Notices by Adonay Felipe Nogueira (adfeno@ecodigital.social), page 27

Last year, the TDF team and wider community worked on social media campaigns and our video channel. These help us to spread the word about free software and open standards! Learn more in our Annual Report: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2020/07/23/annual-report-2019-social-media-and-video-channel/

Starting tomorrow Laura and I will hold six mentorship sessions each at the European Partnership Civil Society Facility Online Hackathon.

Here’s hoping we can steer some of them away from surveillance capitalism and towards Small Tech.

https://ict.eapcivilsociety.eu/en

My company has tasked me with picking out a blog platform. I have only used hugo before, and I like it, but I need something that non-technical people can use. I have very little experience with this kind of software, any advice would be appreciated.

Me: "Here is my CV for the Python position."

They: "We saw you also know Java, so we are going to test you in that too, ok?"

But I want Python! 😢

@sir I feel like IDE's and text editor plugins did their fair share with their commit-everything-without-looking GUI.

Any time anyone asks for tips on how to get better at git all i ask is that they use the CLI and add changes one by one, e.g. with git add -p, because that's like 80% of the way to decent git usage.

@matrix A bit rich of Slack to be accusing someone else of over-centralisation after they did a bait-and-switch on IRC and XMPP protocol access to Slack.

Our Executive Director @o0karen0o and the amazing Molly de Blanc speak today about Digital Autonomy at virtual Guadec at 18:45 UTC, hope to "see" you there! https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2020/jul/17/virtguadec/

From hackathons to apps to public administrations: Read about the recent successes in #Europe regarding #FreeSoftware in our #July #Newsletter, find videos from multiple online events where the #FSFE was represented and read about our diverse activities:
https://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-202007.html

Hah. This rather relevant post just arrived in my inbox from the Free Software Foundation: https://my.fsf.org/give-students-userfreedom

Do you want to work on free and open source software as a full-time job? People ask me all the time how to find companies who might hire you for this, and I share this command line snippet:

git log -n100000 --format="%ae" | cut -d@ -f2 | sort -u | less

This will produce a list of email domains who are committing in a given git repo, which often corresponds pretty closely with the list of companies willing to hire you to work on that project and others like it.

The easiest to use 3d modeling software I can think of is SketchUp. But I'd prefer to have them use Free Software. The primary use case would be 3d printing, but just

In NZ, if we're teaching kids in high school how to do digital art, these are the tools we should be using: https://opensource.com/education/13/5/teaching-blender-students We shouldn't be using the "first hit's free" proprietary tools (from foreign multinationals like Adobe) that will force them into a continuous cycle of paying to access their own creativity once they leave school.