The SeaGL cfp is open! SeaGL welcomes new speakers! This year it wants tech talks, culture talks, performance art and FLOSS topics
Talks are 20 minutes with 10 min for Q&A
#SeaGL again holds office hours if you'd like some help or encouragement for your talk proposals, every Wednesday at noon Pacific between July 22 and August 19
https://seagl.org/news/2020/07/14/CFP-open.html
cfp closes August 19th
SeaGL is November 13th - 14th
#cfp #FLOSSconf #FLOSSevent #OfficeHours #FLOX #Seattle #PacificNorthwest
By the time DRM-enabled monopolies are investigated as monopolies, years of freedom & positive innovation have already been lost. Eliminate the state-sponsored subsidy of DRM locking users to one App Store and stop this from happening in the first place. https://m.signalvnoise.com/on-apples-monopoly-power-to-destroy-hey/
We're hiring a #postdoc to work with @swheritage, @Inria and @MSFTResearch on large-scale #reproducibility in software engineering.
Full details and application instructions at: https://www.softwareheritage.org/2020/07/17/paris-based-postdoc-on-large-scale-reproducibility-in-software-engineering/
It's easy to forget, amidst all the threats to our software freedom, that ours is an inherently positive story, celebrating creativity and skill. Check out this beautiful comic by Sacha Chua @sachac, read more, and share with #userfreedom: https://u.fsf.org/34b
@ademalsasa thank you!
Is this the part of the play where we make a bunch of noise until customers get reimbursed for the books they lost access to? https://goodereader.com/blog/kindle/amazon-is-discontinuing-the-kindle-cloud-reader getting pretty tired of this
A clear example of "defective by design": https://happygamer.com/youtuber-overlord-gaming-creates-a-video-to-prove-denuvo-causes-fps-loss-in-titles-72959/ (yes, DRM does make your computer do other things more slowly, how could it not?)
Listen, we already have a problem with the Football Supporter Federation. https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/readers-respond/bs-ed-rr-replacement-redskins-letter-20200707-zwpryt35dfhtfifrb2llywfoxy-story.html
CAREER CHANGE??? I changed my life by learning to build Drupal websites. It was a dooorway to freedom and learning more.
Starting on July 7th!!! Agaric offers FREE trainings on Drupal 9 site building.
https://agaric.coop/blog/free-drupal-9-webinars-site-building-migrations-and-upgrades
This speaks to me: https://www.vox.com/culture/2020/4/28/21230963/taco-bell-quarterly-mm-carrigan-interview -- fave quote: "So writers that were published in the Paris Review could also be published on a trash bag. But if you’re a nobody writer you couldn’t even make it to a fast food bag."
@jxself That's a reasonable approach to take, but don't forget that distros need people to help with testing so that they can get to that point of stability :)
Have you checked out our new member benefit yet? We have launched a free (as in freedom) videoconferencing service using Jitsi Meet: https://u.fsf.org/33h Join the FSF as an associate member today: https://u.fsf.org/63
Yikes. https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/research/2020/06/moroccan-journalist-targeted-with-network-injection-attacks-using-nso-groups-tools/
(A good argument to bring up with those who still insist we don't need full HTTPS?)
Former shipper and executive director at the Free Software Foundation, now https://alliterativeadvising.com, https://crazyalansemporium.com, and board of directors for https://f-droid.org.