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| See also: [[Teams/Women/Notes2021|Notes from meetings in 2021]] == 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 very outdated if that's right..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 == * 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! == February 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 == January 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/ |
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
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://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
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
- 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
- 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
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
Mail-in-a-Box Take back control of your email with this easy-to-deploy mail server in a box