Software Freedom Day (SFD) is an annual worldwide celebration of Free Software. SFD is a public education effort with the aim of increasing awareness of Free Software and its virtues, and encouraging its use.
Hey Marv,
thanks for the critical eyes. You are completely right. Currently our websites are in dire need of updating. The current design was made before Mastodon even existed. The first years of its existence, it also wasn’t clear yet what open platform would break through… (there were a lot of experiments in that period - all of which had a lot of potential… think of WT.social for example). Then came lockdown (and the board also suffered a great loss when one of them lost his life in an accident). In July of this year (so roughly 2 months ago) we lmemsm, myself and a few other persons offered to take up the task of coordinating the DFF and prepare Software Freedom Day. If you’ll have a look at https://digitalfreedomfoundation.org … you’ll notice that we didn’t even get around to updating the about page. We put all hand on deck to launch Software Freedom Day and find some great campaigns. We reached out and got the support from the FSF and MuseScore - some other organizations were also very supportive, but we arrived there too late.
We have an extensive TODO-list, and for the moment our NextCloud Deck has one item in the column “Quick wins” -> “add Mastodon link”.
We can also use extra helping hands, so I’d gladly invite you (and everyone else here) over to our Matrix channel to help on preparing the 2024 edition of Hardware Freedom Day, Software Freedom Day and Document Freedom Day. Your help will be much appreciated.
So yes - we should be putting stuff like Mastodon, Lemmy, Diaspora and Matrix more front and center. At the same time zealously restricting ourselves to only communicate over these channels would be preaching for the choir. If we want to educate people about the power of FOSS, we need to be where they are. So that’ll be on Facebook, Twitter an LinkedIn.
I am proud to say though that the rate of activity on Mastodon (even compared to those other platforms) was heartwarming en huge! I’m impressed with how much Mastodon has grown over the last year.
Hey Marv, thanks for the critical eyes. You are completely right. Currently our websites are in dire need of updating. The current design was made before Mastodon even existed. The first years of its existence, it also wasn’t clear yet what open platform would break through… (there were a lot of experiments in that period - all of which had a lot of potential… think of WT.social for example). Then came lockdown (and the board also suffered a great loss when one of them lost his life in an accident). In July of this year (so roughly 2 months ago) we lmemsm, myself and a few other persons offered to take up the task of coordinating the DFF and prepare Software Freedom Day. If you’ll have a look at https://digitalfreedomfoundation.org … you’ll notice that we didn’t even get around to updating the about page. We put all hand on deck to launch Software Freedom Day and find some great campaigns. We reached out and got the support from the FSF and MuseScore - some other organizations were also very supportive, but we arrived there too late.
We have an extensive TODO-list, and for the moment our NextCloud Deck has one item in the column “Quick wins” -> “add Mastodon link”. We can also use extra helping hands, so I’d gladly invite you (and everyone else here) over to our Matrix channel to help on preparing the 2024 edition of Hardware Freedom Day, Software Freedom Day and Document Freedom Day. Your help will be much appreciated.
So yes - we should be putting stuff like Mastodon, Lemmy, Diaspora and Matrix more front and center. At the same time zealously restricting ourselves to only communicate over these channels would be preaching for the choir. If we want to educate people about the power of FOSS, we need to be where they are. So that’ll be on Facebook, Twitter an LinkedIn. I am proud to say though that the rate of activity on Mastodon (even compared to those other platforms) was heartwarming en huge! I’m impressed with how much Mastodon has grown over the last year.