Michael Downey 🇺🇳 @downey@floss.social
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FLOSS.social admin. Open source person at the United Nations Foundation by day.
Joined Apr 2018
🎵 one of the time zones is not like the other
🎶 one of these times just doesn't belong
Get a #job! My colleagues on the #UNICEF innovation team are hiring 3 different roles (all remote) to work on collaborative tools designed to support #OpenSource projects that are making the world a better place.
(1/3) Full-stack developer:
https://jobs.unicef.org/en-us/job/538222/consultancy-fullstack-software-developer-office-of-global-innovation-new-york-115-months-538222-remote
(2/3) Community manager: https://jobs.unicef.org/en-us/job/538213/consultancy-community-manager-office-of-global-innovation-new-york-115-months-538213-remote
(3/3) Product manager: https://jobs.unicef.org/en-us/job/538214/consultancy-product-manager-office-of-global-innovation-115-months-538214-remote
"When we #revolt it’s not for a particular culture. We revolt simply because, for many reasons, we can no longer breathe."
- Frantz Fanon
"If you live in this system of white supremacy, you are either fighting the system or you are complicit. There is no neutrality to be had towards systems of injustice, it is not something you can just opt out of."
-- Ijeoma Oluo
Even in a post-IE world, #Microsoft is still sadly treating users of #OpenSource browsers like #Firefox as second-class citizens, taking a page from the #Zoom playbook.
The World Health Organization has already supplied more than 1.5 million #COVID19 testing kits to 126 countries worldwide (with shipments to 10 more countries on the way).
Help support #WHO efforts to #FlattenTheCurve. Give to the #COVID19Fund.
How does #WHO support the global fight against #COVID19?
✅ Track & identify cases
✅ Ensure patients get care
✅ Frontline workers get supplies & info
✅ Advise the public
✅ Train responders
✅ Accelerate R&D of vaccine & treatments
Support this vital work: https://covid19responsefund.org/?&ms=mastodon
#OpenSource is under attack by those who want to start allowing discrimination. And they're wrapping this co-option under the disguise of the so-called "ethical source" flag. If this special interest group takes over the Open Source Initiative board it would mean the end of freedoms that protect over 100 humanitarian open source projects.
If you're a member, check your email and vote right now for Megan Byrd-Sanicki & Josh Simmons.
Stand up for human rights. Stand up for software freedom.
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
FSF/Stallman
A busy weekend.
Attached is my post to the #FSF member forum on Friday.
Enough is enough.
It's long past time the board exercised their duty under Article VI Section 7 of the bylaws and vote him out. I understand that they have tried before but failed. But by now, his behavior is doing serious harm to the public interest the public charity is chartered to support.
Many other folks have also cancelled their memberships over the weekend.
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FLOSS.social admin. Open source person at the United Nations Foundation by day.
Joined Apr 2018
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