Re: Sharing your free software / quarantine success story

2020-04-22 Thread Paul Sutton
Hi All Firstly sorry for the long e-mail. Right now, I seem to be doing several things on this front, but more in a low key / subliminal way. Firstly I am doing a BASIC it course, (partly just to get a bit of paper that says I can use a computer), I can try and give examples of free tools for

Re: Sharing your free software / quarantine success story

2020-04-22 Thread Amin Bandali
Hi all, Thanks for starting the discussion about this, Greg. Greg Farough writes: > Hi, everyone, > > As you know, we have been working on making sure everyone understands > the value of using free software to communicate with their friends and > loved ones. Now that the vast majority of us

Re: EFF

2020-04-22 Thread msunet
I'll see you there :D On April 22, 2020 6:09:42 AM PDT, LM wrote: Just in case anyone's interested, the Electronic Freedom Foundation is hosting an event today on Free Speech and Privacy: [1]https://www.eff.org/event/home-eff-covid-19-free-speech-and-privacy

Re: Great Reads for April

2020-04-22 Thread Greg Farough
On Wed, Apr 22 2020, John Biggs via libreplanet-discuss wrote: > Ahoy! > Looking outside with all the wind in Brooklyn I’m thinking of T.S. Eliot. This message made it through moderation by mistake. Sorry about that. -g -- Greg Farough // Campaigns Manager Free Software Foundation Join the

Re: Sharing your free software / quarantine success story

2020-04-22 Thread Denver Gingerich
On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 08:58:32AM -0400, LM wrote: > If anyone knows of other Linux users groups that are having meetings > virtually using Free Software and wouldn't mind if people outside > their area joined in, would appreciate hearing about them. The Kitchener-Waterloo Linux User Group

Re: Sharing your free software / quarantine success story

2020-04-22 Thread Jean Louis
* LM [2020-04-21 18:05]: > I wrote: > >>> Trying to share OER or FLOSS alternatives is an uphill battle in > >>> these kinds of situations. > > Jean Louis wrote: > >Ah come on. > > >Define your presentation well, and get through. You can do it. > > I hope members of this will try to stay