Re: 2 discussions from Discourse

2021-06-14 Thread Daniele "Mte90" Scasciafratte 

Hi Nico,

no problem :-D


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Il 10/06/21 22:01, Nico Rikken ha scritto:

Hi Daniele,

Thanks for putting this to my attention explicitly through this mailinglist.
I added comments to both posts.

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Fw: [free-software-melb] FSM Jun 17th - Everyday Hardware for Free Software: Mobile Phones, Laptops, and more

2021-06-14 Thread Jacob Hrbek 
The Free Software Australia group is spreading the importance of libre hardware 
to the public. I suggest we support them as their actions are aligned with FSF* 
mission.

 Original Message 
On Jun 12, 2021, 12:50, Jacob Hrbek wrote:

> I suggest to highlight the importance of projects such as 
> https://www.powerpc-notebook.org/en/ which is a libre hardware development of 
> POWER9 based notebook.
>
> Also I suggest highlighting raptor computers and their Talos II, but their 
> development is non-free (schematics, boardviews, etc.. not publicly accesible 
> under four freedom respecting license) even though FSF highlight them in 
> respect your freedom campaign .
>
> Talking about projects such as kicad used to develop free hardware should 
> also be a priority
>
> And highlighting the importance of breakout boards such as what pinepen is 
> doing so that the end user can actually interact with the device easily on 
> hardware level to avoid doing lots of jumper wires for programming the chips.
>
> I also suggest talking about ecology especially in this day of age the libre 
> hardware developers should ensure that their devices are 100% recyclable 
> while giving recycling centers motivation to perform the recycling e.g. using 
> investment silver for traces to get the price for 30 USD per board recycled, 
> but FR4 (the fibreglass holding the components on the PCB) is not great 
> either as it produces waste.. I personally work on glass PCBs but that is not 
> yet ready..
>
> and the recent HUGE! win for the right to repair in New York 
> https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SMByk0Oml44 people such as Louis rossman would 
> be probably more then happy to talk about that with you.
>
> Sent from ProtonMail mobile
>
>  Original Message 
> On Jun 12, 2021, 10:56, FSM Committee wrote:
>
 Free Software is owned by its community of users and creators, for the 
 benefit of that community, and of human society in general. Free Software 
 respects the autonomy and privacy of its users — especially important in 
 this age when so many companies base their business on control and 
 surveillance of their customers.

 But all software runs on hardware, and similar considerations apply. In 
 order to maintain control over our software we also need hardware devices 
 that respect the autonomy and privacy of their users.

 This is a vast topic. My goal for this talk is more modest: A tour of some 
 hardware that's friendly to Free Software, in the hope that you might 
 learn about something you can use. My main focus will be on devices for 
 everyday use: mobile phones, laptops, and single-board computers usable as 
 desktop computers or as home servers, some of which I own and can 
 therefore demonstrate live in the talk, and can speak of from my own 
 experience.

 Devices I plan to talk about: Pinephone, Pinebook Pro, SOPINE A64 (from 
 Pine64); Librem5 phone and Librem laptops (from Purism); Odroid-XU4, 
 Odroid-H2+, Odroid Home Cloud devices (from HardKernel); Raspberry Pi 4; 
 and possibly the MNT Reform laptop and GNUBee PC-1.

 Also, if you have some favorite privacy respecting or open hardware you 
 would like to demonstrate or show off, you're welcome to join in at the 
 meeting and do a brief lightning talk about it, especially if you have it 
 at hand for show'n'tell.

 We look forward to seeing you at the online meeting!

 Details

 - Thursday,17th June 2021, 7:30pm-9:00pm

 - Join us at: https://meet.glasswings.com.au/b/fsm-iv6-tce-vpu

 - Short video intro to Big Blue Button (BBB): 
 [https://www.y](https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=uYYnryIM0Uw)[ewtu.be](https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=uYYnryIM0Uw)[/watch?v=uYYnryIM0Uw](https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=uYYnryIM0Uw)

 - Meeting Tips:

 - Be sure to test your audio on the way in.

 - Your mic will be muted when you join the room.

 - Headsets are recommended to reduce any feedback.

 - Code of Conduct: https://freesoftware.org.au/code-of-conduct
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