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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
Travel-shortened week
Hosting guests week
Holiday & vacation week
All-hands org meeting week
Workshop & travel week
Plus a cold.
Recovering from this most recent travel is a nightmare.
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It looks like the latest version of #PeerTube fixes some federation issues: following & commenting from Mastodon is working (again?) and that's pretty cool. See for example https://conf.tube/videos/watch/ec9d2504-62fc-4871-a4c3-035d5776c61e
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#Announcement: check out #ConfTube, a #PeerTube instance dedicated to conference and community events videos.
If you are a conference organizer or speaker, feel free to contact me to get an account.
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The GNOME Foundation Board of Directors election cycle is underway! Foundation members, please take a moment to read about the candidates and please vote!
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In the most recent episode of our podcast, @cwebber and @emacsen take a walk down memory lane about 8 bit computers, DOS and Unix command lines and the way that the imagery and mystique of the terminal may be holding us back.
https://librelounge.org/episodes/episode-21-command-line-culture.html
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We've got a blog post that explains our views & reaction to #GItHub's new #Sponsors program & related initiatives. We're concerned that it (so far) ignores key governance issues for #FOSS projects related to funding. https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2019/may/23/github-sponsors/ #Sustainability #FOSSSustainability
@rgggn @switchingsocial One more vote for Joplin! With Nextcloud sync across devices, it's great!
@akuchling I use https://crossposter.masto.donte.com.br/ but only by opting in to a cross-post via a hashtag. (I have it set up in both directions just in case.)
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Is there any bot on the #Fediverse similar to the Link Archiver on Twitter (https://twitter.com/LinkArchiver)?
"I make sure the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine has a current snapshot of the links my friends tweet. Follow me and I'll follow you!" #ArchiveOrg #waybackmachine
4th city in one week.
#RemoteWorkerLife #t
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Richard Hughes has been tirelessly working on fwupd and the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) to greatly improve firmware updating on Linux! He is asking for 5 minutes of your time to help with this effort. Please consider his request, if you are able
https://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2019/05/13/donating-5-minutes-of-your-time-to-help-the-lvfs/ โฆ
At Dayton #Hamvention today, heard an exciting overview from Bruce Perens (OSS pioneer) about a super low-cost prototype #OpenSource software+hardware device to extend average mobile phones into AI-powered digital #AmateurRadio transceivers using Codec2, neural networks for decoding, RISC-V, and more.
Could be truly transformative and empowering, allowing grassroots surveillance-free global communication.
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Because a few of you apparently missed the prior announcements, the Call for Proposals for #GUADEC 2019 has been extended for three more days until the ๐ญ๐ต๐๐ต ๐ผ๐ณ ๐ ๐ฎ๐. This is your very last chance to get your talk submission in! Do it asap! ๐ฌ
https://www.gnome.org/news/2019/04/guadec-2019-call-for-papers/
@rgggn any idea how many discharge cycles?
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What's not mentioned in the ActivityPub spec that you'll need to implement the standard? Learn about it in the latest episode of Libre Lounge:
https://librelounge.org/episodes/episode-20-activitypub-part-3.html
Interesting conversations with Tim & David of the International #AmateurRadio Union (IARU) today at @Hamvention. Their challenges in advocating globally for policy to protect technology public goods in the face of capitalistic greed is not unlike the plight of #FreeSoftware & #OpenSource.
I wonder what we can learn from them.
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.
If folks think that the world, on whole, is not an oppressive place with pervasive #inequity, they need to broaden their perspectives.
As #technology becomes key for individuals and communities to thrive, #FLOSS plays a critical role in ensuring their freedoms are respected and protected in those efforts. And that's why we need to ensure we're listening to those with the least power, to help build tools that work for everyone.
@alephnull Pretty lightweight desktop use. Mostly web & communications tools, etc. So I don't feel like there'd be much config to worry about.
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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.
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