Re: On receiving an interview request from Uber

2016-12-17 Thread Joe Awni
Theo, It's an uphill battle. If you want to join a professional network that does not spam and is made with 100% FOSS, i can recommend the Crypto-Currency Business Directory: http://cryptobiz.directory -Joe On 17 December 2016 at 15:36, Theo Schmidt wrote: > Hi, > > On 12/16/2016 06:34 PM, Ch

Re: FSFE General Assembly Fellowship Representative Election

2017-04-11 Thread Joe Awni
Paul, The husting (singular) was the occasion for an interesting discussion with candidates. But, as others have indicated, we don't need a special occasion to upload IRC logs to the wiki. Alot of interesting ideas are coming up in this email thread. I invite all to introduce on #fsfe on freenode

Re: Fellowship elections participation

2017-04-27 Thread Joe Awni
Hi, I write to chime in my opinions on the topics in this thread. But, first i find it necessary to preface this message with a meta-discussion. --- Meta-Discussion: The messed-up election --- With out alleging any impropriety actions beyond those mentioned in last years election correspondence

Re: 34C3

2018-01-12 Thread Joe Awni
I'm quite curious about the controversial printout/pamphlet that sparked this controversy. Is anyone able to upload a photocopy? Sent from my iPhone > On 12 Jan 2018, at 12:13, Adonay Felipe Nogueira > wrote: > > Yet again we see this confusion... FSF also receives donations from > Google. I

Re: Discussion Digest, Vol 186, Issue 5

2018-06-15 Thread Joe Awni
our personal device(s), that is understandable. But, leading by example is core value of mandate to use Free Software. Exclusively Free Software since as long as I can remember, and notmissing proprietary options, Joe Awni On Jun 15, 2018 9:55 AM, "Mat Witts" wrote: > In the context

Re: Discussion Digest, Vol 186, Issue 5

2018-06-15 Thread Joe Awni
Fixed down links in message body, oops! On Jun 15, 2018 12:01 PM, "Joe Awni" wrote: > Hi All, > > I decide to chime in today because I felt my message could potentially > make a difference, at some point in time. > > I am another person who decided against involving m

Re: supporting our fellowship representative

2018-08-28 Thread Joe Awni
As far as I'm concerned, with out elections, my impression is it's a staff-office in Berlin that is effectively domain-name-squatting on fsfe.org . On 28 Aug 2018 11:09, "Bernhard Reiter" wrote: Hi Luke, Am Dienstag 28 August 2018 10:18:11 schrieb lukerog...@tutanota.com: > I never saw an asso

The take-away message?

2018-08-30 Thread Joe Awni
I see the same patterns showing up in this discussion again and again. Most reasonable, sane, and modern people would have quietly excused themselves from fruitless communication. I would like to do the same, but my obligation will not allow it. I've been privately corresponding with a number of f

On Censorship

2019-05-06 Thread Joe Awni
I want to call your attention to a serious ongoing organizational asymmetry between a group like the FSFE with their ties to big software (ie: Github whom RMS has spoken against), dedicated office, staff, and budget vs an unorganized set of independent Free Software developers who might be struggli

Re: Mobile phone details: Sailfish

2019-05-17 Thread Joe Awni
I’ve heard some unbelievable claims of seniority before (using Free Software before the invention of electricity), but for whatever reason this seems credible. Would love to hear more details about the early-days. What Free Software projects where you following in 1989? I first heard about Free So

Re: Euro Elections and fsfe

2019-06-03 Thread Joe Awni
Existential issue(s) aside, I think Free Software voters are uniquely well positioned to contribute to the political process. If you look at our most recent election, most voters abstained which does not tell you a lot about their preferences but it does speak volumes about their commitment to info