Free Software: Hugo Roy, Sourceware, NextCloud, and More (UPDATED)
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SFP#16: Free Software in France with Hugo Roy
In this episode of the Software Freedom Podcast, Bonnie Mehring speaks with Hugo Roy about his long involvement with the FSFE. Hugo is also very active in the French Free Software community and gives us an overview of the standing of Free Software in France.
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SFC offers project membership to Sourceware; three video-chat discussion times with SFC available
We're pleased to report that SFC's Evaluations Committee has voted to accept Sourceware! The next step is to review the legal agreement:
https://sfconservancy.org/docs/sponsorship-agreement-template.pdf https://sfconservancy.org/docs/sponsorship-agreement-template.odt
We're in the middle of updating our template to improve it a little bit, but there are no substantive changes. The most important section is building the governance section 6, for which the template has various suggested structures.
We'd like to have a meeting where anyone can join and ask questions about the agreement or anything else about joining SFC. We'll be hosting 3 calls to let community members join when is best for them: 15:00 UTC Friday, 18:00 UTC Saturday and 17:00 UTC Monday on BigBlueButton. We'll post the links to this mailing list right before the calls.
Just for clarity since we heard about some confusion in backchannel: SFC is offering membership to the Sourceware hosting project itself, not to the guest projects that receive services *from* Sourceware. We are completely aware that, for example, the various GNU projects that receive services from Sourceware already have a fiscal sponsor — i.e., the FSF. We are not seeking to take those projects from the FSF, rather, to offer SFC's services to the Sourceware hosting platform itself.
We're glad to answer questions on this and anything else related at these sessions!
Thanks and see you there! -Pono -
iTWire - Nextcloud announces integration with Cisco Webex App Cloud
Open-source file syncing and sharing software company Nextcloud has released its embedded app on Cisco's Webex App Cloud with effect from Thursday.
The app allows Webex users to look at and edit documents on a Nextcloud instance while working on the Webex app.
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Static site hosting hurdles
Which leads me to that detail I say it's often overlooked:
How to serve a static site?
The short but surprising answer is that although we imagine and operate as if we actually were in the early 2000s, that's far from the real requirements in 2022...
UPDATE
New today.
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Mark J. Wielaard - Blog Archive � Sourceware as Conservancy member project
Last month the Sourceware overseers started a discussion with the projects hosted on Sourceware and the Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) to become a Conservancy member project (which means Conservancy would become the fiscal sponsor of Sourceware). After many positive responses the SFC’s Evaluations Committee has voted to accept Sourceware.
Shoting match:
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Mark J. Wielaard - Blog Archive Sourceware Infrastructure / Conservancy / GNU Toolchain at Cauldron
But when I said that at the end I also would like to discuss the recent Sourceware as Conservancy member project proposal and that I had asked both Conservancy and FSF members to call in to help with that discussion there was what felt like a shouting match. It was the first time I felt an in-person event was worse than an email discussion. Hopefully people will calm down and restart this discussion on the sourceware overseers list.