Heya all,
Hackerspaces in my experience have been about a lot of things (friendship, technology, society, sharing knowledge, ...). I firmly believe that a sustainable hackerspace should hide in its little bubble, but needs to interact with society. A lot of us are convinced that the four freedoms of Free, Libre and Open Source have bettered society in many ways. We also see walled gardens popping up more and more eating away our freedoms.
A few years ago, we had SFD on hundreds of locations all over the
world. The last few years, COVID has eaten all these activities...
Today I would like to challenge you all to celebrate Software Freedom Day in September. I'll elaborate on the Why and the How down here (just my opinions - not dogma)...
Meh... I'd say: KISS. Whatever you like to do. Just a few
ideas...
You could have a look at the Software
Freedom Wiki to get some inspiration. If you register
your event, it will appear on the website too, and we'll be
promoting it a bit more actively through other social media
channels. We're also reaching out to sponsors in the open source
community and will be handing out prizes to teams who are
exceptional on a specific field (e.g. MuseScore will be giving a
year subscription to their online platform that complements their
FOSS software). If you have any questions (or want to help
organize the global event), don't hesitate to pop in to our Matrix
channel!
Full disclosure, I'm part of the team organizing Software Freedom Day globally and would like to spark a new fire to the event (I'm not paid or professionally connected in any way though).
Hope to hear from you all!
Greetings,
Jurgen