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== 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/

== Mar 2022 ==
 * First we talked about radon therapy <<BR>>
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZkusjDFlS0

 * and homeopathy <<BR>>
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeopathy

 * Marina Weisband, a former member of the senior leadership of Pirate Party Germany suffers from chronic fatigue syndrome <<BR>>
 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 <<BR>>
 https://thebristolcable.org/2020/11/trans-broken-arm-syndrome-healthcare-nightmare-for-trans-people-is-about-more-than-hormones/

 * feminist / transgender comedians <<BR>>
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtj7LDYaufM <<BR>>
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolin_Kebekus

 * Ferdi is a client to run multiple messenger services on a desktop (element, rocket chat etc.) <<BR>>
 https://getferdi.com/

 * Beeper is for similar purposes, but for mobile devices? <<BR>>
 https://www.beeper.com/

 * !SchildiChat is a matrix client for android <<BR>>
 https://github.com/SchildiChat/SchildiChat-android

 * Then we talked about hardware, like a sophisticated camera for home video conferencing <<BR>>
 https://www.amazon.com/ROCWARE-Optical-Streaming-Broadcast-Conference/dp/B09M3T8GWT

 * The GTK+ UVC Viewer <<BR>>
 http://guvcview.sourceforge.net/

 * The USB Video device class <<BR>>
 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 <<BR>>
 https://groups.google.com/g/selenium-users

 * Free Software ERP <<BR>>
 http://www.kivitendo.de/

 * Purism <<BR>>
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purism_(company)

 * Chemnitzer Linuxtage <<BR>>
 https://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2022/en

== Jan 2022 ==
 * FOSDEM 2022 is happening soon <<BR>>
 https://fosdem.org/2022/

 * OpenPOWER devroom at FOSDEM <<BR>>
 https://fosdem.org/2022/schedule/track/openpower/

 * Upcycling Android is a very active campaign of the FSFE <<BR>>
 https://UpcyclingAndroid.org

 * I love Free Software Day is happening soon, too <<BR>>
 https://ilovefs.org <<BR>>
 * Registration for the Game Event <<BR>>
 https://registration.fsfe.org/ilovefs

 * Vosk is a speech recognition toolkit <<BR>>
 https://alphacephei.com/vosk/

 * !VoiceGym - a Spectograph recorder <<BR>>
 https://voicegym.github.io

 * Our new logo <<BR>>
 https://wiki.fsfe.org/Teams/Women/Logo

 * How to use graphics from the FSFE <<BR>>
 https://fsfe.org/about/graphics/graphics.en.html

 * Chemnitzer Linux-Tage <<BR>>
 https://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2022/en/programm

 * The Chaos Communication Congress <<BR>>
 https://media.ccc.de/c/rc3-2021 <<BR>>
 https://events.ccc.de/

== 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		 See also:
 * [[Teams/Women/Notes2022|Notes from meetings in 2022]]
 * [[Teams/Women/Notes2021|Notes from meetings in 2021]]

== September ==

=== Email and encryption ===

- https://www.hostsharing.net/
- manitu.de
- https://wiki.gnupg.org/WKD
- 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/

== August ==

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

=== 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
 * 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

## Cooperatives (Carmen)
- 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
  * [[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.

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.

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.

== January 2023 ==

We met on 20. January 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 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 :-)

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''

Notes from our meetings

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

See also:

September

Email and encryption

- https://www.hostsharing.net/ - manitu.de - https://wiki.gnupg.org/WKD - 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/

August

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

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

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/

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

- 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

  • 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

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

(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

(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.)

April 2023

Topics, we talked about.

March 2023

Topics, we talked about.

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.

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

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