqWqXcx2yV56?playlistPosition=7&resume=true|German]]
  * [[https://repair.eu/|The Right to Repair campaign]]

We talked a lot about trust worthy phones
  * [[https://wiki.fsfe.org/Activities/Android/OtherInitiatives|Free Software initiatives for phones]]
  * [[https://fsfe.org/news/2022/news-20220323-01.html|Interview with Plasma Mobile]]
  * [[https://fsfe.org/news/2022/news-20220712-01.html|Interview with Librem 5]]
  * [[https://www.nitrokey.com/news/2021/nitrophone-most-secure-android-planet|NitroPhone]]
  * [[https://f-droid.org/|Free Software app market]]
  * [[https://microg.org/|MicroG]] - Development of a free software clone of Google’s proprietary core libraries and applications
  * [[https://blogs.fsfe.org/nico.rikken/2022/03/16/dutch-digital-identity-system-crisis/|Dutch digital identity system crisis]]

==== Recycling ====

  * https://computertruhe.de/

== November 2022 ==

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

 * We talked about [[https://eznec.com/|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 [[https://mycroft-ai.gitbook.io/docs/mycroft-technologies/mimic-tts|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 [[https://fsfe.org/activities/upcyclingandroid/|Upcycling Android]] initiative of the FSFE
 * and brainstormed about joining the [[https://events.ccc.de/category/37c3/|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..
  * [[https://www.k5n.us/webcalendar/|WebCalendar]] [[https://github.com/craigk5n/webcalendar|Code Repository]] uses a current version of PHP (7.1)

 * Next FLOSS conferences
  * https://www.sfscon.it/
  * FOSDEM 2023 https://fosdem.org/2023/

 * [[https://wiki.fsfe.org/Teams/Women/Ideas|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. <<BR>>
 https://www.cms-garden.org/ <<BR>>
 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: <<BR>>
 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: <<BR>>
 https://odoo-community.org/

 * We talked about Service-level agreements <<BR>>
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service-level_agreement

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

 * Ponzi scheme <<BR>>
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponzi_scheme

 * We checked out the carbon footprint of our personal websites, it looks pretty good! <<BR>>
 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! <<BR>>
 https://bits-und-baeume.org/konferenz/de

 * About the ideology of cryptocurrency: <<BR>>
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ_xWvX1n9g

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

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

 * An online conference about digital public administration and challenges like sustainability: <<BR>>
 https://piazza-konferenz.de/

 * More interesting reads towards the end of the evening: <<BR>>
 https://locusmag.com/2022/01/cory-doctorow-science-fiction-is-a-luddite-literature/ <<BR>>
 https://librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com/2022/04/29/technology-in-the-present-tense-notes-from-a-weary-luddite/ <<BR>>
 https://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/californian-ideology <<BR>>
 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<<BR>>
 https://threema.ch/en <<BR>>
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threema <<BR>>

 * !MetaGer is a metasearch engine focused on protecting users' privacy <<BR>>
 https://metager.de/ <<BR>>
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MetaGer <<BR>>

 * Bitwarden is an open-source password manager <<BR>>
 https://bitwarden.com/

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

 * and Upcycling Android <<BR>>
 https://fsfe.org/activities/upcyclingandroid/howtoupcycle.en.html

 * We talked about note taking apps, there are many options: <<BR>>
   - Rednotebook is a dektop journal <<BR>>
   https://rednotebook.sourceforge.io/ <<BR>>
   - Nixnote <<BR>>
   http://nixnote.org/NixNote-Home/ <<BR>>
   - Zim, a desktop wiki <<BR>>
   https://zim-wiki.org/ <<BR>>

 * We collected points interesting for us with respect to open source content mangement systems (CMS) <<BR>>
  - How would you start using a CMS? <<BR>>
  - How to decide best, which CMS (Joomla, Wordpress, Drupal, Typo3 etc.) to use? <<BR>>
  - What's the cost? <<BR>>
  - Is there a good option for note taking, any restrictions using it on different devices? <<BR>>

 * Passbolt is an open-source password manager for teams <<BR>>
 https://www.passbolt.com/

