Michael Downey πΊπ³ @downey@floss.social
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FLOSS.social admin. Director of Community, DIAL #OpenSource Center at United Nations Foundation. LibreHealth steering cmte, OSUOSL advisory brd, OSI adv circle.
Joined Apr 2018
For the past 15 years, the world's top #FLOSS leaders gather for a weekend mind-share at the #GSoC Mentor Summit. This year, 370 #FreeSoftware maintainers from 43-ish countries attending. The best event each year in the #OpenSource world. Let's do this! #t
I always knew it was bad, but never this bad. The #RMS resignation from #FSF seems to have shaken loose all the conspiracy theorists and devotees. Its mailing lists and forums are full of them, still distracting from the public charitable interest of the non-profit.
So many blinded by hero worship that they don't realize the viral poison said hero had on the #FreeSoftware movement. The immaturity of these folks is arguably the biggest blocker of software freedom from widespread adoption.
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"Watch out for emergencies. They are your big chance!"
-- Fritz Reiner, conductor
#quotes #ThursdayThoughts #m
"I have never felt that anything really mattered but the satisfaction of knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Thanks to my friends at #OSCON last week who reminded me of the problems of "slide-uments".
"Documents are meant to be information dense, while slides are not ... Itβs that simple, it does not make sense to use PowerPoint to create documents."
https://echopresentations.blogspot.com/2014/01/slides-or-documents-how-to-avoid.html
Heading in to #OSCON for the week. What will be the hot topics this year?
It's far from lonely at the top: At Dayton #Hamvention today, I finally earned (upgraded) my Amateur Extra radio license, with big thanks to my (amazing!) tutor Gordon West WB6NOA.
As seen during #LinuxFestNorthwest 2019, the Four Freedoms!
So FLOSS.social is turning one year old this weekend.
What started as a simple fun experiment has turned into (I hope) a useful resource for a rapidly-growing number of people with similar values and interests.
Thanks to our dedicated and brilliant community of #FreeSoftware & #OpenSource supporters for joining in on the journey! And thanks for supporting distributed social networking through #Mastodon!
Every time I can nudge someone to add a #FreeSoftware license to an existing GitHub repository, I smile real big & get a nice warm feeling inside.
You should try it, too.
I still LOL every time some self-proclaimed "expert" thinks that it's a fatal "newbie mistake" when someone understands that the #FreeSoftware movement can peacefully coexist with #OpenSource.
Signed,
FSF member since May 2004
OSI individual member # 003
That's a wrap on #FOSSASIA year 10! Here's to another decade of working together to use technology & #FreeSoftware to make the world a better place!
Big thanks to so many who worked so hard to make it happen.
"Children do not have ingrained prejudices. Therefore we have made this game to expose them to different cultures early so they can create a cultural bridge."
-- Indigenopoly hi-tech board game hackathon team at #FOSSASIA team
At #FOSSASIA Duane O'Brien reminds us that more than half of #opensource lives in places other than GitHub.
Think twice before you rely on proprietary platforms for your #FLOSS work. And before you judge people based on GitHub profiles.
#FOSSASIA main booth has some geeky ways to hack your name tags. Don't miss it!
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FLOSS.social admin. Director of Community, DIAL #OpenSource Center at United Nations Foundation. LibreHealth steering cmte, OSUOSL advisory brd, OSI adv circle.
Joined Apr 2018
