#fsci — Public Fediverse posts

Lobby the govt to keep NUUP access to Free Software users

https://codema.in/d/yV4XecWH/lobby-the-govt-to-keep-nuup-access-to-free-software-users

@praveen #fsci

Reorienting the Free Software message to developers

https://codema.in/d/oJZ79yNV/reorienting-the-free-software-message-to-developers

@praveen @badrihippo @SpaciousCoder78 @fbinin
#fsci

Interesting post around #AWS and #AGPL looking at #ElasticSearch vs #OpenSearch

https://socket.dev/blog/developers-burned-by-elasticsearch-license-change-arent-going-back

Reminded about this issue in a recent discussion around new challenges to #FreeSoftware like #AWS in #FSCI

#OpenSource

Would you volunteer to organize a national #FreeSoftware conference in India?

Many of us in #FSCI who attended #IndiaFOSS or looked at the accepted vs rejected talks felt the focus is more on Open Source / products rather than philosophy or communities. So we want to organize something that is explicitly focused on Free Software and communities.

https://codema.in/p/1iLrn6EJ/would-you-like-to-volunteer-for-confcommittee-

I still appreciate @fossunited for organizing it as I think booths are still a great opportunity for projects like @prav

Many of us in #FSCI who avoid UPI apps, learned today that, we can send money to people using just phone number and bankname option of #IMPS. Or you need Account number and IFSC. In many situations, where people only accept UPI, this could open up another easier option. It is not as smooth as UPI, but could still work as people don't need to remember / share account details, they would still know their phone number and bank name already.
We have tips like this in https://wiki.fsci.in/UPI

Our hosting bill for https://poddery.com this month was 3492 INR (36.8 EUR). We provide #XMPP and #Matrix services to public.

It is run by volunteers of Free Software Community of India #fsci

@bady @kannan @sahil @ravi and many more.

Its costs are met through donations. So please consider donating or volunteering today. There is also non technical tasks like fund raising. See https://fsci.in/donate

If you are outside India buying us #Hetzner credits would be better.

Any web developers out there who can build a web app for diasp.in and poddery.com to create users like how #diaspora did? Since we are shutting down diaspora, we want to just keep the user management part of it. As prosody is configured with a plugin to authenticate against diaspora users table in the database.

Details here https://gitlab.com/piratemovin/diasp.in/-/issues/96 Volunteers preferred, but we could also possibly raise some funds to pay someone.

#FreeSoftware #XMPP #fsci

By the way here's the poster for the panel discussion about @prav and #FSCI, with me, @bady, and @kannan

#FreeSoftware #XMPP #Prav

FSUG Thrissur celebrated Software Freedom Day 2024 today at PG Centre, Thrissur.

FSUG stands for Free Software User Group. Free Software Community of India (FSCI) is an umbrella organization which connects many such user groups across India. FSCI (@fsci) also maintains various free software services, you can find and support them here: https://fsci.in

We also celebrated beta release of Prav App (https://prav.app).

#SoftwareFreedomDay #SFD2024 #FSUGThrissur #FSCI #FreeSoftware

The last livestreamed keynote of #FSCI #FSCI2024 #FSCI24 is GREAT
It's Danny Kingsley and Leslie McIntosh on trust in scholarly publishing and scholarship.

Registration for #FSCI Virtual and #FORCE11 closes soon! Join V06, "Exploring Data Repositories for Researchers," and discover how to leverage resources from @crossref, @datacite, ORCID. Ideal for all experience levels! Sign up today: https://force11.org/fsci/post/registration-housing-2024/

Registration for #FSCI Virtual and #FORCE11 ends Wednesday -- sign up now for V06, "An Introduction to Querying the APIs of Open Metadata Services" to learn how to get valuable insights from the ROR, @crossref, and @datacite APIs, even if you've never used an API before. 🎓 https://force11.org/fsci/post/registration-housing-2024/

Last day to sign up TODAY 17th July @FORCE11 Summer School is happening 31 July to 4th August - online #FSCI - there are 14 courses on offer which run asynchronously, with other community events, hackathons, keynotes and games going on - #FSCI2023 -https://force11.org/fsci/2023/

Online class at #FSCI Publishing from Collections - https://force11.org/fsci/post/course-list-with-abstracts-2023/#e08 - signup deadline 17th July | class runs 31.7-4.8. Learn about publishing from LOD collectiosn using JupyterNotebooks - based on work from #NFDI4Culture and @COPIM #COPIM #NFDI #NFDI4Culture

#FSCI Summer school class: Publishing from Collections Using Linked Open Data Source and Computational Publishing Pipelines 31 July-4 Aug - info >> https://force11.org/fsci/post/course-list-with-abstracts-2023/#e08 #FSCI2023 Sign up >> https://force11.org/fsci/2023/

📣 Join us at #FSCI2023 for a captivating session on "Engaging with Open Infrastructure Globally"🌍
Take the opportunity to learn from @gabioshka & @sysg how open infrastructure is driving research:🎓https://sched.co/1Kr7O
Register now & share: https://fsci2023.eventbrite.com/

Please boost if you love open infrastructures! 🚀
#OpenInfrastructure #GlobalEngagement #LearningOpportunity
#OpenResearch
#FSCI

@force11

Petition raised by users of #fsci in High Court of Kerala.

@element @briar
@sflcin

https://sflc.in/defending-digital-rights-sflc-in-assists-in-challenging-ban-on-apps/

Post by #fsci

https://fsci.in/blog/statement-on-banning-of-free-software-apps-element-briar/

FSCI criticizes governments block on open-source encrypted messengers in J & K

Free Software Community of India statement on @element @briar ban gets printed in Jammu and Kashmir

https://epaper.mvkashmir.com/epaper/edition/198/paper/page/3

#fsci #element #briar #india

Free Software Community of India (#FSCI) statement on banning of apps like @element and @briar

"Federated, peer-to-peer, encrypted, Free Software apps/software like #Element and #Briar, should be promoted. They are key to our national security as they provide means to enable sovereign, private and secure communication to citizens of India. Element has been embraced by Governments of France, Germany and Sweden which should be an example for #India."

https://codema.in/p/eQOpEgZd/publish-our-statement-on-banning-of-element-and-briar

My submission for a #FSCI course

"An introduction to Wikidata-based scholarly profiling via Scholia: Exploring the research ecosystem the open way"

is up at https://github.com/Daniel-Mietchen/ideas/blob/master/submissions/FSCI-call-2023.md

Free Software Community of India needs your help. Running privacy respecting services is time consuming and costly. Please donate to us. Every rupee counts.

Visit https://fsci.in/donate for more details.

For our crowdfunding target for this year, please check
https://fsci.in/contributors/

#fsci #freesoftware #opensource #selfhosting #Fundraise #privacy #india #mastindia

Talk on Free/Libre Software at the “Software Freedom Camp”. This camp is organised by FSCI in addition to other organisations that care about free software and diversity.

More about the camp: https://camp.fsci.in/

Camp schedule: https://camp.fsci.in/sched/

#FSCI #SFCAMP

@fsci is Free Software Community of India group here. We are just testing how this works and if we like it, we can continue using it. #fsci #FreeSoftware

Donate today to keep our Free Software powered and privacy-respecting services running https://fsci.in/blog/fsci-crowdfunding-2022/

#fsci #freesoftware #community
#privacy

Our privacy campaign, Privacy Yathra, website is live now https://privacyyathra.in.

The goal is to guide people on how they can protect their privacy in their daily lives and also to create a movement in India.

Thanks to all the volunteers who helped in the website.

#fsci #freesoftware #privacy