Tinkerer and thinker on everything free and open. Exploring possibilities and engaging with new opportunities to instigate change.
Tinkerer and thinker on everything free and open. Exploring possibilities and engaging with new opportunities to instigate change.
I'm about to die. Not anytime soon, but I know the disease I carry will -- barring accidents along the way -- be the reason I eventually pass away. The disease I'm carrying, Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease (ADPKD), is a hereditary disease affecting about 1 in 1000 people worldwide. It affects everyone in different ways. For s…
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In this post, I will introduce you to the FSFE's forms API, a way to send emails and manage sign-ups on web pages used in the FSFE community. For our Public Money, Public Code campaign, as well as for two of our other initiatives which launched not too long ago (Save Code Share and REUSE), we needed a way to process form submissions from…
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I've collected a lot of crap over the years. Most of it in subdirectories of subdirectories. Of subdirectories of subdirectories. I recently made some useful discoveries /home/jonas/own/_private/Arkiv/Ancient/Arkiv/ancient-archive/Salvage/misc/14. The stash of documents in this place originated in old floppy disks from my youth, which I s…
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In October 2017, the FSFE begun work on the FOSS4SMEs project, an Erasmus+ project lead by Greek ATL (Atlantis Engineering). In the project, we're joined by Open Forum Europe, University of Skövde, DLEARN and Dublin Institute of Technology, all of us working together to bring education on FOSS to small- and midsize enterprises (SMEs). In…
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The REUSE initiative is aiming to make free and open source software licenses computer readable. We do this by the introduction of our three REUSE best practices, all of which seek to make it possible for a computer program to read which licenses apply to a specific software package. In this post, I'll be introducing you to the steps I to…
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The FSFE's REUSE initiative, in which we're encouraging the uptake of practices which enable computer-readable licensing and copyright information is progressing well. In the next couple of days, I'll be working on implementing these practices for a few different projects I know of, to make some examples for what a project needs to do to…
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A month ago, I asked the FSFE's core team about the interest in a friendly walking competition. If you're not familiar with the concept, it's a health initiative whereby groups of people get together to compete regarding who can walk the most over a period. Typically run in companies and public administrations where employees can group in…
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I recently found myself in a situation where I needed to setup a mirror of a repository on FSFE's Gitea installation to Github. As the answer was trivial, but the path to find it was not, I thought to document it here. Create an empty repository on Github with the name you want the mirror to have. Include some information in the descripti…
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The FSFE is occasionally asked to help in situations where free software projects, events or activities, need a place to call "home", especially when it comes to managing their finances. Getting a bank account as a volunteer group can be cumbersome, involves some administrative overhead, and often funds end up needing to be funneled throu…
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Each year, the FSFE spends close to half a million Euro raising awareness of and working to support the ecosystem around free software. Most of our permanent funds come from our supporters -- the people who contribute financially to our work each month or year and continue to do so from month to month, and year to year. They are the ones…
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