Snowdrift
Snowdrift is a “Crowdmatching for public goods” which aimed to help fund free software and other projects.
There is a short, informative video on their website
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LibrePlanet 2023 starts today
LibrePlanet 2023
This years Free Software Foundation conference is back in Boston as an in person conference, however talks will still be streamed online. It will run from March 18th to 19th, 2023.
This years theme is Charting the course.
I have been helping with reviewing talks for the conference, so from this I know there is a really good range of interesting talks, workshops for the event.
Keynotes :
- Right to repair advocate Elizabeth Chamberlain
- Software freedom in education advocate Erin Rose Glass
Links
- LibrePlanet
- Activities page
- LibreAdventure
- Minetest To connect to our server, use the minetest.libreplanet.org URL and the default port 30000
- IRC #libreplanet (and other channels)
- free Software Foundation
- FSF Mastodon
- LibreAdventure
I will be on IRC and libreadventure as zleap
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Libre Planet 2023 poster
LibrePlanet 2023
LibrePlanet 2023 will be both online and in-person.
CHARTING THE COURSE
March 18-19, 2023
Boston Convention & Exhibition Center (BCEC) 415 Summer Street,
Boston,
MA, 02210
Software freedom in education advocate Erin Rose Glass to keynote LibrePlanet.
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LibreAdventure testing 2023
With under a week to go until LibrePlanet 2023, as a member of the LIbrePlanet committee, I have started to help test the FSFs LibreAdvemture game.
So far the game works fine. I need other people to test if the video / voice integration works, but I can't see why it won't
Just found one or two bugs / issues so far, these have been reported via the etherpad.
Links
- Free software foundation
- Free Software Foundation of India
- Free Software Foundation of Latin America
- Free Software Foundation Europe
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LibrePlanet 2023
This years Free Software Foundation conference is back in Boston as an in person conference, however talks will still be streamed online. It will run from March 18th to 19th, 2023.
This years theme is Charting the course.
I have been helping with reviewing talks for the conference, so from this I know there is a really good range of interesting talks, workshops for the event.
Keynotes :
- Right to repair advocate Elizabeth Chamberlain
- Software freedom in education advocate Erin Rose Glass
Links
Poster
Alt text for poster
This alt text may be useful for screen readers
Libre Planet 2023 poster
LibrePlanet 2023
LibrePlanet 2023 will be both online and in-person.
CHARTING THE COURSE
March 18-19, 2023
Boston Convention & Exhibition Center (BCEC) 415 Summer Street,
Boston,
MA, 02210
Software freedom in education advocate Erin Rose Glass to keynote LibrePlanet.
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LibrePlanet 2023 Schedule
This years Free Software Foundation conference is back in Boston as an in person conference, however talks will still be streamed online. It will run from March 18th to 19th, 2023.
The schedule is now available.
Boston Convention & Exhibition Center, Boston, MA & online
This years theme is Charting the course.
I have been helping with reviewing talks for the conference, so there are some really interesting talks, and a keynote on Free Software in Education from Erin Rose Glass.
I will be helping to test some of the infrastructure such as LibreAdventure over the coming weeks, as well as attending some training for moderator for IRC / Voice chat.
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I love free software day
February 14th is also I love free software day. This is a celebration led by the Free Software Foundation Europe, and a really good opportunity to celebrate and promote free software.
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Intro to Inkscape
- Workshop : Free Intro to Inkscape
- Feb 27, 2023
- Somerville, Massachusetts (near Boston).
- Evenbrite sign up information here
- Original Post
Posted to Mastodon / Fediverse by
Phil Shapiro @[email protected]
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LibrePlanet 2023
This years Free Software Foundation conference is back in Boston as an in person conference, however talks will still be streamed online. It will run from March 18th to 19th, 2023.
This years theme is Charting the course.
I have been helping with reviewing talks for the conference, so from this I know there is a really good range of interesting talks, workshops for the event.
Links
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Charge : Latest Open Movie from Blender
This is the latest movie from the Blender Open Movie Project
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CyberSecurity part 25
Open Source vs Free Software
There seems to be confusion around the terms Free software and Open Source Software.
To briefly clarify this.
The primary difference is philosophy – The free software movement says we're here doing all this because proprietary software is unethical. Wrong. Unjust.
The open source movement says we're here doing all of this because we can get technically better software.
Free software
Free software, does not simply mean the software is free as in cost, it refers to Free as in Freedom and a free software license such as the GPL [2] grants a user 4 freedoms.
- Freedom to use for any purpose
- Freedom to study the software
- Freedom to modify
- Freedom to copy and share the software with others
The freesoftware movement is also therefore about philosophy.
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