We are reconstituting the core team for gnukhata development. Please
introudce me or ask any of your friends to write to me to develop a
progressive webapp for gnukhata. Nodejs, css, html5, gitlab skills are
mandatory. Ane exposure to financial domain wil be an added asset. A
good understanding of free software philosophy will be appreciated.
Programmers can work from anywhere.
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GN
The last few months have put data protection back in the spotlight.
During a crisis of this kind, do we have to choose between safety and
privacy? We talked about this with Richard Stallman, digital privacy
activist and the founder of the Free Software Movement.
https://www.rt.com/shows/sophieco-visionaries/501613-stallman-data-protecti…
Dear All,
In order to spread awareness about Free Software Camp, I need a write up
which I will email to people. I have written the following and would
like to ask for suggestions to improve the write up. Thanks.
Write up:
“Free software” means software that respects users' freedom and
community. Roughly, it means that the users have the freedom to run,
copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software. Thus, “free
software” is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept,
you should think of “free” as in “free speech,” not as in “free beer”.
We sometimes call it “libre software,” borrowing the French or Spanish
word for “free” as in freedom, to show we do not mean the software is
gratis. Currently, many people use proprietary software that denies
users these freedoms and benefits.
The corporations behind proprietary software will often spy on your
activities and restrict you from sharing with others. And because our
computers control much of our personal information and daily activities,
proprietary software represents an unacceptable danger to a free society.
*Announcing Free Software Camp*
I am glad to announce that the Free Software Foundation of India
<https://fsf.org.in/> is launching 'Free Software Camp 2020
<https://camp.fsf.org.in/>'. The Free Software Camp is an online
mentorship camp on free software and will start in October and run till
end of February. There is no fees to join the camp. Anyone can join and
learn about Free Software.
The Free Software 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 <https://camp.fsf.org.in> and will be so till October 15. For
more details please visit: https://camp.fsf.org.in/.
Useful Links:
1. Free Software Camp 2020 Launches On Software Freedom Day:
https://fsf.org.in/news/free-software-camp-2020-announcement/
2. Free Software Camp website: https://camp.fsf.org.in/
3. What is Free Software? https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
4. Why we must insist on free software
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-even-more-important.html
5. Free Software Foundation of India: https://fsf.org.in/
6. Why “Open Source” misses the point of Free Software
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html
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Ravi Dwivedi
Dear All,
The two ethical issues for an email service are (1) whether you can use
it without running any nonfree software (including nonfree Javascript
code from the site), and (2) whether it respects your privacy.
The email service I am currently using is Posteo. They did not identify
me in any way while signing up. User can pay in cash using post,
although I asked someone to use credit card on my behalf. Posteo works
well with IceCat browser except that I am not able to scroll while
reading sent messages. This means that other than this feature, the
webmail works well with Libre JS enabled and therefore uses free
Javascript with some issues.
We cannot tell from the outside whether the email service respects
user's privacy. Probably instead of relying on an email service, I
should set up my own server. I do not know how to set up my own server.
I would like to request your suggestions.
Stallman writes [1] on his page: "I read and send mail with Emacs using
M-x rmail and C-x m."
Probably this is one of the ways to achieve that but I did not
understand what he meant.
I would be highly grateful to you for any help.
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Ravi Dwivedi
Links:
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[1] https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html
