Re: Apply for membership now!

Hi Cornelia, Thank you for starting a discussion on an important topic! "Cornelia S." writes: > I have learnt the FSFE is abolishing their community representatives > in their board (remember the Linux Foundation?) Yes, that is something that the GA

Re: forums, mailing lists and other tools

Hi, hellekin writes: > I am very much interested in the topic of using Discourse to promote > the agenda of free technologies and a public digital infrastructure, > which I already proposed informally to the FSFE at various > occasions. I already proposed to host it myself

Re: impact of Gmail's "promotions" tab on free software communities

Hi Daniel, Daniel Pocock writes: > There are several cases where people told me this particularly bad > behaviour, together with some specific example of how it impacted > them, was enough to make them give up on hotmail but in each case they > had migrated to gmail. The

Re: forums, mailing lists and other tools

One way out of these bad practices is perhaps making use of either GNU Guix ([1]) --- which is a package manager that has roll-backs, aims for reproducible builds, avoids bundling and empowers the end-user because it can be used even in non-root, besides it can be installed in any system

Re: Apply for membership - or meet us at FOSDEM :-)

Hi, all! Am 2018-01-31 um 23:39 schrieb Cornelia S.: > All you need an e-mail to m...@fsfe.org and say that > you apply. Daniel has already supplied a pointer to the web page giving some background information about the GA, its role in FSFE, and the expectations held towards its members. There

Re: Apply for membership now!

Sorry, I'm rather new here. What does any of this entail? Do you have any link to documentation explaining what you're talking about? Can fellows (or whatever we are called now) become voting members? Or is there any other requirement? Or is this open to anyone? Thank you Federico Il 31

Re: Apply for membership now!

On 31/01/18 23:39, Cornelia S. wrote: > I have learnt the FSFE is abolishing their community representatives in > their board (remember the Linux Foundation?) > You should apply to become voting member of the FSFE, to change this. > All you need an e-mail to m...@fsfe.org

Apply for membership now!

I have learnt the FSFE is abolishing their community representatives in their board (remember the Linux Foundation?) You should apply to become voting member of the FSFE, to change this. All you need an e-mail to m...@fsfe.org and say that you apply. Please do it now! Copy me/list if you have

Re: forums, mailing lists and other tools

On 01/18/2018 10:28 AM, Daniel Pocock wrote: There is an issue: a) if the JavaScript is distributed as minified blobs and we can't rebuild it easily from source, b) if a large application makes heavy use of things like the NPM repository for its build process A lot of developers have given

Re: forums, mailing lists and other tools

Hi Stephane, Stephane Ascoet writes: > Le 29/01/2018 à 09:53, Daniel Pocock a écrit : >> You can simultaneously solve your problems with public transport and >> finding a date by purchasing a motorbike. > > Hi, I can't believe how much you're trying to find even

Re: breaking bad habits like Doodle and Facebook with, plugins?

Hi Carmen, Carmen Bianca Bakker writes: > If you start treating rights and freedoms as something that can be > negotiated individually, the "powerful" will misuse this to transfer > the rights of the "weak" over to them. I agree, but I see this as an issue with specific

Re: forums, mailing lists and other tools

Hi Jonas, Jonas Oberg writes: > By and large, I believe *where* a certain piece of code runs is immaterial > to the question, and what matters is the interface the user of a service is > subject to. > Let's imagine for a second that Google and Facebook rewrote their frontend >

Re: forums, mailing lists and other tools

Hi Daniel, Daniel Pocock writes: > One idea I've put forward at RHL'18 today is that it may be useful to > have a series of events over the next 12 months, maybe piggy-backed on > bigger events, to discuss the way organizations choose their > communications tools. I think