Dean @dean@librem.one

GNOME Asia 2020 Call for Proposals is now open!

This year's summit will be held remotely, Nov 24-26, and we're looking for speakers. All submissions are due by Sept 25, see our news feature for topic ideas and details on where to submit!

https://www.gnome.org/news/2020/09/gnome-asia-2020-call-for-papers-now-open/

#gnomeasia #opensource #GNOME

Handibox is an accessibility tool that will allow Human-Computer interaction with people who have some degree of motor disability. Through #Handibox, users can carry out elementary activities such as using the Internet, writing emails, and more!

The team, Alejandro, Fabio, and Matias, seeks to integrate with other #accessibility applications in GNOME and are looking for guidance from the accessibility team. They also need community help precompiling libraries like dlib. #GNOMEChallenge

Can we please, please – PLEASE! not make the nonsensical US date format month/day/year the default in applications? 🤦‍♂️

PRE 👏 TTY 👏 PLEASE

And to all users of that format: it makes no sense, it's counter-intuitive, it makes collaboration frustrating, it introduces inconsistencies and errors... Just stop. Please. Use international standards.
(And don't get me started on your other units of weights, volumes and distances. Bloody hell.)

Boost if I'm right.

#PureOS for Creatives Part 1: Music Production with the #librem15

"In 2020, there is a free software equivalent for every mainstream commercial program on the market today."

https://puri.sm/posts/pureos-for-creatives-part-1-music-production-with-the-librem-15/

The first in a three-part series on PureOS for Creatives by our guest blogger, Tre Scranton

The #GUADEC fun doesn't end with the sessions, we have social events and activities too! Take a look at what we've got planned: https://blogs.gnome.org/engagement/2020/07/16/social-events-at-guadec-2020/
#GUADEC #OpenSource #FOSS

Surveillance capitalism is the same as climate change, but for data:

- Some people have been warning about its consequences for years
- Most people don't care because they don't feel concerned, they can't see it affecting them
- A few companies are making a lot of damage with the help of governments
- When we will face the consequences it will be too late
- We can still do something about it, and the sooner the better

An analysis of the Zoom #privacy policy and all that's wrong with it:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/whereby-vs-zoom-transparency-opacity-respect-privacy-manuela/
In short: better don't use this for anything sensitive and don't make other people install the Zoom app - ever.

Sign against Julian Assange’s extradition to the United States
English: https://t.co/uw8hYIsNGI
Francais: https://t.co/UB5kzhJQbA
Español https://t.co/OQMVwggHsu https://t.co/LuKxn4HXk6

Mozilla's move to @matrix has officially been opened for the general public last night. Blog post here: http://exple.tive.org/blarg/2020/02/20/synchronous-messaging-were-live/

You can find the Mozilla #a11y team here: https://matrix.to/#/#Accessibility:mozilla.org.

And if you missed my introduction to the #Riot web interface for screen reader users in December, here it is: https://marcozehe.de/2019/12/20/how-to-get-around-matrix-and-riot-with-a-screen-reader/

I love this post:

"When we first approached hardware manufacturers almost two years ago with this project most of them instantly said “No, sorry, impossible, we can not help you.”. Others warned us, that it could never work, that it was too complicated, “the industry does not do that” and so forth.

And yet here we are, later than we wanted, but we are actually shipping first hardware! It is possible but it comes at a price." #Librem5

https://puri.sm/posts/breaking-ground/

There's a petition to Save the .org top level domain. Apparently, ICANN could still stop it from being sold.
https://savedotorg.org
I know, petitions rarely work, but I also know that _sometimes_ they do.
Please consider signing if you _run_ anything there, or if you _use_ or _care about_ anything that's on a .org domain. Also, boosting this to others who follow you, would be very much appreciated.
#SaveDotOrg

This article about Google's project to store and analyze millions of Americans' health care data confirms my suspicions about the Fitbit acquisition.

Many people who don't care about mass data collection because "I've got nothing to hide" change their tune when it's health care data. #privacy

https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-s-secret-project-nightingale-gathers-personal-health-data-on-millions-of-americans-11573496790

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison could free Assange from Belmarsh prison if he wanted to, James Ricketson tells Newscorp.

The Australian filmmaker was freed from prison in Cambodia after Australia's government made representations on his behalf.

https://t.co/DZufxNhWuA

We're trying to defend #FOSS from patent trolls. Please help us: https://www.gnome.org/news/2019/10/gnome-files-defense-against-patent-troll/