Re: ideas for laptop selection

2017-04-30 Thread Nikos Roussos
> - am I going to run into Secure Boot issues? I've met other people at > events recently who had new laptops and were struggling to get into the > BIOS and disable Secure Boot. I don't think that's an issue anymore. I run Fedora on my x250 with UEFI boot + Secure boot without any problem. sig

Re: accounting software used by FSFE and other associations

2017-05-18 Thread Nikos Roussos
>There is currently some discussion about choosing something for the >Open >Labs hackerspace in Tirana I saw Gnucash was mentioned in that discussion. There is a django-based web frontend that in theory can make it multiuser, but I've never tried it. https://github.com/nylen/gnucash-django/ ~n

Re: Is it acceptable to use proprietary software (platforms) to promote software freedom?

2017-07-24 Thread Nikos Roussos
On July 24, 2017 2:24:31 PM GMT+02:00, Daniel Pocock wrote: >On 24/07/17 14:18, Reinhard Müller wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Am 2017-07-24 um 14:14 schrieb Daniel Pocock: >>> Why don't we go through all the messages in this thread and replace >the >>> words "social media" with "mass surveillance"? >> an

Re: Is it acceptable to use proprietary software (platforms) to promote software freedom?

2017-07-27 Thread Nikos Roussos
>I remain concerned about defining the reason we want or need these >followers and then measuring whether that objective is being met. > >To give another example: Greece's government successfully mobilized >enough of their citizens to vote against a bailout in a referendum[1], >but then the resul

Re: Is it acceptable to use proprietary software (platforms) to promote software freedom?

2017-07-28 Thread Nikos Roussos
On 07/28/2017 10:07 AM, Daniel Pocock wrote: > > > On 27/07/17 14:05, Nikos Roussos wrote: >> >> >>> I remain concerned about defining the reason we want or need these >>> followers and then measuring whether that objective is being met. >>>

Re: FSFE in Outreachy?

2017-09-02 Thread Nikos Roussos
On September 1, 2017 8:52:13 AM GMT+03:00, Carmen Bianca Bakker wrote: >But I am unequivocally against such programs, on the simple grounds >that >it tries to combat discrimination _through_ discrimination, which is >about as silly to me as trying to achieve world peace through war. It >genera

Re: FSFE in Outreachy?

2017-09-02 Thread Nikos Roussos
On September 2, 2017 11:45:20 AM GMT+03:00, Carmen Bianca Bakker wrote: >Hello, > >On Saturday, 2 September 2017 09:51:36 CEST Nikos Roussos wrote: >> I don't see any discrimination here, and in general in any initiative >> that tries to help minorities. > >

Re: FSFE in Outreachy?

2017-09-02 Thread Nikos Roussos
On September 2, 2017 2:32:03 PM GMT+03:00, Daniel Pocock wrote: >So that is not really discrimination, that is just matching a problem >with a solution. Exactly. You can't judge Outreachy and similar efforts in vacuum. You have to put them in perspective within the bigger picture of Open Sour

Re: FSFE in Outreachy?

2017-09-05 Thread Nikos Roussos
On 09/04/2017 10:14 PM, Carmen Bianca Bakker wrote: >> I do not think the people who are victims of centuries of paternalist >> government and colonialism should feel responsible of what the white >> governing people fell. I really do not care about what they feel >> actually, I am more interested

Re: forums, mailing lists and other tools

2018-01-18 Thread Nikos Roussos
> On 18/01/18 12:14, Carsten Agger wrote: > >> 2. However, I find containers to be black magic. How can you trust them >> to be 100% free software if you don't build them yourself? I honestly >> don't know if Debian's packaging model is a perfect fit for distributing >> JavaScript, which is, I sup

Re: Public Money Public Code: a good policy for FSFE and other non-profits?

2018-06-15 Thread Nikos Roussos
> So this actually answers a question I asked in the beginning: "Is it because > admitting such dependencies is embarrassing?" Of course it would be > regrettable if people were to make an issue of it, but there are also the > matters of recognising any such problem and striving to do something abo

Re: who has time for the GA? (was: terminating memberships responsibly)

2018-08-30 Thread Nikos Roussos
> This brings me back to the original question then: democracy. Annual > elections and allowing all the community to participate can provide > regular renewal. When somebody doesn't have the time any more, either > they don't run for re-election or the community will help them depart by > voting

Re: who has time for the GA? (was: terminating memberships responsibly)

2018-09-03 Thread Nikos Roussos
August 30, 2018 2:34 PM, "Carsten Agger" wrote: > On 08/30/2018 03:49 PM, Nikos Roussos wrote: > >> I have been (and still am) member/supporter of various non-profit >> organizations and none of these >> apply the kind of democracy you envision. Rightfully so

Re: FSFE and censorship - not true?

2018-09-17 Thread Nikos Roussos
September 16, 2018 7:14 PM, "Andreas Nilsson" wrote: > Personal attacks are something else and are not criminal. Legal or not, personal attacks should not take place on this list. Moderation helps to keep this a safe place for everyone to participate and discuss in a respectful manner. It's e

Re: Is there any hope for FSFE?

2019-05-05 Thread Nikos Roussos
On 03/05/2019 19:00, Paul Boddie wrote: > So, in the case of the Copyright Directive, where much fuss was made about > keeping code sharing platforms free of copyright filters, it seemed that the > FSFE was acting to defend GitHub and various proprietary services on the > basis > that they help

Re: On Censorship

2019-05-06 Thread Nikos Roussos
On 06/05/2019 17:58, Joe Awni wrote: > I think it is absolutely important we avoid censorship in any > communication in any form. I think that's something we can all agree. Well, at least on this mailing list ;) What seems to be the root of disagreement sometime though, is how we define censorshi

Re: Strategy and serendipity

2019-05-08 Thread Nikos Roussos
On 08/05/2019 10:12, Bernhard E. Reiter wrote: > This probably means more explanations, I am sure I've written a lot of stuff > about this on mailinglists in the recent 18 years. Overall this is not just > the FSFE: Centralized software development has a number of hard drawbacks. I don't see how

Re: Anyone at BalCCon?

2019-08-19 Thread Nikos Roussos
Hi Max, >Does anyone of you consider going to BalCCon, a conference about Free >Software and IT security in Novi Sad, Serbia? It's going to take place >on 13-15 September. I also plan to be there. > I thought about offering an FSFE space but would >love to share this joy and responsibility with

Re: Anyone at BalCCon?

2019-09-06 Thread Nikos Roussos
>BalCCon already has an assembly area which basically is just a larger >space within the conference center. So booths would consist of a table >and some decoration, just like at other conferences. We could also >think >of offering some small merchandise, especially if we were more than 2 >persons