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We're Mission:Libre, a new project for teens that love free software!

We aim to get teens excited about software freedom and help them learn skills they'll need as they become tomorrow's free software contributors and activists.

We'll be spreading the word about free software to young people, building supportive communities where teens can explore technology with others, helping young people defend their right to use free software and encouraging them to take their interests further in higher education.

Updates

30/5/2025

Petition to ask Qualcom to release full free software drivers for wifi hardware, visit

Links

• MissionLibre Website
• Mastodon

Tags

#Education,#Teens,#FreeSoftware,#Freedom,#Software, #Use,#Modify,#Share,#Study

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With the continued attacks on Wikipedia and other projects, there is a more to ensure more of this data is archived so it can be preserved. It is possible to download everything on Wikipedia [1]

1. Wikipedia Database download
2. Elon Musk & Wikipedia
3. List of people / companies collaborating with MAGA

Tags

#WikiPedia,#Freedom,#Attacks,#Preservation,#FreeWeb

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February 14th is also I love free software day. This is a celebration led by the Free Software Foundation Europe, and a really good opportunity to celebrate and promote free software.

Links

• Free Software Foundation Europe
  • FSFE Mastodon

Tags

#FreeSoftware,#fsfe,#Software,#Freedom

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February 14th is again the annual I love free software day a chance to celebrate free software.

Links

• Free software foundation Europe
• Free software foundation

This year the fsfe are planning a gaming event with speakers and a chance to play some great games that are released under the gpl.

• Verloren
• Armagetronad Advanced

Game jam will take place on 14th of February 2022 at 18.00-20:00 CET

Please contact the fsfe for more info, you only need to register if you want to take part in the talks, you can still watch the talks and play the games.

Talks will be streamed and the interactive element of this will be via Big Blue Button.

Tags

#Software,#Freedom,#FreeSoftware,#fsf,#fsfe

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14th of February is traditionally valentines day, however why not also celebrate our love for Free software.

• Free Software Foundation
• User Liberation Video

#Love,#software,#freedom,

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Fosdem 2021 takes place on the weekend of 6th and 7th Feb 2021.

FOSDEM is a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas and collaborate.

Will take place via Jitsi and Matrix

• Fosdem 21

If you sign up to matrix via the link below the you can get access to all the chatrooms during the conference.

• chat.fosdem.org

I am on there as zleap@zleap:fosdem.org

Social

• Mastodon
• Twitter

#conference,#freesoftware,#freedom,#fosdem

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Solid (Social Linked Data) is a project by Sir Tim Berners-Lee. It aims to put data back in to the hands of end users, so they are in more control.

REFERENCES

• Solid Project
• WikiPedia Page

TAGS

#YearOfTheFediverse,#SolidProject,#Freedom,#Privacy, #Web,#Internet,WikiPedia,#Decentralised.

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With the current Covd19 crisis in the UK, getting worse (again), Areas entering tier 4, (highest lockdown), Schools are closing and in some cases using remote education.

This brings up the prospect of them using non free tools, that when it comes to privacy may not be as private as first thought.

There is a really good article here on the GNU website, that explains the problem.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation have an event coming up on privacy on campus

It would be great if there could now be a big push to promote free and open source tools, to help level up education, and actually safeguard children, young people and adults from data harvesting etc.

So what, free, open source and privacy / rights respecting remote tools can we use for teaching?

• https://meet.jit.si/
• https://bigbluebutton.org/
• Moodle

I am now involved in an effort to take the digital skills framework (UK) and look at how we can achieve this using free and open source software. This project can be found on Codeberg

#education,#privacy,#safeguarding,#data,#children, #youngpeople,#adults,#skills,#freesoftware,#dataprotection,#safeguarding,#freedom.

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A message from Geoffrey Knauth, President, Free Software Foundation.

This year-end, we are focusing on growing the community with our year-end goal of gaining 500 new associate members before December 31st. The deadline is only two days away, and we are not there yet. We need your support to continue to grow, and to give strength to the Free Software Foundation's (FSF) mission to protect #UserFreedom. Below is a message from our president Geoffrey Knauth reflecting on the FSF's mission to protect software users everywhere.

The US government recognized that 2020 was a difficult year for people, and for charities like the FSF. Special tax law changes for 2020 now make it possible for deduction of cash donations, including becoming an associate member, of up to $300 made before December 31, 2020.

You can read the rest of the article here

• Free Software Foundation
• GNU

#freesoftware,#fsf,#GeoffKnauth,#freedom,#fundraising, #campaign,#donations,#help,#softwarefreedom,

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