John Sullivan @johns@librem.one
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.
Joined May 2019
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From a discussion on a major #HigherEd forum by a senior campus leader,
"We are a #Google school…"
If the comment was, "We are a Coca-Cola school," I suspect we'd hear concerns: marketing products to students, corporate influence in #HigherEducation, even health & safety/quality (all BTW applicable to Google).
If you believe Google (or #Microsoft, #Adobe) is a "global standard," the same case can be made for Coca-Cola (Pepsi). I doubt stating such an alignment would be so promoted.
The real future part is that I can now also add my phone (PinePhone) to the mix, sharing keyboard and mouse between all 3.
And now I have yet another way to be confused about which machine I'm working on / saving my work on.
Set up Barrier to share keyboard and mouse between my desktop (yes I have one) and my laptop. Had to generate the SSL cert manually as per https://github.com/debauchee/barrier/issues/231#issuecomment-1232536022 and also manually make the server config as per https://github.com/debauchee/barrier/issues/1421#issuecomment-1038501497 (subbing the actual client and server names for the all-caps placeholders there). It's been about 15 years since the last time I did keyboard/mouse sharing, but it still feels like the future!
Gun violence
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Node.js is everywhere, and now we're on Mastodon 👋
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My talk Open Source Software and NASA is now posted! It was a lot of fun to give the talk and thanks goes to all that contributed to it.
#FOSDEM #FOSDEM23 #NASA #OpenSourceSoftware #OpenScience
Link to video and slides: https://fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/nasa/
At the #SWH_Symposium2023 at UNESCO headquarters.
https://www.softwareheritage.org/symposium-and-summit-2023/
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With so many places having done layoffs lately, I wanted to mention the US Digital Service is hiring. It's a wild place to work, but also you get to work on legitimately meaningful projects that affect a lot of people (in 2022, we made it easier for transgender ppl to get passports, helped low-income families buy food, and I got to help identify disadvantage communities for environmental funding). I'm happy to talk about USDS if you're on the fence. http://ow.ly/LpqJ50LVnPV #fedihire #fedijobs
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Planning a #conference? Include Mastodon at least as prominently in your materials as you do other social media. If you ask presenters or attendees for handles, ask for their Mastodon handle. This is an important opportunity for the Fediverse to reach, welcome, and engage key global audiences. #academia #event
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Talking about opening up app stores at #fosdem - John Sullivan asks how many people in the room use @fdroidorg and a huge number of people raised their hands... Obviously a room of #FoSS and #FLOSS types but still great to see
Also will definitely be sticking around to see shortly after my talk, more about app stores and the EU: https://fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/eu_app_stores/
Speaking tomorrow in the Legal and Policy Issues room, about free software's reckoning with app stores: https://fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/app_store_changes/
Twitter is the new Freenode
How better to attract the tech job candidates you want than to advertise in your HTML source? Love it.
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I am grieving the loss of Marina Zhurakhinskaya @`marinaz and wrote a few memories of her and of @`outreachy : https://harihareswara.net/posts/2022/mourning-marina-zhurakhinskaya/
After 18 years with the Free Software Foundation, I've decided to resign my position as executive director, effective at the end of a transition period. We'll be sharing further details, including information about that transition, and a few more words, in the coming days. It's been a humbling honor to serve this institution, and to work alongside the FSF's staff, members, and volunteers over the years. The current staff deserve your full confidence and support -- they certainly have mine.
Yep, we need free software for vacuums too: https://www.npr.org/2021/02/26/971681198/users-report-drunken-roombas-after-software-update "go home roomba" "where's that?"
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We're pleased to announce Guardian Project founder and director Nathan Freitas will be joining us as a keynote speaker for #LibrePlanet 2021: Empowering Users! Nathan's work to bring anonymity to millions online is truly inspiring. https://u.fsf.org/39o
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.
Joined May 2019
