Re: why isn't stallman on lp2022 speakers list?

2022-03-03 Thread Lori Nagel via libreplanet-discuss
Don't get me wrong. I'm not in any way anti-RMS, but the free software movement needs to be about freedom respecting software, and not hero worship (whether that person is RMS or some other "hero") Long term, what are we going to do, the whole trans-humanism thing where we worship

Re: why isn't stallman on lp2022 speakers list?

2022-03-03 Thread Kaio Duarte Costa
Em 2022-03-03 17:04, Pedro Lucas Porcellis escreveu: > Do we? Isn't a lot of other people available which can offer the same > level of guidance as RMS? Hasn't the man spoken a lot over all those > years? > > If we don't, then I think there's much more to evaluate other than him > *needing* to be

Re: why isn't stallman on lp2022 speakers list?

2022-03-03 Thread Danny Spitzberg
Here's an idea: organize "StallmanCon"! On Thu, Mar 3, 2022 at 9:20 PM Adrienne G. Thompson <[1]adriennegayethomp...@gmail.com> wrote: Fellow Free Software Supporters: Let's let the Libre Planet organisers know that the worldwide Free software community

Ours to Hack and to Own - The Platform Coop Manifest (2016)

2022-03-03 Thread Ole Aamot
Ours to Hack and to Own - The Platform Coop Manifest (2016) “The contributors to this book, in that spirit, represent diverse approaches and perspectives. It is a means of sharing what we learned from the 2015 Platform Cooperativism event more widely, and of drawing more people into

Re: why isn't stallman on lp2022 speakers list?

2022-03-03 Thread Pedro Lucas Porcellis
Do we? Isn't a lot of other people available which can offer the same level of guidance as RMS? Hasn't the man spoken a lot over all those years? If we don't, then I think there's much more to evaluate other than him *needing* to be on the list of speakers.

Re: why isn't stallman on lp2022 speakers list?

2022-03-03 Thread Adrienne G. Thompson
Fellow Free Software Supporters: Let's let the Libre Planet organisers know that the worldwide Free software community needs to hear our leader and founder of the Free Software Movement, Richard Stallman, address the Libre Planet 2022 conference!! Contact the FSF via this list

Re: Should we take steps to reduce russian access to Free Software?> the headache of it all dissolves in forgiveness

2022-03-03 Thread Ole Aamot
Ukrainian state broadcaster is currently not GNOME Internet Radio Locator 12.2.0. Kyiv is under attack and we want to limit Russia and Putin's access to information. Is this wrong to think? Users are free to add their own radio stations as users into

Re: Announcing Zoë Kooyman as our new executive director

2022-03-03 Thread Dennis Payne
I too found your post rather insulting. Not for questioning her existence. That I can chalk up to joke. More for the "nor saw her to do anything in Free Software" comment. I know she does work for LibrePlanet. I suspect she can be found in a number of the videos for previous years. On Thu,

Re: Publication of the FSF-funded white papers on questions around Copilot

2022-03-03 Thread Devin Ulibarri
On 2/25/22 07:37, Devin Ulibarri wrote: > Hi All, > > Yesterday, the FSF published the white papers on GitHub's so-called > "Copilot". I encourage you to read the announcement and the papers, if > you are interested. > >

Re: Should we take steps to reduce russian access to Free Software?> the headache of it all dissolves in forgiveness

2022-03-03 Thread Devin Ulibarri
Hi, On 3/3/22 00:07, Richard Stallman wrote: > We all mistakes; we're all human. The ability to > admit a mistake is a sign of a wise human. As for me, the mistake I would like to admit is not being careful enough in choosing my words. I did not mean to suggest that the FSF was taking a

Re: Announcing Zoë Kooyman as our new executive director

2022-03-03 Thread Jacob Hrbek
For context i am arguing for a long time (like 4 years now?) for FSF to be more gender equal where each time i bring that issue up everyone starts with "oh there is zoe! we are very gender equal, because zoe! and we always supported gender equality", but when i ping her on IRC or try to talk to

Re: Should we take steps to reduce russian access to Free Software?> the headache of it all dissolves in forgiveness

2022-03-03 Thread gregor
hi all, i would like firstly to express my immense gratitude for the forgiveness thank you so much mr rms then offer my sincere apologies, for not helping in making us all better persons. tried i did. but, you know me. and i specially offer my apology to Devin, whom i oh so easily judged.