My version of the character Ada from "Ada & Zangemann", a Creative Commons license (BY-SA) book for children and a funny story about Free/Libre and Open-Source. It's written by Matthias Kirschner and illustrated by Sandra Brandstätter. It is great to see new characters in the Free Culture, especially because Ada is so cool. 💜
You can find it printed in English, French, German, Italian → https://fsfe.org/activities/ada-zangemann/
Last month the long-awaited switch to version 4.0 of the @creativecommons license went into effect for #Wikipedia and its sister projects! :cc: :ccby: :ccsa:
Learn how this will enable the reuse of more free content in Wikipedia, simplify attribution requirements and more in a post by the #Wikimedia Foundation legal team:
Wikipedia :wikipedia: is a multilingual free online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers, known as Wikipedians, through open collaboration and using a wiki-based editing system called MediaWiki -- at least that's what our Wikipedia article says (https://w.wiki/W).
Reminder! You can still send in a mixtape or virtual DJ set for the next edition of SETS (@provo) - a virtual fedi music night on 13 October :ablobdj:
Any style, just your favs, 15 mins max. No prior experience needed, just have fun w it :possum_happy:
If you want to do a favor to the FREE (as beer) #pcb design community, dont use jlcpcb multicolor stuff. The design files are cryptographically tied to jlcpcb so no one else can manufacture them.
(edited after precisions from @jaseg - thats less bad than I had originally understood)
My #30DayFOSSChallenge is officially over. It was a great experience diving deeper into #foss and thinking about it, especially trying to test the limits of how feasible going fully foss is for me, and talking to non-tech people about software freedom issues.
I will have a blog post up soon, but I'm still working through my thoughts.
First week of #30DayFOSSChallenge is coming to an end. My blogpost will be a few days late because I'll be camping for the #eclipse but I'm excited by what's already happening.
For all of you busy preparing manifestos for forthcoming elections, here is a #FreeCulture#policy proposal:
> For all published artefacts using DRM, there needs to be a legal method for expiring the lock - or circumventing the DRM - once the period of all relevant copyrights has expired, otherwise future generations would not be able to access these artefacts.
If backdoored E2EE is possible then backdoored DRM should be easy too, right?
#Introduction time! I'm rysiek. On fedi since before it was fedi — I see you, old StatusNet guard!
Did information security and infrastructure for #PanamaPapers journalists, fought #ACTA on the streets and in meetings, helped write the book on #NetNeutrality, started a hackerspace and a half, and wrote a bunch of code.
Media literacy is a human right. Protocols, not platforms. Communities, not customers. User-Authored Works, not user-generated content.
Interested in #FOSS but haven't taken the time to explore it? Or familiar but wanting to dive deeper? Have no idea what that is, but are interested in decreasing your reliance on evil corporations?
If any of the above, check out the #30DayFOSSChallenge. In April I will be posting all about it, and encouraging others to join me. Hope you come along for the journey.
Great news. Last year's release of the IRR related to #Copyright stated that a registry will be created for Filipino works, and works produced in the Philippines, in the #PublicDomain.
In addition to the above, the IRR also finalised that any Philippine government works, unless otherwise specified, are now automatically in the Public Domain.