September 2021 - Camp-Announce

Invitation to registration confirmation meeting on 10th and 17th October 2021
by Ravi Dwivedi 19 Oct '21

19 Oct '21

Dear learners, We are conducting a final registration confirmation meeting for learners in two different slots and you should attend any one of these to confirm your participation in Software Freedom Camp Diversity edition 2021 https://camp.fsci.in. We have meetings on 10th October 2021 at 5:00 PM 17th October 2021 at 6:00 PM. If you miss the first meeting you can join the second one on 17th, but it is mandatory to attend any of these meetings to participate in the camp. If you are unable to join either of these sessions, you can contact us by email camp at fsci.in You can join the meeting at https://meet.gnome.org/sof-gpf-pqi-qw7 (You can join using recent versions of most web browsers. It does not need installing any apps) We are using a Free Software video conferencing software called BigBlueButton for conducting online sessions in this camp. If you are new to BigBlueButton, you can watch this video to learn about it https://videos.fsci.in/videos/watch/b3f34489-ad2b-4cfb-956b-7a8bad799d89 Thanks Anupa, Praveen and Ravi for Organizing Team --- Ravi Dwivedi https://ravidwivedi.in/ GPG Keys-> https://ravidwivedi.in/files/ravidwivedi.asc Why care about privacy? https://www.socialcooling.com/

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Rough schedule of the camp is now available
by Pirate Praveen 28 Sep '21

28 Sep '21

Hi everyone, We now have the rough schedule published at https://camp.fsci.in/sched/ We will share more details about each phase in the coming days as soon as we finalize those details. Feel free to contact us anytime you have any questions. Thanks Praveen

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Shared calendar for Software Freedom Camp Diversity Edition 2021
by Pirate Praveen 28 Sep '21

28 Sep '21

Hi learners, We have created a shared calendar using Free Software powered NextCloud service. You can now see the camp schedule at https://shared03.opsone-cloud.ch/index.php/apps/calendar/p/t35NZa6aeWCEXPjZ and subscribe to this calendar using any calendar app (thunderbird, gnome calendar, android calendar etc) and you will get notifications about events. Direct subscription link: webcal://shared03.opsone-cloud.ch/remote.php/dav/public-calendars/t35NZa6aeWCEXPjZ/?export We have only added the first registration confirmation meeting now. We will add new events to this calendar and you can see the details in your local calendar app. On Android, you can use DAVx⁵ app https://f-droid.org/en/packages/at.bitfire.davdroid/ or ICSx⁵ app https://icsx5.bitfire.at/ to subscribe to this calendar. See https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/creating-new-calendars for adding this calendar to Thunderbird. Let us know if you have difficulty in subscribing to this calendar. You can ask in Common Room via xmpp/matrix or email us on camp at fsci.in Thanks Praveen

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I've registered for the camp, now what?
by Ravi Dwivedi 23 Sep '21

23 Sep '21

Dear camp learners and mentors, Welcome to Software Freedom Camp Diversity Edition 2021!. You are in the camp-announce mailing list and subscribed to updates. For next steps, please see https://camp.fsci.in/onboarding/. Make sure you've completed the following: - You have submitted the registration form. - You have subscribed to camp-announce list, that you have received your secret code via the confirmation email. If you did not receive a secret code and if you have mentioned this in the registration form, someone from the organizing team will contact you via email. Next Steps: - Attend to the registrations confirmation meeting, you will be notified via camp-announce list. - We use free/swatantra software for our communication. Please install one of three applications mentioned below to join the camp chat room. We recommend you install Quicksy https://quicksy.im/ and joining via the following link: xmpp:sfcamp2021-dived@groups.poddery.com?join (this link should work for other XMPP clients as well.). Quicksy requires a phone number to create an account. In case you do not have access to a phone number or prefer not to use your phone number to create an XMPP account, you can follow this guide https://ravidwivedi.in/posts/xmpp-guide/ to create an XMPP account without a phone number on Android. If you prefer Matrix or IRC, you can use the links given below: Matrix: https://matrix.to/#/#sfcamp:poddery.com IRC https://kiwiirc.com/nextclient/irc.pirateirc.net:+6697/#sfcamp IRC bridge is broken for now. We will notify when we fix this. Joining any one of the above mentioned rooms via the respective application is sufficient as all three rooms are inter-connected. In case you're facing difficulties to install an application or joining the room and need help, please do not hesitate to ask. -- Ravi Dwivedi https://ravidwivedi.in/ GPG Keys-> https://ravidwivedi.in/files/ravidwivedi.asc Why care about privacy? https://www.socialcooling.com/

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Registrations are now open for Software Freedom Camp Diversity Edition 2021
by Pirate Praveen 18 Sep '21

18 Sep '21

September 18, 2021 The world celebrates Software Freedom Day today with the aim of increasing awareness of Free Software and its virtues, and it is in the same spirit and excitement that we announce today the Software Freedom Camp Diversity Edition. Diversity edition is aiming to reach out to people subject to systemic bias and impacted by under-representation in the technical industry in India. The Software Freedom Camp is an online mentorship camp on free software organized by Free Software Community of India in association with Ambedkar Periyar Phule Study Circle-IIT Bombay and Egalitarians. It will start in October and run till end of February. The Software Freedom Camp will be a valuable opportunity for anyone who wishes to become a contributor to free software projects but feels like they need structured mentorship and a learning environment to get started. It will also be an opportunity for existing free software contributors to get new contributors to their project and facilitate their entry into the free software community. Application links for learners and mentors are open now on the camp website and will close for learners on October 15 2021. The camp promises to be a safe space for learners to acquaint themselves with the philosophy of free software while also getting equipped to become free software contributors. In the first phase of the camp, learners will go through a series of assignments, interactions, movie screenings, and other activities that introduces them to the social benefits of free software and exposes them to the free software culture. They will get help in using free software on their own devices. At the end of this phase, they will get a chance to explore various free software projects and working with mentors they will be asked to create working proposals for contributing to these projects. The camp will match each learner to a mentor based on their proposal. In the second phase, each learner starts their free software contribution as per their accepted proposal, closely working with their mentor. There will be periodic review meetings to address the needs of the learners and help them stay on track. Any free software contributor who can meet mentor expectations listed on the camp site can apply to become a mentor. They can also add their ideas to the list of ideas from which the learners can find starting points for writing their proposals. The mentors will work closely with the camp organizers in evaluation and selection of proposals, and with learners to facilitate the success of the selected proposals. The camp encourages all kinds of contributions and contribution pathways - programming, system administration, packaging, UI/UX, forensics, localization, artworks, documentation, publicity, event organizing, etc. - as long as there is alignment with the free software philosophy. The camp is conducted online using free software communication tools like BigBlueButton, Matrix, etc. There is no fee for participation. For more details and to apply, visit the camp website at https://camp.fsci.in/ Camp Code of Conduct is https://camp.fsci.in/code-of-conduct

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