Re: Helping new contributors

2021-04-14 Thread Jean Louis
* quil...@riseup.net [2021-04-14 16:46]: > > >>Discourse = freedom respecting software under a free software license. > >>It runs on someone else's server. (as it is for communities) It uses > >>javascript in your browser. > >>why people use it = People like Discourse

Re: Helping new contributors

2021-04-14 Thread quiliro
>>Discourse = freedom respecting software under a free software license. >>It runs on someone else's server. (as it is for communities) It uses >>javascript in your browser. >>why people use it = People like Discourse communities because the >>software has made it easy to

Re: Helping new contributors

2021-04-13 Thread Jean Louis
Thank you Lori. I like to comment on your thoughts here: * Lori Nagel via libreplanet-discuss [2021-04-13 18:29]: > I want to clarify some things that make it hard for software users > to advocate for freedom respecting software. If we do not know what > all these programs are and why people

Re: Helping new contributors

2021-04-13 Thread Lori Nagel via libreplanet-discuss
I want to clarify some things that make it hard for software users to advocate for freedom respecting software. If we do not know what all these programs are and why people use them, it makes it much harder to do anything about them. Facebook = cloud service running non-free

Re: Helping new contributors

2021-04-13 Thread Jean Louis
* Suushi via libreplanet-discuss [2021-04-12 17:22]: > > >> By doing this ourselves, as advocates of free software, we can > > >> include links to why free software methologies are better, even if > > >> we have to be a little flexible in what we use for support and > > >> communication,

Re: Helping new contributors

2021-04-12 Thread Tobias Platen
On Fri, 2021-04-09 at 09:04 -0400, Suushi via libreplanet-discuss wrote: I have never used Discord, but you can use Jami as a replacement. > > > > By doing this ourselves, as advocates of free software, we can > > > > include links to why free software methologies are better, even > > > > if > >

Re: Helping new contributors

2021-04-12 Thread Suushi via libreplanet-discuss
> >> By doing this ourselves, as advocates of free software, we can > >> include links to why free software methologies are better, even if > >> we have to be a little flexible in what we use for support and > >> communication, Discourse my not be ideal, but would we rather people > >> used

Re: Helping new contributors

2021-04-12 Thread Jean Louis
* Paul Sutton via libreplanet-discuss [2021-04-09 14:08]: > Hi All > > In an effort to try and recruit and importantly help find more developers at > all levels I am trying to reach out to people locally. > > I think what is needed here, is a clearly laid out pathway in to free > software

Re: Helping new contributors

2021-04-12 Thread Jean Louis
* Paul Sutton [2021-04-09 15:07]: > > Which software in particular? > > Who ever needs help Then please look here: https://www.fsf.org/campaigns and here: https://www.fsf.org/campaigns/priority-projects/ > Cool thanks, could be a good place to list my study support group, > granted it is not

Re: Helping new contributors

2021-04-09 Thread Paul Sutton via libreplanet-discuss
On 09/04/2021 12:39, Jean Louis wrote: * Paul Sutton via libreplanet-discuss [2021-04-09 14:08]: Hi All In an effort to try and recruit and importantly help find more developers at all levels I am trying to reach out to people locally. I think what is needed here, is a clearly laid out

Helping new contributors

2021-04-09 Thread Paul Sutton via libreplanet-discuss
Hi All In an effort to try and recruit and importantly help find more developers at all levels I am trying to reach out to people locally. I think what is needed here, is a clearly laid out pathway in to free software contribution using free software tools. So for example, a project needs