== April 2022 ==

 * FrOSCon will take place IRL this year again, yay! :)<<BR>>
 https://twitter.com/froscon/status/1513996423343312898
 * The FSFE Core Team and General Assembly <<BR>>
 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 <<BR>>
 https://fsfe.org/about/legal/legal.en.html <<BR>>
 https://fsfe.org/about/legal/minutes/minutes-2021-11-27.en.pdf <<BR>>
 * Also financial reports can be accessed online <<BR>>
 https://fsfe.org/about/funds/funds.en.html <<BR>>
 * tusky.app is a mastodon client for android (ntj hasn't tested it yet) <<BR>>
 https://tusky.app/
 * EDRi is a network of organisations defending rights and freedom online <<BR>>
 https://edri.org/
 * April is a French organization advocating for Free Software <<BR>>
 [[https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_(association)]]
 * We're looking at the blogging network and will ask if it's still activily in use <<BR>>
 https://blogs.fsfe.org/ <<BR>>
 https://wiki.fsfe.org/TechDocs/Blogs <<BR>>
 https://planet.fsfe.org/

== March 2022 ==
Line 42: Line 263:
== Feb 2022 == == February 2022 ==
Line 55: Line 277:
== Jan 2022 == == January 2022 ==
Line 88: Line 311:

== Dec 2021 ==
 * mayuko's early videos are about computer science and being a (female) software engineer <<BR>>
 https://www.youtube.com/c/hellomayuko
 * Unauthorized Bread is a book by Cory Doctorow <<BR>>
 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41085118-unauthorized-bread
 * Ada & Zangemann - A tale of software, skateboards, and raspberry ice cream<<BR>>
 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<<BR>>
 https://www.uncannyvalley.de/
 * Art from Man Ray<<BR>>
 https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/cadeau-serie-ii-15597
<<BR>>

 * The rC3 congress has a public rocket chat <<BR>>
 https://chat.rc3.world/channel/general

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

 * Tiled is a tool to create maps for remote worlds <<BR>>
 https://www.mapeditor.org/

 * We have created an assembly for the FSFE Women at <<BR>>
 https://maschinenraum.rc3.world

== Nov 2021 ==
 * 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.


== Oct 2021 ==

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

 * FSFE's Legal Education Day is happening on Nov 6th <<BR>>
 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 <<BR>>
 https://github.com/WomensCodingCircle

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


== Notes from September ==

 * 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

 * ntjes blog articles about gender aspects of learning to code and women in computing <<BR>>

  * About a study which compares Scratch programs created by girls and boys <<BR>>
  https://ntj.github.io/posts/2021-09-15-gender/

  * About a women-only computer science and economy degree program located in Berlin <<BR>>
  https://ntj.github.io/posts/2021-09-24-gender2/

  * Women in computer science, strategies to increase their number, and effects: <<BR>>
  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: <<BR>>
 https://feministfrequency.com/

 * The Bechdel test can be applied to games as well<<BR>>
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bechdel_test#Application

 * Jessie Gender's youtube channel <<BR>>
 https://www.youtube.com/user/lostrekkie

 * Bits und Bäume, a movement for digitization and sustainability <<BR>>
 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<<BR>>
 https://www.meetup.com <<BR>>
 but organizers have to pay for their group, or (in Germany) <<BR>>
 https://nebenan.de/

 * Heart of Code is a hackerspace for women* in Berlin<<BR>>
 http://heartofcode.org/


== Notes from July ==

 * 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

 * 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

 * data.gouv.fr is a French Open Data Platform<<BR>>
 https://www.data.gouv.fr/en/datasets/

 * 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

Notes from our meetings

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

See also: Notes from meetings in 2021

January 2023

We met on 20. December 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 recomend

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

  • Mail-in-a-Box Take back control of your email with this easy-to-deploy mail server in a box

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

Fight for your Right

We talked a lot about trust worthy phones

Recycling

November 2022

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

October 2022

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

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

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

April 2022

March 2022

February 2022

January 2022

Teams/Women/Notes (last edited 2023-09-20 21:14:13 by dipohl)